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      <title>Patriots running back Morris expected back in two weeks</title>
      <link>http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/rumors/post/Patriots-running-back-Morris-expected-back-in-tw?urn=nfl,200624</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__39/ept_sports_rumors-393224328-1257516579.jpg?ymkIcKCDDVQTQyco"><img align="right" alt="&ldquo;Sammy" border="0" hspace="10" src="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__39/ept_sports_rumors-393224328-1257516579_thumb.jpg?ymkIcKCDmKn.UbE5" /></a><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/nwe/">New England Patriots</a> running back <span class="ysp-player"><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/5185/">Sammy Morris</a><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/5185/news" class="ysp_playernote_icon" id="ysp_playernote_nfl.p.5185">(notes)</a></span> has been out since Week 6 when he exited the game against the <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/ten/">Tennessee Titans</a> with a torn medial-collateral ligament. <p>At the time, it wasn't clear just how bad the tear was, but as he continues to miss game after game, it appears that it wasn't tiny. Now it's looking like Morris will be <a href="http://www.bostonherald.com/blogs/sports/rap_sheet/index.php/2009/11/05/patriots-rb-sammy-morris-likely-back-in-two-weeks/" target="_blank">out for two more weeks</a> and won't be back in action till Week 11 against the <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/nyj/">New York Jets</a>, according to the Boston Herald. </p><p>The longer he takes to get back, the slower coach Bill Belichick will be about working him into the lineup.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:31:25 PST</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Mark J. Miller</dc:creator>
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      <title>Lions likely to have WR Johnson and RB Smith back Sunday</title>
      <link>http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/rumors/post/Lions-likely-to-have-WR-Johnson-and-RB-Smith-bac?urn=nfl,200623</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__39/ept_sports_rumors-565036586-1257516671.jpg?ymAKcKCDKOProX4h"><img align="right" alt="&ldquo;Kevin" border="0" hspace="10" src="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__39/ept_sports_rumors-565036586-1257516671_thumb.jpg?ymAKcKCDP4r6_5zP" /></a>It's looking like <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/det/">Detroit Lions</a> running back <span class="ysp-player"><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/8841/">Kevin Smith</a><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/8841/news" class="ysp_playernote_icon" id="ysp_playernote_nfl.p.8841">(notes)</a></span> and wide receiver <span class="ysp-player"><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/8256/">Calvin Johnson</a><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/8256/news" class="ysp_playernote_icon" id="ysp_playernote_nfl.p.8256">(notes)</a></span> will be both back in the lineup on Sunday when the woeful 1-6 Lions take on the <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/sea/">Seattle Seahawks</a>, according to the Detroit News.<p>Coach Jim Schwartz <a href="http://www.detnews.com/article/20091106/SPORTS0101/911060355/1126/sports0101/Kevin-Smith--Calvin-Johnson-look-ready" target="_blank">isn't showing his cards</a> on that front, though. He is saying that both of these players are game-time decisions on Sunday. However, Smith had a full practice yesterday, taking plenty of reps with the first team, after skipping the pervious day's because of the shoulder injury he earned last Sunday against the <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/stl/">St. Louis Rams</a>.</p><p>And Johnson apparently looked good in practice after missing a few weeks due to a right knee injury. &quot;We are just going to keep on taking it like we are,&quot; Johnson said. &quot;We are going to be careful, do what I can do, and as long as I don't have any setbacks, things look brighter for Sunday.&quot;</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:28:12 PST</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Mark J. Miller</dc:creator>
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      <title>Top-receiver crown being passed in Dallas</title>
      <link>http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/rumors/post/Top-receiver-crown-being-passed-in-Dallas?urn=nfl,200355</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__39/ept_sports_rumors-180166670-1257431048.jpg?ymIQHKCDVq6.Xe1g"><img align="right" alt="&ldquo;Roy" border="0" hspace="10" src="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__39/ept_sports_rumors-180166670-1257431048_thumb.jpg?ymIQHKCDcf31t69_" /></a><span class="ysp-player"><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/3664/">Terrell Owens</a><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/3664/news" class="ysp_playernote_icon" id="ysp_playernote_nfl.p.3664">(notes)</a></span> and <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/dal/">Dallas Cowboys</a> quarterback <span class="ysp-player"><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/6624/">Tony Romo</a><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/6624/news" class="ysp_playernote_icon" id="ysp_playernote_nfl.p.6624">(notes)</a></span> never really seemed very connected while the pair shared the Lone Star State, even though this was supposedly Romo's No. 1, go-to receiver. And you can be sure Owens took note of that fact.<p>Now <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players?type=lastname&first=1&query=Roy+Williams&q=Roy+Williams">Roy Williams</a> is doing the same thing: taking note that <a href="http://sports.espn.go.com/dallas/nfl/news/story?id=4622709" target="_blank">more balls are headed in the direction</a> of the supposed No. 2 receiver than to him, the supposed No. 1 receiver. &quot;It's just not even close,&quot; said Williams to ESPNDallas.com. &quot;It's not even funny.  Not even close. . . .  I'm the No. 1 receiver.  But things are just going No. 2's way.&quot;</p><p>No. 2, otherwise known as <span class="ysp-player"><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/8021/">Miles Austin</a><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/8021/news" class="ysp_playernote_icon" id="ysp_playernote_nfl.p.8021">(notes)</a>,</span> has 563 receiving yards this season and six touchdowns. He's averaging 80.4 yards per game. Williams, meanwhile, has 249 yards receiving this season, good for an average of 41.5 a game and two touchdowns.</p><p>Williams lays the blame on Romo. &quot;(Austin) gets the ball thrown correctly his way,&quot; Williams said.  &quot;I'm stretching and falling and doing everything.  Everybody [else] who's been here's balls are there.  Our footballs [from Romo to Williams] are everywhere right now.&quot;</p><p>Others are thinking it could be Williams' fault. It's safe to say there is a new No. 1 receiver in Dallas, though.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:26:39 PST</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Mark J. Miller</dc:creator>
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      <title>Cardinals' Boldin not likely for Sunday</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__39/ept_sports_rumors-460686966-1257429646.jpg?ymO6GKCDauF00An1"><img align="right" border="0" src="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__39/ept_sports_rumors-460686966-1257429646_thumb.jpg?ymO6GKCD9kw.NW4d" /></a><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/ari/">Arizona Cardinals</a> receiver <span class="ysp-player"><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/6390/">Anquan Boldin</a><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/6390/news" class="ysp_playernote_icon" id="ysp_playernote_nfl.p.6390">(notes)</a></span> didn't practice yesterday due to a hurt ankle and it's starting to seem more and more likely that he w<a href="http://blog.azcardinals.com/2009/11/04/q-sits-and-a-bulging-injury-report/" target="_blank">on't be playing this weekend</a>, according to azcardinals.com.<p>&quot;We'll do what it is the best interest of the team,&quot; head coach Ken Whisenhunt said, which likely means that Boldin will be sitting this weekend, which is too bad because the former Rookie of the Year is averaging 11.5 yards per reception right now.</p><p>Guess he can use his extra time now to hang out with his son, Anquan Jr. and plan for a new way to try and get himself traded this off-season.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:02:31 PST</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Mark J. Miller</dc:creator>
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      <title>Colts WR Gonzalez may be going under knife</title>
      <link>http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/rumors/post/Colts-WR-Gonzalez-may-be-going-under-knife?urn=nfl,200349</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__39/ept_sports_rumors-358951694-1257432244.jpg?ym1iHKCDMSwqF9rp"><img align="right" alt="&ldquo;Tony" border="0" hspace="10" src="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__39/ept_sports_rumors-358951694-1257432244_thumb.jpg?ym1iHKCDWMVz_yFZ" /></a><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/ind/">Indianapolis Colts</a> wide receiver is hoping for a miracle, it appears, so that he can keep trying to catch some balls this season. The word is that the injured third-year pro was drafted in the first round from Ohio State is<a href="http://blogs.indystar.com/philb/2009/11/hagler_on_ir_more_news.html" target="_blank"> looking for a second opinion </a>on a knee injury that won't go away, according to the Indianapolis Star.<p>The word is that he's asking Dr. James Andrews, who is likely to confirm that he's got more than sprained PCL. The thought is that it is likely torn. </p><p>If Gonzalez wanted to keep playing, he should have looked in the Yellow Pages for a doctor. Instead he goes to one of the best in the business.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:47:42 PST</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Mark J. Miller</dc:creator>
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      <title>Browns want Accorsi back as GM</title>
      <link>http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/rumors/post/Browns-want-Accorsi-back-as-GM?urn=nfl,200095</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Ernie Accorsi has retired from pro football. He served as general manager for the <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/cle/">Cleveland Browns</a> and the <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/nyg/">New York Giants</a>. And the Browns want him back. Rumor has it <a href="http://www.cleveland.com/pluto/blog/index.ssf/2009/11/to_rescue_the_browns_randy_ler.html" target="_blank">they want him back pretty badly</a>, according to the Cleveland Plain Dealer.<p>Head coach Eric Mangini is supposedly very into the idea of working with Accorsi as well. But if Accorsi doesn't want to give up the chances for (though unlikely reality of) Sunday-afternoon dozes in the Barcalounger to help fix the ailing Browns, the team would at least like to have help make the decision on who the next GM should be.</p><p>He was apparently consulted before the team hired the toothless George Kokinis and had nice things to say about the fella who was once the pro personnel director of the <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/bal/">Baltimore Ravens</a>. </p><p>Still, that wouldn't have been Accorsi's choice for the job. That honor goes to New York Giants director of pro personnel David Gettleman.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:49:58 PST</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Mark J. Miller</dc:creator>
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      <title>Tennessee Titans head coach Fisher could in final season</title>
      <link>http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/rumors/post/Tennessee-Titans-head-coach-Fisher-could-in-fina?urn=nfl,200093</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__39/ept_sports_rumors-639861131-1257341634.jpg?ymCbxJCD8t4.czaJ"><img align="right" alt="&ldquo;Jeff" border="0" hspace="10" src="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__39/ept_sports_rumors-639861131-1257341634_thumb.jpg?ymCbxJCDcYMGcZLY" /></a><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/ten/">Tennessee Titans</a> head coach Jeff Fisher has had a nice long run with the team and owner Bud Adams but it's looking like his ride on the employment rainbow <a href="http://www.tennessean.com/article/20091104/COLUMNIST0202/911040395/2072/SPORTS" target="_blank">may come to an end</a> when this sorry season finishes, according to the Tennessean.<p>And there won't be a pot of gold at the end unless you count the fact that Fisher has a contract till the end of 2011. Even with that, there's no reason to think Adams will keep him onboard for another year more than the 16 he's served with the team.</p><p>The main sticking point, of course, is the quarterback situation. Fisher really seemed to think <span class="ysp-player"><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/3115/">Kerry Collins</a><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/3115/news" class="ysp_playernote_icon" id="ysp_playernote_nfl.p.3115">(notes)</a></span> was the right man for the job and it took massive applications of pressure by Adams to get Fisher to start Young, who won his first game back as starter. &quot;We'll just have to see what happens the rest of the way,&quot; Adams said. &quot;I'll have to make my decision after the season is up.&quot; </p><p>Right now, his decision is looking pretty easy. </p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:37:16 PST</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Mark J. Miller</dc:creator>
