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[fsquid]

I read that every week, usually some solid stuff.

[BridgeTroll]

Here ya go Ennis!

http://espn.go.com/blog/afceast/post/_/id/53390/more-evidence-of-greg-jennings-to-miami

More evidence of Greg Jennings to Miami?

There are already plenty of reasons to link the Miami Dolphins with pending free-agent receiver Greg Jennings of the Green Bay Packers this offseason.

Jennings once played under Miami rookie head coach Joe Philbin and knows the West Coast offense well. Miami also has plenty of cap room and will be looking for a No. 1 receiver.

However, a family member of Jennings provided further evidence last weekend that Miami could be on the receiver’s radar. Jennings’ sister, Valyencia, reportedly went off on her Twitter account (which is now deleted) a few days ago during Green Bay’s loss to the Minnesota Vikings. The USA Today captured all the tweets.

“Who can make a play @GregJennings can. He’s the best freakin [sic] receiver these clowns got,” Valyencia Jennings tweeted out of frustration. “Now take your talents to south beach and get paid.”

Ouch! But there is more.

“@GregJennings ball out so you can leave this team,” Valyencia Jennings tweeted of the Packers. “They will miss u when your [sic] gone. It’s all good bye Packers. Cheap team, can’t afford him.”

Although Greg Jennings can’t and won’t say anything about the Dolphins while he is still under contract, you have to think Miami has come up at some point with the Jennings family. Valyencia didn’t just bring up the Dolphins Sunday out of thin air over every other team. Greg Jennings and his family have to be aware of what the Dolphins need, his connection with Philbin and the money Miami is willing to spend. It would make sense for Jennings and the Dolphins to be near the top of each other's offseason wish list.

In fact, Miami could have its choice of top receivers in free agency. In addition to Jennings, receivers Mike Wallace and Dwayne Bowe also are pending free agents and make sense for the Dolphins for different reasons. But Jennings would have the shortest learning curve and fits right into the Dolphins offense.

[thelakelander]

^Come on down and let Lebron show you what you've been missing by living in frigid Green Bay.

[duvaldude08]

Just read that Urben Myers is on his "Tebow can succedd in the NFL" kick. He had the nerve to compare him to RG3 and Cam Newton stating the can succeed just like them. Problem is, Cam and RG3 can stand in the pocket and complete passes, Tebow cant. Without that ingredient, you cant succeed in the NFL period. Im so sick of this " poor timmy" shit. 

[Non-RedNeck Westsider]

Just think Lake....

ALTERNATE UNIVERSE UPDATE: Dolphins Sure Glad They Gave Drew Brees Second Physical
January 4, 2013      Â· 

By PFM Staff

(article premise suggested by PFM reader “Jaigunda”)

As the 2013 NFL playoffs begin, the Miami Dolphins, aiming for their 3rd straight Super Bowl championship, sure are glad they gave quarterback Drew Brees a second chance at that physical back in 2006, sources close to the team confirmed Friday.


Also, the Florida sunshine cleared up that thing on his face too.


“Whew. To think we almost let one of the greatest QBs ever to play the game slip through our fingers,” said Dolphin coach Nick Saban, now in his 8th season. “I don’t want to think where this team would’ve been without old number nine in that huddle.”



Brees, an unrestricted free agent in 2006 after his rookie contract with the San Diego Chargers expired, almost left Miami without a contract after his initial visit with the team. A still-healing shoulder injury caused Brees to fail his first physical, and concern that he might never play at a high level again caused the Dolphins to hesitate on signing the signal caller.



“Yeah, he’d already left the team’s headquarters, and was heading to the airport to visit some other team. The Saints maybe? I can’t recall for sure. But thankfully, we came to our senses and got him on the phone before he got to his plane. We told him a talent like his was too rare to let get away, shoulder fear or not. Then we upped our offer to him, to show him our confidence, and he was signed within the hour. He passed the second physical we gave him with flying colors, and the rest is championship history”



With Brees safely on the roster, the Dolphins became an attractive option for other high quality free agents such as Jonathan Vilma, Carl Nicks, Jahri Evans and Darren Sproles, all of whom have helped keep Miami at the top of the league’s standings year after year.



“You know, I’ve actually had other job offers since I’ve been here,” continued Saban. “I’m not at liberty to reveal from whom, but let’s just say that I’m glad the ‘tide’ never rolled me away from Miami, if you know what I’m saying. With a QB like Drew, a team of red elephants couldn’t drag me away from this squad.”


