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It seems the already battered Giants D has taken another blow, starting middle linebacker Jonathan Goff is out for the season with a torn ACL, adding to the list of an already injury plagued defense, joining  DB Terrell Thomas, DB Brian Witherspoon, DB Bruce Johnson and DT Marvin Austin with season ending injuries.

Peyton Manning has been ruled out of the Patriots first game at Houston, ending his 227 consecutive start streak, second only to Brett Favre among NFL quarterbacks.

On my 23, Manning underwent neck surgery, and it has taken longer then expected for him to fully recover, putting him on the physically unable to perform list for training camp and wasn’t activated until last Monday.

He partook in limited practice last week, which lead him to have pain in his back, and after a re-evaluation by team doctors, they told him to stop practicing to undergo more tests. Manning had this to say about the situation.

“To say I am disappointed in not being able to play is an understatement,” Manning said in a statement released by the team. “The best part about football is being out there on the field playing with my teammates. It will be tough not to be out there playing for the organization and our fans. I simply am not healthy enough to play, and I am doing everything I can to get my health back. The team will do fine without me, and I know for sure that I will miss them much more than they miss me.”

Veteran Kerry Collins will start in his place, which leads to some questions, can the Colts win without Manning? Is the Manning era over?

Lance Brigg’s agent, Drew Rosenhaus, formally asked the Bear’s front office for permission to seek a trade, because Lance Briggs wants a new contract and more money. So far the Bears have said nothing on the trade issue, and did not give him any more money.

Briggs had this to say to the Chicago Tribune, “The Bears made their decision, now I have to make mine,” Briggs said. “It’s just how the business works. It’s not going to take away from what I do on the field. I’m 100 percent a Bear, until I’m not a Bear anymore.”

Briggs has 3 more years on his contract with the Bears, and is set to make $3.9 million dollars this year, $4 million next year, and $6.5 million the year after that.

Briggs asked for a new contract after seeing younger linebackers were getting more money than him.

Coach Lovie Smith had this to say about the situation, “If a guy has something that he needs to do, then he can deal with it off the field,” Smith said. “As far as how I see him, I just see him coming to work every day, like he has done. Lance Briggs has to get ready for the football season, which he has done.

“Who doesn’t want a new contract? All of us would want a new contract. But still, you go to work every day and do your job, and that’s what he’s doing. I have no complaints about him.”

The last time Rosenhaus went to the the Bears looking for a trade,  tight end Greg Olsen ended up being sent to the Panthers for a third-round pick.

LSU quarterback Jordan Jefferson and other LSU players were allegedly involved in a fight at a bar near campus where four people were sent to the hospital with “minor injuries”. One witness claims that Jordan Jefferson kicked a man in the head while he was on the ground, other players were implicated, but are not named at this time. Police are still investigating the incident and plan on fining all who were involved in the fight. Depending on the outcome, Jordan Jefferson may not start for the Oregon game pending the police investigation.

According to this article, witnesses claimed it began when a person in a vehicle honked their horn to get people to move out of the way, and they drug them out of the van and beat the crap out of them and when another man went to help they beat him too and Jordan Jefferson kicked him in the head while in the ground.

Yet another promising young athlete gets themselves in trouble doing stupid things, some things I am thinking is , for one, why were they at a bar in the first place? You are one of the top football players in the NCAA, you should think first before doing things like this, you are not above everybody else and can get into trouble!

You should be setting an example for the rest of your team, and not be doing stupid things like this, you were out past team curfew, you were acting like an idiot and should have left the area when trouble started if you were not involved in it, hell you shouldn’t have been there in the first place.

With all the nonsense going on in college football, these kids really need to think before they do something, because they are going to come under the spotlight now with everything else going on, and the NCAA is going to hand our harsher punishments.

Its just a shame that they end up doing stupid stuff like this, that can ruin their entire careers, they need to wise up and start acting better than this, and focus more on their studies and football rather acting like idiots and getting into trouble.

Well, college football is right around the corner, and all I can say is, it can’t come soon enough! This year promises to be another exciting year, with Oklahoma topping the power rankings to start the season, with Alabama at #2 and LSU bringing up the #3 position, so get ready for the season to begin, with all the action packed, hard hitting, band playing, cheerleader screaming that is College Football!

Here is the ESPN power ranking going into week 1

Well, you can add this scandal to the list of reasons why I hate Florida teams, football booster Nevin Shapiro has been giving players money, jewelery, and other things for for years, and that is only the tip of the iceburg, there was recruiting, prostitutes, rewards for big plays, bounties for injuring players from other teams and many other crazy incentives that broke countless NCAA football rules, all while running a multi-million dollar ponzi scheme to boot.