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      <title>Bills quarterback Edwards may be close to returning</title>
      <link>http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/rumors/post/Bills-quarterback-Edwards-may-be-close-to-return?urn=nfl,200086</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__39/ept_sports_rumors-713978123-1257345237.jpg?ymVTyJCDVIgBIR_A"><img align="right" alt="&ldquo;Trent" border="0" hspace="10" src="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__39/ept_sports_rumors-713978123-1257345237_thumb.jpg?ymVTyJCDmOd2JdFZ" /></a>The <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/buf/">Buffalo Bills</a> have gone a few weeks without their starting quarterback but the word is that the team will have <span class="ysp-player"><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/8346/">Trent Edwards</a><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/8346/news" class="ysp_playernote_icon" id="ysp_playernote_nfl.p.8346">(notes)</a></span> chucking balls downfield after their bye in Week 10, a source tells Buffalo News.<p>Edwards is<a href="http://www.buffalonews.com/452/story/848265.html" target="_blank"> apparently recovered </a>from the concussion he suffered during the early October game against the <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/ari/">Arizona Cardinals</a>. Backup <span class="ysp-player"><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/7426/">Ryan Fitzpatrick</a><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/7426/news" class="ysp_playernote_icon" id="ysp_playernote_nfl.p.7426">(notes)</a></span> would have a greater argument for holding onto the spot if he hadn't been so horrendous in a Week 8 loss to the <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/hou/">Houston Texans</a>. After all, he had led the team to two wins before that.</p><p>Hope that concussion didn't hurt the brain of Edwards too much. Here's a guy who graduated from Stanford and nearly took a job in the electronic design automation industry instead of the NFL.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:49:41 PST</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Mark J. Miller</dc:creator>
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      <title>Oakland Raiders investigating assault allegations against head coach Tom Cable</title>
      <link>http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/rumors/post/Oakland-Raiders-investigating-assault-allegation?urn=nfl,199854</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__39/ept_sports_rumors-42182667-1257256764.jpg?ym8scJCDvYpPiRZy"><img align="right" alt="&ldquo;Tom" border="0" hspace="10" src="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__39/ept_sports_rumors-42182667-1257256764_thumb.jpg?ym8scJCDLhNv2_1k" /></a>An ex-wife and an ex-girlfriend came out recently and said <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/oak/">Oakland Raiders</a> coach Tom Cable assaulted them when they were with him. This comes on the heels of Cable supposedly breaking the jaw of one of his assistant coaches in training camp this summer. So the team is apparently going to &quot;<a href="http://www.insidebayarea.com/raiders/ci_13698929" target="_blank">conduct a serious evaluation</a>,&quot; according to the Oakland Tribune.<p>The team has apparently canned past employees for nasty behavior. Seems like his could fit the bill.</p><p>The team said in a statement, &quot;Over the last few days, we learned of the allegations made against coach Cable, and we are, of course, aware of his response thereto. In conjunction with the league office, we will undertake a serious evaluation of this matter. We wish to be clear that we do not in any way condone or accept actions such as those alleged.&quot;</p><p>In the statement, the team says that some of those past firings, which were done for obviously confidential reasons, the team has &quot;endured public opprobrium for the dismissals, all the while knowing our basis for them was appropriate.&quot;</p><p>OK, time to go through past Oakland Raider firings that didn't make a whole lot of sense at the time.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:01:39 PST</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Mark J. Miller</dc:creator>
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      <title>Mike Holmgren not pleased with Washington Redskins</title>
      <link>http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/rumors/post/Mike-Holmgren-not-pleased-with-Washington-Redski?urn=nfl,199852</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__39/ept_sports_rumors-397702307-1257256036.jpg?ymkhcJCD_noF1cnn"><img align="right" alt="&ldquo;Mike" border="0" hspace="10" src="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__39/ept_sports_rumors-397702307-1257256036_thumb.jpg?ymkhcJCDXYjuVNCm" /></a>There's been a belief for some time that former <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/gnb/">Green Bay Packers</a> and <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/sea/">Seattle Seahawks</a> coach Mike Holmgren would be at the top of the list for <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/was/">Washington Redskins</a> owner Daniel Snyder if there came a time that he decided to fire his current coach, Jim Zorn. After all, Holmgren has said that he's interesting in coaching on the East Coast after stints in the West and Midwest. <p>Well, it appears that all may be thrown <a href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/redskinsinsider/jason-reid/holmgren-bothered-by-treatment.html" target="_blank">out the window</a>, according to the Washington Post. Holmgren is apparently upset with the treatment Snyder is giving Zorn, who previously was an assistant for Holmgren in Seattle.</p><p>He reportedly told a Chicago radio station that &quot;it was very unfair&quot; to strip Zorn of his play-calling abilities.  </p><p>&quot;The position they put Jim in, it shouldn't happen,&quot; he said. &quot;You can be upset with me as a play-caller or how the team's going, [then] fire me. But don't do that. Don't pull the rug out from under me, tie my hands, make me look foolish ... take away what I came there for to do in the first place. Don't do that.&quot;</p><p>Go ahead and scratch his name off your list, Mr. Snyder.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:49:31 PST</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Mark J. Miller</dc:creator>
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      <title>More Raiders coach assault allegations</title>
      <link>http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/rumors/post/More-Raiders-coach-assault-allegations?urn=nfl,199578</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__39/ept_sports_rumors-712124494-1257169591.jpg?ym3aHJCDgKHV4hil"><img align="right" alt="&ldquo;Tom" border="0" hspace="10" src="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__39/ept_sports_rumors-712124494-1257169591_thumb.jpg?ym3aHJCDZ2ittxzB" /></a><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/oak/">Oakland Raiders</a> head coach Tom Cable supposedly clocked one of his assistants in the jaw (and broke it) this past summer and it's now becoming clear that he's done this kind of thing <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/11/01/SPRU1ADNVB.DTL" target="_blank">a few times before</a>, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. <p>An ex-wife and an ex-girlfriend are saying he assaulted them numerous times when they were with him. The Napa district attorney decided to not charge Cable with assault in the punching incident with the assistant, Randy Hanson.</p><p>Cable's former wife says he hit her in the jaw back in 1988 and she promptly got a restraining order and a divorce. His former girlfriend, Marie Lutz, says he assaulted her only last January.<br />Cable says that he did hit his former wife, but it was an open-handed slap.</p><p>So that must make it OK.</p><p>You'd think with a two game losing streak and a 2-6 record, Cable would be hitting himself instead of other people.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:48:35 PST</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Mark J. Miller</dc:creator>
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      <title>Packers' Rodgers severely limping after game</title>
      <link>http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/rumors/post/Packers-Rodgers-severely-limping-after-game?urn=nfl,199554</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__39/ept_sports_rumors-384407141-1257171729.jpg?ymS8HJCDnKss6OV."><img align="right" alt="&ldquo;Aaron" border="0" hspace="10" src="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__39/ept_sports_rumors-384407141-1257171729_thumb.jpg?ymS8HJCDi4D.AVNr" /></a><span class="ysp-player"><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/1025/">Brett Favre</a><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/1025/news" class="ysp_playernote_icon" id="ysp_playernote_nfl.p.1025">(notes)</a></span> and the <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/min/">Minnesota Vikings</a> took down the <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/gnb/">Green Bay Packers</a> yesterday, 38-26, and Packers quarterback <span class="ysp-player"><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/7200/">Aaron Rodgers</a><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/7200/news" class="ysp_playernote_icon" id="ysp_playernote_nfl.p.7200">(notes)</a></span> is <a href="http://twitter.com/Greg_A_Bedard/status/5352844375" target="_blank">apparently paying the price</a>.<p>Rodgers was apparently &quot;limping severely&quot; after the game, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Rodgers rushed for 52 years on five carries yesterday. He's had a foot issue that could have been aggravated. </p><p>Rodgers is saying he'll be fine in a couple of days.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 03:42:57 PST</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Mark J. Miller</dc:creator>
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      <title>Browns not firing Mangini just yet</title>
      <link>http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/rumors/post/Browns-not-firing-Mangini-just-yet?urn=nfl,199551</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__39/ept_sports_rumors-237407312-1257161844.jpg?ym1hFJCDKw_y2PEy"><img align="right" alt="&ldquo;Eric" border="0" hspace="10" src="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__39/ept_sports_rumors-237407312-1257161844_thumb.jpg?ym1hFJCDi3vC7asz" /></a>The <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/cle/">Cleveland Browns</a> got crushed yesterday by the <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/chi/">Chicago Bears</a>, 30-6,  but owner Randy Lerner <a href="http://www.cleveland.com/browns/index.ssf/2009/11/browns_owner_randy_lerner_says.html" target="_blank">isn't getting ready to fire</a> Coach Eric Mangini just yet, according to the Cleveland Plain Dealer. <p>&quot;My highest priority is to have a stable figure that represents the voice that explains the decisions,&quot; Lerner said, vaguely. </p><p>Lerner apparently isn't happy with the quarterback situation between <span class="ysp-player"><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/7389/">Derek Anderson</a><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/7389/news" class="ysp_playernote_icon" id="ysp_playernote_nfl.p.7389">(notes)</a></span> and <span class="ysp-player"><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/8276/">Brady Quinn</a><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/8276/news" class="ysp_playernote_icon" id="ysp_playernote_nfl.p.8276">(notes)</a></span> and might bring in a team president to look over the shoulder of Mangini and GM George Kokonis. &quot;We need as many credible, serious eyes and ears assessing this situation as is possible,&quot; he said. </p><p>Lucky for the Browns, they've got a bye this week.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 03:40:06 PST</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Mark J. Miller</dc:creator>
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      <title>Titans' head coach Fisher prefers Collins over Young at QB?</title>
