The offseason in the National Football League starts officially today.
That means an onslaught of player cuts are coming from football teams.
Today is the day where many veteran players are told thanks for your service, but due to your salary, your decline in performance, and salary cap space your services are no longer needed.
It is a shame that many veterans just don’t realize that you only get paid for the way you play not for who you are or what you meant to this team in the past.
If players realized this there would be more players retiring with their football teams.
However, that is not the case and it is sad to see a veteran leave, but that is the way it is in the National Football League.
In the end until the NFL allows a veteran player to be exempt from the salary cap this is just the way it is going to be.
I missed most of the first half of the Superbowl and the half time show due to me falling asleep when putting the kids to bed, but I was shocked to hear who long half time was when I read ProFootballtalk.com this morning.
The National Football League definitely needs to shorten half time as 31 minutes is way too long.
Normally, halftime is 12 minutes for a regular season game and the playoffs.
That is all it should be as these bands don’t need huge extravagant sets that take time to set up.
The problem is that players know how to keep themselves loose and ready to go for the second half with 12 minutes.
When you throw 31 minutes at a player it becomes a problem as players have never encountered that long of a halftime.
In the end a halftime show should never affect the outcome of a game the way it did in Superbowl XLIV, because everyone will now wonder what would of happened if Freeney’s ankle didn’t stiffen up.
The New Orleans Saints were led to victory in Superbowl XLIV by quarterback Drew Brees.
Just his name is a bitter pill for Buffalo Bills fans.
It was revealed earlier this year by Peter King of SI.com that current New Orleans Saints head coach Gregg Williams wanted to draft Brees in 2001.
Also, the Bills had another shot at Brees in 2004 when he became an unrestricted free agent.
That means in 2004 there were four franchise quarterbacks available in Brees through free agency and quarterbacks Eli Manning, Phillip Rivers, and Ben Roethlisberger in the National Football League Draft.
The Bills instead decided to trade up for the one quarterback that wasn’t a franchise quarterback in JP Losman.
In the end Bills fans are left wondering if that would be them up there if they gotten one of the four quarterbacks in 2004.
The New Orleans Saints won Superbowl XLIV by beating the Indianapolis Colts 31-17.
With what ESPN’s Adam Schefter is reporting the Saints have a huge mountain to climb if they are going to make it back to the Superbowl next season.
A Superbowl winner already has a tough task at hand with the schedule they will face the following year and that each and every opponent is determined to beat the defending Superbowl champion to improve their own odds at winning it all.
According to Schefter, the Saints have 29 players they have to resign.
Of those 11 are unrestricted free agents, which means they get top priority when it comes to resigning.
The restricted players will get tendered in accordance to what the Saints think they are worth and then will have to get in line and wait until it is their turn.
The only way restricted free agents could get a contract is to get an offer from another teams, which the Saints can then choose to match or take draft picks as compensation.
In the end it is a tall order to fill, but if there is any team up to it that is the Saints as after all most people expected the Colts to win the Superbowl.
The Indianapolis Colts first lost their undefeated season and now they lost in Superbowl XLIV to the New Orleans Saints.
With Colts fans having nothing to look to this past season you cannot help but to feel sorry for them.
All Colts fans are feeling now is frustration as the game came down to one mistake, which was a Peyton Manning interception.
That is the problem with Manning as good as he is when it comes to the most immense pressure situations he just whittles.
The other problem for Colts fans is President Bill Polian.
As good as a evaluator of talent that he is, Polian never learned anything from the Buffalo Bills team that went to four straight Superbowls, which he built.
That being offense wins games and defenses win championships.
In the end as long as the Colts remain in their small player cover two defense the Colts will never win another Superbowl.
According to ESPN’s Adam Schefter multiple teams have contacted the Philadelphia Eagles about their three quarterbacks.
With Len Pasquarelli of ESPN reporting recently that new Buffalo Bills head coach Chan Gailey was interested in Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Mike Vick means the Bills are one of those teams that made a inquiry to the Eagles.
The big question the Eagles face is who do they want to keep at quarterback as all three of their quarterbacks in 2010 are in the last year of their current contract, and want to start.
Back up quarterback Kevin Kolb has sat behind starter Donovan McNabb for three years now and is more than ready to start.
As for McNabb he is coming off one of the best years of his career and still has three or four more years in his prime.
Whoever the Eagles extend first between Kolb and McNabb will be their quarterback of the future and the other two will come available through a trade.
In the end if the Buffalo Bills trade for McNabb or Kolb they will have a good chance at the playoffs and if it is Vick you can expect more miserable years with no playoffs.
Web 2.0 has had a direct impact on my life as many things that I do in everyday life as the development of Web 2.0 has shifted my life from offline to online.
Even to the point where my wife says that my life is my computer and blackberry.
Sorry ladies it is more of a guy thing as we communicate visually.
Searching through the internet for information on Web 2.0 I stumbled across this list.
Ebizmba.com has compiled a list of the top 15 most popular websites of Web 2.0, which floored me as I use most of them weekly.
Wordpress I use daily as it is the driving force behind my blog.
YouTube.com I use from time to time when I see a clip in an article on ProFootballTalk.com or as a part of a story somewhere.
Also, ProFootballTalk.com uses Wordpress, which I forgot about until I wrote the last sentence.
Wikipedia has been an invaluable resource as I am constantly using it to look up the careers of coaches.
The worst thing that can happen to a journalist is writing and article with the wrong information.
Instead of trying to navigate through the internet all I have to do is go over to Wikipedia and look up the person’s name.
Thanks to Web 2.0 I was able to ascertain a website that will get my name out there within the media.
This will eventually help me attain my dream of helping the city win a Superbowl as mediums can rally people together and when people come together the power is so overwhelming that a business or a sports team has to respond.
I know as long as the internet keeps changing so will my website as technology is here to make life better for us.
Even my personal life has changed as now I am always connected to my friends and the internet through my blackberry to keep me up what is going on in the regular world like the weather.
With the internet I am always able to keep up and see if some type of inclement weather is on its way.
In the end every person has been affected by Web 2.0 in some way shape or form.
The 2010 Hall of Fame class was announced today and unfortunately former Buffalo Bills wide receiver Andre Reed was not one of them.
Fortunately, for Reed it does get easier in 2011.
According to the site Cantonrep.com, running backs Jerome Bettis and Marshall Faulk, offensive tackle Willie Roaf, cornerback Dieon Sanders, and wide receiver Jimmy Smith become eligible for the hall of fame for the first time in 2011.
Sanders and Faulk are sure to be on the list with the Hall of Fame and probably even Roaf as he had a stellar career.
Usually, there is one player at a position that gets in and with Smith not having as good of a career as Reed, Chris Carter, or Tim Brown it is a sure bet that one of these three will get in.
According to Mark Gaughn of the Buffalo News, Reed made it into the top ten ahead of Carter and Brown.
The fact of the matter is Reed should have went in with Rice as those two players together revolutionized the wide receiver position as they were the two that made run after the catch as important as it is today.
In the end when you got other Hall of Fame members like former Dallas Cowboy wide receiver Michael Irvin and former Pittsburgh Steelers and Baltimore Raven Rod Woodsen saying that Reed deserves to be in he should be in.