Ko Simpson Traded to Lions

Posted by: Kyle Giunta

The Bills accept traded fourth-year assurance Ko Simpson to the Detroit Lions for an bearding abstract aces in 2010.

Simpson, 6′1″ 202lbs out of South Carolina, played in all sixteen amateur for Buffalo endure division with 66 tackles and 0 interceptions.

Ko was slotted additional in the abyss blueprint abaft FS Donte Whitner whom he accompanying with in 2006 as the alone amateur assurance bike in the NFL. Bryan Scott currently looks to abounding the starting able assurance atom adjoin the Patriots next week.

While the move demonstrates a admiration for the Bills to re-tool in the 2010 draft, Ko is a adolescent and accomplished amateur who provided abounding abyss downfield. That accepting been said, the Bills are apparently arch defensively at the DB and S positions and if they were traveling to lose players from anywhere this will apparently accept the atomic actual impact.

We just accept to achievement that Donte can break advantageous this year.

 

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Wide Receivers Preseason Report

THE GOOD

Hakeem Nicks (New York Giants) - Nicks, the team’s first-round abstract aces in April, bedeviled in the team’s challenge adjoin the New York Jets communicable six passes for 144 yards while scoring two touchdowns. His 208 accepting yards this preseason are the third-most in the NFL.

Chris Henry (Cincinnati Bengals) - Speaking of leaders, no amateur this preseason has added than the three accepting touchdowns that Henry can claim, and he’s angry with Denver’s Eddie Royal for the a lot of receptions with 13. He bent just two passes in the Bengals’ accident to the St. Louis Rams, but they went for 62 yards and a score. He’s begin the end area in every bold this preseason.

Derrick Mason (Baltimore Ravens) - Proving his authoritativeness and amount to Baltimore, Mason was on the accepting end of six passes for 71 yards in Baltimore’s preseason win over the Carolina Panthers.

Randy Moss (New England Patriots) - Now that Tom Brady’s back, so too are Moss’s forays into the end zone. He traversed there alert in New England’s win over the Washington Redskins, communicable a absolute of six passes for 90 yards.

Jerheme Urban (Arizona Cardinals) - In a crazy 44-37 accident to the Green Bay Packers, Urban did his part, with six receptions for 103 yards. He's in the top-20 in the alliance this preseason in accepting yards, admitting he has bootless to cantankerous the goal-line.

 

Forbes ranks Ravens 11th in NFL franchise value

The Ravens are account $1.079 billion, the 11th-most a part of NFL franchises, according to Forbes magazine's anniversary rankings. Last year, the Ravens ranked 10th with a amount of $1.062 billion.

The Dallas Cowboys were admired at $1.65 billion by the magazine, the a lot of of any U.S.-based sports franchise. Only Manchester United of the English Premier League is account added worldwide, $1.87 billion.

The Washington Redskins were ranked additional at $1.55 billion. The added AFC North franchises were ranked 13th (Cleveland Browns $1.032 billion), 16th (Pittsburgh Steelers, $1.020 billion) and 21st (Cincinnati Bengals, $953 million), respectively.

In all, 19 NFL teams are account at atomic $1 billion.

Titans rookie Jason McCourty has shown that he can be special.

Every year at the Senior Bowl and the NFL Combine, abstract affairs acquaint me that they apperceive they charge to accomplish an appulse on appropriate teams to advance their allowance of authoritative a 53-man roster.

Well, above Rutgers cornerback Jason McCourty is walking the allocution in Tennessee.

The amateur cornerback leads the NFL in appropriate teams advantage tackles with six abandoned tackles and two assists in four preseason games. According to the NFL's count, no added amateur in the alliance — adept or amateur — has alveolate added than four abandoned tackles as teams arch into their final anniversary of preseason action.

McCourty best off a canyon during the team's opener adjoin the Bills in the Hall of Fame bold and has logged a absolute of nine abandoned tackles, two assists and a accouterment for a accident during four preseason games. He's aswell dedicated a brace of passes and averaged 16 yards per alpha acknowledgment on three attempts.

The Titans still haven't absitively who will acknowledgment kickoffs for them, and McCourty is appointed to get some added opportunities to prove that he can be that amateur if Tennessee faces the Green Bay Packers on Thursday night.

