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Bledsoe agrees to deal with Dallas
Associated Press
Posted: 15 hours ago
Drew Bledsoe set passing records and reached the Super Bowl as a young quarterback playing for Bill Parcells in New England. Nearly a decade later, the duo will try doing it again with the Dallas Cowboys.
Bledsoe takes over in Big D
Drew Bledsoe is officially introduced as the new quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys.
Bledsoe was to be introduced at a 3 p.m. news conference at team headquarters Wednesday afternoon, one day after he was released by the Buffalo Bills.
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The Bills told Bledsoe he would be cut last week and he said then that "Dallas is intriguing for obvious reasons." Once Parcells was interested, too, the 33-year-old apparently chose not to seriously pursue other starting jobs.
Parcells was running the Patriots when he made Bledsoe the No. 1 overall pick in 1993. They reached the Super Bowl following the 1996 season, losing to Green Bay, then Parcells left for the New York Jets.
Over their four seasons together, Bledsoe set several NFL records for attempts and completions and threw for more than 4,000 yards twice.
Bledsoe's career has risen and fallen several times since then.
An injury cost him his starting job in New England in 2001, and the emergence of Tom Brady prevented him from getting it back. He was traded to Buffalo, where he immediately made the Pro Bowl with another 4,000-yard season but failed to reach the playoffs all three seasons with the Bills, going 23-25 overall.
Last season, Bledsoe helped Buffalo go from 0-4 to 9-6 going into the finale with a chance to make the postseason. However, the emergence of running back Willis McGahee also was a big part of the team's turnaround.
Drew Bledsoe got released by the Bills Tuesday ... and reportedly has landed on his feet with the Cowboys. (David Duprey / AP)
Bledsoe, who hasn't started a playoff game since 1998, still has a strong arm, but has been sacked 140 times in the last three seasons. That's also a tribute to his durability - he's started every game in those years.
His arrival means that 41-year-old Vinny Testaverde won't be re-signed and that young quarterbacks Drew Henson and Tony Romo won't be seeing much action any time soon. Bledsoe made it clear last week that he wasn't interested in being a backup and Parcells has shown little willingness to go through the growing pains of grooming a young QB.
By avoiding a Henson-led rebuilding, the Cowboys are trying to quickly rebound after going 6-10 last season. Parcells is 63 and often says he's too old to lose. He also has two seasons left on his contract.
Parcells makes no secret of his affinity for his former players, believing he can trust them more. His collection in Dallas already included receivers Keyshawn Johnson and Terry Glenn and running back Richie Anderson. Glenn played with Bledsoe from 1996-2001 in New England.
In addition to those veterans, the Cowboys believe they have rising stars in running back Julius Jones and tight end Jason Witten.
Jones was drafted with a pick Dallas acquired from Buffalo in a draft-day trade. The Bills got the Cowboys' first-round pick and used it on quarterback J.P. Losman, whose development forced Bledsoe out of Buffalo. As part of that trade, Dallas gets Buffalo's first-rounder this year, which would've been higher than No. 20 without Bledsoe's second-half turnaround.
Report: Vikings agree to trade Moss to Raiders
Jon Krawczynski / Associated Press
Posted: 4 hours ago
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Randy Moss' electrifying talent was no longer enough for the Minnesota Vikings to put up with his distracting antics.
Dante DiTrapano, Moss' agent, told The Associated Press on Wednesday that the Vikings and the Oakland Raiders had "come to an agreement on Randy playing for Oakland next year."
What makes Moss a perfect fit for the Silver and Black is that when playing for Davis, Moss the uber-talented receiver and Moss the mercurial personality can co-exist in the safe haven of Raider Nation.
For dealing with all of Moss' antics out of bounds and off the field, what he did on the field was worth the price. The Vikings once wisely took a chance on Moss in the draft. The Raiders will be very happy to be the second NFL team to take a chance on Moss.
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Neither the Vikings nor the Raiders would confirm the deal, which was first reported by The St. Paul Pioneer Press.
