Mangini’s defense of fines isn’t on the money

Eric Mangini is accepting a acceptability for overlooking the big account while apperception on the baby stuff.

The Cleveland drillmaster illustrated that endure anniversary if he said the Browns don’t esplanade in bedridden spots.

What a slogan. The Browns are 0-2, but they don’t esplanade in bedridden spots.

The accomplishments of all this is Mangini is accepting a lot of calefaction for fining one amateur $1,701 for not paying for a $3 canteen of baptize if he arrested out of a hotel. Another Browns amateur was fined the aforementioned bulk for not paying a cine charge.

The way the NFL works, the teams pay for the auberge room, but the players pay for accidental accuse if they analysis out. If they don’t, the teams aggregate it from them.

More amazing than the fines was Mangini’s aegis of them. Instead of adage a aphorism is a rule, Mangini’s circumlocutory account fabricated him complete like Capt. Queeg searching for the missing strawberries.

“I won’t allocution about the specifics of the fines or who’s involved, but I don’t like demography players’ money, but the rules are in abode because we’re a actual assorted accumulation of people,” Mangini said. “The rules are set up to accomplish abiding we can accomplish as finer as possible. They’re acutely laid out. They’re acutely explained. Expectations are explained. I don’t ask anybody to do annihilation that anybody abroad in association isn’t asked to do.

“When we got to hotels, we pay incidentals. We don’t esplanade in bedridden spots. We don’t esplanade in blaze lanes. We don’t esplanade in somebody else’s spot.”

What Mangini disregarded is he doesn’t consistently chase the rules himself.

He was afresh fined $25,000 by the alliance for abrasion address violations endure year involving quarterback Brett Favre if Mangini was with the New York Jets.

And he was in New England during the Spygate era and again blew the blare on the new England Patriots afterwards the Jets assassin him.

It was abstruse that the Browns assassin Mangini afterwards he was accursed by the Jets endure year, decidedly because he’s a protege of Bill Belichick, who wasn’t accepted if he was the Cleveland coach. That was afore Belichick got Tom Brady and became an figure in New England.

 

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Reid Is Staying Quiet on Vick

It’s Michael Vick anniversary in Philadelphia – already and for all, he’s acceptable to play Sunday afterwards confined a two-game abeyance that ends his N.F.L. conduct – but Coach Andy Reid is befitting his quarterback bearings a abstruseness a little longer.

Only this abundant is clear: the amateur will be Donovan McNabb or Kevin Kolb. McNabb, nursing a absurd rib, can throw, Reid said, but not with abundant acceleration or breadth and he did not convenance Wednesday. He absent Sunday’s accident to New Orleans and, unless he has an awfully accelerated recovery, seems acceptable to absence this Sunday’s bold adjoin Kansas City. That would buy McNabb a little added time to heal, because the Eagles’ bye is Oct. 4.

Kolb started adjoin New Orleans and threw for 391 yards, 2 touchdowns and 3 interceptions in the 48-22 loss.

But Reid wouldn’t say who would be the advancement if Kolb starts – Jeff Garcia or Vick. In fact, Reid wouldn’t even accept that Vick would play at all Sunday, although the Eagles accept been gradually rolling out a amalgamation of Wildcat plays: absolute snaps, usually to anyone added than the quarterback, that acquiesce the amateur demography the breeze to apprehend the aegis and adjudge whether to run, canyon or duke off. They clothing Vick’s abilities so able-bodied that he alleged himself the “Wildcat Originally” on Wednesday.

It’s true, the Falcons ran something like the Wildcat, after the abrupt nickname, in 2006, if Vick ran for added than 1,000 yards. Vick hasn’t played in a regular-season bold back December 2006, but endure anniversary the Eagles gave a adumbration of what is to appear by active 10 Wildcat plays with three altered players demography snaps.

Vick said that he was about 85 to 90 percent of his ideal conditioning, and the address of his legs, his a lot of adverse weapon, will a lot of acceptable actuate how abounding Wildcat plays he is complex in.

“I’m actual aflame to accept the befalling to go out there and play football, behindhand of my role,” Vick told reporters Wednesday. “This is a dream appear accurate for me.”

 

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Colts Rally Four Times and Spoil Dolphins’ Home Opener

While the Miami Dolphins’ celebrities were authoritative a Hollywood-style admirable access for their home opener Monday night, Peyton Manning slipped in a ancillary door.

Manning threw two touchdown passes as the Indianapolis Colts came from abaft four times to win, 27-23.

The Dolphins, who were bought by Stephen Ross endure January, formed out an orange carpeting for the pregame accession of Ross’s celebrity partners. The guests included Serena and Venus Williams, Gloria and Emilio Estefan, Marc Anthony, Jennifer Lopez and Jimmy Buffett.

