Since NFL teams have done a better job handling their salary cap compared to some NBA teams, we can almost expect a busy offseason.

Yes, it looks like NFL teams are making some drastic changes in preparation for the 2009 NFL football season. And while trades in the NFL before were less likely to happen than Rex Grossman scoring a touchdown, such is no longer the case because of the ridiculous cap room these NFL teams have these days.

Eleven teams have more than $20 million of salary cap room. Heck, the Philadelphia Eagles and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers even have more than $40 million available for chrissake.

And judging by the number of trades we’ve seen the last few weeks, it’s evident that these teams are willing to spend as long as they land that one last piece for a trip to Super Bowl XLIV in Miami.

As of press time, we already saw eight players move. Some of which include Matt Cassel and Mike Vrabel being moved by the Patriots to Kansas City, Kellen Winslow was finally traded by the Cleveland Browns to Tampa, Anthony Henry was traded by the Cowboys to…

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Because they probably can’t wait to get rid of Romeo Crennel after a disappointing year.

After what has been a disappointing stint so far in the 2008-09 NFL football season, the Cleveland Browns look ready to move on under a new head coach. They seem ready to let Romeo Crennel go and according to some sources, they are already formulating a plan to sign one of their targets, former San Diego Chargers coach Marty Schottenheimer.

You read it, the Cleveland Browns are leaning towards having Marty Schottenheimer as their new head coach for the 2009 season.

And although Browns owner Randy Lerner said he will still evaluate Romeo Crennel when this season is over, I’m betting we won’t be seeing Romeo back in the Browns sidelines for the foreseeable future.

Marty Schottenheimer was fired by the San Diego Chargers despite leading the team to a 14-2 record and a first-round playoff bye back in 2006. A loss to the New England Patriots in the second round PLUS a broken relationship with general manager A.J. Smith led to his somewhat surprising dismissal in February of 2007.

Of course, since the San Diego Chargers still had a solid 2006 campaign despite losing to the Pats, the players were upset over Schottenheimer’s dismissal. Now that those…

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Since J.J. Jack is busy pissing off Pacquiao’s fans for this Saturday’s fight, I’ll be doing our weekly NFL thing today.

Week 14 of the 2008-09 NFL football season begins slowly on a Thursday night when the league features two teams struggling at this point of the year. The Chargers, losers of their last three games, will play hosts to the Raiders, losers of the last three years, when the NFL kicks-off the brand new week exclusively for people who subscribed to the NFL Network.

The San Diego Chargers haven’t had a losing season in five years. It’s been just as long since their last loss to the Oakland Raiders. The Chargers, possibly the most disappointing team of the season, want to make sure neither of those streaks end Thursday night, as they host the Raiders, looking to avoid putting their slim playoff hopes at risk this weekend.

That’s why the San Diego Chargers can’t afford to lose to the Raiders on Thursday. We’re picking them by seven.

With a one-game lead in the NFC North, the Minnesota Vikings need every victory they can get to remain atop the division. Having a pair of Pro Bowl defensive linemen on the field certainly can’t hurt their cause. After a Minnesota judge issued a temporary restraining order this week blocking their league suspensions, Kevin and Pat Williams will likely be available for the Vikings this Sunday against the winless Detroit Lions. The Vikings have won 12 of their past 13 meetings with the…

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It’s Week 11 in the NFL and in case you haven’t felt it yet, the playoffs are just around the corner.

Week 11 of the 2008-09 NFL football season starts this Thursday night as teams continue to jockey for position with the playoffs only less than two months away. And after ten weeks into the season, we learned that the Titans continue to surprise themselves, the Bills continue to disappoint their fans, the Giants like to toy with their prey and an old fart like Kurt Warner could be the MVP at the end of the year.

Crazy huh? Guess what, it only gets crazier because Week 11 starts with the New England Patriots. What has been crazy about this team is the fact that they have been able to stay on top of their division playing without starting quarterback Tom Brady and starting running back Laurence Maroney. They have Brett Favre and the surging New York Jets this Thursday night and since the Jets are tied with the Pats for the AFC East lead, this Eric Mangini – Bill Belichick rivalry will resume with the division lead at stake.

The 6-3 New England Patriots earned a key division win Sunday, controlling the clock for nearly 38 minutes and outgaining Buffalo 370-168 en route to a 20-10 victory. Matt Cassel continued to show improvement as Tom Brady’s replacement, completing 23 of 34 passes for 234 yards and running for a touchdown for the second straight week for head coach Bill Belichick. The New York Jets, also at 6-3, have virtually no time to bask in the most-lopsided victory in their history, as they take the field again four days after a 47-3 drubbing of St. Louis. This game against their bitter rivals promises to be much tougher, especially with the winner taking sole possession of the division lead. Of course…

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Yes, big ones.

After nine games played into the 2008-09 NFL football season, the Cleveland Browns are right behind the 1-8 Bengals for the title ”worst team in the AFC North” with the dismal 3-6 stand they have put up this year.

Yes, the Cleveland Browns wasted the momentum they were able to have at the end of last season that made virtual unknown Derek Anderson into a bonafide Pro Bowler after firing nothing but blanks in this campaign.

Last Thursday, the Browns looked good offensively for the first time in weeks against a tough Denver Broncos team that’s currently having their fair share of problems as of late. They were leading 23-13 in the fourth and final quarter and it looked like the Browns were on their way to their fourth win of the season.

Unfortunately for the Browns, for some reason, they just gave up, giving up 21 fourth quarter points to the Denver Broncos, letting Mike Shanahan’s team stay on top of the AFC West. That gave Cleveland the miserable 3-6 mark and at this point, they can’t do shit but admit that they just gave up last Thursday night, right there on their own field.

