Fantasy Football Tonight 7/18
A WORD OF WARNING...
To those of you who are thinking about drafting Owen Daniels as your #1 TE this year. The Texans were unhappy with the way Daniels went about his contract situation this offseason. First he demanded that he become the highest paid TE in the NFL, which is just ridiculous. Then he stumbled around wanting to be traded before backing off of that quickly. Then the Texans spend the fourth and fifth round picks in the draft on TE's. Daniels counters by missing all of the mandatory minicamps and organized team activities in June. The Texans then fined him $9,000 for missing minicamp and are preparing to get along without him if he decides to hold out this summer. If he indeed does hold out, which at this point I think is unlikely, then I wouldn't touch him in your draft whatsoever. Even if he shows up and decides to play nice, I would only consider him as a top notch backup TE and nothing more this season.
COACHING NEWS
I have news concerning the recent story brought up by ESPN Radio anchor Colin Cowherd that former Seattle Seahawks head coach Mike Holmgren was just mailing it in last season. Cowherd went off upon hearing news that Holmgren was spending hardly 8 hours a day at the Seahawks headquarters as far back as the middle of the 2008 regular season. Cowherd has a "source" who claims that the Walrus was mailing it in for much of his final season with the team. Well, I have hard through my people that Cowherd's source is none other than fellow ESPN colleague Tim Hasselbeck, the Brother of Seahawks starting QB Matt Hasselbeck. Matt Hasselbeck is absolutely livid about this story being traced back to him via his kid Brother and is defending Holmgren at this time to anyone who will listen. Jeez...looks like boy Hasselbeck is taking some notes from his wife, Elizabeth Hasselbeck in the area or irresponsible journalism. Anything for a story huh Tim?
Mike Shanahan has announced that he wants back into coaching come 2010. Shanahan has nearly $20 million that is left on his contract with the Broncos and he'll continue to get paid for the next three years if he doesn't take a new job. But he has come out and said that he will be fielding offers if and when they come after the 2009 NFL season.
Speaking of coaching candidates come 2010, the list will be long and quite impressive. Any team looking for a head coach at the end of this season will possibly have their choice of Super Bowl winning leaders to choose from. Bill Cowher, Jon Gruden and Mike Shanahan will all be looking for work before next season. Early bets are that Washington punts Jim Zorn at years end and Wade Phillips of the Cowboys decides to "step down" from his post leading the Cowboys. These are two of the most high profile jobs in the NFL, so it will be quite an eventful offseason come January 2010.
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To those of you who are thinking about drafting Owen Daniels as your #1 TE this year. The Texans were unhappy with the way Daniels went about his contract situation this offseason. First he demanded that he become the highest paid TE in the NFL, which is just ridiculous. Then he stumbled around wanting to be traded before backing off of that quickly. Then the Texans spend the fourth and fifth round picks in the draft on TE's. Daniels counters by missing all of the mandatory minicamps and organized team activities in June. The Texans then fined him $9,000 for missing minicamp and are preparing to get along without him if he decides to hold out this summer. If he indeed does hold out, which at this point I think is unlikely, then I wouldn't touch him in your draft whatsoever. Even if he shows up and decides to play nice, I would only consider him as a top notch backup TE and nothing more this season.
COACHING NEWS
I have news concerning the recent story brought up by ESPN Radio anchor Colin Cowherd that former Seattle Seahawks head coach Mike Holmgren was just mailing it in last season. Cowherd went off upon hearing news that Holmgren was spending hardly 8 hours a day at the Seahawks headquarters as far back as the middle of the 2008 regular season. Cowherd has a "source" who claims that the Walrus was mailing it in for much of his final season with the team. Well, I have hard through my people that Cowherd's source is none other than fellow ESPN colleague Tim Hasselbeck, the Brother of Seahawks starting QB Matt Hasselbeck. Matt Hasselbeck is absolutely livid about this story being traced back to him via his kid Brother and is defending Holmgren at this time to anyone who will listen. Jeez...looks like boy Hasselbeck is taking some notes from his wife, Elizabeth Hasselbeck in the area or irresponsible journalism. Anything for a story huh Tim?
Mike Shanahan has announced that he wants back into coaching come 2010. Shanahan has nearly $20 million that is left on his contract with the Broncos and he'll continue to get paid for the next three years if he doesn't take a new job. But he has come out and said that he will be fielding offers if and when they come after the 2009 NFL season.
Speaking of coaching candidates come 2010, the list will be long and quite impressive. Any team looking for a head coach at the end of this season will possibly have their choice of Super Bowl winning leaders to choose from. Bill Cowher, Jon Gruden and Mike Shanahan will all be looking for work before next season. Early bets are that Washington punts Jim Zorn at years end and Wade Phillips of the Cowboys decides to "step down" from his post leading the Cowboys. These are two of the most high profile jobs in the NFL, so it will be quite an eventful offseason come January 2010.
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