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Reception has been split amongst Vikings in the aftermath of Sidney Rice’s departure from Minnesota to join Tarvaris Jackson with the Seattle Seahawks.

The five-year deal worth over 40 million dollars–18 million of that guaranteed– was too much for the Vikings to match.

One person who is furious with the Sidney Rice departure is his now former[...]

The Minnesota Vikings will trade a 2012 6th round pick, and a conditional 2013 6th round pick to the Washington Redskins for quarterback Donovan McNabb, Jay Glazer of FOXSports reports.For the deal to go through, McNabb must agree to sign a new contract with the Vikings.

Glazer added that the Vikings were hoping to get Tyler Thigpen, but he went to the Bills…

When it comes to football these days, it’s all about who you have under center. It’s become a passing league and for better or worse, the days of smash mouth football are over. Of course it’s better for the players health and safety, especially with all we’ve learned about concussions over just the last few years. Growing up a Bears fan, [...]

Tarvaris Jackson’s time with the Minnesota Vikings may be up. The reason? An extremely simple one: the Vikings are not about to make Jackson their starting QB and that doesn’t sit well with the 2006 NFL Draft second round selectee. Jackson said he was grateful for the opportunity to play for the Vikings for 5 years, but that he no longer felt his career was going forward…

Nothing has been formally agreed between the players and the owners yet, but it looks pretty likely that the players will get 48% of all revenues. In an earlier series of posts on revenue sharing, we looked at how that percentage of all revenues has developed over the last ten years, summarizes in the table below. Obviously, the 48% that are being talked[...]

Hello everyone and welcome to today’s “The Stack” with me, Nathan Stacken. Last blog post of the week and we have plenty on the NBA Draft and a few other interesting tidbits in “The Stack” so let’s get right to it: 1. Kyrie Irving, Derrick Williams go one, two. The NBA Draft took place last [...]

Tuesday’s owners meetings have produced quite a bit of NFL lockout news already — including looks at the potential new revenue split and free agency — but most football fans are going to be happy to start seeing more things like this: Yahoo! Sports’ Jason Cole says, “more people inside the room seem encouraged. Deal isn’t done, but it may be a matter of paperwork [...]

I am going to keep adding teams until I have one for all 32 teams.

Arizona Cardinals
#5. Patrick Peterson, CB, LSU
#38. Ryan Williams, RB, Virginia Tech
#69 Robert Housler, TE, Florida Atlantic
#103. Sam Acho, DE/LB, Texas
#136. Anthony Sherman, FB, Connecticut
#171. Quan Sturdivant, LB, North Carolina
#184. David Carter, DT, UCLA [....]

There’s a saying that goes “Tell me what you eat and I’ll tell you who you are.” For NFL teams it can be said “Tell me how you draft and I’ll tell you who you are.” Team identity is the key to the draft. Teams that know who they are do well, teams that don’t not so much. So what does each team’s draft say about each team.

CAROLINA – We’re bad! But worse than [...]

Rex and Rob Ryan will not have to wait for their sibling rivalry to hit the field. It is being reported by Manish Mehta of the*New York Daily News that the Cowboys will travel to New York to face the Jets to kickoff Sunday Night Football in Week 1.
The first Sunday of the season falls on September 11th and will be the 10th anniversary of the tragic attacks[...]