Shaun Rogers to Cleveland, the league office revoked the trade with the Bengals. This means Corey Williams and Shaun Rogers will be on the Browns defensive line. Is that scary or what? The Browns have sent the Lions a third round pick and cornerback Leigh Bodden, who will replace the recently-released Fernando Bryant.
Randy Moss still on the market.
Isaac Bruce signs with San Francisco. Mike Martz pretends it’s 2002 again.
Alan Faneca decision coming Sunday. Jets are the leading candidates.
Lito Sheppard trade rumors continue to swirl. No details except that he’s on the market.
Seattle’s kicker Josh Brown will sign with the Rams. This report came after an earlier one that he would not be re-signing with the Seahawks as expected. Jeff Wilkins, the Rams former kicker, announced his retirement today.
Gibril Wilson, the former NY Giants safety, has inked a 6 year-$39 million deal with the Raiders. I’m a little puzzled to be honest. It seems like a huge overpayment, and the Raiders scheme is greatly different from the Giants’. But I guess that’s what getting the Lombardi does for your stock. Plus I was starting to like the guy after all the rumors of him coming to the Eagles.
Today the Bills released Larry Triplett. Also today Marcus Stroud was given permission to seek a trade.
And again today there were two high profile DT’s traded for a 3rd round and 5th round pick. Both teams had high draft positions, similar to the Bills. Both teams had needs at DT, similar to the Bills.
The SBnation Buffalo blog, Buffalo Rumblings, has the story on the front page, and it could be a very likely scenario.
My prediction is it’ll happen in the next couple days. The Bills need at DT is far too great for them to be releasing a recently-signed DT for no reason.
ESPNews broke the story, here’s a link to a post at Yardbarker.
Javon Walker would not only transition well to Philly’s system, he already had figures for a deal worked out in 2005 prior to his trade to Denver.
The question around the league has been the health of his knee. He recently had it scoped after having the ACL repaired.
Before releasing him, the Broncos tried to trade him. Health issues were the main concern of teams, especially after the Broncos aggressively shopped Al Wilson for trade last year only to find out when he got to the Giants facilities that he didn’t pass a physical.
On the same day that the Panthers got 3rd and 5th round picks from the Jets for Kris Jenkins, the Lions have received similar picks from the Bengals for Shaun Rogers.
Michael Smith and John Clayton at ESPN.com have the story, and this seems to be the going rate for DT’s. Look for the Jags to get similar action (maybe from the Bills?) for Marcus Stroud.
The move comes a day before a $1mil roster bonus was due to Shaun Rogers, no word on if the contract will be re-done or not.
Other Bengals priorities include re-signing Dhani Jones (Eagles fans everywhere laugh).
Among the many rumors flying are that the Jags are seeking to acquire Shaun Rogers and dish out Marcus Stroud. It seems like Buffalo is a suitor of Stroud, while the Lions have many interested parties in Rogers. But in checking out youtube for a Marcus Stroud clip I came across this.
I can’t believe I haven’t seen it before, this shit is crazy.
On a day that has already seen former Jaguars wide receiver Ernest Wilford sign with the Miami Dolphins and former Raider Jerry Porter sign with Jacksonville, the Jags have acquired a piece of junk that Mike Tice left in Minnesota.
Looks like the Eagles are aggressively pursuing a contract with Chris Clemons (Raiders).
According to NFL.com they are making a push for the guy who didn’t even play in 2006, but had 8 sacks last year. He’s one of those hybrid guys who can stand up or play end, and he’d be brought in primarily for the pass rush. It makes sense after the cutting of Jevon Kearse, because he could rotate as a pass rusher and not get in the way of the developing Victor Abiamiri.
In other Eagles’ world notes, Thomas Tapeh who was an UFA has signed with Minnesota. It makes sense for Childress to bring in a guy that he’s worked with before, and it also makes sense for the Eagles to let him walk, because we’ve got a good FB already developed in Jason Davis.
Free agency has been kicked off hard in Philly. And I think it’s time to celebrate.
It started as a rumor from a friend of the front office with a blog that people outside of Philly barely knew. Then it snowballed into bigger sites, and now it’s on SportingNews, with figures for the deal.
5 years and $47.2mil. The Eagles usually sign players for longer and then worry about cutting them later on in the deal. These numbers are so realistic, though, that it seems Samuel will be an Eagle until 2013.
Samuel is 27, and had 6 picks (one for a TD against the Eagles) in 2007, following his league leading 10 in 2006. The move is expected to free up Sheldon Brown to move to safety, thus strengthening two positions at once.
Expect this to be officially announced at the 4:30pm press conference. The news conference will likely be available via the Philadelphia Eagles’ website shortly thereafter.
