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    Jason Cole is an award-winning writer who covered the Miami Dolphins for 15 years at The Miami Herald and the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. A member of the Pro Football Writers Association, he also has experience covering the NBA. Jason graduated from Stanford with a degree in communication.

    • Source: Dolphins pushing harder to trade for Chiefs OT Branden Albert

      The Miami Dolphins have ironed out their differences with offensive tackle Branden Albert on a possible long-term contract and continue to talk to the Kansas City Chiefs about a possible trade. But that doesn't mean they will ultimately make a deal for him before the NFL draft starts Thursday night.Offensive tackle Branden Albert (Getty Images)

      Or at all.

      The Dolphins remain distantly hopeful that they can somehow get offensive tackle Lane Johnson of Oklahoma in the draft, but that hope seems to be fading. That's why the Dolphins, who have the No. 12 overall selection, picked up the pace on talks with Kansas City on Wednesday, a source said.

      Chiefs general manager John Dorsey told NFL Network on Wednesday that he was in talks with the Dolphins on a trade. Dorsey said the issue of compensation was the obvious sticking point. The Chiefs would like a high second-round pick for Albert. The Dolphins hold two second-rounders (No. 42 and 54 overall), but are hoping to leverage the Chiefs by forcing their hand.

      The logic, as the Dolphins

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    • D.J. Fluker's draft position won't likely be impacted by Twitter controversy

      NEW YORK – Alabama offensive tackle D.J. Fluker wasn’t exactly convincing in his denial about a tweet Tuesday morning from his account in which he admitted to taking money from agent.

      But there is an overriding question that seems to erase the issue’s importance in terms of the NFL draft.

      Does it matter to NFL teams? D.J. Fluker hoists up Eddie Lacy after he scored a TD in the BCS title game. (Getty)

      “Honestly, nobody in this league cares about it,” an NFC general manager said Wednesday morning. “Did he take the money, say something stupid and then lie about it? ... I’m not going to take the time to worry about it that much.”

      Another NFL executive was a little more measured about it.

      “The only thing that you’d worry about is whether it’s going to be a distraction,” the executive said. “You just want to know the ins and outs of the situation and know if the kid is going to get hung up in any way, shape or form.”

      On Wednesday at a youth football camp hosted by the NFL, Fluker answered a series of questions about a tweet made in the wee hours of Tuesday morning in

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    • Jets' decision to 'Let's Make A Deal' with Bucs for Darrelle Revis has high odds of going awry

      The trade of Darrelle Revis for a pair of draft picks brings up an interesting choice.

      Option A – You can have the No. 13 overall pick in the first round this year and possibly a third-rounder in the future. Value the conditional selection at No. 80 overall pick – middle of the third round – for the sake of discussion.

      Choice B – Have Revis with a recovering knee injury and sign him to a six-year, $96 million contract. The one saving grace of the contract is that none of it is guaranteed.

      Darrelle Revis throws out the ceremonial first pitch before Monday's Rays-Yankees game. (AP)The New York Jets, who are in rebuilding mode and tied up by salary-cap problems, picked A. The Jets could have kept Revis, but chose to take picks in an attempt to quickly turn things around, even though he was the team's best player.

      The Tampa Bay Buccaneers chose B, taking a chance that a player who made the Pro Bowl in four of his first five seasons before injuring his knee last season would perform better than the selections it would have drafted in those two spots. Prior

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    • New Bucs CB Darrelle Revis out to display his greatness, not talk about it

      TAMPA, Fla. – After nearly two months of eagerly waiting to get traded, cornerback Darrelle Revis finally found a serene moment with friends, family and confidants. Just after 10 p.m. on Sunday, the group walked out on the rooftop patio of his hotel. Looking east back over the Courtney Campbell Causeway, Revis took in the view of the Tampa skyline, the downtown lights popping out from the black foreground of the city's bay.

      Cigars were lit by friends and everything was going great … until hotel security showed up to politely explain that the group had to go.

      Darrelle Revis was introduced by the Bucs Monday. (AP)In what could have been a diva moment, this was anything but. Revis nodded to men charged with just doing their job and led the group down to another patio next to the lobby bar. The conversation continued for another hour or so before everybody called it a night after a whirlwind day of a plane ride.

      For a great player who just got traded from the New York Jets to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the prime of his

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    • Falcons, Niners could be in NFL draft trade mix

      There is little chance that this year's NFL draft will match its trade-heavy results of 2012, when six of the top seven picks were dealt, including one of them twice.

      This is despite the fact that the top four teams and a bunch of others are trying like crazy to move around.

      Luke Joeckel could end up in K.C. if the Chiefs hold on to No. 1. (AP)The Kansas City Chiefs at No. 1, followed by the Jacksonville Jaguars, Oakland Raiders and Philadelphia Eagles have all expressed an interest in moving out of the top four spots. As of Saturday, none of them were finding much interest. However, only one of the deals involving six of the top seven picks last year (the Washington Redskins moving up to the No. 2 spot) occurred before the first round officially started.

