Archive for July, 2009

Favre Steps Up Workouts; Says He’ll Make His Final Decision by July 30th

It looks as if the Brett Favre saga maybe finally coming to an end. Stress maybe. Favre told the AP that he knows that he is running out of time to make a decision on if he’s going to come back and play this season with the Minnesota Vikings, and says that he’s looking to [...]

T.J. Duckett Talks Seahawks with Sports Radio 950 KJR-AM

Seahawks running back T.J. Duckett was on air Tuesday with Mitch Levy, host of the Mitch in the Morning Show in Seattle. Here are a few highlights from the interview: Duckett didn’t worry last year about talks of him getting cut after training camp despite a rough preseason. Duckett played for new Seahawks head coach [...]

2009 Gridiron Gab Team Previews: Cleveland Browns

Cleveland Browns fans are fed up. Their team is like that guy who always has a hot new business idea but can never keep an actual job. Change for the sake of change is the theme in Cleveland these days. Really, it’s been the theme since the franchise’s resurrection in 1999. With head coaches serving [...]

Suggs and the Ravens Agree to Six-Year, $63 Million Dollar Deal

Today is the deadline for franchise players to sign a deal, or they will have to wait for the next offseason to ink a deal with their club.  With that, one franchise player that seems to feel his best place is where he currently is at is Ravens LB Terrell Suggs. The following is from [...]

The Curious Case of Ravens WR Derrick Mason

I’m sure that every Baltimore Ravens fan was shocked when they read the headline around 6 PM last night that Mason had decided to hang up his cleats. And since that time the newspapers, blogs, and talk radio shows have been buzzing about this latest situation and weather Mason has truly retired or not. The [...]

Carson Palmer’s Day in the Sun

Driving to Kentucky around this time of year must feel like Groundhog Day for Carson Palmer. This year’s summer sojourn to the blue-grassed campus of Georgetown College will be his seventh, only this time, he’s suddenly become one of the older guys. When did this happen?? Carson gazes onto a practice field where he prepped [...]

Fantasy Rankings: NFC East D/ST in 2009

The NFC East is loaded at the Defense/Special Teams position and calls home to two of the top defenses in fantasy football. 1. New York Giants By seaons’ end this could be the best defense in the NFL. Last year, without the likes of Osi Umenyiora and Michael Strahan, they still managed 42 sacks and [...]

In Rookie Deon Butler, Seahawks See Potential for Much-Needed Help at Wideout

When you think of a record holder in career receptions from a major Division One football program, you hardly think of a 5-foot-10 168 pound guy who came to the school as a walk-on at defensive back. While Deon Butler lacks size, he still made his presence felt on the field at Penn State. Mel [...]