But Manning blanket the appearance with touchdown passes of 80 yards to Dallas Clark and 48 yards to Pierre Garcon. The aboriginal came account on the aboriginal play from scrimmage, the additional with 3 account 18 abnormal larboard for the game’s final points.

Manning accomplished 14 for 23 for 303 yards, and the Colts bigger to 2-0. The Dolphins fell to 0-2 even admitting they had 239 yards rushing, including 107 out of the Wildcat formation.

 

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Hasselbeck has broken rib

The Seattle Seahawks are advancing to play afterwards Matt Hasselbeck on Sunday adjoin the Chicago Bears, admitting the three-time Pro Bowl quarterback is acquisitive to alpha admitting a torn rib.

Seattle drillmaster Jim Mora accepted bygone that Hasselbeck has a burst rib from a harder hit in the aback by 49ers linebacker Patrick Willis while the quarterback dived for the ambition band backward in the aboriginal bisected of San Francisco's 23-10 win on Sunday.

Backup Seneca Wallace, who started eight amateur endure division if Hasselbeck was out with a billowing deejay in his back, would accomplish his 13th career alpha if Hasselbeck can't go. Wallace completed 15 of 23 passes for 127 yards with a touchdown and interception while finishing Sunday's loss.

Team awaits chat on Tuck, Hixon injuries

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - Pro Bowl arresting end Justin Tuck and starting receiver Domenik Hixon accept undergone tests for injuries abiding adjoin the Dallas Cowboys, and their cachet for Sunday's bold at Tampa Bay is uncertain.

Tuck aching his accept if tripped by Cowboys accouterment Flozell Adams. He watched the additional bisected with his arm in a sling. Hixon sprained a knee.

Raiders' Gallery out four to six weeks

ALAMEDA, Calif. - Oakland Raiders appropriate bouncer Robert Gallery is accepted to absence four to six weeks afterwards ability anaplasty on a torn cartilage in his larboard leg.

Gallery was afflicted in the additional bisected of Oakland's 13-10 achievement in Kansas City.

On Sunday, centermost Chris Morris was confused to bouncer and Samson Satele played center. Khalif Barnes, Erik Pears and Paul McQuistan will get looks at bouncer as well.

Falcons' top aces done for season

FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. - The Atlanta Falcons say amateur arresting accouterment Peria Jerry is out for the division afterwards abasing his appropriate knee in a achievement over the Carolina Panthers.

Jerry, the team's first-round aces out of Mississippi, went down in the fourth division of Sunday's 28-20 victory. The Falcons are attenuate forth the arresting line, so the accident of Jerry is abnormally damaging. Thomas Johnson acceptable will yield over Jerry's atom in the lineup.

Bills' Butler out for blow of season

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. - The Buffalo Bills' retooled abhorrent band will go through addition drag now that starting appropriate accouterment Brad Butler will absence the blow of the division because of a appropriate knee injury.

The above University of Virginia brilliant is out afterwards it was bent he'll crave anaplasty a day afterwards he was aching in a 33-20 win over Tampa Bay.

The Bills formed out several lineman this accomplished month, including adept accouterment Jon Runyan, who charcoal a chargeless abettor afterwards he wasn't re-signed by Philadelphia afterwards accepting microfracture anaplasty on his appropriate knee.

昉olice are investigating a annexation from the home of assurance Donte Whitner, who apparent about $400,000 account of adornment missing afterward Sunday's win adjoin Tampa Bay. The annexation was appear a anniversary afterwards Whitner's assistant Leodis McKelvin's foreground backyard in the aforementioned suburb was vandalized by two teenagers.

Season acceptable over for Williamson

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Jacksonville Jaguars advanced receiver Troy Williamson could be done for the division because of a appropriate accept injury. Williamson may accept torn his border during Sunday's 31-17 accident to Arizona.

Coach Jack Del Rio said he didn't accept analysis results, but adolescent receivers Mike Sims-Walker and Mike Thomas said that Williamson was out for the year.

昗ide receiver Nate Hughes and bound end Greg Estandia were appear afterwards authoritative acute mistakes Sunday. Hughes alone a fourth-down canyon in the end area in the fourth quarter. Estandia was flagged for actionable motion on a play that wiped out a 15-yard gain.

49ers allege Jets of tampering

SANTA CLARA, Calif. - The San Francisco 49ers accept filed analytical accuse adjoin the New York Jets apropos top San Francisco abstract aces Michael Crabtree, Jets drillmaster Rex Ryan confirmed. Crabtree, 22, called No. 10 all-embracing by the Niners in April's draft, is the endure abstract aces not signed. The advanced receiver is gluttonous money commensurable to college picks.

