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It is a love hate affair in Philadelphia as they restructure Donovan McNabb’s contract for the next two years.

McNabb and the Eagles agreed late Thursday to restructure the final two years of his contract instead of extending his current deal. McNabb will collect $24.5 million over the next two seasons, a person familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press. That’s a $5.3 million raise over two years.

“Both sides wanted to get something done,” coach Andy Reid said. “We thought it needed to be done. Donovan warranted this. There are very few players or situations where a player is far enough along in his career, and then his contract, where he warrants something like this. We felt Donovan was in that situation.”

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The Philadelphia Eagles have a chance to win it all. Their team is that good and so is Donovan, but he just never seems to last through the season. Twice this guy has been my Fantasy Football quarterback and twice he was ripping up the league only to fall to season ending injuries.

Donovan McNabb is all smiles with more money

Donovan has so much talent that you just keep thinking he will put it all together, stay healthy, and deliver the title to the Eagles. That is why Philly was willing to ante up the extra money and pay him.

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All right, please send comments, but keep in mind this list is not mine. Where are all the Detroit Lions? Okay, that was a joke, but Calvin Johnson better be somewhere on that list or something is wrong.

The top two are easy, Peyton Manning and Tom Brady.

The next two players are less easy to guess, but more a product of the Super Bowl, Ben Roethlisberger and Larry Fitzgerald. Just the fact that the Squibster can even come close to spelling Roethlisberger is a testament to the impact of playing in the Super Bowl.

Ben Roethlisberger is number 3

Number 5 is Adrian Peterson.

5. Adrian Peterson, RB, Minnesota Vikings: A.D. had an incredible sophomore season, tossing the Vikings on his back down the stretch and carrying them to an NFC North title. There’s no player in the league who has greater big-play potential, and he brings that big-play potential 25 times a game. Hands down the best running back in the league, he will be in the MVP conversation over the next decade of his career.

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Oh, and Calvin Johnson, he made number 83 on the list, the lone Lion.

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Now before we go into this list, it is more of a nickname for groups than for individuals. So, “Me Hate Me”, “Big Tuna”, or anyone like that won’t be in this list. Also, these are in no particular order, so here are a few of them.

Monsters of the Midway
From Bronko Nagurski to Brian Urlacher, the Bears have been led by some of the most familiar characters in the game’s history.
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Over the Hill Gang
These guys were in Washington under George Allen. He liked experienced players, what can you say.

Greatest Show on Turf
Kurt Warner went from bagging groceries to league and Super Bowl MVP as the Rams emerged as an offensive juggernaut in 1999.

Kurt Warner once played for the Greatest Show on Turf

Purple People Eaters
This was the Vikings of the 60s and 70s, including Eller and Page. In the days where the run ruled the landscape the Purple People Eaters would put the hurt on you.

Fearsome Foursome
This group included Deacon Jones and Merlin Olsen. They say Deacon Jones was sculpted like a Greek god and went about 280 pounds. One thing is for sure, he changed the defensive end position by getting so many sacks.

In 1967, Jones claims that he amassed 26 sacks in only 14 games, which (if official) would be the single season record. The term “sack” had not yet been coined at the time, and official sack statistics were not recorded by the NFL until 1982. Then in 1968 he claims he had 24 sacks in 14 games, yet again more than the current NFL record. The sum total of these 2 seasons would give him 50 sacks in 2 seasons far more than anyone else has achieved.

Annual Sack Totals

1961 8, 1962 12, 1963 6, 1964 22, 1965 19, 1966 18, 1967 21, 1968 22, 1969 15, 1970 12, 1971 4.5, 1972 6, 1973 5, 1974 3
(Source: St. Louis Rams, San Diego Chargers and Washington Redskins Media Relations Departments)

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Missing from the list were the Orange Crush, Denver’s defense in the 80s and 90s.

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Tom Brady still has a bit of a limp after his knee surgery and that is the least of his problems. Tom has made a career out of short accurate passes, often made at the last possible second to a crossing wide receiver or a back releasing from a block and floating out into the flat.