      <link>http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/rumors/post/Titans-head-coach-Fisher-prefers-Collins-over-Y?urn=nfl,199205</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__39/ept_sports_rumors-522643827-1256907242.jpg?ymqXHICDIaAp4NWZ"><img align="right" alt="&ldquo;Vince" border="0" hspace="10" src="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__39/ept_sports_rumors-522643827-1256907242_thumb.jpg?ymqXHICDACUEV7Z8" /></a><span class="ysp-player"><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/7752/">Vince Young</a><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/7752/news" class="ysp_playernote_icon" id="ysp_playernote_nfl.p.7752">(notes)</a></span> will be the starting quarterback this Sunday when the <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/ten/">Tennessee Titans</a> take on the <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/jac/">Jacksonville Jaguars</a>. But it's not because head coach Jeff Fisher wants him to be in there, according to the Tennessean. <p>Even though his team is 0-6, Fisher apparently still <a href="http://www.tennessean.com/article/20091030/COLUMNIST0202/910300367/2072" target="_blank">feels more confidence</a> in <span class="ysp-player"><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/3115/">Kerry Collins</a><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/3115/news" class="ysp_playernote_icon" id="ysp_playernote_nfl.p.3115">(notes)</a>.</span> Team owner Bud Adams feels differently and has made the world aware of it. So Fisher is doing what the 86-year-old billionaire boss wants but he took until Thursday to name Collins the starter. The rumor is that he took those days so he could try and convince Adams that Collins is still the man for the job (or perhaps to convince Adams that Young isn't the man for the job).</p><p>Any way you slice it, Fisher isn't taking ownership of the decision to start Young. He's saying the choice was made &quot;collectively&quot;: &quot;We don't make decisions as individuals,&quot; he said. Of course you don't.</p><p>We'll all see how that collective decision works out soon enough.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 05:56:12 PDT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Mark J. Miller</dc:creator>
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      <title>League still investigating Crabtree tampering charge against Jets</title>
      <link>http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/rumors/post/League-still-investigating-Crabtree-tampering-ch?urn=nfl,199197</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__39/ept_sports_rumors-674191490-1256904190.jpg?ym.nGICDbSN3mt0p"><img align="right" alt="&ldquo;Michael" border="0" hspace="10" src="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__39/ept_sports_rumors-674191490-1256904190_thumb.jpg?ym.nGICD7mZ6n3wT" /></a>Former <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/sfo/">San Francisco 49ers</a> holdout <span class="ysp-player"><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/9274/">Michael Crabtree</a><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/9274/news" class="ysp_playernote_icon" id="ysp_playernote_nfl.p.9274">(notes)</a></span> is finally playing ball but an<a href="http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2009/10/29/crabtree-tampering-case-is-still-moving-forward/" target="_blank"> investigation into a possible tampering charge </a>against the <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/nyj/">New York Jets</a> is still underway, according to ProFootballTalk. Some folks seemed to think the allegations would disappear when Crabtree finally signed but the league is reportedly pushing ahead with it.<p>It is unclear who has actually been interviewed about it and it also isn't clear if Crabtree and his agent, Eugene Parker, will even talk. They apparently have the right to refuse interview requests.</p><p>The 49ers filed the tampering charges back in late September when they were still negotiating with Crabtree. The belief is apparently that the Jets contacted Parker to fill him on their hope to trade for Crabtree or draft him next season if a deal couldn't be agreed upon.</p><p>Of course, now Crabtree is a 49er and he started his career off last Sunday with five catches for 56 yards.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 05:05:28 PDT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Mark J. Miller</dc:creator>
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      <title>Rams ditching quarterback Bulger?</title>
      <link>http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/rumors/post/Rams-ditching-quarterback-Bulger-?urn=nfl,199195</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__39/ept_sports_rumors-967569568-1256908541.jpg?ym9rHICDbeGfADmP"><img align="right" alt="&ldquo;Marc" border="0" hspace="10" src="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__39/ept_sports_rumors-967569568-1256908541_thumb.jpg?ym9rHICDM_BOYqrh" /></a>When a team is 0-7, it can't be too shocking when rumors start to circulate that the starting quarterback is going to probably <a href="http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/sports/stories.nsf/rams/story/F7587211822842AE8625765F000E9C0B?OpenDocument" target="_blank">lose his job</a>. That's what folks are saying about the big guy for the <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/stl/">St. Louis Rams</a>, <span class="ysp-player"><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/5197/">Marc Bulger</a><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/5197/news" class="ysp_playernote_icon" id="ysp_playernote_nfl.p.5197">(notes)</a>,</span> according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.<p>The Rams are expected to be very actively looking for a quarterback via free agency and in the 2010 draft, which it will likely be near the top of the picking list unless some miracle happens and the Rams starting winning some games.</p><p>The 31-year-old Bulger was a Pro Bowler in 2006 but he's now at the helm of a team with a 17-game losing streak.</p><p>It's looking like the Rams are hoping to go the young-gun route and find success as the <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/bal/">Baltimore Ravens</a> did with <span class="ysp-player"><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/8795/">Joe Flacco</a><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/8795/news" class="ysp_playernote_icon" id="ysp_playernote_nfl.p.8795">(notes)</a></span> and the <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/atl/">Atlanta Falcons</a> did with <span class="ysp-player"><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/8780/">Matt Ryan</a><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/8780/news" class="ysp_playernote_icon" id="ysp_playernote_nfl.p.8780">(notes)</a></span> last year.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 05:01:17 PDT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Mark J. Miller</dc:creator>
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      <title>Larry Johnson getting kicked off the Chiefs?</title>
      <link>http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/rumors/post/Larry-Johnson-getting-kicked-off-the-Chiefs-?urn=nfl,199185</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__39/ept_sports_rumors-786484676-1256908633.jpg?ymZtHICD5bgkQD2k"><img align="right" alt="&ldquo;Larry" border="0" hspace="10" src="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__39/ept_sports_rumors-786484676-1256908633_thumb.jpg?ymZtHICDi.jgpY.l" /></a>The <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/kan/">Kansas City Chiefs</a> aren't happy with running back <span class="ysp-player"><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/6363/">Larry Johnson</a><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/6363/news" class="ysp_playernote_icon" id="ysp_playernote_nfl.p.6363">(notes)</a></span> and it may result with him getting <a href="http://chiefsblog.kansascity.com/?q=node/1074" target="_blank">kicked of the team</a>, according to the Kansas City Star. <p>Johnson raised some eyebrows when he used a slue against homosexuals while talking to reporters and made extreme fun of his head coach, Todd Haley. So the team suspended him for two weeks, which means that he'll miss the next Chiefs game on Nov. 8. The word is, though, that Johnson's agent is working with the team to appeal the suspension as well as a settlement on whether Johnson stays with the team or not.</p><p>&quot;Full bore on both,&quot; said the agent, Peter Schaffer, who later told the paper, &quot;Larry Johnson is a member of the Chiefs right now.&quot;</p><p>It's not like his misbehavior is anything new. Johnson has been arrested four times since 2003 for one assault charge or another against women and is currently serving two years of probation. </p><p>Doesn't sound like he will be for much longer, although Schaffer also said that the settlement would &quot;not necessarily&quot; lead to Johnson's dismissal.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 03:50:17 PDT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Mark J. Miller</dc:creator>
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      <title>Dolphins wide receiver Ginn losing his starting job?</title>
      <link>http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/rumors/post/Dolphins-wide-receiver-Ginn-losing-his-starting-?urn=nfl,198955</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__39/ept_sports_rumors-562342167-1256821562.jpg?ym6cyHCDrxUJK1iN"><img align="right" alt="&ldquo;Ted" border="0" hspace="10" src="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__39/ept_sports_rumors-562342167-1256821562_thumb.jpg?ym6cyHCD7eC1rpX4" /></a><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/mia/">Miami Dolphins</a> head coach Tony Sparano hasn't been happy with what's been going on with his wide receivers so he may move starter <span class="ysp-player"><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/8263/">Ted Ginn Jr.</a><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/8263/news" class="ysp_playernote_icon" id="ysp_playernote_nfl.p.8263">(notes)</a></span> <a href="http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/football/miami-dolphins/story/1305648.html" target="_blank">a few rungs down</a> on the depth chart, according to the Miami Herald.<p>Sparano apparently didn't let Ginn practice with the first or second teams yesterday. Ouch. Instead, Sparano had <span class="ysp-player"><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/9030/">Davone Bess</a><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/9030/news" class="ysp_playernote_icon" id="ysp_playernote_nfl.p.9030">(notes)</a>,</span> <span class="ysp-player"><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/7657/">Greg Camarillo</a><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/7657/news" class="ysp_playernote_icon" id="ysp_playernote_nfl.p.7657">(notes)</a>,</span> and rookie <span class="ysp-player"><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/9372/">Brian Hartline</a><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/9372/news" class="ysp_playernote_icon" id="ysp_playernote_nfl.p.9372">(notes)</a></span> taking turns so he could get a closer look at them. </p><p>Ginn hasn't officially lost his starting job but it's looking pretty good that he will soon enough if he doesn't pull in a few more balls come Sunday. &quot;We'll see where we are at the end of the week,'' Sparano said to the paper. &quot;Right now, I'm just upsetting the whole apple cart to see how this thing goes.&quot;</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:29:17 PDT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Mark J. Miller</dc:creator>
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      <title>Tennessee Titans won't say which QB will start</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__39/ept_sports_rumors-158501680-1256817332.jpg?ym1axHCDAJxZrse7"><img align="right" alt="&ldquo;Vince" border="0" hspace="10" src="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__39/ept_sports_rumors-158501680-1256817332_thumb.jpg?ym1axHCDZvgl38Fi" /></a><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/ten/">Tennessee Titans</a> heach coach Jeff Fisher seems to think that shrouding his decision of which quarterback will start on Sunday will somehow make things more difficult for his opponent. He's saying that &quot;competitive reasons&quot; are keeping him from giving out that info till today. But no matter if <span class="ysp-player"><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/7752/">Vince Young</a><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/7752/news" class="ysp_playernote_icon" id="ysp_playernote_nfl.p.7752">(notes)</a></span> or <span class="ysp-player"><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/3115/">Kerry Collins</a><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/3115/news" class="ysp_playernote_icon" id="ysp_playernote_nfl.p.3115">(notes)</a></span> gets the start, the team is still among the worst in the league with an 0-6 record.<p>Fisher will supposedly<a href="http://www.tennessean.com/article/20091029/SPORTS01/910290342/2072/SPORTS/Collins+or+Young++It+s+decision+day+for+Titans" target="_blank"> make his big announcement today</a>, according to the Tennessean. Fisher changed things up yesterday and wouldn't allow Young or Collins or offensive coordinator Mike Heimerdinger to talk to the media</p><p>The expectation is that Fisher will go with Young, since the team's owner has made it pretty clear that he would like to give the ball to Young and not keep going back to Collins, especially since the team hasn't found success there.</p><p>But we'll all just have to hold our breath and wait on the edge of our seats till Fisher comes out and finally makes the big decision public. Bet the suspense is killing you.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 04:59:11 PDT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Mark J. Miller</dc:creator>
