Eagles turn down schoebel for lelie

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Schobel adjusting to new team

I'd hoped he'd finished the adjustment period already.  Darn.


P.S.  Love this blurb:

A big target for McNabb, the 6-foot-5 Schobel has speed to get down the field. Together with L.J. Smith, the pair present a formidable double-threat from the tight end position, especially in two-tight end sets.

Um... duh.

[General_Failure]

They don't want anyone to worry that they might actually run out of those two TE sets.

[PhillyPhreak54]

I think we need to get more TEs like the Patriots.

Ben Watson
Daniel Graham
David Thomas
Garrett Mills (FB/TE)
Chris Luzar

[Feva]

C'mon man... Spach and Thorn are ready to break out for 10 TD's a piece!

And we already know Parry can easily make the transition to TE.  We've all seen his receiving skillz!

[MURP]

I agree Phreak.  I wanted them to take Garrett Mills, but good ole Bill B took him first. 

[Seabiscuit36]

Mills was from Tulsa right?

[MURP]

yeah

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

He's more of an H-Back type.  I think I read that somewhere.  Holla.

[Father Demon]

There have been many players in NFL history, although not recently, who have suggested they love the game so much that they would play it for free.
Wide receiver Ashley Lelie, traded from the Denver Broncos to the Atlanta Falcons on Tuesday as part of a three-team swap that also included the Washington taterskins, might go beyond that.
Depending on how Broncos officials resolve various fines and potential penalties pending against Lelie as a result of his decision to boycott all the team's offseason activities, and his failure to report to training camp despite having a contract, the four-year veteran could go into the red for 2006.
And we're not just talking about the primary color in the Falcons' uniforms.
Under the terms of his original contract, signed as a first-round choice in the 2002 draft, Lelie was to have made $700,000 for the 2006 season -- an offseason workout bonus of $100,000 and a $600,000 base salary.
Lelie forfeited the workout bonus, though, when he chose to skip the Broncos' offseason program. He was then fined slightly more than $11,000, the maximum allowed by the collective bargaining agreement, when he was a no-show at Denver's mandatory three-day minicamp July 6-8. And his failure to report to camp drew daily fines of $14,000, totaling $378,000.
In addition, it is believed that the Broncos will seek to recover a prorated share of the $3.3 million signing bonus that Lelie received in 2002. The total for fines and potential penalties accrued by Lelie is close to $1.1 million and, as part of the trade agreement, the wide receiver reportedly signed a document that allows the Broncos to seek that amount.
There is a chance that, finally rid of Lelie, the Broncos might forgive a portion of that amount be or be willing to negotiate a lower figure. To this point, however, Denver officials have not been inclined to do so. Conventional wisdom is that Denver coach Mike Shanahan wants the penalties against Lelie to have some teeth, in part to dissuade other players from adopting a strategy similar to the wideout's failed approach.
What did Lelie's holdout accomplish for him on the field? The boycott was precipitated in part by the Broncos' acquisition of former Green Bay standout Javon Walker and by Lelie's desire to be more than the No. 3 wide receiver on the roster. But with the Falcons, he will be the No. 3 wideout, behind starters Roddy White and Michael Jenkins.
In a statement released by the Falcons on Thursday morning, Lelie, who was expected to participate in his first practice with his new team later in the day said: "I don't even know how to put it into words, that is how excited I am. The most exciting part is that I get to step back on the football field. I've missed it."
If the Broncos penalize Lelie to the maximum, and recover part of his signing bonus, practice time might be the least expensive thing missing for him.
Len Pasquarelli is a senior NFL writer for ESPN.com.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2559815

[Feva]

Gotta love the quote icon.