- Mark Ingram was initially hesitant to practice in player-organized workouts with his New Orleans teammates since he’s not under contract yet. But he’s been taking handoffs from Drew Brees at the Tulane University practice field after joining the team on Wednesday, citing the need to learn the offense and develop chemistry. Let’s hope the first official game handoff comes sometime in the year 2011.
- Marcell Dareus also disregarded any fear of injury and surfaced at the Bills’ workouts earlier this week for the first time.
- Looks like Jake Locker will be in Tennessee early next week too. Perhaps boredom is beating injury risk for the NFL’s newest crop of young players.
- You know that goofy class clown in grade eight who will actually go through with any ridiculous stunt you suggest? Even if the punishment is missing lunch time recess (!!!). That’s Chad Ochocinco, the Cincinnati wide receiver who is now going to make history as the first ever black snake wrangler after a passing quip was made by Bengals owner Mike Brown.
- Philip Rivers wouldn’t mind throwing passes to Steve Smith sometime in the near future.
- The Lions are brimming with young potential, and have the pieces in place for a major turnaround season if (and this is always a big “if”) Matthew Stafford can stay healthy. Looks like Vegas agrees, as the Lions have been receiving the second most betting action among gamblers trying to predict the 2012 Super Bowl champion.
- Anyone who has a job that has no mental off switch when you leave the office–like, say, blogging–can sympathize with NFL coaches who are doing anything they can to avoid having conversations with plants. This includes staging mock OTAs with anyone who’s in the building.
- Speaking of boredom, NFL.com’s news starvation reached an all new low yesterday. Save yourselves, football fans, the rapture is indeed on its way after all. Soon we’ll all be breaking down touchdown catches from Week 7.
- If I were to pick a solid dark horse candidate to be featured on this year’s Hard Knocks (assuming there’s training camp, of course) I’d go with the 49ers. There’s just something intriguing about Jim Harbaugh, but it looks like San Francisco would become the fifth team to turn down the chance to have cameras watch their every move for a month if they were approached by HBO.
- Musket Fire thinks that fans have the power to end the lockout.
- Could New England be an ideal landing spot for veteran running back Clinton Portis? Surely I wouldn’t ask such a leading question without linking to something that deals with said question.