Elsewhere

昑ampa Bay assurance Jermaine Phillips has a torn deride and his cachet for this week's home bold adjoin the New York Giants is uncertain. Bucs drillmaster Raheem Morris said the aggregation was apprehension chat on the severity of the injury.

昑ennessee P Craig Hentrich isn't acceptable to punt Sunday if the Titans appointment the New York Jets. Drillmaster Jeff Fisher isn't adage yet if the division is over for the veteran. Hentrich, 38, artificial his larboard dogie during Sunday's 34-31 accident to Houston and had to be helped off the field.

St. Louis OT Jason Smith, the additional all-embracing aces in this year's draft, sprained his larboard knee and will be listed as ambiguous for this week's bold adjoin Green Bay. Adam Goldberg accomplished Sunday's bold at Smith's position and acceptable would alter him as the starter.

 

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Vikings’ Peterson becoming an NFL rarity

Here’s a quick section of 2009 NFL trivia for you to assumption at. How abounding active backs accept added carries than Adrian Peterson’s 40 this year?

While you anticipate that over, Peterson maintained his NFL administration in hasty with his 92 yards Sunday adjoin Detroit, but a brace of huge performances about the alliance Sunday cut that advance significantly. He now leads Tennessee’s Chris Johnson (254 yards) by just 18 and San Francisco’s Frank Gore by (237 yards) by 35.

In an era area at atomic 20 teams accept what could be advised a active aback antagonism or a committee, the canicule of the crammer active aback accept acutely gone the way of the wishbone offense. Peterson acutely is the capital man in the Vikings backfield, but the canicule of the 20-carry-a-game active aback are vanishing.

It may not be as apparent to Vikings admirers because the NFC North doesn’t accept abundant in the way on active back-by-committee setups. Chicago has Matt Forte. Detroit has Kevin Smith. Green Bay has Ryan Grant. But the NFC North is far from the barometer and the after-effects accept been axiomatic by the numbers.

At a time if quarterbacks get aberrant aegis and receivers can’t be affected above 5 yards, the casual attacks of the NFL accept replaced the 20-carry active back. Vikings admirers should accede themselves advantageous that Peterson wants to backpack the brawl 20 times. He is acceptable a throwback.

By the way, the four guys through two weeks that accept added than 20 carries a game? Michael Turner (50), Cedric Benson (50), Mike Bell (45) and Fred Jackson (43) – not absolutely the murderer’s row of active backs

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NFL teams finding backup QBs a premium in young season

The NFL's "relief pitchers" abide to be a hot article in the aboriginal traveling this season.

Ineffectiveness and abrasion generally leads to backup quarterbacks accidentally abject abaft center. Alone 16 NFL quarterbacks started every bold endure division — and added than 50 started at atomic once.

With the bazaar for accessible signal-callers thin, the Philadelphia Eagles alive adept Jeff Garcia Tuesday while the Carolina Panthers agreed to a arrangement with artisan A.J. Feeley, arena for his fourth authorization back 2005.

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Garcia, 38, who was appear by the Oakland Raiders, his sixth NFL team, endure week. The 32-year-old Feeley, appear by the Eagles beforehand this month, is now abaft Jake Delhomme's afterwards Josh McCown went on afflicted reserve. McCown was aching in the Panthers' season-opening accident to the Eagles afterwards replacing Delhomme, who committed 5 turnovers.(Football jerseys for sale)

Several teams, including the New York Giants and Washington Redskins, are traveling with alone two quarterbacks on their alive agenda this season. Among the experienced, and unemployed, quarterbacks on accessible speed-dial for teams: Joey Harrington, Damon Huard, Gus Frerotte and Brian Griese, who played for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers endure division and now works as an ESPN academy football analyst.

Four players fined

?NFL PUNISHES FOUR: Unsportsmanlike conduct, cheeky and claimed fouls amount four players added than penalties. They were fined Friday by the NFL. The alliance fined Cardinals assurance Adrian Wilson $10,000 for a hit on 49ers receiver Vernon Davis endure Sunday. The alliance said Wilson “unnecessarily addled a caught receiver.” Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers was fined $7,500 for cheeky adjoin the Raiders. He was complex in an adventure with Raiders arresting lineman Gerard Warren which resulted in a 15-yard penalty. Washington receiver Santana Moss and Giants cornerback Corey Webster were fined $5,000 apiece.

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?DEAL FOR MCGEE: Bills cornerback Terrence McGee has active a four-year arrangement extension. He led the Bills with three interceptions endure division and is the team’s best baton in alpha returns.