Think about all the times you have seen the defense close in on Brady and at the last second he fires a 10 yard strike. It gets maddening, but that has made him successful. The minute you play off him and give him time, you will have Randy Moss hauling in a long touchdown pass.

Will Tom Brady be able to take the hits?

Now Brady has a new enemy and it is not the defense, well sort of not the defense. The new enemy is his own defense at being hit on the knee. It is a natural defensive action to protect the formerly injured part of your body. If Brady shies away from the hits and throws early, he just won’t be the future Hall of Fame Brady we all are used to.

The unanswerable question for Brady and the Patriots is this: How will Brady react when bodies start flying for real and, inevitably, start landing to close to his repaired knee – particularly when some team or player tests his nerve intentionally? As ugly as it might sound, there’s going to be a time when some defensive lineman or linebacker goes low for Brady, taking a shot not just at Brady’s body, but his mind as well.

While the NFL refined the rules on low hits at the quarterback this offseason, don’t underestimate the willingness of defensive players to test the limits of both the rule and the will of their opponents.

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Mark Sanchez just became a very rich young NFL quarterback. He has never thrown one pass in an NFL game and yet he is assured of making 28 million dollars. He may not even be the Jets new starter. That job could go to the other player that Mark Sanchez’s agent represents, Kellen Clemons.

So far Clemons has looked better, but there will be 28 million reasons to start Sanchez sooner rather than later. It could work, but the odds are against it. Sanchez does not even have a lot of college experience from his time at that quarterback factory known as USC. Eventually, Sanchez will be ready and then maybe his on field prowess can catch up to his off field life.

Sanchez has the charm and the money

But if quarterbacks are to make their legends both on and off the field then Mark is way ahead of everyone with countless endorsements and a pictorial in GQ magazine. He also has the personality to carry it off.

“This is just the beginning,” Sanchez said. “I’ll be working every day to justify this contract.”

The Jets traded three players and two draft picks to select Sanchez fifth overall in April’s draft, despite his lack of starting experience at Southern California. The quarterback taken before Sanchez, Matthew Stafford, who was chosen first over all, recently signed a six-year deal, with $41.7 million guaranteed.

As to why Sanchez and the Jets settled on five years — which meant less guaranteed money for Sanchez — General Manager Mike Tannenbaum said, “Without getting into all of the details, there were tradeoffs.”
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There are reports circulating out there from ESPN that the hunt for Brett Favre has been suspended.

According to Werder, the Vikings have at least temporarily suspended their pursuit of the for-now retired quarterback after he failed to report to the latest session of Organized Team Activities as Childress had mandated. Werder cited team and league sources in his story.
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Now that would great, but there are reports out there that Brett Favre may not join the team until July 15th.

So which is it and why all the drama?

Brett Favre may be wearing the Viking horns soon

Brett Favre already holds almost all NFL Quarterback records and now has the record for most unretires and the most faked unretires. Let’s face it, he is the best unretirer ever to unretire in the NFL.

Brett to the Vikings? Well, the most telling evidence may come from his own family members. They booked a room for the Vikings/Packers game.

Favre’s family and friends have booked 25 to 30 rooms at the Midway Motor Lodge near Lambeau Field for the weekend of the Nov. 1 Vikings game at Green Bay, according to the Green Bay Press-Gazette.

The quarterback’s family and friends often stayed at the hotel during Favre’s final years with the Packers, Midway manager Doug Warpinski told the newspaper. Warpinski declined comment to The Associated Press on Tuesday
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Things just keep getting crazier for Jay Cutler. After being quietly, well maybe not real quietly, ushered out of Denver, he now finds himself in the unlikely position of having Kyle Orton post a better season.

Relax, relax, nobody is saying that Kyle Orton is as big of a talent as Jay Cutler. It is more what is surrounding each quarterback that makes an enormous difference. Jay Cutler just does not have the weapons around him in Chicago and Kyle Orton does in Denver.

