Around The NFL - 2008

[PhillyPhreak54]

HOLT ON THE OUTS IN ST. LOUIS?
Posted by Mike Florio on September 26, 2008, 10:22 p.m.

Rams receiver Torry Holt has joined the growing chorus of players who disagree with the decision to bench quarterback Marc Bulger.

And Holt's position could be the icing on the cake that gets him sent out of town.

"I was shocked, man, I was really shocked," Holt recently said, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.  "I went up to Marc immediately and apologized to him as a receiver and for our receiver group and the offense for not making enough plays to give him an opportunity to stay on the football field with us."

But Holt is looking forward to playing, even without Bulger on the field.  "It gives us a platform to escape all this madness," Holt said.  "You can get away from everything that's going on and actually go out and play a game that we've always loved to play since we were youngsters."

Holt might escape the madness in a different way.  Per our pal Howard Balzer of InsideSTL.com, the same person who tipped Balzer off to the release of cornerback Fakhir Brown also has told Balzer that coach Scott Linehan is trying to trade Holt, and could release him.

The problem is that Linehan and Holt, as Balzer explains it, "despise each other."

As we've mentioned in connection with Roy Williams of the Lions and Tony Gonzalez of the Chiefs, the fact that a team is so clearly bad so early in the season makes a trade of a veteran who's closing in on the end of his contract more plausible.

Especially where the coach and the player despise each other.  The duo had multiple disagreements in 2007.

Holt is under contract through 2009 at a base salary of $5.65 million this year, and $6.65 million next year.

GET HOLT!!

[shorebird]

HOLT ON THE OUTS IN ST. LOUIS?
Posted by Mike Florio on September 26, 2008, 10:22 p.m.

Rams receiver Torry Holt has joined the growing chorus of players who disagree with the decision to bench quarterback Marc Bulger.

And Holt's position could be the icing on the cake that gets him sent out of town.

"I was shocked, man, I was really shocked," Holt recently said, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.  "I went up to Marc immediately and apologized to him as a receiver and for our receiver group and the offense for not making enough plays to give him an opportunity to stay on the football field with us."

But Holt is looking forward to playing, even without Bulger on the field.  "It gives us a platform to escape all this madness," Holt said.  "You can get away from everything that's going on and actually go out and play a game that we've always loved to play since we were youngsters."

Holt might escape the madness in a different way.  Per our pal Howard Balzer of InsideSTL.com, the same person who tipped Balzer off to the release of cornerback Fakhir Brown also has told Balzer that coach Scott Linehan is trying to trade Holt, and could release him.

The problem is that Linehan and Holt, as Balzer explains it, "despise each other."

As we've mentioned in connection with Roy Williams of the Lions and Tony Gonzalez of the Chiefs, the fact that a team is so clearly bad so early in the season makes a trade of a veteran who's closing in on the end of his contract more plausible.

Especially where the coach and the player despise each other.  The duo had multiple disagreements in 2007.

Holt is under contract through 2009 at a base salary of $5.65 million this year, and $6.65 million next year.

GET HOLT!!

It might sound crazy to some, mainly Andy Reid, but I agree. Why not?

[QB Eagles]

Bulger and Jackson don't like Linehan either. The worst coach in the NFL will soon be looking for a new job.

[BigEd76]

but Baskett says a star WR makes teams worse!1fart

[methdeez]

$6 mill per year is pretty damn reasonable for the player the Holt could still be.
shtein, I spend more money than that on sour candy.

[Father Demon]

If Holt is traded or released, that means that Linehan will be staying for the rest of the season, and management/ownership decided that this mess of a Rams' team is the players fault, and not the coaching.

If Holt isn't traded or released, then I put the over under on Linehan being fired at October 3rd, using the Rams bye week as an excuse to shake things up.

All my own opinion, of course.

I've also seen several trade partners named in forums and blogs for Holt, with Dallas, Washington, and of course Seattle being mentioned.  I can't see a trade within the same division, but I guess it could happen.

[mussa]

[shorebird]

lol! Looks like Fort Knox between his lips.

[Seabiscuit36]

Matt Ryan is a huge philly fan, on the fox pregame he talked about his love for all the Philly teams.  I didnt realize he was from Exton. 

[SunMo]

anybody who followed football even casually

[PhillyPhreak54]

And Schaub is from WC.

[Seabiscuit36]

Where do you want the Aids needle? 

[Seabiscuit36]

And Schaub is from WC.

I knew Schaub, but never followed BC

[BigEd76]

Jaguars' Collier in critical condition after being shot several times...life threatening conditions

Latest update: left leg amputated, 14 bullet wounds, paralyzed from the waist down

[methdeez]

14 bullets and he lives.
That is a man with a  lot of non-essential body mass.