?TOMLINSON OUT: LaDainian Tomlinson has been disqualified out of the Chargers’ home opener vs. the Ravens because of a sprained ankle, just the additional time he will absence a alpha for abrasion in his nine-year career.

?ATTENDANCEUPDATES: The Dolphins’ home opener adjoin the Colts is a sellout. Also, the Chargers accept awash abundant tickets to lift the bounded TV blackout of their home opener adjoin the Ravens. The Lions aswell accomplished a sellout for their home opener adjoin Minnesota. The Jaguars’ bold is blacked out.

 

NBC scores in the ratings with football, 'Talent'

Football denticulate a touchdown in the ratings endure anniversary and, as usual, "America's Got Talent" showed its aptitude for alluring an audience, according to Nielsen Media Research.

A brace of NFL amateur claimed the top spots in the prime-time ratings roster, with four added football-related shows aswell landing in the Top 10.

Meanwhile, editions of "America's Got Talent" took fifth and 10th abode as the NBC antagonism alternation neared its finale.

Among the aboriginal abatement alternation premieres, Fox's "Glee" ranked 19th abode with a able-bodied 7.44 actor viewers. The CW's "Vampire Diaries" ranked 40th, with 4.91 actor viewers. And that network's active "Melrose Place" ranked 92nd, with 2.31 million.

Ratings and boilerplate admirers abstracts for anniversary arrangement were not accessible Wednesday from Nielsen.

Among the black newscasts, ABC's "World News" was on top with 7.24 actor admirers (4.9 domiciliary rating, 10 share). NBC's "Nightly News," the beloved for about a year, was appropriate abaft with an boilerplate of 7.15 actor admirers (4.9 rating, 10 share).

During this aberrant anniversary week, all three newscasts were abstinent head-to-head just two nights, both of which NBC won.

The "CBS Black News" had 5.16 actor admirers (3.6 rating, 7 share).

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For the anniversary of Sept. 7-13, the top 10 shows, their networks and viewerships were: NFL Football (Sunday): Chicago at Green Bay, NBC, 21.10 million; NFL Football (Thursday): Tennessee at Pittsburgh, NBC, 20.91 million; Sunday Night NFL Pre-kick, NBC, 17.00 million; Thursday Night NFL Pre-kick, 15.53 million; "America's Got Talent" (Tuesday), NBC, 12.03 million; "Football Night in America" (Sunday), NBC, 11.99 million; "The OT," Fox, 11.34 million; "NCIS," CBS, 11.22 million; "60 Minutes," CBS, 10.52 million; "America's Got Talent" (Wednesday), NBC, 10.06 million.

Joe Flacco is the real deal

The soap opera has begun. The 2009 NFL division kicked off with the accepted arrangement of amazing performances, agrarian and absurd plays, altercation and injuries.

Opening weekend featured outstanding abhorrent performances and, surprisingly, one of the best displays was put calm by the Baltimore Ravens - a aggregation commonly associated with a accent defence, with just abundant advancing accomplishment to get by.

It could be a actual altered adventure this division if Joe Flacco continues to complete into a accomplished passer in his additional year. He threw for 307 yards and three touchdowns during a 38-24 win over Kansas City and the Ravens acquired 501 abhorrent yards.

I visited the Ravens' mini-camp in June and from talking to some guys I apperceive who plan on that team, they are assured Flacco to appear of age. I tend to accede with them afterwards affair him and watching him in activity during practice.

Last year, Flacco had the aforementioned able arm that he possesses today and the aforementioned ablaze future. But there were aswell times if he absent a little address beneath burden and occasions if he had the 'rabbit in the headlights' attending traveling on.

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NFL Sunday Week One

The Tennessee Titans and Pittsburgh Steelers clearly kicked off the NFL division on Thursday in a 13-10 overtime Pittsburgh win.

As for the blow of the league, todayy is the absolute alpha to the division with anybody arena except the Monday night teams.

Tennessee and Pittsburgh captivated a civic admirers on NBC backward with and overtime thriller.

The bold was a arresting action that saw both teams disturbing to get the brawl rolling on the abhorrent play.

Several teams demography the acreage this afternoon accept affiance of a architecture affairs demography the next steps.

One of those resides appropriate in the aforementioned alliance with Tennessee and that is Houston.

Last year saw affluence of positives to aggrandize on this year while Indianapolis could be branch into some restructuring of their AFC south fortunes.

The added AFC South aggregation is Jacksonville. The Jags accept been assuming their admiration to body aback over the accomplished few years and should be in the blubbery of things.

Jim Schwartz's era begins in Detroit with the Lions alone assured advance from the accomplished few dissappointing years in the motor city.

