Not about anyone or anything in particular...* DOOZER is back in the NFL! He was signed by the Jagwires last Sunday. Leger Douzable has already been cut three times this summer, by the Rams, Lions and Bills. At least he's racking up some frequent-flyer miles.
* Speaking of ex-Bills, they've cut Aaron Schobel, who would be a significant pickup for a certain team I know that almost absolutely lacks pass rush. He'll be 33 in a couple of weeks, but he had 10 sacks last year. James Hall's had 11, and Chris Long's had 9, the last TWO years. (Hall is 33-and-a-half, btw.) Adewale Ogunleye's still available, too, if anybody with a certain team I know would be interested in improving their pass rush. At all.
* Jevon Snead didn't even make it into August in the NFL. Tampa cut him last month. Talk about a player who fell in a hurry. If he had come out as a junior, draftniks were talking about him as a top-10 pick. Lesson: Always advise your kid to go pro if it's a legitimate option for him. Staying in school cost Snead millions of dollars. And it's not like he was staying at Northwestern; he stayed at Ole Miss.
* Here's a shock: Joe Klopfenstein out for the season in Buffalo. I'm going to ask for Scott Linehan's advice before every fantasy football draft pick I make this year, and then avoid that guy like the plague, because he's guaranteed to be hurt all the time if Linehan likes him. Seriously, Klopfenstein? Brian Leonard? Adam Carriker? Tye Hill? Mark Setterstrom? How many Linehan picks ever even stayed on the field? And though 2008 was a Billy Devaney draft, Donnie Avery? Keenan Burton? Getting drafted by Linehan is a curse of almost-certain doom.
* July 19th will go down in history as the date Eddie Kennison reluctantly hung up his spikes. Fast Eddie even signed a 1-day contract with Kansas City so he could retire as a Chief. What, their time together was that special? I'm sure that was a tearful event. My favorite part was when the Chiefs representative tried to hand Eddie the microphone, but hit him in the chest with it and it fell to the ground. (If only.)
* Hollis Thomas, briefly a Ram last year before going to Carolina, where Panther radio announcers described him in their all-white home uniform one game as looking like "a 300-pound bag of flour wearing shoes," got an EIGHT-game suspension this season for violating the league policy on performance-enhancing drugs. Of all the people - Hollis Thomas? I figured his idea of PEDs were Whoppers, Twinkies and KFC Double-Downs.
* Some where-are-they-nows:
- former Rams training camp o-lineman Donovan Raiola, now in Tampa.
- Marques Hagans, Linehan's lame attempt to develop a "Slash"-type player, was cut in
Washington.
- Brannon Condren, briefly in camp and the Rams practice squad last year, cut by the Jets.
- Cord Parks was picked up by the Seahawks after being cut by the Vikings. He'll be a CB.
- Mike Furrey signed with the Redskins and is giving WR a go again. I assume he was cut in
Cleveland; he spent some time on the Raiders roster after that.
- Randy McMichael's been with the Chargers for some time now. Well, behind Antonio Gates,
he doesn't figure to see that many passes to drop.
Phew, that'll be about enough of that.
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1 comment:
Jevan Snead could have gone back to school this year. He had another year of eligibility.
He should have stayed in school instead of coming out early. Last preseason he was a 1st round pick but had a terrible year and dropped out of the draft entirely.
It is the opposite, he should have stayed in school.
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