2007 NFL Offseason Stuff Thread

[Feva]

Bengals cut Samn Adams today.

OMGBUNKLEYPATTERSONSCOTTREAGORRAMSEYADAMS!!!!!!!!

[SD_Eagle5]

That saddens and amuses me at the same time...

Like when you see Brandon Jacobs with a nice run only to fumble when he's leveled by Dawkins

[BigEd76]

The Bears said on Monday that they want to use Devin Hester on offense this year in a role similar to OMGREGGIEBUSH

[PhillyPhreak54]

I think you meant to say

OMGJEREMYBLOOM!!

[The BIGSTUD]

The Bears said on Monday that they want to use Devin Hester on offense this year in a role similar to OMGREGGIEBUSH

That might work is Hester could catch the football.

[hbionic]

Bengals cut Samn Adams today.

OMGBUNKLEYPATTERSONSCOTTREAGORRAMSEYADAMS!!!!

that is probably the best Freddie impersonation yet...except you typed all exclamation points....no numbers. Shame on you fake freddie, shame on you!

[Rome]

LOL - only an emotional cripple like Owens would prefer Wade Phillips to a guy who has won two Super Bowls and basically made every team he's coached better than the ones that preceded him.

What a piece of shtein.   

Updated: May 14, 2007, 6:45 PM ET
Owens happy with change to coach Phillips
Associated Press

IRVING, Texas -- Terrell Owens was asked what he got out of his only season with Bill Parcells.

"I don't think you have to be a disciplinarian to get your point across. I think having a new head coach is good for everybody."
-- Terrell Owens

"Nothing, really," T.O. said Monday, the last day of the Dallas Cowboys' first minicamp since Parcells retired.

Owens obviously isn't going to miss Parcells, and has already noticed how different things are under new coach Wade Phillips.

"Everybody knows he's a a laid-back coach, obviously a little different than Bill. ... I don't think you have to be a disciplinarian to get your point across," Owens said. "I think having a new head coach is good for everybody.

"It's a little bit more relaxed. I think you can tell that by the atmosphere in the locker room. I don't think I just have to really spell it out for you, but I think it's very evident."

After two operations this offseason to repair a torn tendon in his right ring finger, the same one he broke while blocking in a game in September, Owens surprised many people by taking part in the three-day minicamp.

T.O. caught passes and participated in all offensive drills without any problems from the finger.

"I didn't know if he was going to be able to practice or not," Phillips said. "But once he was cleared [by doctors], he practiced well."

When Owens had the second offseason surgery in March, he wasn't expected to be catching passes until the second minicamp in June, and maybe not even until training camp in late July.

"I don't know if I have special healing powers, or what the case may be," he said.

Owens plans to continue doing rehabilitation on his finger, but admitted that he had already caught balls from former NFL quarterback Mike McMahon in Florida before doctors cleared him for the minicamp.

With Parcells gone, Owens apparently couldn't get wait to get back on the field.

"Come out here and try to get a little work, get back to the team atmosphere. I think everybody is kind of excited about this season," he said. "If I wasn't ready, then I wasn't going to practice."

Parcells isn't missing Owens either.

In a New York Daily News column published over the weekend, Parcells said the Cowboys signing Owens last year "was not my decision. I had to do the best I could with him, which is what I tried to do."

Owens said it doesn't matter what Parcells is saying now, and that it doesn't bother him.

"It's funny, people can say a lot of things when they're gone," T.O. said. "It's really not surprising, but why would he say it now? I'm pretty sure you guys asked him that question before."

During the first two days of minicamp, Owens declined interview requests. He said he had nothing to say and that he "might" talk in June -- which would have been after he is due a $3 million roster bonus for 2007, when he is scheduled to make $5 million.

But with reporters and television cameras surrounding his locker Monday, Owens talked for nearly 20 minutes and made his most extensive comments since the season ended with a first-round playoff loss to Seattle and Parcells decided to retire.

Owens caught 85 passes for 1,180 yards and an NFL-leading 13 touchdowns -- the best season by a Cowboys receiver since Hall of Famer Michael Irvin caught 111 passes for 1,603 yards and 10 TDs in 1995, Dallas' last Super Bowl season. But Owens also led the league with 17 dropped passes.

