[NFL] 2013-2014 #2 OTA & Trainingcamp

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AdamSchefter twitterde op maandag 29-04-2013 om 15:12:25 Jets had granted Tim Tebow permission this off-season to seek a trade. More than one team asked if were willing to play TE, but he was not. reageer retweet

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Op maandag 29 april 2013 16:42 schreef kidkash19 het volgende:
Patriots, het zou mij niets verbazen.

- Geen QB controversy
- BB/McDaniels zijn fan en BB/Urban Meyer hebben historie
- BB heeft een historie om schijt te hebben aan media en doet waar zijn team beter van word
- Stabiele organisatie die met het hele Tebow Circus om kan gaan
- Een deel van de Offense die zij lopen lijkt op het oude Florida systeem waar Tebow in speelde
- Als er 1 coach is die Tebow meerdere posities kan laten spelen (al was hij daartoe ook bereid in NYC) is het BB wel

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NBA center Jason Collins on Monday announced that he's gay in a story for Sports Illustrated, becoming the first active player in a major American team sport to announce that he is gay.

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Not only will the Cardinals protect themselves by drug testing Mathieu randomly, possibly on a weekly basis, but they will construct the third-round pick's contract with no guaranteed money, according to King. Mathieu's contract will allow for roster bonuses in a move designed to protect the team if his troubles continue and they cut him.

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Op dinsdag 30 april 2013 01:44 schreef rgras het volgende:
Ik kan mij niet voorstellen dat een dergelijk contract geaccepteerd wordt.

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Mathieu's agent fully expects to get the guaranteed money afforded to a player of his draft slot. (Last year's 69th overall pick received a signing bonus of $691,000.) Lawlor phoned the Cardinals on Monday to speak on the issue.

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Geno Smith's draft fall to the New York Jets has claimed a victim other than Tim Tebow: Smith's agency.

Liz Mullen of Sports Business Journal reports that Smith fired Select Sports, the agency representing him throughout the draft process. By league rule, he can't hire another agent for another five days.

Manish Mehta of the New York Daily News writes that Smith believed he "would be and should be" the No. 1 overall pick in the draft. When he didn't make the first round, the agents paid the price.

This will open up to Smith to easy criticism: It's not like the agents are at fault for his draft day fall, and it looks like he's taking it out on them. But that's overly simplistic and sympathetic to the agents.

Sports agents often make big promises they can't keep. We don't know what transpired between Smith and his agents, but he's well within his rights to fire them if they didn't deliver.

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Op dinsdag 30 april 2013 19:50 schreef rgras het volgende:

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Jacksonville Jaguars wide receiver Justin Blackmon, the team's 2012 first-round draft pick, has been suspended without pay for the first four games of the 2013 NFL season for violating the NFL Policy and Program for Substances of Abuse, the NFL announced Tuesday.

Blackmon will be eligible to return to the Jaguars' active roster on Monday, Sept. 30, according to the NFL.

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Op woensdag 1 mei 2013 15:55 schreef ssebass het volgende:
Tavon Austin, wonderlic score 7.... Dat is niet bijzonder goed.

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Op woensdag 1 mei 2013 15:57 schreef kidkash19 het volgende:

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en het heeft niks, 0,0, noppes, nada met football te maken....

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Jason Cole of Yahoo! Sports reports via sources that Smith acted aloof, disengaged and displayed a general bad attitude during pre-draft meetings. Sources were critical of Smith spending much of his visits on the phone, reading Twitter and texting friends.

From Yahoo! Sports:

“All these other players who were in there were talking to the coaches, trying to get to know people and he was over there by himself,” one source said. “That’s not what you want out of your quarterback.”

“He doesn’t have much presence, not much of a leader,” one executive who studied Smith said. “I don’t think he’s a bad person, but that’s not enough to be a quarterback in this league.”

Cole’s report also includes reports of Smith, two days before the draft, toasting and thanking his agents, calling them “family” and saying they would represent him his entire career.

“His biggest problem is that he doesn’t know what he doesn’t know,” said a league executive, who spent extensive time assessing Smith before the draft. “I’m not sure he knows how to take instruction because he pretty much wouldn’t listen or talk to our coaches … he’s talented. He can sling it, he can fit it into tight spots, he can do a lot of things and I think he wants to be good. But you can’t tell him anything right now. He’s tuned out because he thinks he’s got it all down.”