”When you have a team like that that comes into our…”

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OKAY, the Presidential Elections are over. Time to talk about what really matters in America. Football.

Week 10 of the 2008-09 NFL football season starts early this week because starting this November 6, football comes early every Thursday night until the second to the last week of the season. And after nine weeks of football, we learned that Rex Grossman can still throw it perfectly on a good day, no one can still figure out this Titans perfection thing and Byron Leftwich can still play in the NFL. How about that?

And in case you missed the first paragraph, YES, Week 10 starts on a Thursday night with the Denver Broncos visiting the Cleveland Browns. These two teams have been struggling lately. The Browns have become the second worst team in the AFC North at 3-5 while the Broncos, even with a dismal 4-4 stand, are lucky enough to still lead an abysmal AFC West group that features the 3-5 Chargers, the 2-6 Raiders and the 1-7 Chiefs. Egad.

And just because the Browns may have given up on this season already when they elected to start Brady Quinn, we’re picking the Denver Broncos by three.

Next, the St. Louis Rams will try to regain some momentum after giving their new coach a couple of wins only to lose the next two games when they face the New York Jets. Having won two of three games under coach Jim Haslett, another victory would…

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At 3-5, the Browns are probably calling it quits.

Already a full three games behind AFC North leaders Pittsburgh Steelers this 2008-09 NFL football season, the Browns are probably quitting after only nine weeks of football.

The Cleveland Browns know that they have to win at least six of their last eight games to make it to the playoffs and since the Steelers continue to close Cleveland’s window of opportunity with every single game Pittsburgh wins, a playoff stint could be next to an impossibility at this point.

That’s probably why they are looking to bench starter Derek Anderson for the young Brady Quinn. Anderson was completing less than 50 percent of his passes for a 3-5 team that is now a long shot of even making it as a Wild Card team and without anything to lose at this point, these guys feel that it’s about time they find out why they drafted Quinn in the first place last season.

A star back in Notre Dame, Brady Quinn didn’t play in his rookie year until the final game of the 2007 season. He came in for one drive where he went 3-of-8 for 45 yards and had a TD pass dropped by tight end Kellen Winslow.

He will probably be starting for the first time this Thursday when the Browns host the struggling Denver Broncos. A perfect time to test the young quarterback against a team that lost three in a row? YOU BET.

The problem Brady Quinn would have to face is whether…

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We really don’t know what to expect in the NFL now after this one.

The past week in the 2008-09 NFL football season has been a week full of upsets. After Tampa Bay almost shut out the red hot Panthers, Houston coming back from last week’s collapse to beat Miami and Arizona beating Tony Romo and his Cowboys, the conclusion to this week’s edition of Monday Night Football topped it all.

The Cleveland Browns, after all their problems this season, dropping their first three games, are finally back on their feet after winning their next two. Their last win however, could be the point where they really turn their season around because after beating the defending Super Bowl champions, New York Giants, the Browns just became the hottest ticket in NFL football.

You read it, the Browns beat the New York Giants, 35-14, in their return to primetime since 2003. For the last five years, Monday Night Football and Cleveland have never been under the same sentence, and in their return last Monday, the Browns made sure it would be a memorable one.

With Browns wideout Braylon Edwards sticking an Olympic-caliber cartwheel and back flip during pregame introductions, the Dawg Pound knew they’re in for something special. Thanks to Edwards who made sure of that, grabbing 154 receiving yards and a touchdown, Edwards ended up with the best performance of the game after probably the most interesting pregame warm-up of the season.

Browns quarterback Derek Anderson was spectacular as well…

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They say winning a game at the Dog Pound is one of the hardest things to accomplish in football.

And since we love to see the best of the best duke it out, we’ll be hoping for that exactly when the Steelers visit the Browns at the Dog Pound as the 2008-09 NFL football season resumes this Sunday night.

Sunday Night Football will sure feature a defensive struggle between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Cleveland Browns. Both teams still have one of the best defensive schemes in the league and while that defense won the Steelers a game against the Texans last week, the same can’t be said of the Browns, who lost to the high-flying Cowboys 28-10.

STILL, it is well documented that Cleveland Browns Stadium is still one of the toughest places to win a football game and I don’t expect those guys to drop another game at the Dog Pound for the second straight week.

The Steelers are entering the season with questions on their offensive line. They have two new starters there who were not that very good in protecting Ben Roethlisberger the past two seasons.

Roethlisberger was sacked twice by Mario Williams last week but still…

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For all ya’ll who don’t know who Derek Anderson is, read on.

The first time Derek Anderson set foot on a football field, it was against the Pittsburgh Steelers in what was already a lost season for the Cleveland Browns last year. He showed then signs of brilliance, making you wonder why the Browns didn’t give the guy the starting spot then and there.

Well, he has the starting job in Cleveland this 2007-08 NFL football season and guess what, they’re winning. Heck, Derek Anderson is now one of the top-ranked quarterbacks in the league, leading his Browns in pursuit of the AFC North title.

Yep, the Browns have a chance of winning the AFC North with a decent 3-3 record. They are only a half-game back behind division rivals Pittsburgh Steelers and as long as Anderson keeps on throwing those long balls, the Browns might find their way on top.

This week, the Browns travel to Edward Jones Dome to play the struggling St. Louis Rams. The Rams are still looking for their first win of the season but now, they have a somewhat slight glimmer of hope with the returning Steven Jackson.

STILL, the Browns are not fazed and they’re claiming Jackson’s return will…

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