Here’s a surprise: Shawn Merriman’s out for the season.
He should have had surgery several weeks ago, but instead, he foolishly decided to play through the pain and likely worsened the damage to his knee. For his sake and the Charger’s sake, lets hope he recover’s quickly and completely from surgery.
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Tom Brady is out for the season.
It’ll be interesting to see how Matt Cassel handles this new role, having only thrown 33 passes in college and having only attempted 39 passes in the NFL prior to this season. My guess is that he won’t be given much of a chance, since the Pats have Chris Simms and Tim Rattay set up for tryouts this week. Really though, this just means that the Patriots won’t be near the juggernaut that they were last year.
But on the upside, Brady now gets to spend more time with Gisele Bundchen.
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About a week after legally changing his name from Chad Javon Johnson to Chad Javon Ocho Cinco, the Bengals have announced that they have started “the process of listing the former Chad Johnson as Chad Ocho Cinco for all club business, per the legal change of his surname effected in Florida. The list of appropriate changes will include Ocho Cinco wearing his new surname on the back of his jersey for Sunday’s season opener at Baltimore.”
I still think it’s all very funny…
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Tom Brady says he’s ready to go for this Sunday’s game against the Kansas City Chiefs. In fact, Brady said he “could have played in all four exhibition games”, but apparently decided to rest instead. Probably a wise decision.
This is obviously good news for the Patriots. As I heard on PTI last night: The Patriots without Tom Brady are like… the Kansas City Chiefs. Since he’s started 127 straight games, it’s hard to know for sure if that’s accurate, but it sounds about right to me.
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The Browns are an interesting team heading into this season. I’ve heard a lot of people say they think the Browns will make the playoffs, while others have said they’ll be among the worst teams in football.
Either way, they finally got some good news — Braylon Edwards and Derek Anderson both returned to the practice field. They could be a lethal combination this season, so it’s great to see them playing together again.
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Apparently pleased with what they’ve seen so far this year, the Miami Dolphins have signed Ricky Wililams to a one-year extension, keeping him on the team through the end of the 2009 season.
Ricky’s 2008 salary is a paltry $730,000, but could be increased with “easily achievable incentives”. His 2009 salary is expected to be higher.
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Chad Johnson Ocho Cinco is crazy, but hilarious. He’s been pushing for people to call him “Ocho Cinco” for a few years now, so why not legally change his last name to it? Now he can have it on his jersey (“maybe”, according to ESPN) and his Wikipedia entry is already Ochofied.
I think it’s brilliant. He’s always wanting to do the “next best thing”, so this fits right in with that. I still think he’s an idiot, but this move had me laughing out loud, so that’s gotta count for something.
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17 months after he was suspended for being an idiot, Adam “don’t call me the Pacman” Jones has been reinstated by NFL commissioner Roger Goodell.
Jones says he’s “always wanted to be part of the star” (playing for the Dallas Cowboys) and it understandably pleased with the reinstatement.
Goodell has made a lot of solid moves since he’s become the commish. I agree that Jones should have been suspended, but I also agree that now’s the time to give him another chance. Let’s see what he does with it…
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