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Multiple sources: Cowboys to release Roy Williams. Story to come.
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Multiple sources: Cowboys to release Roy Williams. Story to come.
This is great. Best free agency in a while before the signings and trades even start
http://www.nepatriotsdraft.com/2011-...ed-free-agents
All undrafted FA signings.
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Multiple sources: Cowboys to release Roy Williams. Story to come.
Leonard Davis will also be released, and most likely Marc Colombo as well.....
They also cut Leonard Davis. I thought that was a bit too much...
^ Isn't that a 12 million dollar cap hit?
Hi mono.
I like Mason, but I'm afraid this will be the year he falls off the cliff.
also, Derrick Mason will be cut. If the Patriots are too stubborn to take back Moss, this would be a great pickup.
There's no big free agents that I see the Pats targeting.
Vikings get QB McNabb from Redskins for 6th-round pick
By JON KRAWCZYNSKI, AP Sports Writer 30 minutes ago
EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. (AP)—Donovan McNabb’s arrival in Minnesota has been a rumored scenario for at least five years, ever since Brad Childress left thePhiladelphia Eagles to take over the Vikings in 2006.
Childress is long gone now, but another former Eagles assistant—new Vikings head coach Leslie Frazier—helped make those rumors a reality on Wednesday, just in time for McNabb to help bridge the gap from Brett Favre to rookie Christian Ponder.
The Vikings acquired McNabb from Washington for a sixth-round draft pick in 2012 and a conditional sixth-rounder in 2013, two people with knowledge of the transaction told The Associated Press. They requested anonymity because McNabb has yet to officially sign his restructured contract.
In order to make the deal happen, McNabb had to agree to restructure the five-year, $78 million deal he signed with the Redskins because the Vikings don’t have enough cap room to fit him in with the way the deal is structured. The terms of his new deal were not immediately available.
McNabb gives the Vikings a veteran quarterback while they groom Ponder, who was drafted 12th overall out of Florida State in April, to be the team’s long-term answer at the position. The original preference for Frazier and the Vikings was to have Ponder start Week 1 in San Diego, with a capable veteran backup there just in case.
That was before the NFL lockout prevented players from working out with coaches all summer and put Ponder behind schedule in his development. That made it more important for the Vikings to add an accomplished, experienced quarterback they think can win games with a roster full of veterans while Ponder gets up to speed.
From the sounds of it, Ponder isn’t conceding anything just yet.
“Excited to have McNabb join,” Ponder wrote on Twitter on Wednesday morning, perhaps jumping the gun just a little bit. “Will learn a lot from a Pro Bowler. But that doesn’t mean I’m not still fighting to start week 1!”
The trade ends a tumultuous one-year run in Washington for McNabb. The 12-year veteran was benched twice last season and threw 14 touchdowns and 15 interceptions in 13 games. He completed 58 percent of his passes for 3,377 yards, and his agent Fletcher Smith sparred publicly with head coach Mike Shanahan and offensive coordinator Kyle Shanahan.
Even before the deal was completed, some Redskins players were already treating McNabb’s departure as a foregone conclusion. The writing has been on the wall for some time in Washington, and news of the discussions with the Vikings only served to validate that feeling.
“You see a guy that’s been a Pro Bowler six times,” linebacker Lorenzo Alexander said. “He was going to come in and really help us win more games, but it didn’t work out. Relationships broke down, and now he’s not here, but you can’t really focus on that. You’ve got to continue to move forward.”
Childress coached McNabb in Philadelphia from 1999 to 2005 before leaving to become the head coach in Minnesota. From the minute he arrived in the Twin Cities, it was assumed that McNabb would one day join him in purple.
But McNabb stayed put in Philly and the Vikings coaxed Favre out of retirement, twice. Favre led the Vikings to the NFC le game after the 2009 season, but had a disastrous, injury and scandal-plagued year in 2010 as Minnesota sunk to the bottom of the division.
When Frazier took over as the full-time head coach in January, he said it was time for the team to end its penchant for bringing in retreads and past-their-prime veterans and develop a young quarterback from the start.
They surprised many when they drafted Ponder so early in the first round and immediately said he would compete for the starting job right away.
Ponder was billed as the most NFL-ready quarterback in the 2011 class, but not being able to work with new offensive coordinator Bill Musgrave and most of his teammates at various minicamps and organized team activities throughout the summer makes it a bigger challenge for him to be ready to start in San Diego on Sept. 11.
Ponder said last week during a workout at the University of Minnesota that he still was aiming to be the starter from Day 1.
“That’s what I’m pushing for,” he said. “That’s what I’m hoping for. So we’ll see what happens.”
Bringing in McNabb does show veterans such as Adrian Peterson, Antoine Winfield, Jared Allen and Kevin Williams that the team is still in a “win now”mode, and it was unclear on Wednesday night just how the pecking order at quarterback will play out.
“I would have loved to have him back here,” Alexander said. “But things just didn’t turn out the right way, and he’ll go on and eventually be a Hall of Famer.”
Last edited by LakerHater; 07-27-2011 at 10:24 PM.
He's a possession receiver who excels on 3rd downs...if he can be productive with Flacco, imagine how useful he can be with Brady.
I'd like Barber in Indy.
Steelers, Giants are the likely players for Burress.
Wonder if he can still make a difference wherever he ends up?
additionally, lol Mcnabb
the 49ers signing Masoli Ravioli as a RB
yeah, I didn't realize the boat could sink any further. It's been a mess since Harbaugh got there. The new GM is making some horrible moves
Maybe the Niners could win in the CFL?
He was athletic enough to be an above average scrambling QB in the pac 10, not athletic enough to be a good scrambling QB in the SEC. And now he's gonna play RB in the NFL
The only thing I could see him doing is bulking up to play some sort of hybrid fullback role... Nevermind, no he couldn't. Dude is worthless.
Im Irrelavant
Tbh he wasn't even that good in the Pac. His big plays were when it was an option and the defense collapsed on LaMichael James after he faked the hand off. Idk how the San Fran's GM could be re ed enough to sign him at RB in the NFL.
He was athletic enough to be an above average scrambling QB in the pac 10, not athletic enough to be a good scrambling QB in the SEC. And now he's gonna play RB in the NFL
Cardinals might get QB Kolb from Eagles for DB DRC and 2nd rd pick. Fair trade.
- Matt Leinart to play for his old coach again in Seattle? If there's anyone who can motivate this lazy bas its coach rainbow.
- Asomugha to 49ers???
Chron is reporting that the Texans just re-signed Leinart. Awesome.
Good. I dont want Leinart to light up the Cardinals twice a year if he turned out to be a competent QB.
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