"We have had discussions with the Oakland Raiders, but there's nothing to announce," Rob Brzezinski, Minnesota's vice president of football operations, told The Associated Press.
Raiders spokesman Mike Taylor said, "I cannot comment on the deal specifically, however, this organization has always been tremendously aggressive and Randy Moss rates with the great players of all time. Great players want to play for the Raiders."
FOXSports.com's Jay Glazer has learned that the Vikings and the Oakland Raiders have agreed to a trade that will send Moss to Oakland in exchange for the Raider's first-round pick this year, a seventh-round choice and linebacker Napoleon Harris, a former first-rounder himself.
The Raiders will likely want to restructure Moss' deal to make it more cap-friendly, but the trade is not contingent on such a move.
Quarterback Daunte Culpepper told FOXSports.com at the Pro Bowl that while he hoped to have Moss around for his entire career, he was done smoothing things over between Moss and the team. Culpepper added that Moss walking off the field prematurely this past season was "terrible, how can I justify that. That was terrible."
Randy Moss will add another wild dynamic to the Raiders.
The deal cannot become official until March 2, the start of the NFL's fiscal year.
"It's just like any other contract. There's a meeting of the minds between the people who negotiate for the Vikings and the people who negotiate for the Raiders," DiTrapano said. "It just hasn't been reduced to writing and it won't be until March 2."
Moss is due to make $7.25 million next year. Harris is due to make $5.41 million.
Oakland's renegade owner Al Davis has long embraced combustible players and the vertical passing game, so adding Moss seems to be a perfect fit.
The timing of the move comes as a bit of a surprise with the Vikings in the midst of an ownership change. Red McCombs has agreed to sell the team to Arizona businessman Reggie Fowler, a deal that still needs to be approved by the NFL.
A spokeswoman for Fowler said it would be "inappropriate for Reggie to be commenting at this point" because McCombs still owns the team and is making all the decisions.
Trade rumors have surrounded the flamboyant Moss all offseason. He struggled with a hamstring injury, but still finished with 13 touchdown catches last season. He was fined $10,000 for pretending to pull down his pants and moon the Green Bay crowd during Minnesota's playoff win. He also drew criticism for leaving the field with 2 seconds left in a regular-season loss against Washington.
Team leaders Matt Birk and Daunte Culpepper confronted Moss after he walked off at Washington, and the organization's patience with the receiver seemed to dwindle in the past year or so.
"He's my good friend, but you almost get to thinking that maybe enough is enough," Culpepper said earlier this month at the Pro Bowl. "And maybe the Vikings organization has had enough."
Last year's transgressions were the latest in a long line of headline-grabbing negative behavior for Moss that included bumping a traffic control officer with his car in 2002, verbally abusing corporate sponsors on a team bus in 2001 and squirting an official with a water bottle in 1999.
But when he was focused and healthy on the field, there was no denying his considerable ability.
His 9,142 career receiving yards are the most by any player over his first seven seasons. The Vikings' offensive identity was built around Moss' uncanny ability to leap over smaller defensive backs to catch deep passes.
Moss burst into the league in 1998 and has been a big reason why the Vikings have sold out every game, including preseason, since he arrived. "The Freak" caught 17 TD passes - many of them long, high-arching throws from Randall Cunningham - to help lead the Vikings to the NFC championship game in his rookie season.
He had his best season in 2003 with 111 catches for 1,632 yards and 17 touchdowns.
He'll leave Minnesota as the only receiver in NFL history to start his career with six straight 1,000-yard seasons. Last year, he had 49 catches for 767 yards and 13 touchdowns.
But after the Vikings lost to Philadelphia in the playoffs this season, coach Mike Tice talked of molding the Minnesota into a running team.
Perhaps in a veiled reference to Moss, Tice also said the Vikings needed leaders to emerge.
"I've said many times before - until the leadership takes over the locker room we're not going to make the big jump to where we need to be," Tice said in January. "The teams that are playing now - New England and Philadelphia - have tremendous leadership in their locker room. They take care of everything."
In Oakland, Moss will team with Jerry Porter to form a formidable receiving duo.
