Many news outlets are reporting Brett Favre has informed Minnesota Vikings officials that he will not be playing for them in the 2010-11 season. He reportedly made this announcement via a text message which isn’t the most personable way to let an organization who is waiting on pins and needles for you to return know you are leaving them high and dry. Tavaris Jackson and Sage Rosenfels come on down because you are the next contestants to battle for the starting quarterback spot. Is this really the last of Favre watch?
Terrence Cody is Way Out of Shape
July 28, 2010 by
Remember six months ago when we commented on Terrence Cody’s physique Even though Cody appeared to be as unhealthy as you can possibly be the Baltimore Ravens selected the paunchy nose tackle from Alabama in the second round of the NFL Draft. Yesterday Cody failed a physical and the Ravens conditioning test so they placed him on the physically-unable-to-perform (PUP) list. This news came just a couple of days after the fractured skull injury to defensive stud Sergio Kindle who was the Ravens first pick in the 2010 draft. These two rookies were expected to bring new blood to an aging defense, but for now they will not be part of the team at all.
UPDATE:
Cody was able to complete the conditioning test today on his third try after failing to pass it twice yesterday. Cody is now off the PUP list and can begin his “career” with Baltimore.
In-Fighting Going on at SoCal
July 26, 2010 by
It’s bad enough the USC Trojans are on double secret probation, had to give back a Heisman trophy, have a new AD and don’t forget they have a head coach who got chased out of Tennessee. Now USC has an alum who is considered royalty in coaching, considering he has the longest coaching tenure in the NFL, suing head Coach Lane Kiffin over the theft of an offensive coach. A freaking running backs coach nevertheless.
Kennedy Pola left the Tennessee Titans to become the offensive coordinator at USC even though Jeff Fisher was never aware until after the fact. You have to figure this process was going on during Mike Garrett’s term as AD and was already in motion by the time Pat Haden came into the office as the new AD. I can’t believe Haden would have allowed this to happen without reaching out to Jeff Fisher especially since they know each other.
Personally, I don’t see Lane Kiffin at USC very long past this year as he has a way to even make me feel sorry for Al Davis. This guy is bad news for the university and for amateur athletics as a whole.
Saban Speaks Out on Agent Participation
July 21, 2010 by
University of Alabama officials are investigating whether junior defensive lineman Marcel Dareus broke NCAA rules by attending an agent’s party in Miami’s South Beach earlier this summer and Alabama Head Coach Nick Saban who has been on both the college and NFL side of things has decided to speak out.
Saban says it is finally time for a change: “What the NFL Players Association and the NFL need to do is if any agent breaks a rule and causes ineligibility for a player, they should suspend his [agent’s] license for a year or two.” “I’m about ready for college football to say, ‘Let’s just throw the NFL out. Don’t let them evaluate players. Don’t let them talk to players. Let them do it at the combine.’ If they are not going to help us, why should we help them?” Right now, agents are screwing it up,” Saban said. “They are taking the eligibility of players. It’s not right that those players do the wrong thing. We have a great education process here. We have a full-time worker who meets with players and their families and does everything else.”
With what has gone on at USC and Reggie Bush and for all the other players over the last 30+ years who have been screwed because of overzealous agents it is about time to start penalizing people instead of programs for the offenses that are continually making ink inside the newspapers and ruining the integrity of the amateur athlete.
My Favorite NFL Coach Died Today
July 2, 2010 by
My favorite NFL coach Don Coryell died today. All I can say is that he was an innovator and made the game we see in the fall a better game in so many ways. This man was an offensive genius and players who played for him were Hall of Famers. This is his bio from Wikipedia and understand nobody did what he did and accomplished what he did. Nobody!
In 1978, when Don Coryell began coaching the San Diego Chargers, the Chargers had a win-loss record of 1-4 for that season. The team broke their losing streak with eight additional wins and three losses that season after Coryell became head coach.
Coryell was the first coach ever to win more than 100 games at both the collegiate and professional level. He won two consecutive division titles (1974, 1975) with the Cardinals and three straight division titles (1979, 1980, 1981) with the Chargers, reaching the playoffs four consecutive times with the latter team. With Dan Fouts as quarterback, San Diego’s “Air Coryell” was among the greatest passing offenses in NFL history. The Chargers led the league in passing yards an NFL record 6 consecutive years from 1978-1983 and again in 1985. They also led the league in total yards in offense 1980-1983 and 1985. Fouts, Charlie Joiner, and Kellen Winslow would all be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame from those Charger teams, as well as Dan Dierdorf from the Cardinals.
Naysayers said he never had practiced or used a successful Defense…However, in 1979 the Chargers allowed the fewest points (246) in the AFC. In 1980 their defense led the NFL with 60 sacks spearheaded by a frontline of All-Pros in Fred Dean, Gary “Big Hands” Johnson and Louie Kelcher. The group was locally nicknamed the Bruise Brothers, coined from a popular act at the time, The Blues Brothers. However, in 1981, Dean, like Jefferson, was traded away due to a contract dispute with ownership. Dean contends he was making the same amount of money as his brother-in-law who was a truck driver. The Chargers’ defense would never be the same afterwards. Meanwhile, Dean would go on in the same year to win UPI NFC Defensive Player of the Year (while playing in only 11 games) and help lead the San Francisco 49ers to a Super Bowl that year and again in 1984. Dean was inducted to the NFL Hall of Fame in 2008.
