Jets RB Washington skipped practice for birth of son

Just 9 days after he returned to the field, Jets RB Leon Washington again skipped practice. But this time for a new reason--his fiancee just gave birth to a baby boy on Wednesday morning. The baby's name was already known to be Noel, as Leon spelled backwards.

Jets coach Rex Ryan considered Washington made the right decision this time. He told reporters that missing kid's birth is the biggest regret in his coach career, so he was glad to know that Washington just chose to do the right thing.


Before last Monday Washington had skipped the team’s voluntary practices because of conract disputes, but he returned to the field on Monday practice. I think it is possible we will see him playing on field again soon.

Get ready to chat with will-be Hall of Famer Rod Woodson

On January 31st, the 2009 Hall of Fame class was introduced, Rod Woodson was among the list, and he will be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in August.


If you want to have a chat with him about football, now chance comes. Woodson was invited by NFL Network to join a live chat on the coming Thursday, June 4th. Log on NFL.com around 4 p.m. ET that day. You can just send in your questions form now on. There are other players who joined or will join live chat this week on NFL Network, including Michael Fabiano on June 3 at 12 p.m. EST and Ty Law and Simeon Rice on Monday.

Bly is looking forward to the preseason game with previous team

After being released by the Broncos, Dre'Bly signed a one-year contract with the 49ers on May 21st. In the 49ers' first preseason, Bly will face his former teammates in the Broncos. He told the media that he was looking forward to the first preseason game with opponent being the Broncos.

Bly expressed his disappointment with the Broncos. His eagerness showed that he might want to prove something. Perhaps he wants to prove his competence or perhaps he wants to prove that the Broncos made a wrong decision.


Bly began his career in the Rams, then went to Lions, then the Broncos, and now the 49ers. What does this prove? Just thinks about it.

Bears' signing with Tinoisamoa will make Hillenmeyer in danger of losing job

As someone is cheering that Tinoisamoa's joining Bears will improve the team's defense, someone is worrying that he may lose job with Tinoisamoa's arrival.

Hunter Hillenmeyer is the worrying person. He was drafted in 2003. Because of health problems, he did not perform well last year, with only 18 tackles in 13 games.


And now a much better player is coming, unless Hillenmeyer can be back in form immediately and perform well enough, there will be no guarantee that he will not lose his current job in the bears.

Hopefully, the Bears will find a way to keep both players. I just still believe in Hillenmeyer's potential.

The Bucs: offense downgraded, defense aging

The Bucs' offense was downgraded by Jeff Garcia's leaving and its defense system is in lack of young players. So what we can expect from the Bucs this year won't be too much, just hoping that new head coach Raheem Morris can prove his value and improve the team as much as possible.

Although people could not understand Bucs' firing of Jon Gruden, choosing Raheem Morris is just another good move. Raheem Morris is a easy-going person, and he knews how to go on well with players. This makes it possible for him to lead the team reach its best season.

Broncos' Marshall is dissatisfied with current contract

This year is WR Marshall's last year of his rookie contract with the Broncos, and last year was his second straight 1,000-yard season and first Pro Bowl-won season. And his pay should be raised to $2.2 million. But the Broncos still has not given him the raise, because of his injury and something else happened off the field.

That made Marshall dissatisfied. He does have injury on his hip, so he decided to leave the Broncos and to rehab in Orlando.


Whatever is going on with Marshall, and he has the right to be unhappy. But what he should realize is that the team may not consider him as important as himself does. As Kyle Orton and Chris Simms are competiting for taking reps with the No.1 defense, the team can just let other players compete for Marshall's position and may find a more qualified guy than him.

Everything goes well in the Seahawks.

In a recent OTA, the Seahawks' team was seen performing well. Everyone was in their best form, including Hasselbeck who just recovered from his back injury.

Old and young, new and veteran, it seemed that the players has improved their playing alot under the new coaches Jim Quinn. Rookie first-round pick Aaron Curry proved his talent at linebackeer and QB Matt Hasselbeck looked perfectly healthy and was learning new defense.

Every thing seems good enough for this team. We can expect its better season soon.

May Vick be in the 49ers?

On the part of the San Francisco 49ers , no confirmation has been given out. For Vick's former teammates, they consider San Francisco as the best place Vick can go.

Former Falcons QB Michael Vick is now suspended. And medias are guessing if the San Francisco 49ers is interested in him. Any time when was asked, the head coach Mike Singletary just gave ambiguous answer. "I don’t want to say absolutely not, because I’m not there. But I’m certainly not going to say yes. " What we can know from all his statements is that they are discussing about Vick.

May Vick be in the 49ers? We can not say absolutely yes or no. We can just wait for what will be going on.

Jets RB Jones: No new deal is coming

According to the New York Daily News' reports on Friday, Jets RB Thomas Jones is very unhappy now for he won't be getting any

restructured contract.

A report written by NFL.com's Steve Wyche earlier this week says that Jones would still take part in organized team activities next Wednesday after he did not participate in voluntary workouts. But it seems that he will not receive new deal.

30 years old, the AFC’s leading rusher last season with 1,312 yards and 13 touchdowns, Jones has two years left on his contract, with $900,000 owed this season and $2.8 million owed in 2010. Early in this week some reports doubt that Jets will restrutured contract with Jones, but now it becomes obivious that no new deal is coming.

There are two reason why Jones got into such situation. One is thathis backup, Leon Washington, is also hoping for a new contract or extension, and the other one is the team's using of a third-round draft pick (No. 65 overall) Iowa RB Shonn Greene.