{"id":47273,"date":"2015-03-20T17:59:35","date_gmt":"2015-03-21T00:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=47273"},"modified":"2015-03-21T11:29:15","modified_gmt":"2015-03-21T18:29:15","slug":"nfl-talk-3202015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=47273","title":{"rendered":"NFL Talk: 3\/20\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"NFL<\/a>

NFL<\/p><\/div>\n

By Tim Peterson<\/p>\n

After the Ray Rice fiasco, the Baltimore Ravens have made it pretty clear\u00a0they won’t be dealing with players with off the field issues. They proved that when they cut running back Bernard\u00a0Pierce this week just hours after he was arrested for\u00a0driving under the influence.<\/p>\n

The Ravens brought back Justin Forsett and also have\u00a0Lorenzo Taliaferro so Pierce was expendable.<\/p>\n

But off the field issues don’t really matter\u00a0when you can still run the ball and have youth on your side.\u00a0The Jacksonville Jaguars signed Pierce the next day.<\/p>\n

Great story this week about\u00a0Bengals’\u00a0defensive tackle Devon Still’s daughter Leah receiving encouraging news in her fight with cancer. Doctors this week saidthey didn’t see any active disease in\u00a0Leah’s body prompting Devon to post a picture of himself and his daughter on Instagram.\u00a0Thursday morning Still signed a one-year deal to return to the Bengals.<\/p>\n

The Dallas Cowboys may be happy with the signing of former Carolina defensive end\u00a0Greg Hardy to a one-year contract but Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings wasn’t too pleased with the deal.\u00a0Rawlings called\u00a0it\u00a0 “a punch in the gut” and that he wouldn’t be buying Hardy’s jersey \u00a0anytime soon. Last Spring Hardy was charged with\u00a0domestic violence for assaulting\u00a0and threatening to kill his ex girlfriend Nicole Holder.<\/p>\n

Offensively, do the\u00a0Cowboys really think they can replace DeMarco Murray with Darren McFadden?\u00a0Yes it’s a quarterbacks league\u00a0but that’s a giant drop off.<\/p>\n

The Cleveland Browns\u00a0have added\u00a0help to their receiving corp\u00a0with the signing of\u00a0former Kansas City Chief Dwayne Bowe. They also inked\u00a0former Dolphin Brian Hartline\u00a0earlier this off season.\u00a0Now all they need is a quarterback. Last year’s starter Brian Hoyer\u00a0signed with Houston and\u00a0backup Johnny Manziel is in rehab. Currently they have Manziel, Connor Shaw and Thad Lewis on the roster. Oh wait…there’s also Tyler Thigpen.<\/p>\n

Speaking of Murray who do you like? Murray or LeSean McCoy? The consensus is McCoy\u00a0but the Philadelphia Eagles could have done a lot worse. My question is what’s going on at quarterback?\u00a0\u00a0Nick Foles is sent packing for Sam Bradford?\u00a0Hasn’t Bradford spent more\u00a0time\u00a0in the hospital than a registered\u00a0nurse? Chip Kelly can talk all he wants about the\u00a0greatness of Bradford, but something else is coming.\u00a0Marcus Mariota?\u00a0Of course if\u00a0Mariota isn’t in the cards, when Bradford\u00a0gets hurt there\u00a0will be a Trojan ready.\u00a0Mark Sanchez and Matt Barkley are waiting in the wings.<\/p>\n

The Buffalo Bills scored with McCoy and\u00a0Percy Harvin, but Rex Ryan\u00a0is a stretch. Ryan wore out his welcome in New York and is a\u00a0retread in\u00a0every sense of the word.<\/p>\n

The Raiders… McFadden\u00a0out, Trent Richardson in.\u00a0Uh, okay. And Matt Schaub? Wow that didn’t last long.\u00a0The Black and Silver drought continues.<\/p>\n

Now Ndamukong Suh – that’s a good pick up. The Miami Dolphins were all in on a boy named Suh and it should be\u00a0worth it. Suh is durable, consistent, and arguably the best DT in the league. Look out Tom Brady.<\/p>\n

Looks like the\u00a0New York Jets want to win now.\u00a0They brought back\u00a0Darrelle Revis in a move that not only strengthens the secondary but also hurts the defending Super Bowl champion Patriots. They also traded for WR Brandon Marshall\u00a0and QB Ryan Fitzpatrick. New HC Todd Bowles\u00a0is hoping Fitzpatrick will either\u00a0excel enough to be the starter or at the very least push Geno Smith to\u00a0up his game.<\/p>\n

The Minnesota Vikings have announced that they won’t release Adrian Peterson. Peterson, who is under contract with the Vikes for next three years, has said he is uneasy about returning to Minnesota after the Vikings\u00a0placed him on the commissioner’s exempt list. Will they trade him?\u00a0Dallas would certainly\u00a0be an interested party.\u00a0We know he would be an upgrade from\u00a0McFadden. Stay tuned…<\/p>\n

The San Francisco 49ers were expecting\u00a0Chris Borland to step in after Patrick Willis retired.\u00a0There goes the best laid plans…While it is\u00a0within Borland’s right to retire did he let down teammates and\u00a0the coaching staff by not accepting the challenge?\u00a0Just throwing it out there. Former New York Jet Damien Woody said exactly that on ESPN.<\/p>\n

The Niners did\u00a0improve\u00a0offensively with the signing of\u00a0Reggie Bush, but\u00a0 they are\u00a0close to losing free agent Michael Crabtree.\u00a0Was Colin\u00a0Kaepernick\u00a0really being shopped?<\/p>\n

Tim Tebow worked out for the Eagles\u00a0but as of yet no contract has been discussed.<\/p>\n

The Seattle Seahawks\u00a0made\u00a0big strides in re-signing Marshawn Lynch and\u00a0trading for Jimmy Graham but they took a hit defensively when Byron Maxwell\u00a0signed a six-year deal with the Eagles.<\/p>\n

The St. Louis Rams not only acquired Foles they\u00a0also\u00a0signed DT Nick Fairley to a one-year deal.\u00a0DT Kendall Langford, OT Jake Long and C Scott Wells are all gone in cost-cutting\u00a0moves. Aaron Donald claimed Langford’s job and Long and Wells were injury plagued and eating too much cap space. The Rams should be ready to make a Super Bowl run when\u00a0 they move to Los Angeles in 2016.<\/p>\n

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*In the next few weeks in NFL Talk\u00a0we will be\u00a0looking at how every team in the AFC and the NFC\u00a0has fared in the off season.\u00a0Who won? Who lost? Who stood pat? Also we will be dissecting the NFL Draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Tim Peterson After the Ray Rice fiasco, the Baltimore Ravens have made it pretty clear\u00a0they won’t be dealing with players with off the field issues. They proved that when they cut running back Bernard\u00a0Pierce this week just hours after he was arrested for\u00a0driving under the influence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stories-news-notes-around-professional-football"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47273"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47297,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47273\/revisions\/47297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}