Posted by Mike Florio on March 30, 2012, 10:08 AM EDT
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Jets receiver Santonio Holmes generated plenty of headlines last season. And not for good reasons.
He wasn’t happy with his role. We supplied it, he denied it, plenty of people took his word for it, and in the final analysis it was clear that his desire to catch more passes and his frustration with quarterback Mark Sanchez’s inability to satiate that urge drove a wedge between the two men.
Posted by Michael David Smith on March 30, 2012, 8:49 AM EDT
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Carlos Rogers signed a new contract with the 49ers just hours after his old contract expired, remaining with the 49ers on a four-year, $31.3 million deal. Rogers says the money is nice, but that wasn’t the primary motivation.
Instead, Rogers told reporters Thursday, he said he wanted to stay in San Francisco because he thinks the 49ers are building something special.
“Do I really want to go into free agency?” Rogers said, via the San Francisco Chronicle. “Maybe I get more money. I could be with a team that’s sorry. And they could continue to be sorry for like two years. And then once they want to change some stuff around, OK, they’re going to go after the people that are making the highest salary. And then I get cut.”
Rogers said he was also motivated by knowing that when he signed, it ensured all 11 starters on the 2011 49ers’ defense would return for 2012.
“This is a first for me,” Rogers said. “I’m pretty sure it’s rare for a lot of guys, to have all 11 starters back.”
Given that, it’s hard to imagine the 49ers being sorry this year.
Posted by Michael David Smith on March 30, 2012, 6:33 AM EDT
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Although Gregg Williams’ indefinite suspension for the NFL is solely a result of running a bounty program with the Saints, multiple former players have said Williams put bounties on opposing players as defensive coordinator for the Redskins, too. And that has led to many questions about how much Williams’ Hall of Famer boss in Washington, Joe Gibbs, knew about it.
Gibbs says he knew nothing.
“Gregg Williams actually coached for me when I was at the Washington Redskins,” Gibbs said on Sirius XM NASCAR Radio, via Dan Steinberg of the Washington Post. “And my whole point on that was never, in my entire career of 40 years of coaching, did anybody, ever, bring up to me incentivizing someone to hurt somebody else or to take them out of a game. Never ever. And if that took place anywhere where I was, I certainly didn’t hear about it.”
Posted by Mike Florio on March 29, 2012, 8:05 PM EDT
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Vikings running back Adrian Peterson has five full seasons in the NFL. Last week, he turned 27.
Recent history regarding the positions tells us that he may be closer to the end of his career than the beginning.
Vikings G.M. Rick Spielman thinks otherwise. During Thursday’s PFT Live, he described Peterson as the “face of the franchise,” a “unique talent,” and a “future Hall of Famer.”