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      <title>Buffalo Bills work out vet QB Patrick Ramsay</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/buf/">Buffalo Bills</a> quarterback <span class="ysp-player"><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/8346/">Trent Edwards</a><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/8346/news" class="ysp_playernote_icon" id="ysp_playernote_nfl.p.8346">(notes)</a></span> will be out this weekend when he team takes on the <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/hou/">Houston Texans</a>. He's recovering from his second concussion in a year. So the Bills are looking for some help at quarterback. They may have found it in 30-year-old Patrick Ramsay, who <a href="http://www.buffalonews.com/452/story/841634.html" target="_blank">supposedly worked out for the team's execs</a> on Tuesday, according to Buffalo News.<p>Ramsay was the third-stringer for the <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/ten/">Tennessee Titans</a> until he was cut off their roster on Oct. 3. He was <span class="ysp-player"><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/7760/">Jay Cutler's</a><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/7760/news" class="ysp_playernote_icon" id="ysp_playernote_nfl.p.7760">(notes)</a></span> backup for the last two years when they were both with the <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/den/">Denver Broncos</a>.<br />The only significant time Ramsay has seen as a starting quarterback in the NFL was with the <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/was/">Washington Redskins</a>, where he started 23 games from 2002-04.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 04:28:47 PDT</pubDate>
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      <title>Jets' Braylon Edwards not getting suspension for assault charge</title>
      <link>http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/rumors/post/Jets-Braylon-Edwards-not-getting-suspension-for?urn=nfl,198700</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__39/ept_sports_rumors-886825822-1256735617.jpg?ymBedHCDnnLCbXfu"><img align="right" alt="&ldquo;Braylon" border="0" hspace="10" src="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__39/ept_sports_rumors-886825822-1256735617_thumb.jpg?ymBedHCD24RWXIpK" /></a><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/nyj/">New York Jets</a> wide receiver <span class="ysp-player"><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/7179/">Braylon Edwards</a><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/7179/news" class="ysp_playernote_icon" id="ysp_playernote_nfl.p.7179">(notes)</a></span> may have assaulted a friend of LeBron James outside a Cleveland nightclub, but it <a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/jets/braylon_ban_not_likely_tU6Rv4GApsi1yWsdIfTBwO" target="_blank">doesn't appear the league will give him any kind of suspension</a> for it.<p>He was charged with the misdemeanor on Monday. The fact that he has no prior history is helping Edwards stay clear of any league suspension, a source told the New York Post. The Jets apparently knew about the allegations before the team traded for him with the <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/cle/">Cleveland Browns</a>. The Jets reportedly did a background check and talked to both law-enforcement folks and league security about Edwards before making the deal.</p><p>Jets GM Mike Tannenbaum told the paper that the &quot;risk was manageable&quot; when acquiring Edwards. You can imagine the &quot;unmanageable risk&quot; discussions in Jets boardrooms when folks like <span class="ysp-player"><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/3664/">Terrell Owens</a><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/3664/news" class="ysp_playernote_icon" id="ysp_playernote_nfl.p.3664">(notes)</a></span> and Placido Burress were on the market.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 05:01:37 PDT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Mark J. Miller</dc:creator>
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      <title>Washington Redskins tight end Cooley may be back in four weeks</title>
      <link>http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/rumors/post/Washington-Redskins-tight-end-Cooley-may-be-back?urn=nfl,198682</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__39/ept_sports_rumors-969038416-1256735851.jpg?ymshdHCD7K2_nmqg"><img align="right" alt="&ldquo;Chris" border="0" hspace="10" src="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__39/ept_sports_rumors-969038416-1256735851_thumb.jpg?ymshdHCDXT7gJbFT" /></a><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/was/">Washington Redskins</a> tight end <span class="ysp-player"><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/6840/">Chris Cooley</a><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/6840/news" class="ysp_playernote_icon" id="ysp_playernote_nfl.p.6840">(notes)</a></span> may have a fractured ankle but that doesn't mean he can't have massively hefty men pounding him onto the turf again soon. According to ESPN, Cooley and his ankle <a href="http://twitter.com/Adam_Schefter/status/5211399794" target="_blank">could be back in four weeks</a>.<p>He's apparently getting three pins stuck in there today (Fun!) and is hoping that he'll only need to miss the next month. A foot specialist has told him that his foot isn't nearly as bad as everybody originally figured it was so the Redskins decided to keep him off injured reserve.</p><p>Cooley, the 'Skins best pass catcher so far this season, suffered the injury Monday night during the team's loss to the <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/phi/">Philadelphia Eagles</a>. Oddly, it happened with no contact from any Eagle. Cooley went down all on his own during the first play of the second quarter. Redskins head coach Jim Zorn originally said Cooley would definitely miss six to eight weeks, but Zorn has been wrong about a lot of things this season.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 03:45:19 PDT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Mark J. Miller</dc:creator>
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      <title>Eagles' Westbrook back on Sunday after concussion?</title>
      <link>http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/rumors/post/Eagles-Westbrook-back-on-Sunday-after-concussio?urn=nfl,198681</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__39/ept_sports_rumors-375273591-1256735951.jpg?ymPjdHCDEJdIuqUB"><img align="right" alt="&ldquo;Brian" border="0" hspace="10" src="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__39/ept_sports_rumors-375273591-1256735951_thumb.jpg?ymPjdHCD1D8kyQFg" /></a><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/phi/">Philadelphia Eagles</a> running back <span class="ysp-player"><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/5977/">Brian Westbrook</a><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/5977/news" class="ysp_playernote_icon" id="ysp_playernote_nfl.p.5977">(notes)</a></span> took a knee to the head during the first quarter of Monday night's victory against the <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/was/">Washington Redskins</a> that knocked him out and causes some memory loss. But Eagles head coach Andy Reid is apparently not convinced that Westbrook will be out of the lineup next Sunday when his Birds take on the archrival <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/nyg/">New York Giants</a>.<p>Reid is supposedly &quot;counting on&quot; Westbrook being there. Well, he better get a new plan because <a href="http://twitter.com/movingthechains/status/5211895500" target="_blank">doctors seem to be doubtful</a> that he'll be ready to put his head back into a helmet before Sunday's faceoff, according to Philly.com.</p><p>&quot;Right now, I'm counting on he'll be there, and I know he'll want to be there, so there is a fine line there because this guy is so competitive that he wants to be out there every minute,&quot; Reid said last night.</p><p>Meanwhile, former Eagles and <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/teams/phi/">Philadelphia Flyers</a> doc Art Bartolozzi told the Philadelphia Inquirer <a href="http://www.philly.com/inquirer/sports/20091028_Signs_point_against_Westbrook_s_return.html" target="_blank">that Westbrook will not only likely miss </a>the Giants matchup but also the one the following week against the <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/dal/">Dallas Cowboys</a>.</p><p>&quot;If he was unconscious, he is probably out at least a few weeks,&quot; Bartolozzi said. &quot;The brain is like a computer. Amnesia means the hard drive has been shaken. If you lose data, it tells you something is wrong with the computer.&quot;</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 03:42:44 PDT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Mark J. Miller</dc:creator>
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      <title>Titans owner wants quarterback Vince Young to start -- now</title>
      <link>http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/rumors/post/Titans-owner-wants-quarterback-Vince-Young-to-st?urn=nfl,198416</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__39/ept_sports_rumors-393603193-1256643897.jpg?ym5EHHCDndiQ97Gc"><img align="right" alt="&ldquo;Vince" border="0" hspace="10" src="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__39/ept_sports_rumors-393603193-1256643897_thumb.jpg?ym5EHHCDUxHqG18r" /></a>We'll all know soon enough if <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/ten/">Tennessee Titans</a> head coach Jeff Fisher is attempting job suicide or not. If he starts <span class="ysp-player"><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/3115/">Kerry Collins</a><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/3115/news" class="ysp_playernote_icon" id="ysp_playernote_nfl.p.3115">(notes)</a></span> at quarterback again on Sunday when his team takes on the <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/jac/">Jacksonville Jaguars</a>, you can expect team owner Bud Adams to pretty much make up his mind to can the coach. <p>Since the Titans were embarrassingly pummeled 59-0 by the <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/nwe/">New England Patriots</a>, Adams has been <a href="http://www.tennessean.com/article/20091027/SPORTS01/910270354/2072/SPORTS/Titans+owner+wants+Vince+Young+to+start" target="_blank">dropping massive hints </a>that he wants quarterback <span class="ysp-player"><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/7752/">Vince Young</a><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/7752/news" class="ysp_playernote_icon" id="ysp_playernote_nfl.p.7752">(notes)</a></span> to be in the offensive huddle when the game gets underway this coming weekend, according to the Tennessean. The paper reports that the hints are getting much more direct as the game gets closer.</p><p>The 0-6 Titans had a merciful bye week this past weekend but now they've got to get ready to take their medicine again and one suspects that Fisher, who won't commit to either Collins or Young in press conferences so far, will get with the program and send Young out there to at least satisfy the 86-year-old Adams. And why not? Nothing else is working.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 04:46:58 PDT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Mark J. Miller</dc:creator>
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      <link>http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/rumors/post/Bears-Smith-not-getting-canned?urn=nfl,198415</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__39/ept_sports_rumors-79945003-1256648042.jpg?ymqFIHCDipKwn7hY"><img align="right" alt="&ldquo;Lovie" border="0" hspace="10" src="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__39/ept_sports_rumors-79945003-1256648042_thumb.jpg?ymqFIHCDgaJoA69S" /></a>There is apparently a loud cry going up in the Windy City by fans of the <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/chi/">Chicago Bears</a>. It basically consists of one unified idea: fire coach Lovie Smith.<p>The team is 3-3 so there are plenty of other fans around the league (Hello, fans of the <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/stl/">St. Louis Rams</a>, <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/sea/">Seattle Seahawks</a>, <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/tam/">Tampa Bay Buccaneers</a>, <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/det/">Detroit Lions</a>, <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/was/">Washington Redskins</a>, <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/kan/">Kansas City Chiefs</a>, <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/ten/">Tennessee Titans</a>, <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/cle/">Cleveland Browns</a>, and <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/mia/">Miami Dolphins</a>!) who don't know what Bears fans are so upset about. But there was an expectation for Smith to deliver more this season and <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/football/bears/chi-27-haugh-chicago-oct27,0,2450410.column" target="_blank">his head is apparently being asked to be delivered on a plate </a>by the masses, according to the Chicago Tribune. </p><p>The team, however, has no plans to fire Smith, according to the paper. He has two more years and about $11 million left on his contract and Bears owner Virginia McCaskey cannot afford to be paying Smith to not do a job while simultaneously paying someone else $6 million to do the job Smith was supposed to do.</p><p>So feel free to exercise your First Amendment rights, Bears fans, but don't expect anything to change for a few years.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 04:43:10 PDT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Mark J. Miller</dc:creator>
