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29
Nov
2010
VIDEO: Derek Anderson unleashes in postgame press conference
Arizona Cardinals quarterback Derek Anderson blew his top Monday night, unloading an emotional tirade on Kent Somers of The Arizona Republic during a postgame press conference following the team’s 27-6 loss to the San Francisco 49ers.
Anderson’s rant was in response to Somers’ questioning about footage from the Monday Night Football broadcast, which showed Anderson laughing with guard Deuce Lutui while the 49ers sailed to victory.
ESPN’s Jon Gruden was critical of Anderson’s loose demeanor, as shown below:
Somers began by asking Anderson about his conversation with Lutui.
“I don’t mean this to be sarcastic or pointed,” he said, “but that went out on Monday night television, and a lot of fans are talking about it right now as a big problem with this team. Can you put into context what was going on at that moment, and what caused you to–”
So what exactly were they smiling about? (Image via CBSNews.com)
Anderson stopped Somers: “What Deuce and I talk about is nobody else’s business.”
“But why was something funny when you’re down 18 points in the fourth quarter?” Somers asked.
“It wasn’t funny. I wasn’t laughing about anything,” Anderson said.
Somers pressed: “But the cameras showed you laughing.”
Anderson again cut Somers off, becoming emotional.
“I’m not laughing about anything … You think this is funny? I take this (expletive) serious. Real serious,” Anderson said. “I put my heart and soul into this (expletive) every single week. I’m just telling you, right now, what I do every single week. Every single week, I put my freaking heart and soul into this. I study my ass off.
“I don’t go out there and laugh. It’s not funny. Nothing’s funny to me. I don’t want to go out there and get embarrassed on Monday Night Football in front of everybody.”
The back and forth continued until Anderson marched out of the room.
28
Nov
2010
FIGHT! Andre Johnson-Cortland Finnegan throw punches, ejected (VIDEO)
A pedestrian tilt between the Houston Texans and Tennessee Titans devolved into ugliness on Sunday.
With the Texans leading 17-0 in the fourth quarter, Houston wide receiver Andre Johnson was escorted from the field after throwing punches at Titans cornerback Cortland Finnegan, in what became an all-out brawl.
The two got at each other at the end of a play, with Finnegan throwing a jab at Johnson, only to have his helmet ripped off by the wideout.
With the two entangled, circling around on the field, Finnegan ripped off Johnson’s helmet, launching it skyward, while being whipped to the ground by the wideout. Johnson then unleased a series of punches at Finnegan before the two were separated.
Both players were hit with 15-yard unsportsmanlike conduct penalties and ejected. Johnson was pulled away by team personnel while Finnegan jogged off to the Titans’ locker room.
Johnson had few words after the game, and called the fight “just a buildup of things over plays,” according to ESPN.
“I would like to apologize to the organization, our owner, my teammates,” Johnson said. “What happened out there wasn’t me. I just lost my cool and I wish I could take back what happened, but I can’t. I’m pretty sure I’ll be disciplined for it, I’ll have to deal with it from there.”
ESPN reported that Texans owner Bob McNair called the fight in Johnson’s favor.
“I awarded it to Andre on points,” McNair said, shrugging off the notion of a suspension for Johnson: “I don’t know why there would be. The DB was all over him and he’s the one who initiated it and he’d been doing it the play before and the whole game. He just went a little too far and Andre’s the one who was on camera when the action heated up. That’s not Andre.”
20
Nov
2010
A look inside…
Pat Hanlon of the New York Giants shared this photo Saturday of quarterback Eli Manning talking with NBC’s production crew in preparation for Sunday night’s grudge-battle between the Giants and Philadelphia Eagles.
Eli: student of the game. (Source: Pat Hanlon, Giants)
18
Nov
2010
Random notes from the Dolphins-Bears snoozer
The Bears top the Dolphins for their 700th win. (Source: NFL.com)
A few notes from this evening’s Dolphins-Bears game:
- Dolphins wide receiver Brandon Marshal went out with a hamstring injury just before halftime. He had three catches on the night. Fantasy football owners are already questioning what the rest of the season will look like for Marshall with Tyler Thigpen in at quarterback.
- Miami has to be viewed as a team that is not living up to its potential. This is a very frustrating team. They are being dominated with Chad Henne and Chad Pennington off the docket, but this applies to their entire season. They’re in danger of dropping to 5-5, with Oakland and Cleveland — two teams playing beyond expectations — next on the schedule. Miami is on the fringe of extinction in 2010.
- How about NFL.com broadcasting the game live, for free, with studio analysis during commercial breaks. An unusually generous move in this money-is-everything culture.
- As Rich Eisen points out, Tyler Thigpen to Marlon Moore is not what the Dolphins were hoping for at the dawn of this season.
