[NFL] American Football 2008 #2 Training camp

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Op dinsdag 2 september 2008 16:09 schreef Fugie het volgende:
Het lijkt of NFL spelers vaak bij dit soort incidenten betrokken zijn, maar als je het landelijk gemiddelde aantal schietpartijen in de US erbij haalt valt dat waarschijnlijk nog wel mee.

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Op dinsdag 2 september 2008 18:30 schreef Plastic_Power het volgende:

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't Is behoorlijk bovengemiddeld, hoor

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Greg A. Bedard and Tom Silverstein, of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, report Green Bay Packers QB Matt Flynn will be the No. 2 quarterback to start the season.

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the Detroit Lions announced Tuesday, Sept. 2, that they have signed free-agent RB Rudi Johnson (Bengals) to a one-year contract. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Jacksonville Jaguars FS Jamaal Fudge has been released from the team.

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The Associated Press reports the Carolina Panthers have signed free-agent WR Mark Jones (Chargers). Terms of the contract were not disclosed.

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Op dinsdag 2 september 2008 16:10 schreef jde_kok het volgende:
Ongelooflijk he op hoeveel van die spelers wordt geschoten...

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Rookie Flacco to start at QB for injury-depleted Ravens

OWINGS MILLS, Md. -- Rookie quarterback Joe Flacco will start in the season opener Sunday for the Baltimore Ravens, who awarded the job to their top draft pick because he's the healthiest player at the position.

Flacco, the 18th pick overall, will launch his NFL career against the Cincinnati Bengals. There is a chance the two other quarterbacks competing for the job, Troy Smith and Kyle Boller, both will not be available as backups.

"It wouldn't be realistic to have one of those two guys as a starter, for sure. If they can back up, I think that would be an upset," coach John Harbaugh said Monday.

Smith is still feeling the effects of infected tonsils and Boller has a sore shoulder that could ultimately require surgery. In an effort to add depth, the Ravens worked out quarterbacks Chris Simms, Joey Harrington and Todd Bouman on Monday.

"We need a backup quarterback for the game," Harbaugh said.

But for now, the focus is on Flacco, who was labeled the team's "quarterback of the future" by general manager Ozzie Newsome on draft day shortly after the Ravens traded up to get the former University of Delaware standout.

Well, the quarterback of the future is now the quarterback of the present.

"This is what I wanted all along," Flacco said. "Things happen funny. I've gotten my opportunity, and now it's up to me to go out there and play."


Double debut
With Joe Flacco starting and John Harbaugh the rookie head coach, this is the second team this year to start a rookie QB in Week 1 and have a coach making his NFL head coaching debut. Atlanta's Matt Ryan and Mike Smith are the other tandem. Since 1980 there have been four other instances like this.

Quarterback/head coach debuts
Team Coach Quarterback Result
1989 Cowboys Jimmy Johnson Troy Aikman Loss
1988 Raiders Mike Shanahan Steve Beuerlein Won
1984 Oilers Hugh Campbell Warren Moon Loss
1982 Colts Frank Kush Mike Pagel Loss

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RUDI’S CRAZY DAY IN DETROIT
Posted by Mike Florio on September 2, 2008, 9:17 p.m. EDT

A strange thing happened to running back Rudi Johnson when he visited with the Detroit Lions on Monday.

Someone stole his stuff.

Seriously.

Specifically, and as we’re told by a reliable source (i.e., not the person who told Mort that Joey Harrington had agreed to terms with the Ravens on Monday, or the person who told John Clayton that Todd Bouman had agreed to terms with the Ravens on Tuesday), Johnson left his bags outside CEO Matt Millen’s office while he met with team officials and, ultimately, worked out a deal with the team.

So when Johnson came back to get his bags, they were nowhere to be found. Johnson and Millen were stumped.

Enter the eye in the sky.

The team checked the videotapes generated by the team’s in-house surveillance system, and they quickly identified the culprit.

So who might it have been? None other than Tatum Bell, who lost his gig with the Lions after Rudi arrived.

Per the source, Bell took the bags to the house of a female acquaintance. When confronted on the matter, Bell offered up some cockamamie story that he thought the bags belonged to someone he knew. The girl, however, said that she hadn’t seen Bell in several months and he showed up out of the blue and asked her to keep the bags for a while.

Johnson has retrieved the bags, and it’s our understanding that charges won’t be pressed.

Tatum apparently didn’t know that he was being monitored.

Fortunately, the displaced running back wasn’t Najeh Davenport.

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Op woensdag 3 september 2008 16:14 schreef Plastic_Power het volgende:

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Op woensdag 3 september 2008 22:12 schreef Guard het volgende:
nog een dagje, en dan gaan we weer van start

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Op woensdag 3 september 2008 19:48 schreef Tazmaniac het volgende:
Holt gaat het volgens mij niet echt brengen dit jaar.. Wayne en daarbij Calvin gaan lekker scoren

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Op donderdag 4 september 2008 19:23 schreef Tazmaniac het volgende:
Breaking News: Daunte Culpepper retires

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Op donderdag 4 september 2008 19:23 schreef Tazmaniac het volgende:
Breaking News: Daunte Culpepper retires