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      <title>Holmgren interested in running Seahawks</title>
      <link>http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/rumors/post/Holmgren-interested-in-running-Seahawks?urn=nfl,198158</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__39/ept_sports_rumors-958408483-1256558582.jpg?ym2PyGCDLghmCPLo"><img align="right" alt="&ldquo;Mike" border="0" hspace="10" src="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__39/ept_sports_rumors-958408483-1256558582_thumb.jpg?ym2PyGCD.qXDcIvn" /></a>It's been long rumored that Mike Holmgren wants to be back with an NFL team next season. It's now becoming clear <a href="http://www.nationalfootballpost.com/Sunday-at-the-Post-5280.html" target="_blank">which one he'd like to be with</a>. Not surprisingly, he's most desirous of one of the teams that he formerly coached: the <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/sea/">Seattle Seahawks</a>. According to National Football Post, Holmgren still has a great relationship with team owner Paul Allen. <p>Current Seahawks general manager Tim Ruskell has a contract that runs out at the end of this season and there is no indication that he's getting an extension so Holmgren may be in luck as far as coming back to the team he loves. This time he'd be looking at the field from a big executive suite, though, instead of right on the sidelines. He apparently sees himself as sort of a Bill Parcells kind of character.</p><p>If they don't call him, there are plenty of other teams that would love to have Holmgren aboard. Until he gets the call, Holmgren can spend his time hanging out with his wife, who he apparently proposed to when they were 15, and his four granddaughters.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 05:08:23 PDT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Mark J. Miller</dc:creator>
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      <title>Carolina Panthers benching Delhomme?</title>
      <link>http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/rumors/post/Carolina-Panthers-benching-Delhomme-?urn=nfl,198157</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__39/ept_sports_rumors-56252785-1256558420.jpg?ymVNyGCDCj7O5uZ6"><img align="right" alt="&ldquo;Jake" border="0" hspace="10" src="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__39/ept_sports_rumors-56252785-1256558420_thumb.jpg?ymVNyGCDaynLWoTw" /></a>The <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/car/">Carolina Panthers</a> may finally <a href="http://www.carolinagrowl.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=212:breaking-news-fox-will-evaluate-delhomme-as-next-weeks-starter&amp;catid=1:articles" target="_blank">decide to bench</a> quarterback <span class="ysp-player"><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/4555/">Jake Delhomme</a><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/4555/news" class="ysp_playernote_icon" id="ysp_playernote_nfl.p.4555">(notes)</a>,</span> according to CarolinaGwol.com.<p>And why not? After a 20-9 loss to the <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/buf/">Buffalo Bills</a>, the Panthers are 2-4. The Bills might not have taken the game if Delhomme hadn't thrown three interceptions (with two of those leading to Buffalo touchdowns). Those three helped Delhomme to have the dubious distinction of leading the league in interceptions. He's got 13 on the year now.</p><p>Panthers coach John Fox apparently wouldn't say at the end of the game that he was committed to using Delhomme next weekend. &quot;Like all positions we'll evaluate it and whatever changes we need to make, we'll make,&quot; Fox said.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 05:01:42 PDT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Mark J. Miller</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[These days, London gets one NFL game every year to stage in is Wembley Stadium. But the plan is apparently to <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/8321548.stm" target="_blank">add another next season</a>, according to BBC News.<p>In fact, if it goes well enough next year, NFL UK bigwig Alistair Kirkwood is saying the league would like to have four games across the pond by 2012.</p><p>And why not? The place is jammed every time the NFL comes to the place, meaning a boatload of dollars for whatever team agrees to come on over. This weekend, the <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/nwe/">New England Patriots</a> and <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/tam/">Tampa Bay Buccaneers</a> get their share.</p><p>Kirkwood would like to have one game at the end of September and one at the end of October next year.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 06:24:35 PDT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Mark J. Miller</dc:creator>
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      <title>Former Titans GM's wife says husband saved Coach Fisher's job -- twice</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Former <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/ten/">Tennessee Titans</a> General Manager Floyd Reese supposedly turned in his resignation to the Tennessee Titans after 21 years back in January of 2007 but his wife, Sally, is now saying that Reese <a href="http://nashvillecitypaper.com/content/sports/wife-former-gm-blasts-titans-local-radio" target="_blank">never wanted to leave </a>and that his actual resignation letter was written by team Senior Executive Vice President Steve Underwood, according to the Nashville City Paper. <p>She claims that Reese, who is now a senior advisor for the <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/nwe/">New England Patriots</a>, was given no notice of his firing and wasn't allowed to clean out his own office. Reese also supposedly saved head coach Jeff Fisher's job twice while he was with the team. Mrs. Reese's outburst came because she was visiting Nashville and heard what she thought were erroneous claims on a sports-radio station. Her husband was on a plane to London so he had no idea that it was all going on.</p><p>Fisher has apparently claimed that Reese kept him out of the draft process as well, but Sally Reese said that wasn't true, either. She said that her husband had actually been planning to draft <span class="ysp-player"><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/7806/">Devin Hester</a><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/7806/news" class="ysp_playernote_icon" id="ysp_playernote_nfl.p.7806">(notes)</a></span> but Fisher wanted <span class="ysp-player"><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/7794/">LenDale White</a><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/7794/news" class="ysp_playernote_icon" id="ysp_playernote_nfl.p.7794">(notes)</a>.</span> The Titans eventually drafted White and missed out on the very talented Hester.</p><p>You can be sure the Reeses greatly enjoyed New England's 59-0 romp last Sunday, though. &quot;Payback's a bitch,&quot; she said. &quot;Sunday I was hoping they'd run it to 100.&quot; </p><p>One thing Mrs. Reese was certain about: Her husband wasn't going to be happy that she had spilled the beans. </p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 04:56:12 PDT</pubDate>
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      <link>http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/rumors/post/Cardinals-Boldin-looking-possible-for-Sunday-s-?urn=nfl,197794</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__39/ept_sports_rumors-781198321-1256305438.jpg?ymec0FCD6nEagaAx"><img align="right" alt="&ldquo;Anquan" border="0" hspace="10" src="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__39/ept_sports_rumors-781198321-1256305438_thumb.jpg?ymec0FCDw_xPa5sy" /></a><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/ari/">Arizona Cardinals</a> wide receiver <span class="ysp-player"><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/6390/">Anquan Boldin</a><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/6390/news" class="ysp_playernote_icon" id="ysp_playernote_nfl.p.6390">(notes)</a></span> didn't practice with the team on Thursday but he's apparently looking like he<a href="http://www.azcentral.com/sports/cardinals/articles/2009/10/22/20091022cardsnb1023.html" target="_blank"> could be back on the field</a> for Sunday's game against the <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/nyg/">New York Giants</a>, according to the Arizona Republic.<p>Cardinals head coach Ken Whisenhunt says Boldin had a &quot;rigorous&quot; workout Thursday with an athletic trainer and that he could do a lot more on Thursday than he could the day before. Sounds great, right? Well, one of those things that he could do on Thursday that he couldn't do Wednesday was &quot;jogging,&quot; so Boldin has a whole lot of improvement to do before Sunday.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 04:02:57 PDT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Mark J. Miller</dc:creator>
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      <link>http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/rumors/post/Redskins-head-coach-Jim-Zorn-thought-about-quitt?urn=nfl,197549</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__39/ept_sports_rumors-486049117-1256214556.jpg?ymcQeFCDmoV6nb16"><img align="right" alt="&ldquo;Jim" border="0" hspace="10" src="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__39/ept_sports_rumors-486049117-1256214556_thumb.jpg?ymcQeFCDbDw2WRCx" /></a>It can't feel good to be an NFL head coach and be asked to give up all offensive play-calling. That's what the <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/was/">Washington Redskins</a> recently asked coach Jim Zorn to do and he was so unhappy about it that he very <a href="http://www.nfl.com/news/story?id=09000d5d81397daf&amp;template=with-video-with-comments&amp;confirm=true" target="_blank">nearly went ahead and turned in his whistle</a> and went home, according to NFL.com.</p><p><br />At least that's what Zorn's former <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/sea/">Seattle Seahawks</a> teammate Steve Largent said yesterday. </p><p>Zorn apparently didn't want to hand over the responsibilities of play-calling to consultant Sherman Lewis, who the team recently hired. One imagines that pretty soon it won't be Zorn's choice whether he is with the team or not.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 05:31:03 PDT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[San Francisco 49ers&rsquo; Morgan getting more playing time than former holdout Crabtree]]></title>
      <link>http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/rumors/post/San-Francisco-49ers-rsquo-Morgan-getting-more-p?urn=nfl,197547</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__39/ept_sports_rumors-207586986-1256213289.jpg?ymp8dFCDzMjhup8Z"><img align="right" alt="&ldquo;Michael" border="0" hspace="10" src="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__39/ept_sports_rumors-207586986-1256213289_thumb.jpg?ymp8dFCDS.qV1Ccx" /></a>Former wide receiver holdout <span class="ysp-player"><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/9274/">Michael Crabtree</a><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/9274/news" class="ysp_playernote_icon" id="ysp_playernote_nfl.p.9274">(notes)</a></span> may be getting the start for the <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/sfo/">San Francisco 49ers</a> this Sunday but <span class="ysp-player"><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/8951/">Josh Morgan</a><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/8951/news" class="ysp_playernote_icon" id="ysp_playernote_nfl.p.8951">(notes)</a></span> will still<a href="http://blog.pressdemocrat.com/49ers/2009/10/singletarys-message-we-want-to-win.html" target="_blank"> likely be getting the majority of the playing time </a>when the Niners takes on the <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/hou/">Houston Texans</a>, according to the Santa Rosa Press Democrat. <p>Folks were feeling bad that Morgan, who has shown up this season, would be losing his playing time to former holdout Crabtree. Morgan will apparently be put in when three receivers are needed and sometimes as a single receiver, which San Francisco does a fair amount due to its strong running game.</p><p>No matter how much time Morgan gets out on the field, fans of the 49ers will likely be happy to finally have first-round draft pick Crabtree out on the field attempting to catch balls rather than sitting around in his silly holdout that went nowhere. Hard to feel bad for a guy who is reportedly making $32 million over the next six years.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 05:10:31 PDT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Mark Miller</dc:creator>