"I could have played better, but I'm not the one to really harp on why I had the season I did," Owens said. "I'm not going to say why I had the drops I had. I knew the reason, but I didn't take the time out to make that an excuse. ... I played through an injury that I didn't really talk about, I didn't care to talk about."

There was also plenty going on with T.O. off the field last season, from an accidental drug overdose to him falling asleep in meetings and talking about not knowing the playbook.

Still, he's happy to be in Dallas.

"Definitely, no doubt," he said. "We achieved the goal of getting to the playoffs. It was unfortunate the way we lost, and everything happens for a reason. Who knows. Had we gone deeper into the playoffs, we may not have a new coach."

[phattymatty]

OMGREGGIEBUSH

i really like how this has stuck.

[Feva]

Heard this on SportsCenter yesterday.  Looks like Will James almost got the starting spot he wanted.

Fred Taylor, Samari Rolle and Lito on a plane where the door flew off in mid-air.

[Seabiscuit36]

Heard this on SportsCenter yesterday.  Looks like Will James almost got the starting spot he wanted.

Fred Taylor, Samari Rolle and Lito on a plane where the door flew off in mid-air.

"I don't think we can survive in Africa the way those people do," he said. "It's amazing how strong-minded and strong-willed they are."

Racist

[Seabiscuit36]

COLTS LOSE ROUND ONE OF SIMON FIGHT

The Indianapolis Star reports that the Colts have failed in their efforts to recover an $8 million option bonus from defensive tackle Corey Simon.

The outcome of the Simon case was controlled by the ruling generated by the efforts of the Broncos to attack the option bonus of Ashley Lelie after his 2006 holdout.  Under the new CBA, only signing bonuses are subject to reimbursement in the event of a breach.  Option bonuses have been determined to be not signing bonuses.

The Simon case involves an even clearer application of the CBA because the option bonus was paid after the new CBA was negotiated.  In Lelie's case, the new limits on forfeiture of money already paid to players were applied retroactively.

Still pending are grievances relating to the team's decision to place Simon on the non-football injury/illness list during the 2006 season.  Hanging in the balance is $1.9 million in base salary that Simon believes he should have been paid.

Under the CBA, teams are allowed to stop paying players who are unavailable due to health conditions unrelated to football.  In Simon's case, he contends that his inability to play in 2006 was the result of a football injury; the team disagrees.

Simon is still on the team's roster, and is signed through 2009.  He is due to earn $3.955 million in 2007 base salary.  Cutting him after June 1 (or cutting him now and making the move a post-June 1 designation) would result in a net cap gain of $955,000 in 2007, and cap charge of $6 million in 2008.  Factoring in his 2008 salary of $5 million, the net cap hit would be only $1 million next year.

"Whether Corey comes back and plays or whether some other resolution takes place, the fact is that it has cost us a lot of money for not a lot of production," team president Bill Polian told the Star.    Douchebag paid him when he turned in to the Stay Puffed Marshmellow Man

Bill, we won't cry for you on this one.  First of all, you just won the Super Bowl.  Second, when you give big money to a guy who has never played on your team before, there's always a risk that you won't get value in return.  Third, the fact that he had puffed up like a Thanksgiving parade balloon between the end of the 2005 season and his arrival in Indy might have been a clue that the investment was a risky one.

[MURP]

Taylor joked that it was the first time he felt like he was near death "since I was playing for (coach Tom) Coughlin."

[BigEd76]

Bentley might miss two seasons after passing on signing with the Eagles, and now Finneran too

hmm

[ice grillin you]

http://smittblog.blogspot.com/2007/05/nah-michael-strahans-not-gay-he-just.html

[Feva]

http://smittblog.blogspot.com/2007/05/nah-michael-strahans-not-gay-he-just.html

If you spend 10G's to meet Strahan and you're a guy, you either REALLY want to "meat" Strahan, or Strahan has paid you to win the auction and make it seem like he just got unlucky because he didn't want to have to spend a night with a member of the opposite sex and would rather be involved in a leather clad three-way sexcapade with two of his "boys."

Ha!