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Welcome, and please be seated. We’re about to begin the latest round of Darrelle Revis speculation that’s loosely sourced, possibly completely fabricated, but no doubt worthy of your attention for at least five minutes. Please make yourself comfortable in your familiar arranged seating for this daily exercise.

Wednesday morning we learned that arguably the league’s best cornerback who plays for one of the worst teams is as good as gone, and the 49ers and Falcons are the two leading teams expected to pursue his quite expensive services. The likely minimum price tag is a first-round pick this year, and another high pick next year.

That all came a day after Darrelle Revis told us that Darrelle Revis thinks playing in San Francisco would be “awesome,” yet he has little taste for how this whole trade exercise has developed. It’s made him sad.

So there’s a bit of confusion here, but the gist is that Revis would definitely welcome playing for a team fresh off coming a few points away from winning the Super Bowl. I would enjoy that too. But even with that message clear, it seems through this latest leak that Revis would also like to clarify another fact: he hasn’t asked for a trade, and he doesn’t intend. Ever.

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And so it was said, and now it’s written. Darrelle Revis will soon depart from Gotham, for he was always the hero the city deserves, but not the one it needs.

The messy Jets-Revis marriage will likely/almost definitely end in a week or so, according to a report by Manish Mehta of the New York Daily News. Mehta writes that two-to-three teams will be “legitimate buyers” when the trading period officially opens on March 12, the date of the new league year. He also specifically cited the San Francisco 49ers and Atlanta Falcons as two contenders who will be in pursuit.

The former isn’t remotely surprising, as the 49ers have been constantly connected to Revis due to the picks they’ve accumulated in April’s drafted (15 in total), most recently adding one more in the Alex Smith trade. The Falcons, however, are a new potential destination, and one that also makes a whole lot of sense. Read the rest of this entry »

I like Joe Flacco. Honest.

I don’t know him personally, although the Internet tells me that his wife is pretty cool. Oh and she’s much smaller than him, which may or may not make certain household activities…interesting.

He’s a talented quarterback, and he was very deserving of the Super Bowl MVP award, even if there was a strong argument for Jacoby Jones, and maybe even Anquan Boldin. Regardless, this point remains in abundance: Flacco had a great second half of the 2012 season, a terrific run that peaked during the playoffs when he became the only quarterback not named Joe Montana to throw 11 post-season touchdown passes without an interception.

Yes sir, he was that good. No, he was that great, and he’s continued to fuel a debate as to whether or not he is, in fact, elite. So many ughs.

It’s easy to despise that discussion thoroughly, only because the mention of that word — elite — now comes with a sea of white noise. But there’s one crucial area in which it’s very relevant, especially right now in early March with the market set to open in a week: finances.

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Richard Sherman and others may disagree with that headline, but sane-minded folks will acknowledge that any Sherman-Darrelle Revis debate is one which leaves many hairs split. But that’s another discussion for the next time two rich guys decide to publicly determine who has the larger genitalia.

Right now, know this: if the latest reports are true, it seems the Jets are really, really determined to part ways with one half of that debate, and in the process make a six-win team significantly worse.

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Old guy for old guy. Battle axe for battle axe. Rusty John Deere for…yeah, you get it.

Late last night shortly after I apparently drifted off into a blissful slumber while watching G.I. Joe (no, you’re a child), a report surfaced regarding Steven Jackson. Courtesy of the St. Louis Post Dispatch, we learned that the Rams running back intends to opt out of the final year of his contract, and become a free agent on March 12. While it’s so very, very notable, the move is something far less than surprising since Jackson is still productive despite his age (29), and surely over his final years he’d like to actually compete for something. That’s not happening in St. Louis.

So off he goes, and in the process he’ll leave $7 million in the Rams’ hands. But where exactly is he going? Welp, Atlanta sure seems to make a lot of sense.

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