“What? You guys AGAIN?” jokes the President during Dolphins’ 3rd trip to White House


As the Dolphins’ have piled up the wins, other AFC East teams have been left in their dust. Both the Bills and Jets have shuffled through a steady stream of head coaches in unsuccessful attempts to challenge Miami’s supremacy. Even three-time Super Bowl champ Bill Belichick has not been immune to the Brees ripple effect, as the former Patriot coach, now in his third season as Oakland’s defensive coordinator, was fired by New England in 2009 for failing to solve Bree’s high powered offensive juggernaut.



“It’s been a joy to watch Drew eclipse some of my records,” marveled former Miami great Dan Marino. “Honestly, it would’ve killed me to have seen him break those marks in any other uniform. But knowing that he’s wearing Dolphin colors while he’s rewriting the record books, and bringing home those Lombardi trophies just does my heart good.”



After placing second in the Drew Brees sweepstakes, the New Orleans Saints meanwhile have continued a decades-long losing streak into the 2010′s.



Needing a QB for the 2006 season, the team signed journeyman Daunte Culpepper, an experiment that lasted just one season. The list of other quarterbacks who have failed to succeed in New Orleans includes David Gerrard, Billy Volek, Jeff Garcia, and of course Brett Favre, who came out of retirement to lead the team in 2010, and who was having a magnificent season until the infamous “Bounty” game in December, when Vikings DE Jared Allen ended Favre’s season (and career) with a vicious cheap shot that was the result of Minnesota defensive coordinator’s Gregg Williams’ “pay-for-injury” program that later resulted in heavy sanctions for the entire Vikings franchise.



While New Orleans has continued to be a laughing stock, some observers have suggested that the team’s fortunes might have been drastically different had the push to land Brees been successful.



“Yeah, I had just taken that job back in ’06,” said former Saints head coach Sean Payton, now in his third season with Dallas. “I really pushed hard to get Drew, but unfortunately the Dolphins insisted on that second physical, and we never got a chance to sign him. I’d like to think we might have done great things together if it had worked out.”



Instead, Payton has spent the past three seasons working with Cowboys QB Tony Romo who, despite putting up gaudy statistics in Payton’s QB-friendly offense,has continued to make crucial mistakes at the worst possible time, and some have suggested that Romo might simply have an inescapable destiny as a big-game “choker.”


http://profootballmock.com/alternate-universe-update-miami-dolphins-aiming-for-3rd-straight-super-bowl-really-glad-they-gave-drew-brees-second-chance-at-that-physical/

[I-10east]

Nice coaching John Fox!!! Whatta awesome gameday coach!!! All that the Broncos needed was one first down to ice the game with a pass but Mr Martyball decided to run the ball three times, giving the ball back to Flacco, he only has the freakin' strongest arm in the league! Then with twenty seconds left in the forth, instead of trying to drive for a FG, he plays for overtime. Don't get me wrong, I'm not making excuses for Peyton's last interception, but IMO that coach deserves the majority of the criticism. I haven't seen awful conservative coaching backfiring that bad since the eighties/nineties era. I decided that B More deserved it during the overtime periods because of the bad coaching by Denver.

[Elwood]

Denver lost BECAUSE of that "strongest arm in the league", not because of John Fox and his play selection.

[I-10east]

^^^ The Broncos lost because of Fox's conservative dumb-ass play calling, which ultimately lead to the QB with the strongest arm in the league tying the game.

[tufsu1]

The Broncos lost because Peyton Manning had 3 turnovers

[I-10east]

^^^With those first two turnovers (TD one look like Raven interference BTW) by Peyton during regulation, all he still needed was one first down to ice the game, so it's not like they were catastrophic; Of course the last interception was, which IMO should have never came to that. No one will ever convince me that a freakin superstar QB do not deserve a freakin third down pass for a first down to win the game.

[thelakelander]

Just think Lake....

ALTERNATE UNIVERSE UPDATE: Dolphins Sure Glad They Gave Drew Brees Second Physical

You're too late.  Passing over Dree Brees has been a real life nightmare.  Nevertheless, the rookie QB Tannehill and his lady friend look light years better than Gabbert.

[thelakelander]

As for Denver, they lost because the better team won.  Even though they have two of UM's greatest players on their defense, I'm not a Ravens fan but great game played today.  I guess Flacco really wants that new contract.

[thelakelander]

Btw, looks like Green Bay has never game planned for a running QB.....

[I-10east]

^^^Yeah, it looked like it was gonna be a classic Raven v Bronco-esque playoff game early, but boy it got very ugly late, as the wine prevailed over the cheese.

[I-10east]

Well we have the Super Bowl with two brother coaches, John Harbaugh (Ravens) and Jim Harbaugh (Niners) going at it."The Brother Bowl" or the "Super Baugh" or the "Har-Bowl".  That definitely will be the big story line. It should be a very good game, even though I can really care less about either team. It isn't any way that I can go for a city that hates Jacksonville, like B-more does, so I'm rooting for San Fran in this one.