Although he's active a bit on the team's abyss blueprint at cornerback, the sixth-round aces has apparent that he can accomplish plays on appropriate teams. That should advice his affairs badly as the Titans trim their agenda this weekend.

 

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NFL teams may face blackouts

Up to four times the amount of NFL teams are at accident of accepting at atomic one of their amateur blacked out locally if the division begins next anniversary compared with endure year, the latest assurance the down abridgement is demography a assessment on even America’s a lot of accepted sport, the SportBusiness Journal reports.

According to NFL and aggregation sources, the alliance showed club owners at their affair in Chicago on Wednesday a video accelerate with the names of 10 to 12 teams that may not advertise out every game. A bold that is not awash out aural 72 hours of alpha cannot be advertisement locally.

Last year, abandoned three teams — Oakland, Detroit and St. Louis — suffered blackouts. Collectively, those three teams had nine amateur blacked out, just one added than the eight regular-season amateur the Jacksonville Jaguars abandoned are assured to accord to this year’s total. The Jaguars accept already said that in all likelihood no challenge in their eight-game home agenda will advertise out this season.

The Cincinnati Bengals aswell could acreage in the blackout class this year.

The team's 44-game band of diplomacy out home approved division and playoff amateur is in jeopardy. As of mid-August, the aggregation had several thousand tickets accessible for anniversary of several home games, Jeff Berding, Bengals administrator of sales and accessible affairs, told the Business Courier in an Aug. 21 article.

The Bengals bootless to advertise out either of their two home pre-season amateur in time to abstain blackouts. And affluence of tickets are larboard for their aperture game, Sept. 13 adjoin Denver.

Despite the adversity that one-third of the league’s teams is accepting diplomacy out, the NFL is not advertent alteration the blackout rule, which has been in abode 36 years.

Good can come from Vick's return to NFL

Many animal-welfare advocates are afraid Michael Vick, above quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons, is aback in the bold afterwards a assignment in bastille for dog-fighting. However, I anticipate it's accessible added acceptable can appear from his NFL acknowledgment than his abiding banishment.

As a built-in Pennsylvanian, I'm aghast it was the Eagles that formed the dice on Vick. I benevolence the blow of the team, as they'll be simple acknowledging actors on the Michael Vick Show. I can alone achievement the boxy Philly admirers will accord Vick a bit added "Bad Newz."

Despite Vick's PR-prepared columnist conference, "60 Minutes" mea culpa and plan with the Humane Society, I don't accept for a additional he's one bit apologetic about the pain, adversity and afterlife he brought to the dogs he fought and bent for accumulation and pleasure—though I'm assertive he's actual apologetic he got bent and his hero's top activity concluded as bound as the innocent lives he snuffed out.

Remember: Vick didn't alone bet on actionable dog angry — he bankrolled and ran the ring from his Bad Newz Kennels. He didn't just action dogs — he sadistically bent and dead them. He hanged them from trees. He electrocuted them. He drowned them. He bound females into abduction stands. He tossed ancestors pets into the pit.

Goodell meets with Redskins

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell is watching convenance now at Redskins Park afterwards affair with the players, coaches and added club advisers this morning. Goodell will accommodated with NFL Players Association Executive Director DeMaurice Smith after today.

Here's some of what Goodell had to say during his media session

On his affair with players:

"The primary focus is befitting the focus on the acreage and acquainted what our admirers and our players are traveling through. We talked an abominable lot about that. It ranges from our steroid behavior to what's traveling to be accident in aggregate acceding over the next brace of years, to how we're administration our amateur assurance rules."

On the achievability of Jacksonville, which Washington visits in Thursday's preseason finale, blacking out all its home amateur because of a falure to advertise out:

"We've consistently said that we're not allowed from the economy. I anticipate it reflects two things. One is the superior of the preseason games. Our admirers are array of seeing [that] the superior of the amateur aren't up to NFL standards. ... It's one of the markets area we're seeing challenges with admission sales for the 2009 season. We'll accept added markets area we will accept those challenges. It's all allotment of the claiming we're seeing in the abridgement and what our admirers are traveling through."