Jay Cutler has the talent, but not the weapons

The only reason we’re having this discussion is because…well, it’s a gimmick — ex-Bear versus current Bear — and Denver’s wide receivers are clearly better than Chicago’s. It’s not reasonable to prefer Orton based on anything else. But if you’re just looking at the receivers, then you’re not considering the entire passing game. Matt Forte had 63 catches last year while Greg Olsen(notes) and Desmond Clark(notes) combined for 95. And when Devin Hester(notes) possesses the football, he’s among the most dangerous men in the NFL. He’ll finally have a chance to work with an elite passer. Chicago massively upgraded its O-line, too.

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A couple of years ago we wrote them off. It was the Falcons and they just stunk up the place. Then in the off season they picked up running back Michael Turner from the Chargers and drafted quarterback Matt Ryan. So, they picked up a rookie and a backup? What could that mean? It is still Atlanta.

Admit it, we were fooled, the Matt and Michael show made a huge difference and will continue into this year. That is where the Fantasy Football comes in. There are several high rated Falcons.

Turner is the No. 2-ranked running back on CBSSports.com and ESPN.com — behind Minnesota’s Adrian Peterson. NFL.com puts Turner No. 3, behind Peterson and Chicago’s Matt Forte.

Newly-acquired tight end Tony Gonzalez comes in anywhere from No. 1 to No. 4, while wideout Roddy White is ranked No. 8 by all three sites.

Meanwhile, quarterback Matt Ryan projects as the eighth- or ninth-best fantasy quarterback after winning Offensive Rookie of the Year. Kicker Jason Elam ranks between No. 4 and No. 6.

Matt Ryan has moved up the Fantasy Football ladder

Richard describes Turner as a fantasy cornerstone, especially because he always gets the goal-line carries, but says Turner won’t get near the 376 carries he got last year.
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So suck it up and pick some Falcons and you can be the Fantasy Football leader!

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Tennessee coach Jeff Fisher still thinks the Titans have a good shot at the NFL Super Bowl.

What does that have to do with a fish?

We’ll get to that in a minute. First let’s talk football. The Titans were dominating last year and then ran into the defensive minded Ravens in the playoffs and just like that the favored Titans were bounced from the playoffs.

Fisher doesn’t care, he feels that Titans have plenty of years to get it done and 2009 is going to be a great year.

Coach Fisher has that look!

What about the fish?

Fifty miles offshore in resplendent Pacific Ocean waters, the Tennessee Titans coach and his sons, Brandon and Trent, were on the prowl for blue marlin when Brandon felt a sudden jolt on his reel. More than a half-hour later, the senior linebacker at the University of Montana was still trying to subdue his prey when the marlin, an estimated 650-pound monster, emerged atop the ocean’s surface and made a furious lunge for the watercraft.

Imagine a pair of Albert Haynesworths in one being, desperately fighting for its life, and think how horrifying that would be to confront.

“I was videotaping the whole thing,” Fisher recalled Thursday afternoon, “and all of a sudden this sucker is up out of the water, tail-walking and coming right at us. It jumped and hit the side of the boat, and then it made two more jumps toward us before diving straight down. Two more feet and that thing would’ve jumped into the boat and killed everybody. We all looked at each other like, ‘Wow, did that just happen?’ ”

Young is getting antsy as a bystander.
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The struggle continued for another 45 minutes before the marlin finally succumbed, a victory Fisher will always relish.
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Depression anyone? Not in Dallas.
Recession make you shy? Not in Dallas.
Layoffs bothering you? Not in Dallas.

The Dallas Cowboys have a new stadium and plan on making an extra 90 million bucks!

Roy Williams cannot believe all those high priced seats

The Cowboys will have some premium priced club seats that could win them the triple crown of football franchising. They could become the most profitable franchise, the most revenue producing franchise, and the most valuable franchise.

The real revenue magic, year after year, is in the 15,000 club seats that didn’t exist at Texas Stadium and in the 300 suites, which can hold an additional 12,000 or so fans. Together, these premium areas make up more than a third of the base capacity at the new stadium and account for more than two-thirds of the team’s estimated revenue gains. Suite capacity at Texas Stadium was about 7,500.

At $340 a game, the club seats potentially can generate up to $50 million a year in new ticket revenue, some of it shared with the rest of the league and some of it used to pay off a league loan used during stadium construction.
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Who know’s they might even win some playoff games too!
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