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      <link>http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/rumors/post/Vikes-and-Childress-working-on-extension?urn=nfl,197269</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__39/ept_sports_rumors-741172099-1256129898.jpg?ymqlJFCD9HqzTF7U"><img align="right" alt="&ldquo;Brad" border="0" hspace="10" src="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__39/ept_sports_rumors-741172099-1256129898_thumb.jpg?ymqlJFCDd9sVeOvl" /></a>The <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/min/">Minnesota Vikings</a> and head coach Brad Childress are <a href="http://www.twincities.com/vikings/ci_13601811" target="_blank">apparently working out a contract extension</a> for him, according to the St. Paul Pioneer Press. The agreement will likely be realized sometime in the next few weeks.<p>This would explain why the agent for Childress, Bob LaMonte, was at the Vikings game against the <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/bal/">Baltimore Ravens</a> on Sunday. Unless he just wanted to see a good game, of course.</p><p>LaMonte reportedly met with owners Zygi Wilf and Mark Wilf and vice presidents Rick Spielman and Rob Brzezinski before the game for about five minutes on the field.</p><p>If that's the way these guys are handling negotiations, it's gonna take longer than the next couple of weeks to work out a deal. </p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 04:50:36 PDT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Mark J. Miller</dc:creator>
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      <link>http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/rumors/post/Running-back-Ahman-Green-may-be-returning-to-Pac?urn=nfl,197263</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__39/ept_sports_rumors-45550526-1256130094.jpg?ymvoJFCDsQtXSwIp"><img align="right" alt="&ldquo;Ahman" border="0" hspace="10" src="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__39/ept_sports_rumors-45550526-1256130094_thumb.jpg?ymvoJFCDOg5T1XQQ" /></a>The word on the street is that running back <span class="ysp-player"><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/4261/">Ahman Green</a><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/4261/news" class="ysp_playernote_icon" id="ysp_playernote_nfl.p.4261">(notes)</a></span> <a href="http://www.jsonline.com/sports/packers/65106987.html" target="_blank">may be coming back</a> to the <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/gnb/">Green Bay Packers</a>, the team he last played for in 2006, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.<p>His agent is saying there is no deal in place, but some of Green's old pals that are still on the team, he supposedly told them that a deal was basically done and the team had sent him a playbook that he was studying in preparation for a return to practice.</p><p>He's spent the last few years with the <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/hou/">Houston Texans</a>, which released him back in February. He apparently beat out <span class="ysp-player"><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/5793/">Dominic Rhodes</a><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/5793/news" class="ysp_playernote_icon" id="ysp_playernote_nfl.p.5793">(notes)</a></span> for the honor of coming back to Packers, who need him because the team released rookie running back <span class="ysp-player"><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/9587/">Tyrell Sutton</a><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/9587/news" class="ysp_playernote_icon" id="ysp_playernote_nfl.p.9587">(notes)</a></span> in the preseason and has seen <span class="ysp-player"><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/8482/">Deshawn Wynn</a><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/8482/news" class="ysp_playernote_icon" id="ysp_playernote_nfl.p.8482">(notes)</a></span> and <span class="ysp-player"><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/8317/">Brandon Jackson</a><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/8317/news" class="ysp_playernote_icon" id="ysp_playernote_nfl.p.8317">(notes)</a></span> both go down with injuries.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 04:27:46 PDT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Mark J. Miller</dc:creator>
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      <title>Patriots trading two-time Pro Bowl linebacker Thomas?</title>
      <link>http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/rumors/post/Patriots-trading-two-time-Pro-Bowl-linebacker-Th?urn=nfl,197035</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__38/ept_sports_rumors-674829640-1256042795.jpg?ymsU0ECD6RryzY5_"><img align="right" alt="&ldquo;Adalius" border="0" hspace="10" src="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__38/ept_sports_rumors-674829640-1256042795_thumb.jpg?ymsU0ECDInorP1cs" /></a><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/nwe/">New England Patriots</a> linebacker <span class="ysp-player"><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/5215/">Adalius Thomas</a><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/5215/news" class="ysp_playernote_icon" id="ysp_playernote_nfl.p.5215">(notes)</a></span> didn't get the fun of being part of the tromping the Pats gave the <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/ten/">Tennessee Titans</a> on Sunday because he was mysteriously on the inactive list. That was the first time he's been a healthy scratch since he was a rookie with the <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/bal/">Baltimore Ravens</a> back in 2000.<p>The two-time Pro Bowler wasn't even at the stadium on Sunday and he wasn't hurt. It appears the Patriots are <a href="http://www.boston.com/sports/football/patriots/articles/2009/10/20/status_of_patriots_linebacker_thomas_remains_up_in_air/" target="_blank">trying to trade the fella</a>, according to the Boston Globe.</p><p>NFL Network analyst Deion Sanders told viewers of NFL Game Day on Sunday that Thomas was upset and was going to work it out with his coach.</p><p>But head coach Bill Belichick basically said Thomas didn't play because his performance was lacking, which has got to hurt when you're the same guy who signed a $35 million deal two years ago.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 05:28:31 PDT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Mark Miller</dc:creator>
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      <link>http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/rumors/post/Seahawks-bringing-back-hurt-Tatupu-?urn=nfl,197033</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__38/ept_sports_rumors-719014813-1256042885.jpg?ymFW0ECDrqYbUdPY"><img align="right" alt="&ldquo;Lofa" border="0" hspace="10" src="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__38/ept_sports_rumors-719014813-1256042885_thumb.jpg?ymFW0ECDJkRv3Rs4" /></a>When you hear the words &quot;muscle&quot; and &quot;tear&quot; in the same phrase, you generally look for the term &quot;season-ending&quot; somewhere nearby, but the <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/sea/">Seattle Seahawks</a> apparently don't see it that way. Head coach Jim Mora doesn't seem to think the muscle tear of linebacker <span class="ysp-player"><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/7221/">Lofa Tatupu's</a><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/7221/news" class="ysp_playernote_icon" id="ysp_playernote_nfl.p.7221">(notes)</a></span> pectorals will keep him out for the rest of the year.<p>The Pro Bowler's muscle is reportedly &quot;only&quot; partially torn so Tatupu <a href="http://www.thenewstribune.com/sports/seahawks/story/922361.html" target="_blank">could be back by the end of the season</a>, according to the Tacoma News Tribune. &quot;After further review and further imaging, we're not certain yet Lofa is done,&quot; Mora said in his weekly press conference. &quot;They did an MRI test, and it doesn't look like the muscle and tendons are completely detached from the bone.&quot;</p><p>If you want to get out for the rest of the season, Tatupu, you've got to get that thing completely detached.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 05:26:38 PDT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Mark Miller</dc:creator>
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      <link>http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/rumors/post/Titans-planning-to-play-more-Vince-Young?urn=nfl,197032</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p>Tennessee <a href="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__38/ept_sports_rumors-588340714-1256041318.jpg?ymm9zECDxfEshrJY"><img align="right" alt="&ldquo;Vince" border="0" hspace="10" src="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__38/ept_sports_rumors-588340714-1256041318_thumb.jpg?ymm9zECDVTVq0.xS" /></a>Titans owner Bud Adams is understandably embarrassed by the team's 59-0 debacle from last Sunday and <a href="http://www.tennessean.com/article/20091019/SPORTS01/910190337/1027" target="_blank">one of his solutions </a>for his train wreck of a team is apparently for the team to used quarterback <span class="ysp-player"><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/7752/">Vince Young</a><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/7752/news" class="ysp_playernote_icon" id="ysp_playernote_nfl.p.7752">(notes)</a></span> a little more, according to the Tennessean.</p><p>The word is that Adams is likely to ditch head coach Jeff Fisher, who has been with the team for 15 years, at season's end even though he's got two more years on his contract. &quot;If we end up losing every game or don't look better, I'd have to look at that pretty hard, you know what I mean?'' Adams told the paper.</p><p>&quot;Right now, it's as bad as I've seen it,&quot; said the 86-year-old. After all, his winless team had the best record in the NFL last season.</p><p>Lucky for Fisher, Adams doesn't apparently believe in making coaching changes in the middle of the year. &quot;Even if I am unhappy, you don't make changes in the middle of the season. You don't know what you might end up with,'' he said. </p><p>One thing he apparently wants is for quarterback Vince Young to get more playing time. &quot;I just think we need to find out how well (Young) can do,&quot; Adams said.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 05:24:23 PDT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Mark Miller</dc:creator>
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      <title>Former 49ers holdout Crabtree getting start?</title>
      <link>http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/rumors/post/Former-49ers-holdout-Crabtree-getting-start-?urn=nfl,197031</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__38/ept_sports_rumors-575566254-1256041144.jpg?ym46zECD3PDEn1i6"><img align="right" alt="&ldquo;Michael" border="0" hspace="10" src="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__38/ept_sports_rumors-575566254-1256041144_thumb.jpg?ym46zECDkv9EK_fi" /></a>When <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/sfo/">San Francisco 49ers</a> wide receiver <span class="ysp-player"><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/9274/">Michael Crabtree</a><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/9274/news" class="ysp_playernote_icon" id="ysp_playernote_nfl.p.9274">(notes)</a></span> ended his ridiculous holdout a few weeks ago, the word from the team was that they would be working him slowly, getting him to memorize the third-down and end-zone packages and growing from there.<p>But the word now is that Crabtree <a href="http://blog.pressdemocrat.com/49ers/2009/10/crabtree-likely-to-start-sundays-game.html" target="_blank">could be starting this week</a>, according to the Santa Rosa Press Democrat. Coach Mike Singletary says it's a &quot;strong possibility,&quot; so it sounds pretty likely.</p><p>This means split end <span class="ysp-player"><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/8951/">Josh Morgan</a><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/8951/news" class="ysp_playernote_icon" id="ysp_playernote_nfl.p.8951">(notes)</a>,</span> the Niners' second-leading receiver, will probably be out of the starting lineup. And you can bet Morgan isn't happy about this rookie taking his slot.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 05:20:45 PDT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Mark Miller</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__38/ept_sports_rumors-753587086-1256040513.jpg?ymBxzECDQ6vBU94r"><img align="right" alt="&ldquo;Dwayne" border="0" hspace="10" src="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__38/ept_sports_rumors-753587086-1256040513_thumb.jpg?ymBxzECDTPuE28Ja" /></a><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/kan/">Kansas City Chiefs</a> head coach Todd Haley was apparently unhappy with wide receiver <span class="ysp-player"><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/8277/">Dwayne Bowe</a><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/8277/news" class="ysp_playernote_icon" id="ysp_playernote_nfl.p.8277">(notes)</a></span> early in the team's Sunday game against the <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/was/">Washington Redskins</a>. He felt free to let him have it and apparently <a href="http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2009/10/19/trade-threat-turned-the-light-on-for-dwayne-bowe/" target="_blank">threatened that he would trade him</a> by today's 4 p.m. deadline if he didn't get his act together, according to ProFootballTalk.<p>The tirade must have packed a serious punch since Bowe had his highest yardage total of the season with 109 of &lsquo;em. </p><p>In the preseason, Haley pulled another motivational trick on Bowe and demoted him to the third-string. Ouch. </p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 05:10:24 PDT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Mark Miller</dc:creator>
