2011 NFL Season
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Matt Hasselbeck to be a Titan
The Tennessee Titans swooped in Wednesday on Matt Hasselbeck, reaching agreement with the free-agent quarterback on a multi-year contract, a league source told ESPN NFL Insider Adam Schefter.
News broke Tuesday that the Seattle Seahawks wouldn't re-sign the 35-year-old Hasselbeck. Instead, the Seahawks agreed to a deal with former Minnesota Viking Tarvaris Jackson, multiple sources told ESPN.
The Titans are expected to groom Jake Locker, the eighth pick in the draft in April, to be their starter of the future.
Hasselbeck will turn 36 in September. His prior contract was signed before the start of the 2005 season and was followed by him leading the Seahawks to their only Super Bowl appearance.
Hasselbeck threw for 272 yards and a career playoff-high four touchdowns in engineering the Seahawks' upset victory over defending Super Bowl champion Saints in last season's playoffs.
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The Tennessee Titans swooped in Wednesday on Matt Hasselbeck, reaching agreement with the free-agent quarterback on a multi-year contract, a league source told ESPN NFL Insider Adam Schefter.
News broke Tuesday that the Seattle Seahawks wouldn't re-sign the 35-year-old Hasselbeck. Instead, the Seahawks agreed to a deal with former Minnesota Viking Tarvaris Jackson, multiple sources told ESPN.
The Titans are expected to groom Jake Locker, the eighth pick in the draft in April, to be their starter of the future.
Hasselbeck will turn 36 in September. His prior contract was signed before the start of the 2005 season and was followed by him leading the Seahawks to their only Super Bowl appearance.
Hasselbeck threw for 272 yards and a career playoff-high four touchdowns in engineering the Seahawks' upset victory over defending Super Bowl champion Saints in last season's playoffs.
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I guess you missed the part where I said the Green Bay WRs burned our secondary. You guys won the game. Golf clap. I still stand by saying a healthy Polamalu would have changed things immensely. Look at all the games where Troy didn't play or wasn't healthy - we had a completely different gameplan. Our corners and safeties got burnt down the seam. Shit fell apart. Maybe we still would have lost with him 100%, but Polamalu is one of the best players in the history of one of the best franchises in history and having him healthy would have given us an edge. Not sure what point you're trying to make.
Ahhh it feels good to talk some shit again!
Ahhh it feels good to talk some shit again!
Redskins trade Haynesworth to Patriots
Sun is up, birds are chirping and Adam Schefter is hard at work as usual, reporting this morning that the Redskins have made their third trade of the week. This one, Redskins fans will be happy to know, sends disgruntled defensive tackle Albert Haynesworth to the New England Patriots for a 2013 fifth-round pick.
No, it's not exactly a haul they're getting in return. Not exactly the second coming of the Herschel Walker trade. And truth be told, I expected that Haynesworth might have more value than that, given the current proximity to a time when he was one of the more dominant players in the league. But Redskins coach Mike Shanahan, whose very public disputes with Haynesworth were a focal point of Shanahan's first season in Washington, clearly didn't want the guy around anymore. And as we've been saying here for weeks, he didn't want to just release him and let him go anywhere he wanted -- Philadelphia, for instance, where he could have reunited with his former defensive line coach from Tennessee and terrorized the Redskins twice a year in head-to-head matchups.
Can Haynesworth help the Patriots? Yes, I believe he can. They run a 3-4 defense, which was supposedly his problem in Washington. But Bill Belichick has a history of getting something out of malcontent players who wash out elsewhere. Randy Moss springs to mind, and all those records he set with Tom Brady in 2007. The Patriots will try to do a better job of selling Haynesworth on their defense and his potential role in it than Shahanan and Jim Haslett got a chance to in Washington.
For the Redskins, this is clearly about getting rid of a headache. A fifth-rounder in 2013 is pretty close to nothing in return for a guy they signed for $100 million (and who has already cashed almost all of that). But they'll save $5.4 million this year by releasing him and they won't have to answer any more questions about what he's doing in their locker room when all he does is bellyache and never play. Barry Cofield will be brought in as the much happier replacement, and the Redskins will move on with their rebuilding project. Shanahan and Haynesworth were a bad match from the start, and the ill-fated Haynesworth era in Washington is now over after two eventful but largely unproductive years.
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Sun is up, birds are chirping and Adam Schefter is hard at work as usual, reporting this morning that the Redskins have made their third trade of the week. This one, Redskins fans will be happy to know, sends disgruntled defensive tackle Albert Haynesworth to the New England Patriots for a 2013 fifth-round pick.
No, it's not exactly a haul they're getting in return. Not exactly the second coming of the Herschel Walker trade. And truth be told, I expected that Haynesworth might have more value than that, given the current proximity to a time when he was one of the more dominant players in the league. But Redskins coach Mike Shanahan, whose very public disputes with Haynesworth were a focal point of Shanahan's first season in Washington, clearly didn't want the guy around anymore. And as we've been saying here for weeks, he didn't want to just release him and let him go anywhere he wanted -- Philadelphia, for instance, where he could have reunited with his former defensive line coach from Tennessee and terrorized the Redskins twice a year in head-to-head matchups.
Can Haynesworth help the Patriots? Yes, I believe he can. They run a 3-4 defense, which was supposedly his problem in Washington. But Bill Belichick has a history of getting something out of malcontent players who wash out elsewhere. Randy Moss springs to mind, and all those records he set with Tom Brady in 2007. The Patriots will try to do a better job of selling Haynesworth on their defense and his potential role in it than Shahanan and Jim Haslett got a chance to in Washington.
For the Redskins, this is clearly about getting rid of a headache. A fifth-rounder in 2013 is pretty close to nothing in return for a guy they signed for $100 million (and who has already cashed almost all of that). But they'll save $5.4 million this year by releasing him and they won't have to answer any more questions about what he's doing in their locker room when all he does is bellyache and never play. Barry Cofield will be brought in as the much happier replacement, and the Redskins will move on with their rebuilding project. Shanahan and Haynesworth were a bad match from the start, and the ill-fated Haynesworth era in Washington is now over after two eventful but largely unproductive years.
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The New England Patriots have acquired wide receiver Chad Ochocinco after he accepted a restructured three-year contract from the Patriots, a source told ESPN.com's John Clayton.
Terms of the trade weren't known. He was scheduled to make $6.35 million for the Bengals this year. The Patriots wanted him to restructure his contract to fit their cap.
Ochocinco was seen catching a plane to Boston Thursday.
The 10-year veteran caught 67 passes for 831 yards and four touchdowns last season. That was a dropoff from 2009, the last of his six Pro Bowl years, when Ochocinco had 72 receptions for 1,047 yards and nine TDs.
Terms of the trade weren't known. He was scheduled to make $6.35 million for the Bengals this year. The Patriots wanted him to restructure his contract to fit their cap.
Ochocinco was seen catching a plane to Boston Thursday.
The 10-year veteran caught 67 passes for 831 yards and four touchdowns last season. That was a dropoff from 2009, the last of his six Pro Bowl years, when Ochocinco had 72 receptions for 1,047 yards and nine TDs.