For anyone who thinks he got short-changed in comparison to Clements consider two things:
1) Clements isn’t playing for a contender.
2) The 8th year of Clements deal is fake, making the real deal 7 years, $64mil. Which is a lower per-year average than Samuel’s.
Seau had arthroscopic surgery on his left rotator cuff not long after his New England Patriots were upset by the New York Giants in the Super Bowl, leaving the linebacker to ponder whether to try to play a 19th NFL season or retire — again.
How long until he asks for Rodney Harrison’s HGH dealer?
In all seriousness, this guy somehow just keeps on ticking, and since he spent all last season looking like a 55 year-old man, maybe he can start acting like it and hang up the spikes.
With the Pats releasing Roosevelt Colvin and Tedy Bruschi pondering calling it quits (though the latest news is that he’s returning), the Pats are going to be in the market for some LB’s in either free agency or the draft.
Adam Schefter basically has every scoop, right? I’m hating Cablevision right now.
The oft-disgruntled Raiders wide receiver now has a new home. Even though he will be 30 by the time the season starts, he’s going to be a huge contributor. Considering he basically took 2006 off, and hasn’t had to work exceptionally hard with Randy Moss and Ronald Curry on the other side, he’s definitely still got gas left in the tank. Not only has he had solid years with bad quarterbacks in Oakland, but with the Jaguars running game, he’ll get single-coverage on the outside.
When Dennis Northcutt, Reggie Williams, and Ernest Wilford can carry you deep into the playoffs, Jerry Porter is going to get you further.
The word on the deal is six years and $30 million.
Additional Jaguars news is that earlier today they signed former Dolphins QB, Cleo Lemon to backup David Garrard.
First they signed Jeff Faine, a very average center who had played for the Saints, and gave him 37.5mil over 6 years, with 15mil guaranteed (Per Schefter of NFLN and Jason Cole of Yahoo).
Earlier there was word from the PewterReport.com that they’ll be hosting visits today from 49ers DE Marquis Douglas, and Vikings odd-man-out RB Mewelde Moore.
Now the latest is from Alex Marvez of FOXsports, who has them pegged for a visit from Devery Henderson.
At this point I’m starting to wonder if the amount of money they’re willing to spend may be a reason for the lack of word on Moss. Garcia to Moss isn’t sexy, but Tampa is a perennial contender and the only reason Moss would hold out on NE would be big money. There aren’t that many teams with that kind of spending power.
Prior to the Faine signing the Bucs were $44 million under the cap. Interesting note, they MUST spend about $16mil in order to hit the salary minimum.
UPDATE: (from KFFL)
Danny O’Neill, of The Seattle Times, reports the Tampa Bay Buccaneers will meet with free-agent LB Niko Koutouvides (Seahawks) Friday, Feb. 29.
According to John Clayton of ESPN.com, the Buffalo Bills have signed unrestricted free-agent LB Kawika Mitchell (Giants).
The figures aren’t yet released, but this deepens the Bills LBs. With Posluzny coming back from injury, and possible Marcus Stroud, Shaun Rogers rumors, the Bills could be looking at a huge defensive turnaround.
With the ‘Phins, Bills, and Jets all making swift FA moves, and Moss not yet re-signed by the Pats, watch out for the AFC East!
For the Jets it gives them a big body in the middle of their 3-4 scheme. At least give them credit for committing to it, and the picks can be somewhat replaced by the Vilma to Saints deal, but those picks are in 2009. I just don’t think it’s a great move for them.
Still, for Panthers fans it’s a boon. Jenkins wasn’t what he used to be, and the picks can be gold. I’m sure most Carolina fans are aware Steve Smith was a 3rd round pick.
Well, a deal has been worked out according to G Cobb, whose website got pwned by posting that story.
Come on Gary don’t be so cheap!
Anyway, I don’t like it. I know Philly fans want nothing more than star playmakers, but Samuel costs too much and there are too many good CB’s to be had in the draft. Sheppard isn’t finished and I just don’t see the Birds spending like this.
The source who gave G Cobb his info has to remember that Samuel probably has contracts agreed upon verbally with 2 or 3 other teams as well. I don’t think this will happen.
Still, if it does I’ll have to learn how to not hate him.
Only rumor at this point, but Jason La Canfora has the scoop.
Apparently the deal is set to go off at midnight:01, and Corey Williams will go to Cleveland along with another unnamed player.
It’s unknown what the Pack will get.
UPDATE: Packers will get a 2nd round pick. Cleveland will have no first-day picks unless Derek Anderson signs with someone else and the Browns get a 1st and a 3rd in compensation. Props to PFT on the tip.
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