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      <link>http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/rumors/post/Cleveland-Browns-could-do-some-dealing-today?urn=nfl,197028</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__38/ept_sports_rumors-34295806-1256042974.jpg?ymeX0ECD2QFGsjn2"><img align="right" alt="&ldquo;Shaun" border="0" hspace="10" src="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__38/ept_sports_rumors-34295806-1256042974_thumb.jpg?ymeX0ECDWooDKrID" /></a>The NFL trading deadline is at 4 p.m. Eastern today and the <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/cle/">Cleveland Browns</a> might do <a href="http://www.cleveland.com/browns/index.ssf/2009/10/nothing_imminent_on_trade_dead.html" target="_blank">some wheeling and dealing</a> before the day is done, according to the Cleveland Plain Dealer.<p>Defensive end <span class="ysp-player"><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/6938/">Corey Williams</a><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/6938/news" class="ysp_playernote_icon" id="ysp_playernote_nfl.p.6938">(notes)</a></span> might be on the block and nose tackle <span class="ysp-player"><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/5508/">Shaun Rogers</a><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/5508/news" class="ysp_playernote_icon" id="ysp_playernote_nfl.p.5508">(notes)</a></span> could end up going to the <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/nyj/">New York Jets</a> since the team just lost <span class="ysp-player"><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/5491/">Kris Jenkins</a><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/5491/news" class="ysp_playernote_icon" id="ysp_playernote_nfl.p.5491">(notes)</a></span> for the season with a torn anterior cruciate ligament. Rogers apparently wanted the team to release him this off-season but then changed his mind. This would be a good opportunity for the team to send him packing and not worry about future emotional outbursts. </p><p>Browns head coach Eric Mangini said, &quot;There's nothing that's imminent. But you never know. Things happen. I'm not saying that it's impossible.&quot;</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 05:07:10 PDT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Mark Miller</dc:creator>
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      <link>http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/rumors/post/Zorn-and-Cerrato-s-fates-tied-together-in-D-C-?urn=nfl,196759</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__38/ept_sports_rumors-23931385-1255955315.jpg?ymz9eECDaRgRwynG"><img align="right" alt="&ldquo;Jim" border="0" hspace="10" src="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__38/ept_sports_rumors-23931385-1255955315_thumb.jpg?ymz9eECDuTCwsdO1" /></a><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/was/">Washington Redskins</a> head coach Jim Zorn fell to a pretty low level the other day when he was told that he was still the head coach but he wasn't allowed to call the plays that his team would make on the field. Talk about powerless.<p>So it's looking like Zorn isn't going to have too many more chances and if his team crashes in next Sunday's game against the <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/phi/">Philadelphia Eagles</a>, he may get canned. But <a href="http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2009/10/18/zorn-cerratos-fates-apparently-are-intertwined/" target="_blank">he apparently won't be alone</a>, according to ProFootballTalk. The word is that if Zorn gets thrown off the Redskins bus, another fella may be joining him: Vinny Cerrato, the team's vice president of football operations.</p><p>Of course the latter firing could wait till the season is mercifully over for the Redskins while Zorn's is expected to come at some point during the season.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 05:30:27 PDT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Mark Miller</dc:creator>
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      <title>Cards' Boldin sprains ankle but expects to play next Sunday</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__38/ept_sports_rumors-125207009-1255956838.jpg?ymnVfECDWur82Q7U"><img align="right" alt="&ldquo;Anquan" border="0" hspace="10" src="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__38/ept_sports_rumors-125207009-1255956838_thumb.jpg?ymnVfECD.PTVTALW" /></a><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/ari/">Arizona Cardinals</a> wide receiver <span class="ysp-player"><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/6390/">Anquan Boldin</a><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/6390/news" class="ysp_playernote_icon" id="ysp_playernote_nfl.p.6390">(notes)</a></span> couldn't finish out the victory against the <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/sea/">Seattle Seahawks</a> on Sunday and the word is that he had a high ankle sprain, according to the East Valley Tribune.<p>Boldin is saying <a href="http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/145961" target="_blank">he'll be back next Sunday</a> when the Cards visit the <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/nyg/">New York Giants</a>. But there is a real possibility that he won't be ready for action by next weekend and the team throws <span class="ysp-player"><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/8396/">Steve Breaston</a><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/8396/news" class="ysp_playernote_icon" id="ysp_playernote_nfl.p.8396">(notes)</a></span> into Boldin's spot.</p><p>Boldin created a big stir in Arizona back in 2007 when he requested a trade because his fellow wide receiver <span class="ysp-player"><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/6363/">Larry Johnson</a><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/6363/news" class="ysp_playernote_icon" id="ysp_playernote_nfl.p.6363">(notes)</a></span> got a four-year, $40 million deal.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 05:27:31 PDT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Mark Miller</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__38/ept_sports_rumors-613108272-1255956920.jpg?ym5WfECDzCIPh.Fj"><img align="right" alt="&ldquo;Mark" border="0" hspace="10" src="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__38/ept_sports_rumors-613108272-1255956920_thumb.jpg?ym5WfECDRmgxCdtw" /></a>After the third game of the season, <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/nyj/">New York Jets</a> rookie quarterback <span class="ysp-player"><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/9269/">Mark Sanchez</a><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/9269/news" class="ysp_playernote_icon" id="ysp_playernote_nfl.p.9269">(notes)</a></span> looked to be on top of the world. He had taken the Jets to three straight wins and was being compared to the legendary Joe Namath in the Big Apple. <p>Now, three weeks later, Sanchez has lost three games in a row and some New Yorkers are calling for his head (or at least for head coach Rex Ryan to bench the young man). But Ryan is <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/jets/2009/10/was-it-really-that-bad-yes-it.html" target="_blank">apparently sticking with Sanchez</a>, according to the New York Daily News, even though Sanchez &quot;led&quot; the team to a loss against the seemingly hapless <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/buf/">Buffalo Bills</a>.</p><p>Not helping Sanchez is the fact that he leads the league in interceptions with ten and he hasn't gotten more than 172 yards in a game since the first game of the season.</p><p>Sanchez isn't being benched but folks should apparently expect <span class="ysp-player"><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/7798/">Kellen Clemens</a><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/7798/news" class="ysp_playernote_icon" id="ysp_playernote_nfl.p.7798">(notes)</a></span> to be getting more reps in practice just in case that happens soon. </p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 05:24:42 PDT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Mark Miller</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__38/ept_sports_rumors-404137480-1255957003.jpg?ymLYfECDeQXuig8L"><img align="right" alt="&ldquo;Derrick" border="0" hspace="10" src="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__38/ept_sports_rumors-404137480-1255957003_thumb.jpg?ymLYfECDyGYnnJGx" /></a>The NFL trade deadline is tomorrow and the <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/chi/">Chicago Bears</a> already got themselves a big trade when the team acquired defensive end <span class="ysp-player"><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/8258/">Gaines Adams</a><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/8258/news" class="ysp_playernote_icon" id="ysp_playernote_nfl.p.8258">(notes)</a></span> on Friday from the <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/tam/">Tampa Bay Buccaneers</a>. And now the team is <a href="http://www.nationalfootballpost.com/Biggs-Could-Bears-be-in-market-for-a-linebacker.html" target="_blank">trying to land a linebacker by tomorrow's deadline</a>, according to the National Football Post.</p><p>The need apparently became even more apparent after yesterday's 21-14 loss to the <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/atl/">Atlanta Falcons</a> when veteran linebacker <span class="ysp-player"><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/6379/">Pisa Tinoisamoa</a><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/6379/news" class="ysp_playernote_icon" id="ysp_playernote_nfl.p.6379">(notes)</a></span> went down with a knee injury just after returning from three weeks of recuperating from injury.</p><p>The Bears have had a lot of injuries at linebacker this season, with both <span class="ysp-player"><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/6502/">Hunter Hillenmeyer</a><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/6502/news" class="ysp_playernote_icon" id="ysp_playernote_nfl.p.6502">(notes)</a></span> and <span class="ysp-player"><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/5038/">Brian Urlacher</a><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/5038/news" class="ysp_playernote_icon" id="ysp_playernote_nfl.p.5038">(notes)</a></span> also currently out.</p><p>A rumored target is <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/kan/">Kansas City Chiefs</a> linebacker <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players?type=lastname&first=1&query=Derrick+Johnson&q=Derrick+Johnson">Derrick Johnson</a>.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 05:22:34 PDT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Mark Miller</dc:creator>
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      <link>http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/rumors/post/Browns-receiver-Cribbs-wants-long-term-deal-or-t?urn=nfl,196405</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__38/ept_sports_rumors-447280916-1255699242.jpg?ymrcgDCDUuIh.gRl"><img align="right" alt="&ldquo;Josh" border="0" hspace="10" src="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__38/ept_sports_rumors-447280916-1255699242_thumb.jpg?ymrcgDCDo0JBNVWg" /></a><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/cle/">Cleveland Browns</a> wide receiver Josh Cribbs would love to remain with the team for the rest of his playing career. But if the team doesn't want to commit to him, he wants them to go ahead and <a href="http://www.cleveland.com/browns/index.ssf/2009/10/post_9.html" target="_blank">trade him now</a>, according to the Cleveland Plain Dealer.<p>The Browns are already dealing with what to do with deposed starting quarterback <span class="ysp-player"><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/8276/">Brady Quinn</a><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/8276/news" class="ysp_playernote_icon" id="ysp_playernote_nfl.p.8276">(notes)</a>,</span> who isn't so excited to be playing backup to <span class="ysp-player"><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/7389/">Derek Anderson</a><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/7389/news" class="ysp_playernote_icon" id="ysp_playernote_nfl.p.7389">(notes)</a>,</span> and now comes this. Cribbs signed a six-year extension back in 2007 that has him under Cleveland's thumb through 2012 at a price of $6.77 million. And now he wants a new extension and supposedly considered holding out this past summer for one. </p><p>Predictably, the Browns don't want to trade Cribbs before Tuesday's deadline and will likely try to work out some sort of deal with Cribbs this off-season.</p><p>Two teams that are believed to be the <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/kan/">Kansas City Chiefs</a> and the <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/oak/">Oakland Raiders</a> have apparently come to the Browns to ask about trading for Cribbs. The <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/ind/">Indianapolis Colts</a>, <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/sfo/">San Francisco 49ers</a>, and <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/mia/">Miami Dolphins</a> are all supposedly interested as well.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 06:05:55 PDT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Mark Miller</dc:creator>
