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On concussions, players and fans can’t have it both ways
May 6th
The death of linebacker Junior Seau has triggered a flurry of comments and articles regarding the future of football. Former NFL quarterback Kurt Warner has said that he would prefer that his sons not play football (before later that same day saying he would “love” for them to play). ESPN, a network that pays billions…
Sunday morning one-liners
May 6th
Predicting the way the Bills’ cornerback depth chart will shake out. Dolphins rookie TE Michael Egnew and QB Ryan Tannehill have known each other since facing off in high school. Looking at Patriots DE Chandler Jones‘ place in his athletic family. Rich Cimini of ESPNNewYork.com thinks the Jets are taking an enormous risk by sticking…
Colts insist they aren’t rebuilding
May 6th
As the Colts try to rebuild a franchise that went 2-14 in 2011 and that lost its franchise quarterback prematurely and that cut or didn’t re-sign various other key contributors, the team insists that it’s not rebuilding. “Too old to be rebuilding,” Reggie Wayne said recently, via Mike Chappell of the Indianapolis Star. “The only…
Saturday morning one-liners
May 5th
As Bills G.M. Buddy Nix explains it, the decision to dump CB Drayton Florence now was driven by a desire to give the team’s young cornerbacks as many reps as possible in practice. The first pass thrown by Dolphins QB Ryan Tannehill in team drills bounced off the chest of sixth-round rookie B.J. Cunningham and…
Weis calls John Harbaugh’s comments “a joke”
May 4th
Kansas coach Charlie Weis served as a member of the Patriots’ offensive staff for the team’s three Super Bowl runs. On Friday, Weis was asked to respond to recent comments from Ravens coach John Harbaugh regarding the stain that the Spygate scandal placed on those trophies. “That’s a joke,” Weis told Evan Cohen and Steve…
Rex Ryan sees some Ray Lewis in rookie Demario Davis
May 4th
Praise doesn’t get much higher for a rookie linebacker than to be compared to Ray Lewis, but that’s the comparison Jets coach Rex Ryan made today after seeing rookie linebacker Demario Davis at practice for the first time. Manish Mehta of the New York Daily News reports that after the Jets’ rookies took the field…
Bryant McKinnie trying to slim down to 350 pounds
May 4th
We noted a month ago that the Ravens are urging left tackle Bryant McKinnie to get himself into better shape. McKinnie says that ideal shape for him means a slightly higher number on the scale than ideal shape for most of us. The 6-foot-8 McKinnie told the Ravens’ website that he thinks 350 pounds is…
Basketball or not, Ravens could decline to pay Suggs after his injury
May 4th
Some have attached a high degree of significance to the possibility that Ravens linebacker Terrell Suggs suffered a torn (full or partial) Achilles tendon while playing basketball. Technically, it doesn’t matter. If a player suffers any injury while doing anything away from the supervision of the team, the condition is regarded as a “non-football injury.” …
Ravens consider themselves lucky they took Upshaw
May 3rd
The Achilles tendon injury suffered by Ravens linebacker Terrell Suggs illustrates the one NFL reality that is both inevitable and completely unknowable. Players will get hurt. We just don’t know who will be injured. A source with knowledge of the situation tells PFT that the Ravens considers themselves lucky, given that the Ravens selected Alabama…
Terrell Suggs vows to play this year, “prove everyone wrong”
May 3rd
Ravens linebacker Terrell Suggs has confirmed that he suffered a torn Achilles tendon while working out last week, but he says that’s not as bad as it sounds. Suggs told ESPN’s Rachel Nichols that he suffered only a “partial Achilles tear” and will be back on the field by the middle of the 2012 season.…