- Back to Cutler: Does this guy enjoy ANY aspect of his job? Looks a lot like me when I was trapped in a cubicle at Deloitte in downtown Los Angeles — utterly lost. But, Jay, you’re an NFL quarterback, on a national stage — have some fun. Although he’s been so thoroughly beat up on national games the past two seasons, the jaded world-view is not shocking.
- Finding out this evening that Browns defender Marcus Benard fainted last week due to stress of his partner’s newborn baby being born prematurely. He did not eat well, or get proper sleep, and ended up crashing out at the Browns’ facility. “It was definitely tough,” Benard told the Plain Dealer. “I think I did a pretty good job up until that point. My body told my mind, ‘You know what, let me take a break.’ “
Sometimes we forget that we’re watching and writing about young men who report to work just like the rest of us — dealing with a flood of expectations and concerns beyond this weekend’s game. Benard, stretched so thin at home, but not wanting to let the Browns down — ntil his body gives out. Media immediately moves on to the next Brett Favre soundbite.
- The Bears get their 700th win tonight, the most in NFL franchise history. They might not be at their best right now, but this team — about to go 7-3 — is a proud franchise.
- Bottom line: Why don’t the Bears scare me, at all? We’ve seen this team file multiple double-digit-win seasons under Lovie Smith, but they just don’t seem for real.
- Back to Cutler: He reminds me of the guy I didn’t like in high school — the guy who’s still hanging around town three years after he graduated, sitting in the parking lot as school gets out. I don’t know him, so, maybe it’s just the impression off TV.
- The Bears are in first place in the NFC North this late in the season for the first time since 2006, the year the went to the Super Bowl.
- Lovie Smith, in his post-game press conference tonight said, “The discovery tonight, was the defense.”
- Does Smith get enough respect? He’s seemingly been on the hot seat every year since he joined the team — but keeps winning (but not Super Bowls).
- Anyone else fired up for the Bill Parcells documentary on NFL Network? It airs tomorrow night at 8 p.m. Here are a few highlights.
9
Oct
2010
WEEK 5 PICKS by THEDARKHORSE
Anyone else kind of miss this guy? (Source: AP)
My picks for Week 5 in the NFL:
New York Giants at Houston Texans - TEXANS 22-19
St. Louis Rams at Detroit Lions – LIONS 31-24
Green Bay Packers at Washington Redskins – PACKERS 17-13
Chicago Bears at Carolina Panthers – PANTHERS 9-7
Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Cincinnati Bengals – BUCS 23-21
Denver Broncos at Baltimore Ravens – RAVENS 20-10
Atlanta Falcons at Cleveland Browns – BROWNS 25-20
Kansas City Chiefs at Indianapolis Colts – COLTS 31-14
Jacksonville Jaguars at Buffalo Bills – JAGUARS 27-10
New Orleans Saints at Arizona Cardinals - SAINTS 41-17
Tennessee Titans at Dallas Cowboys – COWBOYS 24-13
San Diego Chargers at Oakland Raiders – CHARGERS 33-30 (OT)
Philadelphia Eagles at San Francisco 49ers – 49ERS 16-12
Minnesota Vikings at New York Jets – JETS 37-20
3
Oct
2010
Michael Vick dogged by injury (VIDEO)
(AP Photo: Matt Slocum)
After being hailed as the feel-good story of the early 2010 NFL season, Eagles QB Michael Vick left today’s game against the Redskins with a rib & chest injury, and will not return. The injury came during the first quarter when Vick scrambled 23-yards, lunging for a score before being sandwiched by two Washington defenders at the goal line.
The controversial QB went to the locker room for X-rays and was replaced by Kevin Kolb, who Vick had replaced in the season opener. No word yet on the extent of the Vick’s injury, but ribs are are a bad place for a mobile QB to be hurt, and take notoriously long to heal.
Prior to the injury, Vick was 5 for 7 for 49 yards with 17 yards rushing in the game. And to his credit, the injury came on a play that only Vick could have made, as he evaded defenders en route the the end zone. To add insult to injury, the run was nullified by a holding penalty, and the Eagles offense seemed to have lost its life without Vick, losing to the Donovan McNabb-led Redskins, 17-14.
UPDATE: Jason La Canforna reports that X-Rays on Vick’s chest and ribs came back negative, but he is scheduled to have an MRI on Monday to determine the severity of the damage.