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Op woensdag 1 mei 2013 16:00 schreef ssebass het volgende:

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Snap ook niet dat ze deze test nog steeds blijven doen, maar wel opvallende score. Denk alleen niet dat iemand er waarde aan hecht. Misschien bij QB.

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Op donderdag 2 mei 2013 15:50 schreef Boe-man het volgende:

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Oline ook wel dacht ik.

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Scoring too high can be as much of a problem as scoring too low. Football coaches want to command the locker room. Being smarter than the individual players makes that easier. Having a guy in the locker room who may be smarter than every member of the coaching staff can be viewed as a problem or at a minimum as a threat to the egos of the men who hope to be able when necessary to outsmart the players, especially when trying in some way to manipulate them.

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Op donderdag 2 mei 2013 16:15 schreef kidkash19 het volgende:

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Zelfs daar niet, er is helemaal geen correlatie naar prestatie op het veld en resultaat van de wonderlic test. Ja bij TE en CB maar die correlatie is negatief, dwz spelers die slechter scoorden op de test haalden beter resultaat op het veld

Het is een suffe achterhaalde methode die afgeschaft moet worden

hier bv de top 20 QBs

Ryan Fitzpatrick 2005 Harvard 48
Greg McElroy 2011 Alabama 43
Jason Maas 1999 Oregon 43
Blaine Gabbert 2011 Missouri 42
Drew Henson 2000 Michigan 42
Bruce Eugene 2006 Grambling State 41
Hugh Millen 1986 Washington 41
Darrell Hackney 2006 Alabama Birmingham 40
Alex Smith 2005 Utah 40
Eli Manning 2004 Mississippi 39
Todd Husak 2000 Stanford 39
Brian Griese 1998 Michigan 39
Matt Stafford 2009 Georgia 38
Omar Jacobs 2006 Bowling Green 38
Charlie Frye 2005 Akron 38
Craig Crenzel 2004 Ohio State 38
Scott Frost 1998 Nebraska 38
Matt Flynn 2008 Louisiana State 38
Travis Lulay 2006 Montana State 37
Marques Hagans 2006 Virginia 37

Woohoo wat een namen!

en tsja dit speelt ook nog

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Op maandag 6 mei 2013 18:16 schreef emokid het volgende:
Waarom zou Chris Kluwe gecut kunnen zijn? Slecht seizoen gehad? Moeilijke relatie met de special teams coach? Is de Vikings organisatie homofoob? Gesuggereerd wordt namelijk het laatste.

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Op maandag 6 mei 2013 21:05 schreef Boe-man het volgende:

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Was toch ook al een teken aan de wand dat de Vikings een punter hadden gedraft. Ook geen heel best seizoen dacht ik, van de wedstrijden die ik heb gezien.

