Down time things to talk/think about.

For some reason this just makes me laugh!

Jason La Canfora

New Orleans Saints prepared to add veteran QB Patrick Ramsey this week, with restrictions on their free agent signings lifted Thursday... less than 20 seconds ago via Twitter for BlackBerry®

Man, I knew I liked Chris Samuels, and if TW listens to half of what Samuels is telling him, we will be set for another 10 years.

What It Takes: Chris Samuels - Avis Thomas-Lester (http://views.washingtonpost.com/on-success/what-it-takes/2010/07/chris_samuels.html)

All respect to Chris Samuels!

Smartest move: "Surrounding myself with good people. I had to go through some heartaches with people who I thought were in my corner, got taken advantage of financially by trusting the wrong people. But now I've pretty much got it down. ... I have a few more people who are really on my side. ... My girlfriend Monique Cox, my parents, my godfather, Gary Pearce, we call him Pearl. He's a strong, strong spiritual man, and he tells you like it is. Sometimes when you are a professional athlete, you are famous, people just tell you what you want to hear. Well, he will come in and bust that up real quick. That's what you need, someone who can come in and really keep you grounded."

Biggest misstep: Getting caught up in fame during his fourth year in the NFL. "After I made the Pro Bowl twice, I starting feeling myself a little bit. I relaxed and off-season, I wasn't doing anything but hanging out with my friends, really didn't work out hard. That next season I came in and I wasn't in great shape. I wasn't as strong as I should have been, and I really didn't have a good season at all. Those guys were killing me out there."

Good stuff from Samuels there. The season is so close you can smell the pigskins and fresh cut grass!

If TW doesn't pay attention to Chris he is not as smart as I hope he is.

Akh’s Thoughts: Preseason Preview 2010 | hailRedskins.com (http://www.hailredskins.com/?p=795#more-795)

A good read long but good.

HTTR.

Seven big-name players who should be cut - Mike Florio - NFL - Sporting News (http://www.sportingnews.com/nfl/article/2010-07-02/seven-big-name-players-who-should-be-cut?obref=obinsite)

I thought this was funny how writers (probably never played any kind of sports not an athletic bone in his body) say we should cut him ,U know who I'm talking about, and let him walk away with the $21 million he got this April. That's why I really don't like reading Sportingnews anymore they contradict themselves to much.

I would think that Bus Cook is now Brett farve's ex-agent at this point.

I don't know if you guys will see or hear this because it was on the local Hattiesburg news. Favre basically blamed the Men's Journal writer. Favre said that he and Bus were just "horsing around," and that the lesson he learned is that "you can't trust anybody," in this case meaning the writer of the article.

I suspect most will be aware of this already but well worth a read if you haven't come across it yet...

2010 SEASON PREVIEW - The Fifth Down Blog - NYTimes.com (http://fifthdown.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/2010-season-preview/)

I received the previously discussed Maple Street Press Redskins Annual 2010 in the mail yesterday. I really want to get it signed by Orakpo. He looks like a a total badass on the cover. It's a good read, especially the stuff about the Shanahan playbook.

HTTR

I received the previously discussed Maple Street Press Redskins Annual 2010 in the mail yesterday. I really want to get it signed by Orakpo. He looks like a a total badass on the cover. It's a good read, especially the stuff about the Shanahan playbook.

HTTR


Just got it too. I haven't had the chance to really sit down with it yet but I flipped through it, nice magazine.

Seven big-name players who should be cut - Mike Florio - NFL - Sporting News (http://www.sportingnews.com/nfl/article/2010-07-02/seven-big-name-players-who-should-be-cut?obref=obinsite)

I thought this was funny how writers (probably never played any kind of sports not an athletic bone in his body) say we should cut him ,U know who I'm talking about, and let him walk away with the $21 million he got this April. That's why I really don't like reading Sportingnews anymore they contradict themselves to much.

Well it's Florio, what do you expect? LOL

Seriously though, I wouldn't rule out AH getting cut. It's obvious nobody out there wants to give up much in terms of value in a trade otherwise he would have been shipped out already.

If Shanny decides he simply isn't worth the headache I think he could get the axe. I think the coaches, much like us, are holding out hope that he will decide to get on board with things once he gets to camp and finally sees for himself how things are operating. We'll see.