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Cowboys’ fans want to chase Pacman, but don’t want to allow Newman to corner the market on Chunky bars.
If it’s permissible for the ‘Boys to sniff around Pacman, why not Chris Henry?
The Packers have only two tight ends on the roster, one of whom spent last season on injured reserve.
The spread offense will make it to the NFL . . . whenever a team is willing to have ten quarterbacks who can operate it (and thus risk being blown apart by NFL-caliber defensive players) on the active roster.
Perhaps Chris Henry and Pacman Jones would have gotten their acts together if their college coach hadn’t tried to cover up their conduct.
Browns coach Romeo Crennel is willing to take the heat for things that don’t go well.
QB Gus Frerotte is expected to formally re-join the Vikings by Tuesday.
Agent Tom Condon talked a guy into making a documentary on the draft process, but then pulled out of the project when he concluded that the product wasn’t an infomercial for his clients didn’t reflect well on his clients.
If John Tomase of the Boston Herald is hoping to get back in the Pats’ fans graces in the aftermath of his controversial (and, by all present appearances, erroneous) report that the home team videotaped the Rams’ walk-through prior to Super Bowl XXXVI, openly touting the drafting prowess of the Colts isn’t the ideal strategy for making that happen.
A certain NFL news and rumors Internet destination has graduated in some circles from “popular” to “wildly popular.” (Our eventual goal is to be described in print as “crazy insane f–ked-up popular.”)
The Sports Illustrated vault is crazy insane f–ked-up popular.
From the “If They Like Them So Much, Why Didn’t They Marry Them?” file, various coaches who had cracks at signing/keeping players who landed with the Lions are singing their praises.
The Browns have no interest in players with off-field baggage (other than the one who is already on the roster).
For the Panthers, having a bunch of needs means also having a bunch of options with a first-round pick.
April 6th, 2008 at 8:30 am
John Tomase is nothing but an opportunist. After a week of being called out in the comments section of his articles on the Herald’s online site, they closed closed the comments section. The Walsh charges were far from new and Tomase called attention to himself by “going with it” during Super Bowl week. Everyone knew who the unnmaed source was and there is no doubt that Mike Reiss of the Boston Globe was fed the same unsubstantiated crap from Walsh. The Globe ate the Herald’s lunch with a great and balanced story on Walsh. There is no doubt that Tomase will get frozen out by the Patriots players and their coaches. That will pretty much end whatever effectiveness he had as a reporter. He did it all for a freaking story fed by a sleaze like Matt Walsh, which will amount to nothing at the end of the day. If you’re going to sink your own career, do it on something more than a loser like Matt Walsh.
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April 6th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
There is no doubt that John Tomase’s reporting for the Boston Herald was irresponsible. And IF nothing ends up ever, ever coming up, or it becomes clear that there is no video … then sue him for libel or defamation, one of those, all that good stuff.
Two additional points:
1) I am not cinvinced that his report was “erroneus”; if Matt Walsh ends up being able to present evidence (C’MON Goodell, let the man speak w/ no repercussions, or it looks like there is something to hide, like idiotically destroying evidence) … who knows?
2) A reporter doesn’t have to get into anyone’s good graces. Even if he made a collossal blunder, his job is not to “hop[e] to get back in the Pats’ fans graces .” It’s to continue being a watchdog over the NFL.
Look at Jay Mariotti. I’m pretty sure most of us Chicago fans loathe him (I’m like him husually, but not always when he’s over the top just to be over the top) … yet he keeps doing what he is doing. He works for a newspaper. One should always call it how he or she sees it, regardless of being accepted by people or not.
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