2nd UPDATE: The results of the MRI are in, and Vick officially suffered a “rib cartilage injury”. Andy Reid said “There are no broken bones, but it is up high, between the second and third ribs,” adding that the cartilage looks “cracked” and the injury is near the sternum. There is no timetable for Vick’s return, and his status has been labeled the dreaded as “week-to-week”
WATCH THE MICHAEL VICK INJURY AFTER THE JUMP
3
Oct
2010
Tomlinson and Jets dominate Bills, improve to 3-1 (VIDEO)
(Photo: Kevin Hoffman/US Presswire)
LaDanian Tomlinson proved that he still has some gas left in the tank this afternoon, as he rushed for over 133 yards and 2 touchdowns in leading the Jets to a 38-14 rout of the Buffalo Bills. Tomlinson had his first 100-yard game in over two years, and passed Tony Dorsett to move into 7th place on the NFL’s all-time rushing list with 12, 381 yards.
From the very start, Tomlinson looked like the LdT of old, and the Jets offense had their way with the Buffalo defense. Shonn Green added 177 yards rushing and Mark Sanchez threw 2 touchdowns to TE Dustin Keller, as the Jets improved to 3-1 at the quarter-season mark.
But today belonged to the 31-year-old Tomlinson, who was cut by the San Diego Chargers this off-season and widely considered washed up before finding a new home with the Jets. After the game, he credited head coach Rex Ryan for believing in him, and inspiring him to perform:
“I know what age I am. It doesn’t mean I can’t play,” Tomlinson said. “I never lost confidence. I always knew I could do it. It was just about having an opportunity.”
Watch as Tomlinson leaving a defender flying in his wake, en route to a 26-yard score in the third quarter, putting the game away for New York :
SEE TOMLINSON’S TOUCHDOWN RUN AFTER THE JUMP
19
Sep
2010
Live Game Blog: Manning Bowl II – Colts vs Giants
The Manning Bowl resumes tonight in Indianapolis (minus Cooper)
It’s been a great Sunday of football so far, but the most hyped match-up the NFL this weekend is tonight’s Manning Bowl II (aka the Colts vs Giants), in which the brothers Manning will square off for the second time as pros. The first time – in 2006 – Peyton got the better of Eli and the Giants with a 26-21 win. This time around, Eli has a lot more experience to go with the best receiving corps he’s ever had.
Aside from the QBs, the Colts are trying to bounce back from a beating at the hands of the Houston Texans in Week 1, but will do so without their best defensive player, Bob Sanders, who may be lost for the season. The Giants will look to create pressure and turnovers on defense, with a unit that looks re-energized under new DC Perry Fewell. If they can’t get to Peyton and force him to hurry, this could be a high-scoring affair.
Believe it or not, there are 20 other players involved in tonight's game. We couldn't find any pictures of those guys.
We’re going to be following tonight’s Colts/Giants game using our new CoverItLive chat interface feature (below) … if you’re watching the game and are bored, join us in making fun of the Manning brothers, cringing at Cris Collinsworth, and calling for the heads of the horrible NFL refs. No big whoop.
JOIN IN THE CHAT AFTER THE JUMP
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19
Sep
2010
VIDEO: Randy Moss no slouch against Darrelle Revis
(Photo: Robert Deutsch, USA TODAY)
The build-up to this afternoon’s Jets/Patriots game was filled with all sorts of smack talk between the AFC East rivals, leading some in the media to label the match-up as the “Hate Bowl”. One of the juicier pieces of trash talk was leveled at WR Randy Moss by Jets CB Darrelle Revis, when Revis labeled Moss a “slouch” during an interview with NFL Network in January. After all, Revis had effectively shut down Moss last season, holding him to nine catches for 58 yards and just one touchdown in two games last season.
Earlier this week, Moss responded:
“I guess he’s entitled to say what he wants to say,’’ Moss said. “Then again, we’re coming to the Meadowlands on Sunday, man, so you got 60 minutes of this ‘slouch.’ I don’t really get into the trash talking, but if what he called me was a slouch, then I guess the slouch will be there to see you on Sunday.’’
And late in the 2nd quarter of today’s game, the “slouch” showed up big time, snaring this Tom Brady pass with a beautiful one-handed grab for a 34-yard TD over Revis:
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19
Sep
2010
Michael Vick throws first TD since 2006
(AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
Michael Vick made his first start at QB since 2006 for the Philadelphia Eagles today, and is looking like the Mike Vick of old in the early going against the Lions. In the first quarter, Vick found DeSean Jackson for a 45-yard touchdown pass … his first in four years:
Vick threw for 2 TD passes in the first half, along with several crazy-athletic plays that only he could make, and the Eagles held on to beat the Lions 35-32. Vick finished the game 21 of 34 for 284 yards with two TDs, and 37 yards rushing.
And while I’m not sure you can really call this a “feel-good” story, considering the circumstances surrounding his imprisonment, it seems that Vick is at least taking his first steps toward redeeming himself with the Eagles.
WATCH VICK’S WEEK 2 HIGHLIGHTS AFTER THE JUMP