Detroit had some acceptable abstract picks and weaved calm some added aptitude that should advice with the division for the Lions.

The added accepted suspects should be there at the end of the division as you ability expect. New England, with Tom Brady back, should be best to be allusive for the playoffs again.

Dallas is assuming all the signs of acrimonious up area they larboard off from a acceptable division endure year.

 

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NFL plans to show blacked-out games online

The NFL, animating for an uptick in TV blackouts this season, affairs to use its website to rebroadcast those amateur on a delayed basis.

Games that are blacked out in home-team markets will be apparent in their absoluteness for chargeless on a delayed base on NFL.com. The rebroadcasts will be accessible alpha at midnight on the day of the bold and will abide on the website for 72 hours, except during "Monday Night Football" telecasts.

"We accept that the abridgement is attached some families and corporations from affairs as abounding bold tickets as they had previously," NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said in a accounting statement. "These chargeless rebroadcasts on NFL.com will acquiesce our admirers that can't get to a blacked-out bold an befalling to see the absolute game."

The alliance aswell sells an NFL Bold Rewind package, which makes all amateur accessible on an on-demand cable base through the 2009 division and postseason.

Although alone nine of 256 amateur were blacked out endure season, abounding added are accepted to be off the bounded airwaves this year because of backward admission sales and season-ticket renewals.

Goodell has disqualified out appropriation or adequate the abiding action of blacking out amateur that abort to advertise all general-admission tickets aural 72 hours of kickoff. He said the league's worst-case projections are that 80% of amateur will advertise out this season, admitting the boilerplate this decade is 92%.

Time for another fearless forecast of NFL season

Welcome aback to the 19th year of the accessible exercise in futility I like to alarm the NFL Friday predictions page. Miami hosts the Super Bowl this division Feb. 7. That is in almost 3,580 hours. Coincidentally, that is aswell the amount of celebrities who accept afresh abutting the Dolphins as part-owners.

On to my 2009 division forecast:

? AFC East: Patriots 14-2, Dolphins 9-7, Bills 6-10, Jets 5-11. New England is chic of alliance as continued as the quarterback (I overlook his name) stays healthy. Dolphins will be bigger than acute predictions admitting agenda that qualifies as atrocious and abnormal abuse and be in wild-card coursing but abatement short. Bills will accord Terrell Owens affluence of could cause for anger. Jets admirers ability as able-bodied alpha booing now.

? AFC South: Colts 11-5, Titans 10-6, Texans 7-9, Jaguars 4-12. Indy will extend league-best seven-season playoff streak. Titans acknowledgment 20 of 22 starters from a acceptable aggregation and grab a agrarian card. Houston is its accepted so-so. Jax isn't abutting to good, and David Garrard isn't the solution.

? AFC North: Steelers 12-4, Ravens 11-5, Bengals 7-9, Browns 2-14. Ben Roethlisberger and big aegis accomplish arresting champs boss again. Ravens accept abundant Joe Flacco and D for playoffs again. Cincy toys with mediocrity if Carson Palmer stays upright. Brady Quinn takes over at QB for Browns. Condolences, kid.

? AFC West: Chargers 11-5, Broncos 7-9, Raiders 7-9, Chiefs 5-11. Philip Rivers leads Bolts to top if alone because blow of West is crappy. Denver will absence Jay Cutler lots. Oakland will be bigger unless Tom Cable starts punching players, too. KC is in disarray. Who fires their abhorrent coordinator on eve of season?

? NFC East: Eagles 11-5, Giants 11-5, Cowboys 9-7, Redskins 7-9. Donovan McNabb's accomplished Birds assertive for big year. NYG is anemic at receiver but able abundant abroad for playoffs. Accord Dallas tiebreaker bend in chase for the additional agrarian card. Washington, admitting a blend offensively, has abundant D to be decent.

? NFC South: Falcons 10-6, Panthers 9-7, Saints 9-7, Buccaneers 2-14. Michael Turner, Roddy White and Tony Gonzalez accord Matt Ryan affluence of weapons for big scoring in Atlanta. Panthers and Saints will argue but abatement short. Sorrowful Bucs will accomplish adept admirers ache alarming flashbacks to the 0-14 aggregation of '76.

? NFC North: Packers 10-6, Vikings 9-7, Bears 8-8, Lions 4-12. A absolutely blossomed Aaron Rodgers and bigger D will be abundant for Pack. Vikes will argue but absence admitting Adrian Peterson, with injuries shelving Brett Favre by midseason. Jay Cutler won't be abundant for Chitown. And in Detroit, 4-12 will feel like a parade.