Credit to Wikipedia
Chris Simms Stone Cold Busted
July 1, 2010 by
Chris Simms was busted earlier this morning in New York after smelling of pot while driving through a NYPD checkpoint. Simms was with his wife Danielle who ultimately took their 2009 Mercedes Benz home after Simms was arrested. In the whole scheme of things this won’t be a big legal issue for Chris, but it could hurt his chance of making the Titans team for the upcoming season. Simms signed a contract with the Titans earlier this year and previously played…err, road the bench…for Tennessee in 2008. Simms has also played for the Broncos and Buccaneers, but hasn’t been effective since he ruptured his spleen back in 2005 with Tampa Bay. I guess we will found out soon enough if his career went up in smoke.
Kardashians = Rings
June 22, 2010 by
Denver Nuggets guard Ty Lawson recently made an interesting point from his Twitter account on the Kardashian clan. Lawson tweeted, “I heard if u hit a kardashian i win a championship.. Kim k holla me!!! I need ya for 17 min.” Lawson might be on to something because Khloe and Kim Kardashian both hit the jackpot this year with Lamar Odom winning a NBA title and Reggie Bush winning the Super Bowl. Kim and Reggie are no longer together, but she has since moved on to Cowboys wide receiver Miles Austin so is Dallas the next Super Bowl champion? Lawson went on to tweet, “I’ll take one for the team lol,” “If miles Austin miles or wateva his name is win a chip next yr … Then thing is amazing.”
Since Kim and Khloe are preoccupied right now Ty you could always take up with the other sister Kourtney!
USC Finally Gets Their Penalty
June 10, 2010 by
These days living in and around Los Angeles doesn’t suck. The Dodgers and Angels are in first place in their respective divisions, the Lakers are up 2-1 in the NBA Finals, and the USC Trojans just got a near death penalty on their football program. The penalty includes a 2-year ban on bowl games, 30 lost scholarships, and their 2004 undefeated season will be forfeited along with their wins from 2005. As a UCLA Bruin loyalist nothing could be sweeter than to see the grim reaper show up on the Trojans doorstep. Oh, this has nothing to do with OJ Mayo and the basketball program so I will await those disciplines too.
We all knew the hammer from the NCAA was going to fall it was just a question of when. Reggie Bush’s constant denial of his family receiving in upwards of $300k in gifts from naive agents that ultimately sued him was a huge red flag. To make it worse Reggie ended up on the first day of the trial giving the agents back their $300k and not saying a word which really smelled fishy. It was about time this out of control program was dinged for improprieties that were happening. Why it took so long is an anomaly since we are now in the fourth year of the investigation.
I do have sympathy for this year’s freshman class because they now have to go out on the field everyday knowing they will not see any fruits of their hard work for the next two years. Sure USC will be able to be seen on TV against the Irish, Bruins and others, but even if they go 12-0 they can’t win a NCAA Championship. Look for UCLA, and potentially new PAC 10 members Texas and Oklahoma to split the 30 recruits that would have gone to USC and gain a competitive advantage over the Trojans going into the proposed realigned conference.
Yes indeed, this is a beautiful day.
Ben and Natalie Hit the Links
May 26, 2010 by
First off did anyone know that Ben Roethlisberger used to date LPGA hottie Natalie Gulbis? I sure as hell didn’t and it actually kind of pisses me off that Big Ben used to be with the #1 SU.com Sports Babe. Well, yesterday Ben and Natalie played a friendly round of golf at the Laurel Valley Golf Club in Pennsylvania which had to be a little like heaven on Earth to walk eighteen holes with such a knockout. I think this is a good time to drop a few ribs about the new shaft on Ben’s 8-iron, what actually happened on the turn, Natalie getting wet on 14, time to grip and rip it, make sure to pull back slow, and make sure to shout “get in the hole.”
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The JaMarcus Project Might Be Over
April 26, 2010 by
I believe things are actually looking up in Oakland these days and it has been years since that was the case for the Raiders. All indications point to former overall #1 draft pick JaMarcus Russell getting released in the near future which really isn’t surprising considering he has been an gigantic bust. Russell held out in 2007 until after the season began before finally signing a $68 million contract that guaranteed him $31.5. JaMarcus has a career completion percentage of 52%, 18 touchdowns with 23 interceptions and was mercifully benched last year so Bruce Gradkowski could take over as the Raiders starting quarterback. Russell finished the 2009 campagin with the lowest completion percentage, fewest passing touchdowns, fewest passing yards and the lowest quarterback rating among qualifying quarterbacks in the NFL
A report from an inside source states Russell has now ballooned to 300 pounds which will more than likely be the final blow to his career in Oakland. The Raiders acquired Jason Campbell over the weekend and signed him to a one-year extension so they definitely feel he has potential to be their everyday starter. Couple that with the presence of Bruce Gradkowski, Charlie Frye and Kyle Boller and you have to think JaMarcus is the odd man out.