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Posted on 31 May 2011. Tags: about, Dallas Clark, ends, Franchise, Franchise Player, G.M., gene smith, gushes, Jags', player', site, team, team’s, tight, Zach Miller
Jaguars G.M. Gene Smith felt strongly enough about tight end Marcedes Lewis to make him the team’s exclusive-rights franchise player prior to the lockout. Smith also feels pretty strongly about the rest of the depth chart. For example, Smith says (per the team’s official site) that third-year tight end Zach Miller (not to be [...]
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Posted on 31 May 2011. Tags: confidence, Farmer, join, lack of confidence, Live, Los Angeles Times, Manish, Manish Mehta, Mehta, memorial day weekend, Post, Randy Moss, show, thought
We’re 100 days away from the scheduled start of the season, but there is a growing lack of confidence it will commence on time. That sunny thought ought to wake us from our post Memorial Day weekend stupor Tuesday on PFT Live, when Sam Farmer of the Los Angeles Times discusses his recent estimate that [...]
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Posted on 31 May 2011. Tags: Adam Schefter, Circuit, days, doesn’t, eighth circuit, Getty, getty images, location, memorial day weekend, place location, regular, season, starts, stay, turn, until
It’s fitting, we suppose, that the nation emerges from the 3-day Memorial Day weekend with a proverbial splash of cold water regarding the lingering lockout. As Adam Schefter of ESPN points out on his Twitter page, only 100 days stay until the Saints and Packers are scheduled to square off at Lambeau Field [...]
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Posted on 31 May 2011. Tags: antitrust claims, attack, Collective Bargaining Agreement, Could, draft, draft pool, first, matter, maurice clarett, Nfl, ohio state coach, player', Pryor, Terrelle, turn
Reuters With the NFL lacking the benefit of a Collective Bargaining Agreement to provide a shield against antitrust claims both from its present players or from its future ones, the league has turn out to be nervous about an eventual legal challenge to the draft, which could come as soon as April 2012. With Ohio [...]
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Posted on 30 May 2011. Tags: distinct topic, focuses, Getty, getty images, Minnesota Vikings, moments, Packers Fans, plenty, series, start, team, them, Tuesday’s, work, Work Stoppage, worst
Monday was our first weekday with out PFT Live because the show debuted almost five months ago. Tuesday, we’ll get right back to it. We’ll continue our recent series by searching at the worst moments because the last work stoppage for the Minnesota Vikings. Usually, we list only four per team. When it [...]
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Posted on 30 May 2011. Tags: “Dr., duane thomas, Football, football writers, Guide, health, influence, Man, nuts and bolts, Paul, Peter King, thinking, thinking man, way, Z”, Zimmerman’s
For a lot of us, The Thinking Man’s Guide to Football (and its update) by Paul “Dr. Z” Zimmerman is the seminal modern book on the sport. The book created me and so numerous other people think about the sport in an entirely diverse way. It might have been the first time I realized that our most [...]
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Posted on 30 May 2011. Tags: billy shaw, bob kalsu, Kalsu, Memorial, memories, Nfl Player, promising life, site, team, way, web, william nack
In 1968, Bob Kalsu was drafted by the Buffalo Bills, earned a spot as a starting guard, and was chosen as the team’s rookie of the year. In 1969, Kalsu was sent to Vietnam, where in 1970 he died at age 25. The Bills’ internet website has a story on this Memorial Day remembering Kalsu, [...]
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Posted on 30 May 2011. Tags: $25000, company, efforts, enterprise, enterprise organization, Kansas City Chiefs, kick, matter, missouri tornado, Organization, Rams, relief, St Louis Rams, tornado, tornado relief efforts
Last week, when the Kansas City Chiefs donated $ 35,000 to the Joplin, Missouri tornado relief efforts, some of you wondered whether the St. Louis Rams would do the very same. Others of you wondered why a billion-dollar enterprise like the Chiefs was coughing up only $ 35,000. As it turns out, the Rams [...]
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