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As training camps open around the league, Shutdown Corner touches on all 32
teams, outlining reasons to love and/or hate them. Today, the Arizona Cardinals .
Love
the Cardinals :
Matt Leinart . Leinart recently said that he needed to " realize
[he's] a role model and act like one ," and I probably should
agree, but I like Leinart the way he is. No less of an authority than ...
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Arizona Cardinals
Matt Leinart
Kurt Warner
Anquan Boldin
Alex
Marvez of FoxSports.com is convinced that Brett Favre will be in another uniform
in the next 24-48 hours . And since he knows more about such things than I
do, there's a video of him talking about it. He seems to like to talk.
One thing that would lead me to believe that Marvez is right about the
timeframe is that Roger Goodell wants this process to be a quick one. What ...
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Brett Favre
New York Jets
Roger Goodell
John Madden
Rod
Smith never had a huge Marshall-Faulk-in-his-prime fantasy season. He never had
a record-setting, Randy Moss type of year. He was probably never even taken in
the first round of your fantasy draft.
But flash be damned, Rod Smith was the most consistent son of a bee sting to
ever play fantasy football .
Check out some
of
the
game
logs .
He just caught ball after ball after ...
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Rod Smith
Okay,
so Buddy Ryan isn't dead. But when someone tells him about this
A-11 offense , he's going to go dig a hole, throw himself into it, and use a
remote control backhoe to bury himself, just so he can spin in his grave.
Kevin Gilbride once ran the "run-and shoot" offense as Ryan's
offensive coordinator, and it got him punched in the face. And that was a simple
one ...
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We've known for a while about custom player-
and stadium-specific celebrations in Madden , but I believe
this is our first in-depth look at them. EA Sports shares this YouTube video, giving us a taste of what we'll see. It's not really ...
Before
we get into the ins and outs of the titanic clash between Rex Grossman and Kyle
Orton for the #1 spot on the Bears quarterback depth chart, I'd like to pass
along this quote from Rex Grossman.
From
ChicagoSports.com , via Zoner Sports :
“My mind-set is I want to be the best quarterback in the NFL. And I feel like we’ve got the talent around the quarterback position ...
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Rex Grossman
Chicago Bears
Kyle Orton
Vintage
Chicago Bears Ditka Sweater
$86.23
(and rising), eBay
If you buy this, and you don't have a mustache and wear regular aviator
sunglasses, then you should be beaten with a pillowcase full of bars of soap.
Seriously. Please don't buy this sweater unless you plan to give it the
proper mustachioed respect.
It's a majestic item. The one for sale is the model with sleeves, ...
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Chicago Bears
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With an oddly-timed change in policy, Caleb Campbell
has been yanked out of Detroit Lions training camp
and and shoved back into "full-time traditional military duties." When he was drafted by the Lions, he was thought to be blazing a ...
Because
we've only had one Brett Favre post today, I thought I should do another one ...
you know, just in case Brett's reading, feels like he isn't getting enough
attention, and decides to go out and burn down Lambeau Field or something. We
wouldn't want that.
Tampa Bay has become the preferred destination for Favre in the media, with
Joe Theismann offering this opinion, via
the Bucs ...
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Brett Favre
Tampa Bay Buccaneers
They do so in a V-formation, and while wearing matching Reebok Speedwick
Performance t-shirts. Awful
Announcing spotted the debut of this commercial during yesterday's NFL Live.
I like it, even though I think it was rude of Matt Hasselbeck to just drop
that fish like that. And if the Bengals had known that all it would take to get
Chad Johnson to quietly show ...
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Matt Hasselbeck
Cincinnati Bengals
Chad Johnson
As
college football season approaches and we come up on the one-year anniversary of
Appalachian
State's historic win over Michigan , Redskins tackle and Michigan alum Jon
Jansen is still having a little trouble coping. And Kerry
Brown, a rookie free agent out of App State, is paying the price .
"This one's Jon Jansen's," Brown said, referring to the Redskins' veteran tackle ...
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Jon Jansen
Washington Redskins
And
that's the first time I've ever looked at a sentence and said, "Yes, that
is something I have in common with the 1970s Steelers."
In celebration of the Steelers victory in Super Bowl IX, 70 rings were made
and handed out. The rings included the scores of every playoff game that the
Steelers won on their way to the championship. In the first round of the
playoffs, the ...
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Pittsburgh Steelers
Super Bowl
Dan Rooney
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It's only three days into the season and
I have one sore ass body. If five different
NFL camps have proven anything to me, it's that there is no way to fully prepare my body to take the beatings of football. I've tried working out twice a day, ...
It's
not as poetically idiotic as Chris Henry getting arrested while wearing his own
jersey, but this one's in the same neighborhood.
Remember those
tampering charges that the Packers filed against the Vikings ? And remember
how I thought it would be difficult for the Packers to prove that Favre had made
inappropriate contact with the Vikings?
Well, that assumed that Brett Favre ...
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Brett Favre
Green Bay Packers
Minnesota Vikings
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During a recent interview with a Los Angeles
radio station, Carson Palmer was asked to give his
thoughts on the upcoming USC vs. Ohio State college football contest. And despite earning his living in a state where Woody Hayes commemorative ...
Wade
Phillips, with his army of talent behind him, was feeling a little bit
braggadocious last night. Speaking to a crowd of high school and youth football
coaches, Phillips, sounding like a hybrid of Terrell Owens and Jerry Jones, told
the crowd to " get
the ring finger ready ."
And under most circumstances, maybe it's not the smartest thing in the world
to pop off like ...
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Wade Phillips
Jerry Jones
Terrell Owens
Super Bowl
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That's the promise he's making, anyway. Chad talked
to Mark Curnutte at Cincinnati.com yesterday , and babbled
somewhat interestingly about this off-season and the upcoming season. Among the quotes: "I said everything I needed to say. I ...
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The NFL cares. They're concerned about the very
serious issue of over consumption of alcohol in America.
They're concerned about their players providing a wholesome product that the whole family can enjoy, and being good, clean, sober role ...
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The four winners in the trade that sends
Jeremy Shockey to New Orleans for 2nd- and 5th-
round draft picks.
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If you're looking to plan a vacation sometime
in September or October, might I suggest Schultz's Country
Barn in Wisconsin? I mean, you could go somewhere where you don't need a parka and a ski mask, but ask yourself this: Where else can you ...
Madden's brand of virtual happiness