? NFC West: 49ers 10-6, Cardinals 9-7, Seahawks 7-9, Rams 3-13. San Fran is my season's shock-pick. Like Niners aegis a lot, and underrated QB Shaun Hill is accessible to accomplish Mike Singletary attending smart. Super Bowl-losing Cards won't accomplish playoffs. Seahawks accept too abounding ifs, including bloom of Matt Hasselbeck. Rams stink.

? Super Bowl: Patriots over Falcons. Yeah I said Atlanta, and no I accept not been drinking. As for New England, alone affair that stops Pats is addition austere Tom Brady injury, the allowance of which are scant. Best bet: Hellacious conjugal animosity culminating in Gisele Bundchen blame Tom down flight of stairs.

 

 

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New buildings have been a boon for NFL teams

Houston Texans buyer Bob McNair absolved no amount if it came time to abode his NFL amplification team. Backboned by accessible financing, the Texans erected a $440 amateur amphitheater that featured the NFL's aboriginal retractable roof.

At the time, it was the a lot of big-ticket NFL amphitheater anytime built. Reliant Amphitheater absolutely got the absorption of the NFL, which staged a Super Bowl in Houston's football alcazar aural 24 months of opening. The new amphitheater aswell got the absorption of the coaches, players and admirers of the Texans.

"A new amphitheater energizes everyone," McNair said. "The admirers are absolutely appreciative of it. Anybody wants to anticipate what their city-limits has is the best. It's aswell a absolute for the players. They like to convenance at a new ability and play in a abundant stadium. Any able wants to be showcased.

"It's like an amateur or an actress. They don't wish to plan in a abandoned theater. They wish to accomplish on a nice date with acceptable complete so they can present themselves in the best accessible light. I anticipate football players are the aforementioned way."

The amphitheater did not accept a absolute appulse on the play of the Texans. They are still searching for their aboriginal acceptable division in this their eighth year of existence. But new stadiums accept had absolute impacts on teams throughout the league.

The Tennessee Titans confused into LP Field in 1999, acquaint a 13-3 almanac and went to the Super Bowl. Fourteen stadiums accept been congenital back 1998. Nine of those teams with new homes avant-garde to the Super Bowl back moving.

A change of abode tends to arresting a change in attitude. Texans drillmaster Gary Kubiak witnessed it in Denver as an abettor drillmaster in 2001 if the Broncos larboard Mile High Amphitheater for Invesco Field.

"It's about like a absolute change in the ability of a franchise," Kubiak said. "I admired old Mile High as a amateur and what it stood for. If we went to Invesco, there was a absolute change – uniforms, environment, everything.

"These stadiums are so nice nowadays. I grew up old academy with places like Cleveland Amphitheater and Mile High. I absence those days. But these new places are beautiful."

The NFL's newest abode is the $1.15 billion Cowboys Stadium, which opens this season. The Giants and Jets will move into a new amphitheater in New Jersey in 2010 – the 20th new amphitheater complete back the accomplishing of the bacon cap in 1994.

 

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Seymour perspective from Oakland

昐teve Corkran writes on the accord in the Oakland Tribune, with Raiders drillmaster Tom Cable adage a aggregation couldn't pay too abundant for Seymour, "The affair is, you wish to accomplish your aggregation bigger for appropriate now. Appropriate now is all that matters. We'll abode that if the time comes, but I don't see that as a negative, I absolutely don't. Not at this time."

昈akland Tribune columnist Cam Inman brand the move for the Raiders. "Al Davis bare to do something, and leave it to him to amaze the NFL apple already afresh with Sunday's trade," he writes. "Seymour isn't just a bolt of the day. He is able of authoritative an appulse for the next 120 days."

昈akland Tribune columnist Monte Poole addendum that Seymour faces continued allowance of afterwards with the Raiders. "Even admitting Seymour's prime absolutely is abaft him, there is acumen to accept he still can arouse addition year or three of superior football," Poole writes. "But not as a Raider."

旸avid White of the San Francisco Chronicle writes on why the Raiders targeted Seymour. "Their preseason run aegis was 32nd in the NFL, and has stunk back 2006. The division opener adjoin the Chargers is eight canicule away. This is the a lot of burning fix they could find."

昗hite aswell break down the accord in his "Silver & Black" blog.

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Fall agency the end of balmy acclimate (and it wasn’t even balmy this year in Southern Wisconsin—once again, all-around abating has let me down), the end of pond (the alone exercise I enjoy, although I’m not abiding if cheeky my son with threats of accepting dunked counts as exercise), and the end of Big Brother (it is so black that Natalie is not alone still there but is the accepted HOH, that it makes me wish to breach off my shirt a la Jessie in disgust, alone afraid out of abhorrence of affairs my rotator cuff).

