NFL News and Jabber

It appears that Roger Goodell has come up with his latest way to shake up the NFL.  He has already made great improvements with the player conduct and shortening up the NFL Draft.  Now it sounds like the Commish wants to put his stamp on the outrageous salary that is demanded to sign the top NFL rookies.  Looking at Jake Long’s deal with the Fins it appears that it has ruffled Roger’s feathers a little…

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“He doesn’t have to play a down in the NFL and he already has his money,” Goodell said during a question-and-answer period at the end of a weeklong sports symposium at the Chautauqua Institution. “Now, with the economics where they are, the consequences if you don’t evaluate that player, you can lose a significant amount of money.

“And that money is not going to players that are performing. It’s going to a player that never makes it in the NFL. And I think that’s ridiculous.”

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NFL training camp is just around the corner.  Have a look here at when each team kicks off…

Eyes will be on the Qb situation for the 49′ers.  Here is a pre-camp assesment from the Niners Insider.

The rebuilding of a franchise begins now for Atlanta.

So after the offseason fiasco that is Chad Johnson, it appears that things are clearing up and the Bengals can get ready to go to work.

Is Shaun Alexander having trouble landing a job because he has love for things outside of football?

Let’s have a look at when Game Management goes good…and bad.

A sign of maturity for Randy Moss.  While headlines in the past included kicking people while they were down and pretending to moon people from the bus window, now they consists of Moss raising money for learning centers in West Virginia and making kids pinky swear to hug their Dad.

Debate over where Dolphins #1 pick Jake Long should start…on the left or right side.  You don’t start your #1 overall pick on the right side, he was drafted to be a left tackle…NOW.  Ask Tony.

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“We see Jake as a left tackle. Left tackle is our need, and that’s where he’s going to be playing for us,” Sparano said the week after the draft.

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The Plain Dealer website has a pretty cool feature for Browns fans.  You can search their history by game, opponant, win/loss, points scored…the list goes on.  What sets this apart from other databases for NFl history is that you can also get the sotry from each game dating back to 1946.  Cool.  Has a nice picture archive as well.  Interesting to even non-Brownie fans.

7 Pressing Questions for the Titans that still need answers.

Dallas Clark raised $18,000 in autograph cash for disaster relief in his home state of Iowa.

Some people forget that the top DE in Jacksonville is Paul Spicer with the drafting of two big names this year.  The Jags didn’t and gave him two more years.

A story of the Cowboys adding CB talent without mentioning drafting Mike Jenkins…odd.

The Packers LB corps may be more agressive this season.

WhatifSports.com has the Panthers at 10-6, possibly 13-3, and division champs for 2008.  What if.