NFL Pre-Season Wrap-up, News for the Regular Season

Headlining the transition from pre-season to regular season, Matt Leinart has been released by the Cardinals. Also, Big Ben Roethlisberger had his suspension reduced to 4 games.

Can’t say I’m too surprised at either of these big headlines, but for the Cardinals, you better find a QB quick, because we know Kurt Warner isn’t coming back. For the Steelers, they wanted to reduce Ben’s suspension to 3 games because of Byron Leftwich being out 2-4 weeks. But that didn’t happen, especially with Roger Goodell and his messed up head. Ben isn’t charged with anything but yet, how many players get absolutely nothing with DUI’s this year? Why hasn’t Cedric Benson or Michael Vick gotten suspended for their misbehavior this off-season?

In other NFL news, Sam Bradford will be the starting QB for the Rams, Willie Parker has been released from the Redskins, and Ed Reed will start the season on the Physically Unable to Perform list.

Regular Season kicks off Thursday with the Saints facing the Minnesota Vikings.

Fun Fact for this pre-season: the Carolina Panthers did not score an offensive touchdown

Favre Coming Back, Here We Go Again

Guess who’s practicing?

First Impressions of Rookie NFL QB’s

This past weekend was the first week of NFL pre-season, and we got to see some of the rookie QB’s in action. Continue reading to see stats and breakdown of the big-name rookie QB’s.

What to Watch For: NFL Hall-of-Fame Game

Today is the first day of pre-season football. Catch the Cowboys play the Bengals in the NFL’s annual Hall-of-Fame Game. It is the first time T.O. will go against his former Cowboy team. Yes it is pre-season, but it sure has felt like a really long time since last season ended.
What will be interesting to watch is the new tandem of T.O. and OchoCinco. The Bengals got to get T.O. used to the offense, and learn how to play with another selfish player who wants the ball just as much as he does.

For the Bengals they have a good set of rookie’s to look for:
TE Jermaine Gresham, DE Carlos Dunlap, WR Jordan Shipley, WR Dezmon Briscoe

For the Cowboys they really only have one exciting player in Dez Bryant. But he will not be playing because he is injured.

Haynesworth Losing Weight

Albert Haynesworth of the Washington Redskins is reportedly down about 32 pounds. Normally DT’s are the big boys, but the Redskins have switched to a 3-4. Although Haynesworth was one of the best DT’s in the game, he isn’t big enough to play a 3-4 DT. The DT for a 3-4 defensive system really needs to be an anchor for the middle of the D-line. Haynesworth had openly said he does not want to play DT with this defensive scheme change. The assumption is that he is lowering his weight so he can play an outside DE. That would be much more suitable. Although it is a big concern that he has never played that position before and has never even played in a 3-4 system. He has one of the biggest contracts ever for a D-lineman and what if this change doesn’t work and his production drops off? At least he isn’t just abandoning switch. He is making an effort and I’m sure he’s gonna be training like crazy. Pre-season is just about a month away.