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Stat of the Week
The Vikings drafted a punter, Jeff Locke, in the fifth round of the draft, the first punter or kicker drafted this year. Chris Kluwe, Minnesota's 31-year-old former longtime punter, met with Vikings GM Rick Spielman last week, and Spielman told me the team wanted to get through the weekend's rookie minicamp before making any decisions on the future of the punting position. But with the release of Kluwe Monday, it's clear the team is going to training camp with only one punter -- Locke.
Kluwe, obviously, is outspoken about a lot of things -- gay rights and the lack of punters in the Hall of Fame most recently. Last season, after he taped a "VOTE RAY GUY'' post-it note on his uniform over a Pro Football Hall of Fame emblem in protest to the Hall having no punters, Vikes special teams coordinator Mike Priefer said, "These distractions are getting old for me, to be quite honest."
Spielman insisted to me the decision to draft a punter was not made because the team felt Kluwe was a distraction. "Locke was the top punter in this draft,'' Spielman said. "Some people are trying to play the other angle [the Kluwe-as-distraction angle], but that is totally off-base. That is off the radar. I want Chris, and all of our players, to have freedom of speech. This has nothing to do with Chris' political views."
If the decision is made on performance, it's hard to see Kluwe not having a place as an NFL punter. Four numbers why:
• Kluwe has punted for eight years in the NFL, all of them with the Vikings. His 39.7-yard net average in 2012 was a career-best. His 45.0-yard gross average was the third-best in his career.
• Obviously, a Minnesota punter has been a dome punter since the advent of the Metrodome, and the Vikings are preparing to play two years outside, in the University of Minnesota's open-air stadium, while a new Vikings stadium is built. The numbers say Kluwe's just as good, or even a little better, punting outside. Over the last two seasons, his outdoor average punt -- 45.83 yards -- is better than his 45.30 yards-per-punt indoors. (That includes the playoff game at Green Bay last season.)
• With a scheduled $1.4 million salary this year, Kluwe is not among the top-12-paid punters in the NFL.
• Kluwe had a better net average than the famous Shane Lechler last year, and more punts inside the 20 than Mike Scifres two years ago.
Locke's 43.8-yard gross average over the past two seasons at UCLA is good but not great, though scouts say he's a very good directional punter; 60 of his 141 punts in the last two years were placed inside the 20. And he's an excellent kickoff man (68 touchbacks last year), though incumbent Blair Walsh did set the Minnesota record for touchbacks last year.
Kluwe is toast in Minnesota. But he'll have a major gripe if he's not signed to be someone's punter this year, or at least to come in and compete equally for a job. If he isn't punting somewhere in late July, there will be no question in my mind that NFL teams want their punters to be seen and not heard.

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When Titus Young was released by the St. Louis Rams just 10 days after being claimed off waivers in February, it was natural to wonder if the wide receiver's NFL career might be over.

Young was arrested twice in 15 hours by the Moreno Valley Police Department in Southern California on Sunday, according to a police report obtained by the Oakland Press.

Young was arrested on suspicion of DUI early Sunday morning. Hours after he was released from the detention center Sunday afternoon, police responded to a call about a man jumping over the fence of a tow company yard. It turns out it was Young looking for his black Mustang that was towed following his DUI arrest.

Officers then arrested Young again, this time on a burglary charge, when it was determined he was trying to abscond with his own vehicle.

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buffalobills twitterde op maandag 13-05-2013 om 18:13:07 BREAKING: #Bills GM Buddy Nix will step away from his role as GM and tradition to Special Assistant. reageer retweet

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Op woensdag 8 mei 2013 14:00 schreef rgras het volgende:

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Former Jets QB Tim Tebow has gotten an offer from the Philadelphia Soul. What might make the Philly offer an interesting one for Tebow is that the Soul are owned by Ron Jaworski, whose playing career suggests he knows a thing or two about how to be a successful NFL quarterback.

Here’s the rub, though: Jaworski, who said last summer he thought Tebow’s throwing motion had improved, isn’t looking at Tebow as a starting quarterback. He told the Philadelphia Daily News that he and Soul coach Clint Dolezal sent Tebow a list of plays that they would want to use him on, most of which occur near the end zone, but that Dan Raudabaugh would remain the team’s starting quarterback.

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The San Diego Chargers hoped that linebacker Melvin Ingram would take a big step forward in his second NFL season. Now its seems Ingram won't have a second season at all.

NFL.com's Ian Rapoport reported Tuesday on "NFL Total Access" that doctors feared Ingram suffered a torn anterior cruciate ligament during the Chargers' organized team activities. The Chargers later confirmed the injury, which is to Ingram's left knee.

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Op woensdag 15 mei 2013 20:52 schreef zjroentje het volgende:
Rolando McClain retires from NFL.

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Op woensdag 15 mei 2013 20:52 schreef zjroentje het volgende:
Rolando McClain retires from NFL.

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It hasn't been an easy couple of months for Mark Sanchez.

The Jets quarterback must fight for his job after New York drafted rookie passer Geno Smith -- a struggle Sanchez seems destined to lose, with most writing him off long before training camp gets underway.

Now add to the heat in Gotham a shot from Carolina Panthers wide receiver Steve Smith.

"He sucks," Smith reportedly said Wednesday on WFNZ. The receiver went on to add, via the Sporting News and ProFootballTalk.com, "I wouldn't let Mark Sanchez throw me a paper bag sandwich."

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Op donderdag 16 mei 2013 18:35 schreef rgras het volgende:
Damn!

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