June 29th, 2010 by Jay
On Tuesday Bengals Running Back, Cedric Benson, was arrested for a May 30th incident in Austin, Texas. According to an arrest affidavit, Benson punched a bar employee after getting kicked out for an altercation with another person at the bar. Benson was booked in the Travis County Jail where he posted bail and was released shortly after.
This isn’t Benson’s first run in with the law. In 2008, Benson was arrested twice in a month on alcohol charges. Also, when he was at the University of Texas, he pleaded no contest to a charge of criminal trespassing for forcing his way into an apartment to find a television he said was stolen from him. If convicted, Benson faces up to a year in jail for the offense, which is misdemeanor.
Coming off a great season we all knew that Benson couldn’t keep it together for an extended period of time. Come on FWG-NFL fans, Benson is a bum and it was just a matter of time before something like this happened again. I’m sure the Bengals are happy as Benson, once again, rejuvenates their gang status. Keep your heads up Cincy, you could be having the off-season that division rival Pittsburgh is having…
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June 28th, 2010 by Jay
The Pittsburgh Steelers took another big hit on Monday afternoon as their starting offensive tackle Willie Colon suffered a torn Achilles. Colon will have more tests on the injury but according to his agent, “It looks like it’s an Achilles injury. We want to wait to confirm it, but that’s kind of our worst fears.”
The Steelers think that he will need surgery to repair it, which would require 5 to 6 months of rehab. Colon’s potentially season-ending injury happened when he was doing agility drills Monday morning.
What an off-season for the Steelers… First the Big Ben debacle, then they trade their Super Bowl MVP wide receiver, and now this. Pittsburgh is surely hoping that their nightmare off-season is over…
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June 8th, 2010 by Jay
Isaac Bruce is set to retire a Ram. Yesterday he was “ceremonial” traded from the 49ers to the St. Louis Rams so he could retire with the team he started his career with. His 16 year career (14 with St. Louis) comes to end with him holding many of the Rams receiving records. To name a few: most career receptions (942), career receiving yards (14,109) and receiving touchdowns (84). He also leads the Rams in all-time postseason yards with 759 and is the only Rams player with four 100-yard receiving games in the playoffs. He teamed up with Torry Holt to form one of the most exciting WR duos while being part of the “Greatest Show on Turf” and caught the winning touchdown pass from Kurt Warner in the Rams 2000 Super Bowl win over the Tennessee Titans. The 4-time Pro Bowler ends his career ranking second all-time in receiving yards (15,208), fifth in receptions (1,024) and ninth in touchdowns (91).
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May 27th, 2010 by admin
Before I start getting into “my point” I’m going to ahead and assume we are all on the same page regarding the facts, if not head over to ESPN and read the official report on Cushing. Now with that out of the way let’s get down to business.
So Cushing kept his Rookie of the Year award after some mindless “re-vote” by AP writers (who might be the most self-absorbed group of people I’ve ever had the pleasure of not meeting). People keep bringing up the issue of steroids in sports and cheating, when I consider even the juxtaposition of the words to be unfair.
First, in the NFL it is an unwritten rule that some players are on the juice. With careers as short as they are and job security non existent, can you blame them? The NFL has created an environment conducive to drug use, plain and simple. But that’s hardly my reasoning of why I think it’s okay. I’ll pause for your gasp as you run for the moral high ground from which to spit on me.
I’m a realist, I played the sport. I was at a major college program and my brief stint in some form of professional football was a fraction of a taste of the life NFL players live. The constant media bubble, a virtual fishbowl of analysis. Don’t believe me? Turn on ESPN for an entire day, even as background noise you realize it’s over kill. The NFL is a behemoth of media, societal, and economic clout, as goes the NFL so goes the nation. The millions of dollars in advertising and other revenue streams generated by teams pale in comparison to the sports books and NFL Lines you can access 24/7. It is the Truman Show off sports, players can’t escape and fans can always tune in.
My point is this, the hoopla around the NFL has made it profitable, but it also means players must be faster, stronger, bigger. It means better runs, longer passes, more amazing catches, and of course bone crushing hits. While I don’t know who took what or when, I know I don’t care. And we as fans and a public are fooling ourselves if we think players aren’t juicing, but even worse if we condemn them for doing so.
It’s time to get our heads on straight and wake the hell up. Welcome to real life (now go ahead and climb down from that mountain top).
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May 22nd, 2010 by Jay
Will: Well hello again FWG Nation. I know you all have missed me dearly, but I was going through league ordered psychiatric evaluation with Big Ben and it turns out that we are both obscenely talented, unbearably arrogant, and have screwed more coeds then Sallie Mae.
On my way home, my spidy senses told be to turn on ESPN radio and wouldn’t you know it, Brett Favre is slashing up his ankle in preparation for the 2010 season. And more importantly, I really don’t give a fuck. While the Vikings might be the most talented team in the NFC with Favre, they are still a top five team without him. What no one wants to admit is that if “All Day” Peterson could keep from dropping more balls then a one fingered hooker, this team could run the air out of the pig-skin all the way to the Super Bowl. While I consider myself a student of the modern game, and no team can hide their QB, the Vikings have the line, defense, and schedule to be the first plus 60% running team to have the best record in the league since the 2004 Steelers who just so happened to make to an AFC championship with a rookie QB who played through the end of the regular season and playoffs with a broken thumb on his throwing hand.
The Vikes should tell Favre get back to cutting his grass, get AP some stick’em, and worry about the guys they have in camp, not 89 year old veterans who they allow to hold their franchise for ransom every summer.
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May 19th, 2010 by Jay
Daunte Culpepper has signed on to play for the UFL’s Sacramento Mountain Lions. He will be teamed up with his former Vikings coach, Dennis Green and former O-Coordinator at Central Florida, Mike Kruczek. This may be his last shot to make it in the NFL. By the middle of the NFL season he should be in great shape and ready to help a NFL team.
JP Losman has signed a one year deal to play for the Seattle Seahawks. Losman will battle for the number 3 QB job behind Matt Hasselbeck and Charlie Whitehurst. Losman, the once highly touted and first round pick of the Buffalo Bills, spent last year playing for the Las Vegas Locomotives of the UFL before finishing the season with the Oakland Raiders.
The Patriots have released veteran CB Shawn Springs. In the 2010 NFL Draft, the Pats drafted Devin McCourty, which is probably the main reason Springs will not be back with the team. There is talk that they might 
try to re-sign him. Either way for Springs, someone will come calling.
One big (if you even want to call it big) question looming…
Will TO ever find a home?
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May 13th, 2010 by Jay
Will- Tom Brady told a Boston area radio show that he didn’t think the Pats were “mentally tough” and called out the younger members of his team saying that they were unwilling to “buy in” to HC Bill Belichick’s system. Brady added “when the going got tough, we didn’t get going.”
While I think that former Pats MLB Teddy Bruschi was one of the most overrated players in the history of the game (Kurt Warner is right up there too), he was a great leader for the Pats’ defense during his tenure in New England and NEVER used the media to call out his own team. Brady, who spent most of his off season in LA and missed more then two weeks of OTA’s needs to shut the fuck up and prove that he is still a top caliber player or he will lose his team; especially considering he is scheduled to sign another fat contract this summer.
As a former defensive player, there are few things that piss me off more then a over hyped, pansy-ass QB questioning the toughness of an entire team. And don’t think that when Brady doesn’t preform this year and to avoid the media talking about his obvious decline, misses several games with a sprained left pinkie that those guys who make less then a tenth of his salary, banging around in the trenches, wont remind him of this.
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