The Dallas Cowboys locked up two important cogs, committing a combined $95 million to keep running back Marion Barber and cornerback Terence Newman through 2014.
Newman signed a six-year extension to his deal worth more than $50 million. The deal includes a $12 million signing bonus and $22.5 million guaranteed for the next three years, according to CBSSports.com. (more…)
Since we’ve been kind of bored around here, we decided to throw together our own mock fantasy draft over the last week.
With the first overall pick in the 2008 Fantasy Draft…
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Chris Henry finally ran out of chances. The Cincinnati Bengals issued a statement wherein team President Mike Brown said: “Chris Henry has forfeited his opportunity to pursue a career with the Bengals. His conduct can no longer be tolerated.”
Good to know that even the Bengals have limits. It’s a move that had to be made, but probably should have one or two transgressions ago. (more…)
The New England Patriots are bringing Arkansas running back Darren McFadden in for a pre-draft look, according to the Boston Globe.
The impact McFadden would have on an offense already consisting of Randy Moss, Tom Brady, Wes Welker and other role players … wow. That would be an impressive collection of talent.
It’s hard to picture the Arkansas star dropping to the seventh pick with his combination of size, speed and playmaking abilities that some have compared to last year’s rookie stud Adrian Peterson. And there’s also no guarantee they would take him, given the presence of Laurence Maroney and Kevin Faulk and the defection of several key defensive players this off-season.
But if the stars align and he ended up playing half his Sundays in Foxboro he’d give the Patriots a reasonable shot at eclipsing the scoring record they set in 2007.
That would be some offense. Wow.
The mother of Jessica Simpson says her daughter secretly married Tony Romo.
Jessica, who caused a stir in Dallas when Romo’s play suffered late last season after she watched a game from a box at Texas Stadium, was previously married to Nick Lachey.
Simpson and her mother were leaving a Chili’s restaurant in Los Angeles when she made the claim to TMZ.com, a gossip Web site. Simpson giggled and said “Well, I guess if my mom said it, it must be true,”’ according to the Arizona Republic’s Web site.
Sure, this is nothing more than gossip and who knows if it’s true. And who cares, for the most part. But there’s not that much else going on. And Cowboys fans and fantasy football players might start to care if Romo’s play continues to slide during his relationship with Simpson.
In other non-football-related gossip, profootballtalk.com reports that Tiki Barber may no longer be a part of the NBC Today show and Commissioner Roger Goodell wants to ban long hair.
Not sure if it’s a big deal or not but several upper-echelon players are skipping out on their teams’ off-season workouts this spring. While the workouts are voluntary there’s always been a sort of unspoken less-than-voluntary-ness to the way coaches talk about these gatherings. Despite the possibility of angering coaches, in all likelihood only a couple of them will have much impact.
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