I wonder if revealing the contract is going to blow up in his face? Denver didn't take the bait ... now if the Panthers have cooled on him and since the Broncos are taking a pass, Oakland seems to be the only team that's serious about signing him.
There's almost no chance he'll get cut. He has more touchdowns than anyone else, and he's got a monster contract. But he needs at least one more operation, possibly even a 5th if the infection is lingering, and as LoveitHateIt said, there's talk that he will need another separate surgery on his back.
What are the chances they'll put him on the injured/return list and just force him to fully recover, saving him until later in the season?
There's some places around Pittsburgh where they could find a lot of people that would fit right in in a Jersey Shore -style show. Funny accent and everything.
The league would still have Jax and Tampa. Not quite 'south Florida', but there weren't any major issues when Jacksonville hosted the Super Bowl in 2005. Tampa did nicely in 2009. Between those two stadiums, I'm sure Florida could be involved in lots of SB games even without a team in Miami. And it'd give Miami a while to get their stadium sorted.
I'm still not sure why the league isn't doing more to help out.
Last time he was a starter, he took a 1-4 team to the playoffs, won 6 in a row on the way. The Broncos didn't drop him because of a 'complete lack of skills', they just won the Manning sweepstakes.
It's hard to hold anything that happened in New York against Tebow. Ryan is a good motivator, but he's not a good strategist. His refusal to play Tebow, despite the extensive work that he did on his mechanics (he completed 75 percent of his throws for the Jets) shows how bad Rex is at running a team.
If he can keep up his crazy-ass 6 ypc, he's still gonna need almost 420 attempts to make 2500 yards. That's just an insane number of carries, and at 28 years old, he may never recover from it.
You'd think they would want to pick up Tebow. At least with another inaccurate running QB on the roster they won't need to adjust the playbook much when Vick misses his 4-5 usual games next season.
Cutting Sanchez would still count for like $12 million against the cap, and another $8 million next year. They'd have to find a team willing to take that kind of hit for them to trade him.
I'm glad Tebow got out of there clean. Now he has a chance to test the market, and either find a place to play QB (there's a lot of interest outside the NFL) or finally admit to what everyone has been telling him... he should be a tricky tight end or a running back.
This is exactly the wrong way to pick a QB. And it always gets teams in trouble.
Get an accurate guy, and give him time to build his strength to NFL levels. Don't get a strong guy and expect him to miraculously become more accurate.
Big Ben knows that he only has a few years left in football. (3 or 4, maybe a bit longer if he's very lucky, but he takes a hell of a lot of hits to think about playing at 37 or 38. ) I think he'd rather focus on moving forward, rather than covering old territory with new guys.
Last season he ran into the thresher that was the very determined Ravens. If he gets another situation where all his playoff games are at home, and he's running the hurry-up in outer space, he might have a pretty good shot at getting into the big game.
I doubt he's gonna rest or give up until he has at least as many rings as Eli. In his mind, he probably needs 1 more than Eli.
Harrison is a blitzer. Put him in situations where all he has to do is rush the quarterback or block runner's lanes, and he'll do well on any team. I doubt he'll be making any 100 yard interception returns, and he's not the greatest in deeper coverage.
I'm sure the Bengals know what they're getting, and he'll be a great addition.
I'd still love to watch him as a running back or tight end in a more fluid system than the typical NFL approach. Not quite the wildcat, maybe call it the powercat, where he's out there with another chceap QB every play.
If he'd take a pay cut, use him to block, run, catch, pass... with the other QB doing the same thing, and a full time RB who can take direct snaps or make the occasional short pass.
Almost every defense is built to collapse the pocket, get to the passer, stop the runner from breaking loose. But what do you do when three guys are doing that from different spots in the backfield? Even the fastest DEs can't fly.
The problem is that, according to reports, he's going to need two surgeries. They're gonna have to take out the screws and the plate (to restore a more normal bloodflow to the bone) and run a full-course of antibiotics. Then they're going to have to go in a few weeks later, see how the bone has healed, replace the plate (possibly rebreaking the bone in the process) and allow normal healing to occur.
My bad ... it was actually week 16 when he came back. He played Philly, Dallas (meaningless because their ticket was punched no matter what), then the playoffs with Seattle.
What are the chances they'll put him on the injured/return list and just force him to fully recover, saving him until later in the season?
I'm still not sure why the league isn't doing more to help out.
It's hard to hold anything that happened in New York against Tebow. Ryan is a good motivator, but he's not a good strategist. His refusal to play Tebow, despite the extensive work that he did on his mechanics (he completed 75 percent of his throws for the Jets) shows how bad Rex is at running a team.
I'm glad Tebow got out of there clean. Now he has a chance to test the market, and either find a place to play QB (there's a lot of interest outside the NFL) or finally admit to what everyone has been telling him... he should be a tricky tight end or a running back.
Get an accurate guy, and give him time to build his strength to NFL levels. Don't get a strong guy and expect him to miraculously become more accurate.
I doubt he's gonna rest or give up until he has at least as many rings as Eli. In his mind, he probably needs 1 more than Eli.
I'm sure the Bengals know what they're getting, and he'll be a great addition.
If he'd take a pay cut, use him to block, run, catch, pass... with the other QB doing the same thing, and a full time RB who can take direct snaps or make the occasional short pass.
Almost every defense is built to collapse the pocket, get to the passer, stop the runner from breaking loose. But what do you do when three guys are doing that from different spots in the backfield? Even the fastest DEs can't fly.
He could be looking at 10 weeks.