      "Last year was special because it was the first time under the new system for rookie contracts that teams could trade," said Atlanta Falcons general manager Thomas Dimitroff, who is one of a handful of GMs interested in moving up in the first round. "I think that opened things up a lot. I also

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    • Bucs finalize trade for CB Darrelle Revis

      After much speculation, Darrelle Revis is headed to Tampa Bay after all.

      Darrelle Revis has agreed to a six-year, $96 million contract as part of Sunday's trade that sends the cornerback from the New York Jets to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Yahoo! Sports has learned. Tampa Bay, which didn't include any guaranteed money in Revis' contract, sent its 2013 first-round draft pick (No. 13 overall) and a conditional 2014 pick that could become a third- or fourth-rounder.

      Revis flew a private jet Sunday morning to fly to Tampa Bay for an official physical, although the Buccaneers' medical staff was already aware of the results of an MRI exam Revis took April 15 when he returned to the Jets’ offseason program.

      [Related: Terrell Owens angling to come back with Chicago Bears]

      The Jets gave Revis permission to visit the Buccaneers on Sunday morning after reaching an agreement with Tampa Bay on the trade portion of the transaction.

      The Bucs hope Darrelle Revis brings a title like ex-Jet Keyshawn Johnson did. (Getty)

      Revis was successful in landing a deal in line with what non-quarterbacks such as defensive end Mario Williams (six years, $96

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    • Best NFL games of 2013: Latest clash involving Peyton Manning and Tom Brady a no-brainer

      Ten worst games of 2013: Find out why Texans-49ers makes the cut

      Maybe it says a lot about the quality of the NFL that it's much easier to come up with a list of 10 must-see games than 10 most-unattractive contests. As always, the top quarterbacks in the game are the star attractions of most of those contests, starting with Peyton Manning's return to Indianapolis.

      Here's a look at the 10 best games of the 2013 season:

      Sunday,
      Nov. 24
      Denver Broncos at New England Patriots Not the most original choice for top game, but the seemingly annual Peyton Manning vs. Tom Brady fest gets juiced up this year as observers get to replay the whole Wes Welker angle. Did coach Bill Belichick make the right decision to let Welker go? Did the Patriots kill the chemistry of the passing game by taking away Brady's favorite target? Will Manning throw Welker 25 passes just to rub it in Brady and Belichick's face? What inventive jeers will Patriots fans have for Welker? And, by the way, who
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    • Worst NFL games of 2013: Ravens vs. Broncos won't live up to classic 2012 playoff battle

      As competitive and balanced as the NFL has become, there are still corners of the league where hope is just that. Unfortunately, from the transitioning New York Jets to the seemingly directionless Tennessee Titans, there are plenty of challenging games for the NFL to sell to the masses. Or even just a few dozen people in Miami or Jacksonville. On top of that, there are some games that will be way overhyped.

      Here's a look at the 10 worst games of the 2013 season:

      Sunday,
      Dec. 15
      Buffalo Bills at Jacksonville Jaguars Unlike past years, I'm not going to spend too much time ragging on the city of Jacksonville. It's not that I like the city a whole lot more than in the past, but there's no sense kicking a team and a town when they're down. The bigger issue in this game is that neither team has a quarterback to save its rear and the draft is unlikely to produce anything of great substance. This game has the makings of Kevin Kolb vs. Blaine Gabbert. Yummy. Throw on the fact
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    • If Jets want max value for Darrelle Revis, they're going to have to make a deal soon

      The New York Jets have been dangling Darrelle Revis for nearly a month now, but the team will eventually have to play ball to get a deal done.

      Darrelle Revis celebrates during a game. (NFP)Even if they want to keep him.

      On Monday, Revis and new Jets general manager John Idzik met for the first time. A source close to Revis said he expected that Idzik would want to hold some cursory talks over a long-term deal, but that's unlikely to move Revis to stay. 

      The Jets have known for nearly a year that Revis would want around $15-16 million annually, but the team doesn't appear ready to offer him anywhere near that kind of money.

      That means the focus will again turn to trading Revis. According to two sources, the Jets will likely need to have an agreement in place by early next week if New York hopes to get a 2013 first-round pick out of the trade.

      "Because of the knee injury, this isn't a really simple transaction," one source said. "No matter what the MRI on Revis' knee showed Monday, any team that picks him up is going

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    • Combine organizer: Players' trashed hotel room included feces scattered in bathroom

      There's a curious and somewhat disgusting case of whodunit being investigated by approximately a dozen NFL teams.

      A bunch of QBs convene before drills at this year's NFL scouting combine at Lucas Oil Stadium. (USA TODAY Sports)National Football Scouting president Jeff Foster, who runs the NFL scouting combine, confirmed that a hotel room was left trashed during the February 2013 event in Indianapolis. However, Foster refused to identify the two players who shared the room for three nights, though sources have indicated that one of the two prospects is a potential first-round pick in next week's NFL draft.

      Foster said nothing was broken in the room, but the bathroom was in such bad shape that a manager from the Crowne Plaza where the players stayed took pictures and relayed them to him. The incident initially was reported by Dan Pompei of the Chicago Tribune over the weekend.

      "I can confirm that a room was left in an inappropriate condition and we're disappointed by both players who occupied the room," Foster said. "There was no material damage to the room; otherwise we would be pursuing

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