Kickoff
Jun 10, 2008 2008 Season, Barbaro is dead, Duane Brown as Eliza Doolittle, Inflamed body parts, Kickoff, Rick Smith, Super Mario, Travis Johnson explains things
Duane Brown: Matt and I have talked about linking and talking less to and about the Comicle. However, since Jerome Solomon wrote this one, I’ll make an exception.
“Never Satisfied”: No, this isn’t a story by my wife. It’s about Mario’s new attitude. Eric sent both of these in, and as he said, it’s funny that nobody can do a story about Mario without mentioning Eric Metcalf Jr. and VY. Still, it’s a national piece by an AP reporter, which must mean something positive, right? Right???
Some (slightly meaningful) OTA quotes this morning:
Rick Smith: (on what cutting Gray says about QB Shane Boyd) “You know what, it says that Shane is making progress. It’s saying that Alex Brink is making progress. We’ve got some young quarterbacks that we really like that are doing a decent job and we feel comfortable with those guys going into training camp.” Comment: Yawn. Boyd may make the active roster, but, after we cut Gray, I’m leaning toward that we have two quarterbacks active on game day, not three.
Rick Smith: (on what the team will do with T/G Charles Spencer) “Well, we don’t know. We’ve got a lot of conversations to have between now and training camp. His rehab process has gone slow, and we had hoped that it would have been a little bit better at this point and so from a lot of standpoints, that’s a little disappointing. But we’re going to continue to be patient with Charles and give him every opportunity that we can to make it back.” Comment: Hello, PUP.
Rick Smith: (on DT Travis Johnson) “Travis is going to be fine. He’s rehabbing and he’s responding well to the treatment and so we expect that he’s going to be ready to go.” Comment: Travis went to the Crystal Pistol and personally asked every fifth dancer to inspect his groin for damage.
Coach Kubiak: (on negotiations with LB Rosevelt Colvin) “We are still talking to him. I think we are still a part of his decision process. We will wait to see what happens.” Comment: This is essentially what Rick Smith said, too. That they are being coy is not surprising, and hopefully it’s a good sign.
Got a super busy real-job day today, so play nicely amongst yourselves. Leg hugs for everybody!
Edit: Oops, used Stacy’s link on the Mario story, not Eric’s. They both sent it. Carry on.
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June 10th, 2008 at 9:46 am
Did Travis bring this home to roost on his “honeymoon”
http://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/pelvic-inflammatory-disease-what-happens
Naughty boy!
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June 10th, 2008 at 10:44 am
Hey guys, still appreciate the preferred hometown coverage, being a welcomed relief from the Comicle. Hopefully Brown gets off to a great start and doesn’t give Schaub the Carr-shivers.
As for the Houston Crapicle, gotta love the in-depth coverage of key players like…Tim Bulman…with stellar football insight into his…views on the Celtics in the Finals.
Man, that Chraahnicle is wicked shitty!
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June 10th, 2008 at 11:52 am
Okay, as mad as it made me when Mario didn’t get to go to Hawaii this year…….
that might turn out to be the best thing ever for us. Mario has *motivation* now!
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June 10th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
When it comes to the “comical” “L’le Dickie the Hook” has dropped to the epitome of laziness(for a major paper columnist)…quoting Brooke Bently’s writeup almost in it’s entirety for his total blog material.
Next thing you know he’s going to be wearing loose shoes.
http://blogs.chron.com/sportsjustice/
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June 10th, 2008 at 1:37 pm
@ da Bull: Wow. I mean, what can you possibly say to that? If Lil Dickie Justice, age 12, had any integrity at all, he would apologize. I’m not holding my breath he’ll do so.
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June 10th, 2008 at 1:38 pm
@TexanTerp: Thanks for stopping by! As we get past OTAs and into training camp and the pre-season, we’ll hopefully have more goodness for you.
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June 10th, 2008 at 5:18 pm
As I mentioned on BRB, Spencer will NOT be on PUP, because it uses a precious roster spot of the 80 available… I see a release or IR…
Probably on IR… Does anyone have any figures on his contract and how it relates to being on IR?
NZ
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June 10th, 2008 at 5:46 pm
I don’t know the cap implications of IR’ing him, but I can tell you that he’s making around 450K for 2008, and around 530K for 2009. After that, he’s a restricted FA.
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June 10th, 2008 at 9:04 pm
@NZNJ Some really thorough cap figure can be found here:
http://www.inthebullseye.com/cap.html
How it would relate to him being on the IR, I couldn’t tell you.
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June 10th, 2008 at 9:06 pm
Honestly I have no problem with the article on Tim bullman. This time of year there is little of substance to report on…we know all about the rookies and the FA’s. The team isn’t going to let out any info on new wrinkles to the offense or defense. A Guy like Bullman is someone that probably hasn’t been discussed at all by most fans. Is it any more than just a motivational technique by Kubiak with the assistance of the Chron…..well probably not, but I think digging a little deeper on the roster is a good thing. The players that come out of nowhere to help a team are the cowboys.
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June 10th, 2008 at 10:33 pm
@papabear: I have absolutely no problem with the Bulman story. What I *do* have a problem with is how Justice treated it. As for Bulman, we always get these warm and fuzzy stories this time of year. Frankly, it’s a little somethin’ somethin’ to fill in the boredom of the off-season
(btw, I feel weird calling somebody papabear when I’m 10 years older than they are!)
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Good point, Norm. Yeah, I’ll need to do a little diggin’ on that one.
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June 10th, 2008 at 11:11 pm
@BFD: No te preocupes amigo - you still write young.
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June 10th, 2008 at 11:35 pm
O/T but, interesting:
Did You Know?
Texans DT Jeff Zgonina was college roomates with Texans general manager Rick Smith at Purdue.
Kind of makes you wonder???