On Tuesday, the Raiders re-signed Porter to a five-year, $20 million contract.
DiTrapano said Moss was "very pleased to be going to Oakland and looking forward to playing with a team that's promised they're going to throw the ball deep a whole lot to him and having a chance at winning the Super Bowl."
"He doesn't leave Minnesota with any grudges," DiTrapano said. "It just was frustrating for him to lose."
Dave Campbell, in Fort Myers, Fla., and Doug Glass, in Minneapolis, contributed to this report.
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Travis henry to the cardinals... I think that they just might take that jump to the next level dependin on who they have at the qb spot because these dudes got LARRY FITZGERALD AND ANQUAN BOLDIN THEN BRYANT JOHNSON like the top recievers in the past two drafts out there. Seein that the rams will continue to digress and yes martz will be jobless by the january 2006 and the seahawks wasnt impressive at all last year and wont have much cap to resign some defensive starters-chike and ken lucas i think the cardinals could make a serious push to win the division...i doubt that the rams or seahawks could hold henry to under 100 yards...
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well the lions got kennedy and pollard...lions will be the frist team to go to the superbowl thats held in theyre hometown :lol: ...hey it could happen....but we might actually be good next year.not superbowl good but good enough to win our division.up and coming kevin jones, charles rogers and roy williams.and if joey can put it together.
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well the lions got kennedy and pollard...lions will be the frist team to go to the superbowl thats held in theyre hometown :lol: ...hey it could happen....but we might actually be good next year.not superbowl good but good enough to win our division.up and coming kevin jones, charles rogers and roy williams.and if joey can put it together.
yeah i thought my jaguars would do it last year.. :lol: (tasia)
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well the lions got kennedy and pollard...lions will be the frist team to go to the superbowl thats held in theyre hometown :lol: ...hey it could happen....but we might actually be good next year.not superbowl good but good enough to win our division.up and coming kevin jones, charles rogers and roy williams.and if joey can put it together.
yeah i thought my jaguars would do it last year.. :lol: (tasia)
I know how it is when you set high hopes for your hometown teams so i just gotta let yall know the lions not doin much at all. Pollard is a real nice pick up. A veteran TE that can block and catch the ball. Kennedy is nice also. A hard hitter and aight in coverage. Overall the lions are a nice team BUT so young. If this was basketball I would say these boys got somethin real but when you gotta young football team its a lil different. I hopin Joey harrington will finally live up to his expectations. I will give him a lil daps tho cause the past few years he aint had no receivers. Rogers only done played like 6 career games. Im tellin you tho if he stays healthy (by the way ROY will be no. 1 receiver even if rogers never got injured) that entire offensive will be scare in the event that joey harrington does decent. They got kevin jones showin serious flashes. I give him at least...at least 1300 next year. But lets talk about whats real. Lets talk about the bears. They picked up mushin muhammed and fred miller. Not big names at all but theyll play there roll. Some people sayin they signed mushin for too much money but he'll handle the business for at least 2 years of his contract. If this o line can be worked out grossman or hutchinson can do it. Meanwhile on the defensive side of the ball all we need is weakside linebacker and we top 5. But anyway i'll hit this place lata. BEARS4LIFE
_______________________________ People have become so empty that they can't even entertain themselves. They have to pay other people to amuse them, to make them laugh, to try to make them feel warm and happy and comfortable for a few minutes, to try to lose that awful, frightening, hollow feeling--that terrible, dreaded feeling of being lost and alone
-Billy Graham
Well my hometeam the Ravens got 2 key players but one of them won't do anything probably...Derrick Mason....because we are a run-heavy team...WE NEED to beef up the o-line a lil more to protect Kyle....but o well....
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^^yeah the titans...i have no idea whats gonna happen to them over the next 3 years...salary cap is a b!tch...yeah but the jagaurs have the most room in the entire league!
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no wonder the packers suck so hard....(tasia)>>
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props to da homeboy MidWestGentleman
mike sherman gone wild:
no wonder the packers suck so hard....(tasia)>>
