NFL RUMORS & GOSSIP

Filed under: Buccaneers Tampa Bay Buccaneers general manager Mark Dominik had a busy -- and expensive -- Saturday morning, agreeing to terms with the team's first-round pick, defensive tackle Gerald McCoy , and signing restricted free-agent offensive tackle Donald Penn to a six-year deal worth a reported $43 million. "It's a great day for the Bucs in terms of securing...

Here are my thoughts on the Philadelphia Eagles/Denver Broncos Trade and what’s left following the loss of Domonique Foxworth: The Philadelphia Eagles made a very savvy move by acquiring veteran running back J.J. Arrington from the Denver Broncos for linebacker Joe Mays. Arrington is coming off microfracture knee surgery, so it’s unknown if he’s healthy enough to return to...

Eagles WR Riley Cooper and CB Ellis Hobbs are separated by teammates after a brief fight. You always know training camp is in full swing when fights break out, and it didn’t take long in the Eagles first practice.  Tempers flared during the first live scrimmage, with Riley Cooper and Ellis Hobbs squaring off after battling for position off the line of scrimmage. Hobbs suggested...

Looks like former Cincinnati Bengals WR Laveranues Coles will start his third stint with the New York Jets after signing for the veterans’ minimum on Friday. Coles was released by the Bengals in March after just one disappointing season in which he finished with 43 receptions for 514 yards and five touchdowns. Cincinnati signed Coles in March 2009 as the replacement to T.J. Houshmandzadeh—who...

The Philadelphia Eagles and Denver Broncos swapped players. Denver sent RB JJ Arrington to Philly for LB Joe Mays; like any of your favorite reality shows, there’s a "catch". If JJ doesn’t make the Eagles’ final roster, which he won’t without LeSean McCoy, Mike Bell or Charles Scott getting injured, he turns into a 2011 sixth-round pick from the Broncos.

The traveshamockery that is the Albert Haynesworth conditioning test continued on at full steam, the latest embarrassment: being shown up by a local female reporter.

Anthony Davis and Mike Iupati have been practically joined at their rather large hips since becoming San Francisco 49ers this spring, and that continued Friday on the day rookies were required to report to team headquarters. Both first-round draft picks signed five-year contracts a few hours apart, ensuring the highly touted offensive linemen will be [...]

Every year, fans around the league begin to wring their hands together in frustration, as their team struggles to sign their first round pick to a contract headed into training camp. And while some of those fans have a legitimate gripe, especially when their pick holds out for a ridiculous amount of time (see Michael Crabtree), the majority tend to have their fears assuaged fairly...

There was a mysterious absence on the first day of training camp.  QB Pat White wasn’t there.  Now, hours after the final minutes ticked off the post practice presser by Tony Sparano, word has come from league sources that White is out for the entire training camp and his availability for the season is in jeopardy. The reason at this point is anyone’s guess.  Sparano...

The Philadelphia Eagles have engaged in a blockbuster trade this Friday evening, hardly noticed by the mainstream sports media. The Denver Broncos have traded RB J.J. Arrington to the Eagles in exchange for LB Joe Mays. It’s hard to imagine how this trade escaped the laser like precision of the media. Arrington has 1300 combined yards from scrimmage and 5 touchdowns in his...

All eyes were on Brandom Graham today, as the Eagles first round pick made his first appearance at training camp after ending his holdout.  While the rookie defensive end may be the media darling at the moment, Graham is in the midst of a heated competition for a starting spot on the defensive line. In fact, competition for starting spots could be fierce in several places for Andy...

Brandon Marshall must have rehabbed with Shakira, because his hips don’t lie. During 11-on-11 drills, Pro-Bowler  Marshall and his surgically repaired hip faked out CB Sean Smith and left him in the dust on a 55-yard touchdown pass from QB Chad Henne.  ”The Beast” left Smith on the ground on another play in which Smith had good coverage but slipped.  Overall...

The Steelers reported to Latrobe on Friday and players straggled in all day per normal. Below are notes from reporting day. Quarterback Ben Roethlisberger with his beefy offensive linemen in a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Summer is the time for vacations.  Most people pack up their family and head to some great vacation spot. Or, if you’re San Francisco 49er Vernon Davis and Buffalo Bills Aaron Maybin, you pack up a group of strippers and head to Puerto Rico.  “They flew a group of strippers from the DC area down to party with them,” the source told RadarOnline.com...

The Texans David Anderson recently performed some raunchy stand up for a crowd in Houston and in somewhat of surprise, his material was actually pretty funny.

Far be it for me to write about another man’s intentions, but it sure looks to me that Mike Shanahan’s conditioning test for Albert Haynesworth is less about cardio and more about respect. According to several media outlets, Haynesworth has failed two conditioning tests over the past two days. He passed the first leg of Shanahan’s test (which consisted of two 300-yard shuttle...

With the first practice of the 2010 training camp coming up Saturday, here are 10 questions facing the Seahawks as they prepare to open the Pete Carroll era: 1)Russell Okung, Earl Thomas, Matt Hasselbeck, Lofa Tatupu, Leroy Hill [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]