All I have to say is wow, this looks like it came out of a book! Gambling, stripclubs, cars, money, booze, prostitutes, wild yacht parties, wild house parties, and abortions!!??? This is terrible, and it has been going on for years, and from what Nevin Shapiro has said this scandal runs deep into the coaching staff for football and basketball as well as school officials.

The NCAA better drop the damned hammer on them, and drop it hard, this is a disgrace to the game, a huge black mark that action must be taken against, and get everybody that was involved in this.

We all know that giving the players things goes on everywhere behind the scenes, but this, this is rampant disregard for the rules and goes above and beyond, this is just absolutely classless, and I am interested in seeing what is going to happen with it.

Apparently, Eli Manning thinks he is in the same class with quarterbacks such as Tom Brady, I am going to have to disagree, and say no he is not, he is by no means a terrible quarterback, but he is not the same caliber as Tom Brady, or his brother Peyton. He needs to tone down his ego a little bit there and not throw 25 interceptions before he can say that.

Can he be as good as them? Perhaps, but as of right now he is not and need to work more and talk less.

The Minnesota Vikings traded two sixth round draft picks to the Washington Redskins for 12 year veteran starter Donovan McNabb.

The Vikings also made it very clear that McNabb is the starter, barring some unforeseen circumstances, and not just a person brought in to mentor young quarterbacks.

This is the 3rd home for McNabb, after spending 11 years with the Eagles, leading them 1 one trip to the Superbowl, and five NFC championship games, McNabb then went to division rival Washington in 2010, which was a complete disaster, finishing the season with the worst stats of his career, with 15 interceptions, 14 touchdowns and a passer rating of 77.1.

McNabb had to restructure his contract before he was aloud to be traded and said “The main focus for me was get to a ballclub that has a chance at winning. It’s not about the money.”

McNabb is looking for a fresh start with the Vikings, with a lot of familiar faces on the coaching staff, and believes he can take them to the next level.

Looks like the lockout is over, and there will be football this season!!! The owners and players agreed to terms and, now just waiting for the plaintiffs to sign as they agreed to.

Now that this is over and done with, we can get on to training camps and free agency and the fun of who is going where and team predictions and trash talking!

Full free agency begins on Friday at 6 pm EST.

I can understand him being mad about being fined for his hits as that is just nonsense, but what he is doing now is just pure idiocy, there is no need to come out and say the things that he is saying right now, there is no need to bash your teammates, no need to bash other retired players and no need for the general asshattery.

What is it with players anymore? It’s not just him, do they think they can go and say whatever they want without repercussions? Sure there is freedom of speech, but people forget is that others have freedom of speech as well and are free to react to what they say.

I’m no Steelers fan, but I respect their team, and view them as one of the classier organizations in the league, I don’t see their upper management putting up with this nonsense for too long and I see some disciplinary action coming his way, if not him being kicked off the team when this lockout business is settled.

People need to learn when to be quiet, as though some of his points are valid, they are overshadowed by all of his negative comments, as I said earlier, you are free to speak your mind, but you must be willing to accept  the consequences in doing so, as the other person is equally entitled to speak his or her minds as well.

His comments can be found here

Looks like the talks are making some progress! They set the date at July 21 to have the deal done. I for one am hoping they get this done, because I want my football!!!!

Details can be found at the NFL official site.

Pacman Jones was arrested again, at a bar, for disorderly conduct and was also accused of resisting arrest and yelling obscenities at the police, which he denies, saying he wasn’t drinking, he did not yell anything and he just had his surgery so he could not resist arrest.

This is his second run in with police in Cincinnati police, it seems this guy can’t stay out of trouble, I think he should avoid bars and clubs as he only gets into trouble there, even if he doesn’t do anything, he still has that rap on him and trouble eventually will find him.

It’s sad really, as he has a lot of talent, if he’d only been able to stay out of trouble I think he would have been one of the elite cornerbacks in the NFL.

As I said, if I were him, as long as I wanted to stay in the NFL, I would avoid bars, nightclubs and strip joints at all costs, as it seems that trouble only follows him when he goes to those establishments and is it really worth it to throw away multi-million dollar contracts for one night on the town?

On an article on the NFL site Pete Carroll was talking about the decision to strip USC of their title.

I think he knew what us up, and got the hell out of Dodge just in time before the NCAA dropped the hammer on USC.

He says people will know who won, I say they also will know that you were all shady and breaking the rules as well, and that is a huge black mark on the program and the school itself.

I hope giving Reggie Bush money was worth it all, and I think he should have to pay for it now, but he won’t, he gets away with being a crook and profits from it in the end.