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It's actually a kickoff that can be tantamount to suicide to catch if it's a short kick.

 

Saints won’t match Ravens offer to Willie Snead



Wide receiver Willie Snead reported to Saints workouts last week without signing his restricted free agent tender, but he won’t be spending the rest of the offseason in New Orleans.

Snead signed an offer sheet with the Ravens late last week and PFT has learned, via a league source, that the Saints will not match the offer. Snead was tendered at the lowest level so Baltimore does not owe any compensation for signing the wideout.

It’s a two-year, $7 million contract for Snead with another $3.4 million available via incentives. Snead caught 141 passes for the Saints in 2015 and 2016 before dropping to eight catches in 11 games last season. Snead was suspended to start the year and never recovered his former role in the offense once he was reinstated.

He’ll try to find better footing with the Ravens, who have also added John Brown and Michael Crabtree to their receiving corps this offseason. They’ve been mentioned as a potential landing spot for Dez Bryant as well, but Snead’s addition doesn’t leave much space in the lineup at the moment.

The Saints signed Cameron Meredith as a restricted free agent earlier this offseason and he’ll join Michael Thomas, Ted Ginn and Brandon Coleman as targets for Drew Brees in 2018. (PFT)

 

if you cut out blindside hits or blocks in the back on kickoffs would be better than eliminating kickoffs all together, wouldn't it ?

 

awesome mock Tim. Your poured a ton into it. Well done sir and thanks for all you do for this website.

 

All of that is already illegal. If they called 100% of those penalties then we probably wouldn’t ever have any kick returns go unpenalized. Which comes back to just eliminating them altogether. Just like they could pretty much call holding on every offensive play run in football, but that would make the game unwatchable. There just are certain penalties that happen too often to call them every time they happen.

 

David Irving's ex retract her story

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Just watch - Goodell will find a way to suspend Irving anyway.

 

Dez Bryant turned down multiyear offer from Ravens

The Ravens wanted Dez Bryant but settled for Willie Snead.

Baltimore has indeed shown the most interest in signing Bryant, but the two sides couldn't agree on contract length, NFL Network Insider Ian Rapoport reported Wednesday, via a source informed of the situation.

The Ravens needed a multiyear deal to fit Bryant's number under the salary cap, per Rapoport. The former Cowboys star, conversely, is seeking a one-year contract that will enable him to test the market again in 2019.

In other words, Bryant is banking on a bounce-back year to rehabilitate his league-wide value.

That's a high-risk approach for a player attempting to reverse the decline phase of his career. The Ravens' offer was "pretty lucrative," Rapoport added on NFL Up to the Minute, in the neighborhood of the three-year, $21 million deal signed by Michael Crabtree.

Once it became evident that common ground wouldn't be reached, the Ravens switched gears, coaxing Snead away from the Saints with a two-year contract worth up to $10.4 million.

Bryant, meanwhile, has been left to twist in the wind, hoping the Giants have a change of heart in the coming weeks. At this point, Rapoport reported earlier Wednesday, the Cowboys' career leader in receiving touchdowns is expected to wait until after the draft before finding a new NFL home. (NFL.com)
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Dez may have shot himself in the foot with that move...

 

Silly Dez.

 

A Solomon Sighting !!!

 

Hey Lyman, glad to see you still here.

 

It's true, I'm not dead yet. (Sorry Axe)

 

You actually think I care enough one way or the other...?

Good to see you, Sol.

 

Ready for the draft today sol?

 

Report: Saints discussing a big move up in the first round



The Saints own the 27th overall pick in this year’s draft, but they may have a higher pick before the night is over.

New Orleans has made multiple calls about making “a big leap up” in the first round, Ian Rapoport of NFL Network reports.

Typically if a team is looking to make a big leap up in the first round, that team is looking to draft a quarterback. So the Saints may think they can make a move for the heir apparent to Drew Brees.

Who would it be? It’s probably not realistic to think New Orleans could move up high enough to get Baker Mayfield or Sam Darnold. Josh Allen, Josh Rosen or Lamar Jackson might be available with a pick somewhere in the range that the Saints could go up and get.

Complicating matters is that the Saints don’t have a second-round draft pick because they sent their second-round pick to the 49ers last year in exchange for a third-round pick, which they used on Alvin Kamara. So if the Saints are looking to trade up, they’d have to be willing to include their 2019 first-round pick in the deal. That would be a big investment, perhaps for a quarterback they hope can lead their franchise as long as Brees has. (PFT)

 

Yup.

 

should be a fun night. all I really wanna hear is "THE SUPER BOWL CHAMPION EAGLES ARE ON THE CLOCK!"

 

Carolina Panthers...

Greg Olsen is getting paid.

The Carolina Panthers tight end agreed to terms on a two-year extension worth $17.1 million total, with a potential max value of $20.1 million, NFL Network Insider Ian Rapoport reported, per a source informed of the deal. The team later confirmed the extension.

 

As of Wednesday, Josh Rosen didn’t care who went where. As of Thursday, he does.

Rosen told Ed Werder of Westwood One after being picked 10th overall that Rosen is “pissed off” to be the fourth quarterback taken. He added that the nine players taken in front of him were “mistakes.”

It’s a far cry from simply wanting to be on a team again, but if it gives Rosen extra motivation, so be it.

Rosen, Baker Mayfield, Sam Darnold, and Josh Allen made history by being the first quartet of quarterbacks ever taken within the first 10 picks in any draft.

 

Raiders “feel good” about giving Martavis Bryant an opportunity



When Raiders head coach Jon Gruden spoke about the team’s decision to sign cornerback Daryl Worley this week, he said that the team felt Worley deserved another chance in the wake of the arrest that led the Eagles to release him.

The Raiders added another player with a checkered off-field history on Thursday when they traded a third-round pick to Pittsburgh for wide receiver Martavis Bryant. Bryant’s size and speed make him what General Manager Reggie McKenzie called an “ideal” receiver for the Raiders offense and McKenzie said that Bryant’s one-year suspension in 2016 did not give them pause about bringing him to the team.

“When we talk about character, we’re not going to condemn them,” McKenzie said, via the San Francisco Chronicle. “We’re not going to nail them for life, so to speak, if we see some semblance of — whether it’s remorse or whether it’s getting on the right path — when we talk to the guy. We talked to Worley, we feel good about bringing him in. And we feel good about giving Martavis an opportunity. And we think with our resources, we can help him.”

With Amari Cooper and Jordy Nelson coming off rough seasons and Bryant getting the trade he sought last year, the Raiders receiving corps has a chance to be filled with redemption songs in 2018. (PFT)