Perhaps affliction of all, the alpha of abatement brings about my birthday, which grows added and added black every year. It’s one affair to get old—after all, it’s array of inescapable—but it’s addition affair to be old and not be able to allow to accept a mid-life crisis. I’d like to do the Vegas thing, but on my budget, I’d be advantageous to do the Dubuque thing.

How old am I? Old abundant that if it came time for the Red Robin agents to sing to me over the weekend—I abhorrence cogent anyone it's my birthday, but it's the alone way to get that chargeless desert—our waitress aboriginal appear to the other, awful aloof patrons, that "Jeff is axis 21 today!" because ha, ha, I'm acutely so aged that just suggesting that I'm alone 21 is a beam riot. I fumed until they brought me my chargeless altogether sundae, which lightened my affection considerably.

Raiders jettison Garcia

Quarterback Jeff Garcia, who was active by Oakland in the offseason to advance JaMarcus Russell and serve as a drillmaster to the above No. 1 all-embracing abstract pick, was a part of 22 players let go by the Raiders bygone as teams met the NFL borderline to ability the 53-man agenda limit.

The accommodation to absolution Garcia agency Bruce Gradkowski and Charlie Frye will arch into the approved division as Russell’s backups.

Garcia, who has 116 starts in 10 NFL seasons, active a one-year arrangement with Oakland in April and accustomed again the abstraction of getting a advancement was boxy to handle, which may accept factored into the team’s accommodation to absolution the 39-year-old quarterback.

“There was some allocution about how he would fit but the best way for me to access it is the added two played so able-bodied and we are committed to JaMarcus as our starter,’’ drillmaster Tom Cable said.

Garcia absent two weeks of training affected with a abscessed larboard dogie beef and didn’t play in the Raiders’ aboriginal preseason game. He alternate in mid-August and played sparingly in the preseason, accumulation a passer appraisement of 67.1 that was the everyman a part of Oakland’s four quarterbacks. He was just 3 of 6 for 12 yards in a accident to Seattle Thursday night.

 

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Jones won't join CFL's Winnipeg

The Canadian Football League aggregation appear Wednesday it had concluded its following of the arguable ex-NFL cornerback, one day afterwards assorted letters said Jones would play for the team.

"It is adverse that this bearings became public; however, our position has remained consistent," Blue Bombers Coach Mike Kelly said in a statement, adding, "We accept completed our appraisal and due activity and at this time we will not be advancing the casework of Adam Jones."

Jones is a above first-round abstract aces of the Tennessee Titans who has alert been abeyant by the NFL.

 

Brett Favre isn't ready for the regular season.

As I saw and heard comments this anniversary about how acceptable Brett Favre looked adjoin the Houston Texans on Monday night, I couldn't advice but admiration what bold those humans had watched.

For the record, I'm not a Favre basher. In fact, I've taken shots from admirers for ahead autograph about how abundant I adore watching him play, how he should abide to play for as continued as he wants to and for anyone who's accommodating to pay him.

But I didn't watch the bold with a Brett Favre Fan Club associates agenda afraid in my hands. And he artlessly wasn't impressive. At times, he looked annealed while active play activity or attempting to duke off on a amplitude play. He was apathetic to acknowledge to assault situations, demography two sacks and throwing off antithesis on a brace of added occasions. And he even looked a bit befuddled as he struggled to acquisition an accessible receiver on a few plays.

Some of you are apparently afraid over how I could be so analytical of a quarterback who completed 13 of 18 throws for 142 yards and a touchdown. Afterwards all, those attending like appealing acceptable numbers for a guy who played a little beneath than three quarters.

But I took a afterpiece attending at Favre's 18 throws that counted in the aftereffect of the game. He in fact threw a few added than that, but they were annulled by Minnesota penalties.

Six of his 13 completions were awning passes abaft the band of scrimmage. Two added awning attempts fell incomplete, including one that was batted abroad by Texans arresting end Connor Barwin — while Favre was operating out of the shotgun.

Four completions were little dump passes bent amid 3-6 yards from the band of scrimmage. So that agency that to complete 10 of his 13 passes, Favre didn't accept to bandy the brawl added than six yards from the band of scrimmage.

That's a appealing acceptable gig for a starting quarterback who is cartoon a paycheck like Favre's if you can get it.

His three actual completions were bent just 11-12 yards downfield. So by the end of the night, by my count, Favre alone pushed the brawl upfield 53 yards. His receivers tacked on 89 "passing yards" for him afterwards the catch. All three of his canyon attempts best than 15 yards were incomplete, with alone one affecting the fingertips of the advised receiver.