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      <title>Limbaugh: Checketts led him astray on Rams bid</title>
      <link>http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/rumors/post/Limbaugh-Checketts-led-him-astray-on-Rams-bid?urn=nfl,196396</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__38/ept_sports_rumors-23099670-1255694917.jpg?ymFZfDCDqGYKS47g"><img align="right" alt="&ldquo;Rush" border="0" hspace="10" src="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__38/ept_sports_rumors-23099670-1255694917_thumb.jpg?ymFZfDCD8gjHWa7." /></a>Conservative talk-show host Rush Limbaugh is saying that <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/teams/stl/">St. Louis Blues</a> chairman Dave Checketts <a href=" http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/2009/10/15/2009-10-15_rush_limbaugh_blames_nfl.html" target="_blank">gave him some bad information</a> earlier this year when Checketts asked Limbaugh to be part of his bidding group for the <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/stl/">St. Louis Rams</a>, according to the New York Daily News.<p>Limbaugh claims that he told Checketts that his involvement was bound to be controversial within the league's offices and that the reply from Checketts was as follows: &quot;We wouldn't have approached you if we hadn't taken care of that.&quot;</p><p>Meanwhile, the NFL is saying it never, ever pre-approves owners and didn't do any such thing for Limbaugh. &quot;At all times we have been clear with prospective purchasers of the Rams or any other club that approval of an owner could only be granted by a vote of the 32 clubs after complete financial and personal due diligence, which obviously has not taken place here,&quot; said an NFL spokesman.</p><p>Limbaugh also pointed his pudgy fingers in the direction of the NFL Players Association for butting into the proceedings and urging its members to speak out against Limbaugh being part of an ownership group. He is claiming that this was solely because the union is attempting to assert power over owners as they prepare for an upcoming collective-bargaining battle.</p><p>Of course Checketts asking Limbaugh to leave the bidding group has absolutely nothing to do with any number of highly charged things Limbaugh has said over the years. Why wouldn't the league that likes to protect its image want someone with a huge listening audience who could say inflammatory things of all sorts to be an owner, right?<br /></p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 05:12:34 PDT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Mark Miller</dc:creator>
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      <link>http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/rumors/post/Cowboys-Wade-Phillips-not-losing-head-coaching-?urn=nfl,196393</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__38/ept_sports_rumors-201437717-1255699487.jpg?ymfggDCDZFNCPI2H"><img align="right" alt="&ldquo;Wade" border="0" hspace="10" src="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__38/ept_sports_rumors-201437717-1255699487_thumb.jpg?ymfggDCDZuBmytpe" /></a><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/dal/">Dallas Cowboys</a> head coach Wade Phillips can apparently do whatever he wants for the rest of the season and team owner Jerry Jones won't fire him. Jones told the team's fans yesterday on his weekly radio broadcast that Phillips <a href="http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/spt/football/cowboys/stories/101609dnspocowdate.3d501cd.html" target="_blank">won't be canned this season</a> &quot;under no circumstances,&quot; according to the Dallas Morning News.<p>He wouldn't even been fired if the 'Boys had lost to the pitiful <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/kan/">Kansas City Chiefs</a> last weekend. &quot;We've got a chance to get a lot of things done,&quot; Jones said. &quot;And we've got a lot of football left to play, and we've got some good people that not only can play it but coach it.&quot;<br />Phillips has a contract that runs out at the end of this season and the team has an option to sign him for 2010, but it's believed that Jones will send Phillips packing at year's end if things don't miraculously turn around.</p><p>Jones is apparently finding inspiration from the <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/nyg/">New York Giants</a> team of two years ago that had a rough start and ended up with an incredible Super Bowl victory against the previously undefeated <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/nwe/">New England Patriots</a>. Let's just see the Cowboys do that.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 04:52:03 PDT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Mark Miller</dc:creator>
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      <link>http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/rumors/post/Steelers-RB-Mendenhall-could-miss-Sunday-s-game?urn=nfl,196392</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__38/ept_sports_rumors-949406407-1255692937.jpg?ymJ6eDCDXxYTAoLA"><img align="right" alt="&ldquo;Rashard" border="0" hspace="10" src="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__38/ept_sports_rumors-949406407-1255692937_thumb.jpg?ymJ6eDCD6mhHVEs4" /></a><span class="ysp-player"><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/7073/">Willie Parker</a><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/7073/news" class="ysp_playernote_icon" id="ysp_playernote_nfl.p.7073">(notes)</a></span> was the starting running back for the <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/pit/">Pittsburgh Steelers</a> before he inured a toe and lost his effectiveness, only averaging 3.1 yards per carry. And when he sat down, all Steeler fans got to witness the ascension of backup <span class="ysp-player"><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/8800/">Rashard Mendenhall</a><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/8800/news" class="ysp_playernote_icon" id="ysp_playernote_nfl.p.8800">(notes)</a>,</span> who has rushed for 242 yards and three touchdowns in the last two games.<p>Now Mendenhall has been sent home with an illness during Thursday's practice and it <a href="http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/sports/steelers/s_648232.html" target="_blank">isn't clear if he'll be healed up</a> by Sunday, according to the Pittsburgh Tribune Review. Parker is practicing now with a specially made shoe to protect his toe and the team is hoping that he'll be back at full strength by Sunday's game against the visiting <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/cle/">Cleveland Browns</a>.</p><p>What is most likely, though, is that the team ends up with two players who aren't at full strength and get to trade off as the game progresses.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 04:37:59 PDT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Mark Miller</dc:creator>
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      <link>http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/rumors/post/Redskins-players-want-front-office-vote-of-confi?urn=nfl,196131</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__38/ept_sports_rumors-528072872-1255612470.jpg?ym2QLDCD8NPMYBk7"><img align="right" alt="&ldquo;Jim" border="0" hspace="10" src="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__38/ept_sports_rumors-528072872-1255612470_thumb.jpg?ym2QLDCDESb5Dm9J" /></a><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/was/">Washington Redskins</a> head coach Jim Zorn's team may not have the worst record in the league (four teams are tied with 0-5 records), but he does seem to have the least support coming to him from the front office.<p>With a 2-3 record against a weak schedule, the Redskins haven't looked good this year and the questions keep on coming about whether Zorn is going to get canned or not. Vinny Cerrato, the Redskins' executive vice president of football operations, wouldn't give such an endorsement last week when given the chance.</p><p>Now three of the team's name players are anonymously telling the Washington Post that <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/14/AR2009101403646.html" target="_blank">players want the front office to give</a> Zorn that vote of confidence so they can all move ahead in the season together and not have to deal with the constant questioning. </p><p>Otherwise, the team feels divided, the players told the paper as they prepared to take on one of those winless teams, the <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/kan/">Kansas City Chiefs</a>. Maybe the brass is waiting to see if the Redskins can at least put together a win against Kansas City before deciding on Zorn.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 05:51:18 PDT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Mark Miller</dc:creator>
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      <link>http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/rumors/post/Houston-Texans-prepping-to-fire-head-coach-Kubia?urn=nfl,196129</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__38/ept_sports_rumors-821180359-1255612560.jpg?ymQSLDCDTeCus53M"><img align="right" alt="&ldquo;Gary" border="0" hspace="10" src="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__38/ept_sports_rumors-821180359-1255612560_thumb.jpg?ymQSLDCDbDQvFZf9" /></a>You can argue all you want down in Texas about how the <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/hou/">Houston Texans</a> could easily be 4-1 instead of 1-4, but the bottom line is that they aren't and because of that little fact, execs within the team's front office are apparently starting to think that head coach Gary Kubiak <a href="http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/solomon/6668355.html" target="_blank">might not be the man for the job</a>, according to the Houston Chronicle.<p>In his fourth year, Kubiak is apparently one of the longest-tenured coaches in the league. Only eight coaches have been with their teams longer and six of them have been to the Super Bowl, according to the paper. Kubiak's not close to getting to the Super Bowl.</p><p>If things don't turn around for Kubiak's squad soon, he'll likely be tossed.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 05:35:49 PDT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Mark Miller</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__38/ept_sports_rumors-486735504-1255607092.jpg?ym08JDCDUjed.gju"><img align="right" alt="&ldquo;Brady" border="0" src="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_rumors__38/ept_sports_rumors-486735504-1255607092_thumb.jpg?ym08JDCDDVme0FDW" /></a><span class="ysp-player"><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/8276/">Brady Quinn</a><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/8276/news" class="ysp_playernote_icon" id="ysp_playernote_nfl.p.8276">(notes)</a></span> started out his third season in the NFL as the starting quarterback for the <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/cle/">Cleveland Browns</a> and now he's put up his house for sale and is said to be <a href="http://www.cleveland.com/browns/index.ssf/2009/10/brady_quinn_says_home_sale_doe.html" target="_blank">apparently considering making a trade request</a>, according to the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Quinn hasn't made the request just yet and it appears that he might not actually go through with it.<p>He tells the paper that it is &quot;not my nature to do something like that. I have a contract with the Browns and I intend to play that out.&quot; He went on to say, &quot;I'm here right now to do the best I can for this team. That's the situation I'm presented with.&quot;</p><p>Of course, he's not &quot;playing&quot; anything out. He's sitting on the bench and watching <span class="ysp-player"><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/7389/">Derek Anderson</a><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/7389/news" class="ysp_playernote_icon" id="ysp_playernote_nfl.p.7389">(notes)</a>.</span> There are only five days before the NFL trading deadline so it's not looking likely that anything would actually get done before then, anyway.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 04:46:37 PDT</pubDate>
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