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Oklahoma State’s 2007 season may be more remembered by the masses for a famous (or is it more infamous?) rant by head coach Mike Gundy than for anything that the Cowboys may have done on the field.
The season itself proved to have many ups and downs, from a loss to Troy, to heartbreakers against Texas A&M and Texas, to thrilling wins over Texas Tech and Kansas State. In the end, the ...
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Mike Gundy
Dallas Cowboys
Greg Robinson
Brandon Marshall
Washington Redskins
What is it with the Philadelphia Eagles and receivers? Other than Terrell Owens for a brief stretch, it seems the Eagles are always looking for a legitimate No. 1 receiver. Kevin Curtis stepped up last year for the team and appeared to be able to man that spot this season, but now he will be out for “a significant amount of time” due to sports hernia surgery.
A timetable likely will be ...
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Philadelphia Eagles
Anquan Boldin
Kevin Curtis
Terrell Owens
Another star player who could miss a season opener is Baltimore safety Ed Reed , who has had a lingering shoulder issue that will certainly keep him out for the entirety of the preseason.
After spending the first two weeks of Ravens training camp on the physically-unable-to-perform list, Reed returned to practice, but he has been wearing a red jersey, which signifies no hitting. He also ...
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Ed Reed
Baltimore Ravens
Cincinnati Bengals
For the first time, Colts QB Peyton Manning has admitted that his availability for the season opener against the Bears is not a certainty. And he’s not the only one in doubt.
Manning attended his first practice of the season Tuesday and finally spoke to the public. He had been kept out of public view since having surgery to remove an infected bursa sac from his left knee July 14 (the bursa ...
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Indianapolis Colts
Peyton Manning
Chicago Bears
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have high hopes for their offensive line this season as that unit, long one of the team’s problem areas, is now the anchor of the offense.
A big reason for that has been guard Davin Joseph , a 2006 first-round pick out of Oklahoma who has started 28 games the past two seasons, including all 17 (playoffs included) last season. The 6-foot-3, 313-pounder had an ...
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Tampa Bay Buccaneers
New Orleans Saints
Purdue senior running back Jaycen Taylor , who rushed for 560 yards in 2007 as part of a shared backfield, will miss this season because of a torn knee ligament .
“At first, the initial shock was hard to take,” said Taylor, who was injured during Sunday’s practice and will redshirt and return in 2009. “But after thinking about it and realizing that I have another ...
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When Texas A&M fired R.C. Slocum after a 6-6 season in 2002, it was a sign that the program wouldn’t settle for mediocrity after being a regular fixture in the national spotlight throughout the 80s and 90s.
Well, I guess we’re back at square one now. The Dennis Franchione era didn’t exactly yield the results that were expected after Franchione came into College Station a hot property ...
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Will Allen
Two things that aren’t going to be tolerated for very long at Nebraska are 1) bad defense, and 2) losing. Last season, a Nebraska team that was expected to have a huge season slumped to a 5-7 finish due to a defense that allowed 76 points in a humiliation at Kansas and 65 in a similarly appalling loss in the season finale at rival Colorado.
That capitulation (and that’s being nice) in ...
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Bo Pelini
You have to respect SMU’s June Jones . The Mustangs’ new head coach has a quarterback in place in junior Justin Willis who was a two-year starter and former Conference USA Freshman of the Year, but Jones has decided to drop Willis to the No. 3 spot behind two freshmen who are more adaptable to Jones’ run-and-shoot offense.
Jones announced that Bo Levi Mitchell and Braden Smith, both true ...
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June Jones
Despite leading Maryland to the Emerald Bowl last season and entering summer practice as the favorite for the Terps’ starting quarterback job, Chris Turner has been beaten out by Jordan Steffy to start the season opener against Delaware.
Steffy, a fifth-year senior who started the first five games last season before being sidelined with a concussion, won this season’s starting job ...
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LaMont Jordan
Ralph Friedgen
Interesting news out of Cincinnati , as the Bengals are bringing back receiver Chris Henry , which really must make one wonder about the health of star WR Chad Johnson .
Ocho Cinco’s shoulder popped out and then back into the joint during Sunday’s 27-10 loss to the Lions. Everyone is toeing the company line, saying Johnson will be ready for the Sept. 7 season opener with Baltimore. But ...
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Chad Johnson
Cincinnati Bengals
Chris Henry
Not much of a surprise at UCLA, where coach Rick Neuheisel has announced that Kevin Craft has won the Bruins ’ starting QB job for the season opener against Tennessee.
“We’ve decided to name Kevin Craft our starting quarterback,” said Neuheisel this week. “He’s earned it with his consistent play and he has the best mastery of the offense at this point.” ...
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By far the biggest question surrounding No. 17 Virginia Tech heading into this season is at wide receiver, as the Hokies have practically no one with any experience to catch the ball.
To compound that problem, coach Frank Beamer has suspended projected starting receiver Zach Luckett indefinitely after he was arrested for the second time for drunken driving. The 6-foot-3, 212-pound sophomore ...
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In one of the least interesting quarterback battles in recent NFL memory, the Chicago Bears have announced that Kyle Orton will be the team’s starter over Rex Grossman for the Sept. 7 season opener against the Colts.
This is one of those times where a player didn’t so much win a job as he did less to lose it. Need numerical proof? Orton is 12-for-19 for only 99 yards through two ...
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Kyle Orton
Chicago Bears
Rex Grossman
I hadn’t gotten a chance to mention it before now since I’ve been tied up with trying to churn out the rest of the college football previews before next week, but this season, I’ll be voting in the prestigious college football Blogpoll run by Brian of long-running Michigan blog mgoblog.
I’ve already submitted my first ballot, but I still have time to make some ...
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Hello Football Fans!
I cannot wait till football season begins. With each passing week, it just keeps getting more exciting.
This week I’m talking all about the quarterback.
What impact will Brett Favre have on the Jets?
How will Chad Pennington impact the Dolphins?
And I take a look at the most interesting and hotly contested starting QB competitions around training camp.
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Brett Favre
Chad Pennington
Miami Dolphins
New York Jets
It didn’t take long for Dennis Erickson to make his mark at Arizona State. The well-traveled Erickson was brought to the Tempe to take the Sun Devils to heights that Dirk Koetter wasn’t able to, and in just one season, he did just that. ASU started off the season 8-0, and not only did they have a chance to win the Pac-10 title outright and gain an automatic BCS berth, but they ...
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Arizona Cardinals
Rudy Carpenter
While commercials are thought of as nuisances for the most part, they can sometimes be so memorable that they become part of our national fabric. Years after we’ve forgotten what the ad was for, we remember the catch phrases that made them great.
Defenses and kickers are the commercials of fantasy football. In many cases, there seems to be little, if any, difference between them. For most ...
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The 2007 season held a lot of promise for Oregon. Heading into the final few weeks of the season, the Ducks were in control of the Pac-10 and ranked #2 in the country, in position to book a berth in the BCS national championship game with a winning finish.
However, star QB and Heisman Trophy frontrunner Dennis Dixon went down with a torn ACL in what proved to be a 34-24 upset loss at ...
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Dennis Dixon
Mike Bellotti
Jonathan Stewart
On New Year’s Day 1984, UCLA rolled over Illinois in the Rose Bowl, with QB Rick Nueheisel throwing for 298 yards and four touchdowns, two to Karl Dorrell.
Two decades later, it was Dorrell doing the passing, as the reins of the UCLA program were handed over to Neuheisel last December. Things haven’t exactly been to rosy for the program recently, and last year’s mediocre ...
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