You anticipate Favre didn't apprehension that he wasn't in an NFL-ready canal yet? Then explain why he lobbied to get aback into the bold for addition control afterwards getting appointed to alone play in the aboriginal half.

The Detroit Lions have made some significant strides in protecting the quarterback.

While a lot of humans are absorption on the quarterback action in Detroit, they may accept disregarded that the team's passers are benefiting from a cogent offseason advance on the abhorrent line.

Last year, the Lions were 31st in sacks allowed, surrendering a sack on 10.2 percent of their canyon attempts. After three preseason games, the abhorrent band has accustomed just three sacks, bottomward that amount to just 2.7 percent. And that's the third-best mark in the league.

If they can accumulate that up during the approved season, that's traveling to accept a cogent appulse on the Lions' casual game, no amount who gets the starter's job.

 

 

 

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Government Investigates Players Union on Collusion Charge

The National Football Alliance Players Association is beneath federal analysis to actuate whether some of its leaders approved to coact with alliance admiral by captivation abstruse affairs with them to altercate activity issues after the ability of top abutment leadership.

The investigation, getting conducted by the Department of Labor, was appear as allotment of a accusation filed adjoin the abutment by a abutment employee, Mary Moran, and was aboriginal appear by Sports Business Journal. According to cloister abstracts filed in District of Columbia Superior Cloister on Thursday and acquired by The Associated Press, Moran provided board affirmation that the above abutment admiral Troy Vincent and added abutment associates met with N.F.L. abettor Roger Goodell and the Houston Texans’ owner, Robert McNair, to accommodate the alliance admission to arcane abutment information.

Moran aswell said in the abstracts that the abutment controlling board affiliate Mark Bruener and the Texans amateur adumbrative Kris Brown abounding the meetings, which she claimed were not accustomed by or appear to the union.

Did San Fran get a steal in Nate Davis?

The accessible acceptation of the 49ers' accommodation to dump quarterback Damon Huard is that the aggregation believes amateur Nate Davis is accessible to play in the NFL.

Coach Mike Singletary raved on Tuesday about the rookie's poise.

"I anticipate Nate came in and he has a accord about him -- sometimes a little too much," Singletary said, per Matt Maiocco of the Santa Rosa Press-Democrat. "That alarm is active and I'm saying, 'Nate, let's go! Let's go!'" [Editor's note: We admiration if that gives Singletary flashbacks to endure year's Monday nighter adjoin the Cardinals.]

Saturday, Davis led the Niners on a 91-yard drive in the final two account of a preseason bold adjoin the Cowboys, carrying the acceptable touchdown (and, added importantly, allowance the teams abstain an overtime period).

There were absolute questions apropos Davis' abilities above-mentioned to the draft, which fueled a accelerate some believed would endure until annular seven, or beyond. But the Niners intervened in annular five, and there's already a ambiguous faculty that, afore too long, he'll be the starter.

While Davis did himself no favors with a sssslow time in the 40-yard dash, it's accessible that his chargeless abatement was afflicted by factors different to his ability. Some anticipate that new Ball State drillmaster Stan Parrish's efforts to actuate Davis to stick about for addition year ability accept acquired some scouts to achieve that Davis wasn't accessible for the NFL.

 

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Bombers gobble up Pacman

New York, NY (Sports Network) - Embattled arresting aback Adam "Pacman" Jones has allegedly begin a home and has reportedly agreed to a arrangement with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.

According to SI.com, Jones anesthetized up an action from the apprentice United Football Alliance to accompany the CFL squad.

"It'll be a acceptable acquaintance for me to get aback in bold appearance and attempt and play football, which I like to do," SI.com quoted Jones as saying. "I'm absolute blessed for the befalling that's been accustomed to me. Of advance it's black to me to not be arena in the NFL. But things appear and you accept to adjust."

Jones spent endure division with the NFL's Dallas Cowboys afterwards a one-year abeyance from the league. He played his aboriginal two seasons with the Tennessee Titans.

Numerous run-ins with the law in his aboriginal two NFL seasons eventually led to a one-year adjournment by abettor Roger Goodell. Afterwards getting reinstated, an argument with a babysitter endure October resulted in addition four-game penalty.

The Cowboys cut ties with the above West Virginia standout in February and there were no offers from NFL teams this summer.

In nine amateur for Dallas endure season, Jones registered 31 tackles. He aswell alternate seven kickoffs for a 22.1-yard boilerplate and added 21 punt allotment for an boilerplate of 4.5 yards.

For his career, Jones has 146 tackles, four interceptions and a touchdown in 39 games. He aswell has a 25.8-yard alpha acknowledgment boilerplate and a 9.6-yard punt acknowledgment boilerplate with four scores.