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2012 NFL Free Agency, Day 4 – Mario Williams Moves to Buffalo
Mario Williams is off the board, and the Buffalo Bills are the ones hoping that the post-injury Williams is the same guy that became the Houston Texans’ all time leading sacks leader and deserved the number one 2006 NFL draft pick. In the Peyton Manning front? The Titans still seem like the closes thing to a new home in a familiar division, on a relatively quiet day of NFL free agency.
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2012 NFL Free Agency – Bucs Make the Biggest Splash
Peyton Manning keeps meeting with teams, and so is Mario Williams, but there’s no decision. Meanwhile, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers continue to be the biggest players in the 2012 NFL free agency period, signing Carl Nicks, making him the highest paid Guard in the league, and that’s not the end of it.
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NFL Free Agents 2012 – More Than Just Peyton Manning
Peyton Manning is the biggest fish in the 2012 pool of NFL free agents and is still meeting with teams, with the Tennessee Titans next on the list. Does Manning being a Vol alumni make any difference? Does the house he owns in Chattanooga make any difference? Manning isn’t the only free agent out there, and we take a look at what’s happened around the league so far, with the Brandon Marshall trade from Miami to Chicago grabbing most of the headlines.
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Robert Griffin III Worth More Than You Thought For Redskins
Peyton Manning said he wasn’t planning on signing with the Washington Redskins, and Bruce Allen moved quickly. The result? The Redskins traded for the St. Louis Rams’ no.2 pick in the 2012 NFL draft, positioning themselves to draft Robert Griffin III, giving up quite a lot of draft picks for it.
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Where Free Agency Might Take Peyton Manning
Peyton Manning took over free agency with the news of being let go by the Indianapolis Colts. Even Jeremy Lin, partially thanks to the losing streak that had to be coming, isn’t news anymore. The only thing people seem to care about right now – Which NFL team will enjoy the future hall of fame inductee in the 2012 season?
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Colts Hoping the End of Peyton Manning Era Means Beginning of the Andrew Luck Dynasty
Peyton Manning’s don’t come along too often. Even at 35, after four neck surgeries, it was a very difficult choice of actually letting him go. Well, not that diffcult, if you read into Jim Irsay’s words, and think about the huge bonus he just saved. Andrew Luck might be the next Hall of Famer, just a regular joe or a complete bust. Either way, Seeing Manning in any uniform but the Colts’ white or blue is going to be strange.
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The Double Standard of the Bountygate Scandal
Gregg Williams, Sean Payton, the entire New Orleans Saints orginization to a huge blow with the news of the bounty system floating and becoming national news, arguably the biggest scandal in the NFL we’ve seen in a long time, bigger than Belichick and Spygate. It’s more than a simple case of people doing the wrong thing, but rather doing it in a culture and sport that is all about physcality and violence.
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Sticking With Tony Romo is Right Choice for Cowboys
Tony Romo isn’t getting an extension yet, beyond 2013, but the Dallas Cowboys won’t be looking for a quarterback in this draft. Jerry Jones still believes Romo is the right guy behind Center to take his team into the Super Bowl, although a disappointing 2012 season might change his mind, swaying it towards other directions.
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Andrew Luck is the Right Choice for the Indianapolis Colts
The Indianapolis Colts have a difficult decision to make, involving business with emotion, which is never good, but the option they should take is clear – Andrew Luck from Stanford as their next (hopeful) franchise quarterback, and let Peyton Manning find his second Super Bowl ring somewhere else.
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The New Look Big 12 With West Virginia and TCU
It didn’t take long for the Big 12 to release their 2012 schedule with West Virginia in it, only hours after the Mountaineers severed their ties and relations with the Big East, a conference they were a part of since 1991 and won its title 7 times. They aren’t the only change to the Big 12 in 2012, with TCU joining, Texas A&M and Missouri already gone.