NFL Network is releasing the 2008 NFL schedule as I type. While this really doesn’t mean that much it’s always one of my favorite days of the off-season.
This year there are a few interesting tidbits. The first thing that jumped out at me is that Miami will visit Buffalo in Toronto this year. Yes, it’s been well-known that the Bills were playing a home game north of the border. (more…)
Jacksonville has extended the contract of quarterback David Garrard by signing him Monday to a seven-year, $60 million deal.
The agreement, according to media reports, includes $20 million in guaranteed money, including a $9 million upfront signing bonus.
Holy Hannah. (more…)
It might be time for the Cincinnati Bengals to completely clean house. Per ESPN Radio’s Max Kellerman via ProFootballTalk.com, Chad Johnson expressed dismay with the team’s decision to cut Chris Henry.
“Are you sure,” he apparently asked Kellerman. “Many, they can’t let him go. That dude is good. He’s very, very good. … We need him. Those are not easy shoes to fill, regardless of the trouble he has gotten into in the past.”
Johnson clearly does not get it. Henry’s five arrests and his other baggage necessitated this move – it probably should have been made two or three incidents ago when it became clear Henry thought himself above the law. (more…)
The New York Times says NFL Films, the New Jersey-based company that has spent the last 50 years documenting the league’s history, may be on the way out.
The Times notes that NFL Films laid off 21 employees and that the league may have shifted its focus to higher-technology media and toward its own NFL Network.
It’d be a shame. More than once I’ve pleasantly wasted an afternoon I planned to spend working on projects listening to John Facenda narrate the nuances of the game.
Hopefully Patriots owner Robert Kraft was serious when he told the Philadelphia Daily News that NFL Films was a part of both the league’s past and its future.
The NFL tabled a discussion on hair length and didn’t act on a proposal that would have allowed Wild Card playoff entrants with better records than Division champions to host playoff games.
But the league did eliminate the force-out rule allowing receivers to be credited with a catch if the referee judged they would have come down in bounds without defensive contact.
The league also voted to allow the team winning the pre-game coin toss to defer its decision to the second half and to eliminate the 5-yard facemask penalty. The 15-yard flagrant, twisting of the facemask penalty still remains. Does that mean minor contact with the facemask is now okay?
And, after the debacle in the Browns/Ravens game last season, owners agreed to extend instant replay to field goal reviews.
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