Idiot Henry suspended indefinitely

by | Jun 13, 2008 | NFL Breaking News

Unemployed former Cincinnati Bengal wide receiver Chris Henry was suspended indefinitely Friday pending the result of the trial regarding whatever number arrest this is for him.

This was a no brainer and should have been expected.

Henry is an idiot and is the poster-child for unfulfilled potential – this guy is the definition of million-dollar talent, ten-cent head.

Henry is a moron. He likely ends up sitting out all of 2008 after sitting out eight games last year. This guy has sooooooo much talent it’s unbelievable.

Yet he is too dumb to put aside chasing teenage tail and drinking too much for just a few more years. What a waste.

Ogden retiring, Ravens to suck

by | Jun 11, 2008 | NFL Breaking News, We Forgot

As my brother stated earlier today I am on record uttering the rather tepid statement “the Browns will be a team to watch this year.” I’m not really going out on a limb with that prediction – it could mean I think the team will win 13 games and win the Super Bowl just as easily as it could mean I think they are going to be a complete trainwreck.

In truth I think the Browns will be something around the 10 win team they were last year – maybe a game better, maybe a game worse – but I think they will be a helluva fun team to watch. The schedule is tougher this year, which is the only reason I hedge, but I think it’s a team with the potential to reach the playoffs and make some noise when it gets there.

My next statement will be a bit more concrete: The Baltimore Ravens will suck in 2008. Steve McNair, who was a shell of his former self the last couple years, hung it up, leaving the failed Kyle Boller and the unproven Troy Smith and Joe Flacco to battle for the starting QB position.

They face something like a dozen 2007 playoff teams during a daunting upcoming schedule. And they now are going to have to do so without left tackle Jonathan Ogden, who will announce his retirement on Thursday.

I had the Browns pegged for anywhere between four and six wins this season – I’d shoot for the lower end of that now with Ogden retiring. He also had slipped with physical issues at the end of his career, but he still on experience alone was among the top left tackles in the league.

The line is of lesser quality, the quarterbacks have potential but little experience and the defense largely is aging. That’s not a good combo – if I were in Vegas I’d have the Ravens in my top two or three guesses to have the top pick in the 2009 NFL draft.

Benson gives Bears reason to cut him

by | Jun 9, 2008 | Fantasy Football, NFL News

Move Matt Forte higher on your fantasy football draft lists.

Cedric Benson has officially joined Curtis Enis and Rashan Salaam as recent Bear busts at running back. The Bears finally had enough of his lack of production coupled with his offseason antics, which most recently included his second alcohol-related arrest in a month.

The first time he was on a boat and denied being at fault. Instead of keeping his nose clean in an effort to strengthen his credibility, Benson was arrested Saturday, June 7, this time for drinking and driving in a car.

“Given the incident last month, it was a particularly bad decision. I have no excuse for this lack of judgment. Though I strongly believe that I am not guilty of any crime, I realize that the public and the Bears organization hold me to a higher standard,” Benson said in a statement picked up by media outlets.

Well, in all likelihood Benson will get off on these two drinking offenses with little repercussion and he’ll sign with another team. But I think the Bears were looking for a reason to get rid of him anyway. I think Matt Forte should shoot up fantasy draft lists, not into the first round or two, but definitely into the second- or third-tier of backs. He potentially jumps to the top of the list of rookie backs with a chance to make a significant contribution.

And Benson, well, Benson probably blew his best chance at being an NFL feature back. His value was limited before he got cut. At this point he’s a late round draftee if at all.

Strahan and Favre can hug again

by | Jun 9, 2008 | NFL Breaking News

Congratulations to Michael Strahan for he is doing what every player dreams of – he’s going out on top.

And ironically he’s going out the same year as Brett Favre, who looked ridiculous in taking a dive when Strahan broke the single-season sack record.

Strahan’s retirement seemed more and more likely as the weeks passed – I’d almost started to believe he really didn’t even want to play last year. But he goes out with a ring and still at or near the top of his game. And despite weird ass teeth, he is extremely well-spoken and has a good personality for television – which is where he likely will end up.

While he goes out after having won the Super Bowl I’d forgotten just how good the rest of his career was. He went to seven pro bowls and had 141.5 career sacks, 140.1 not counting the Favre dive.

What better way to go out. Congratulations, for real, to Strahan. One might wonder if he and Favre might not get together and re-live old times sometime this fall. More power to them – we at Zoneblitz have mocked Favre and we still think his soap opera-ish offseasons have gotten old. But the NFL is losing two extremely interesting personalities heading into the 2008 season and they will be hard to replace.

McFadden signs? Already?

by | Jun 7, 2008 | NFL Breaking News

What’s wrong with this picture? We’re almost two months from training camp and three months from pre-season games starting and three of the top four picks have signed already.

Darren McFadden signed a six-year deal with $26 million in guarantees, according to media reports. The deal leaves Chris Long of the Rams as the only unsigned pick among the top four.

What happened to holdouts? Contract disagreements? Especially with the Raiders, who didn’t sign JaMarcus Russell until it was too late for him to have an impact last year. Are teams really negotiating earlier with their draft picks?

In an ideal world these clowns would come to the realization that they are already making way too much money out of the gate as rookies and they should be grateful to be set up for life. But almost assuredly these are exceptions and in reality the rule of a holdout or two a year will again hold true.