Michael Vick’s advice for Plaxico Burress is to put his family ahead of football. Vick, the Eagles’ Pro Bowl quarterback, says he hopes Burress uses him as an example in his return to the NFL. The former New York Giants receiver spent nearly two years in prison for a gun charge and was released Monday. Vick has made a remarkable comeback to the league after spending 18 months in federal prison for dogfighting charges. He led the Eagles to the NFC East title last season and was voted the Associated Press Comeback Player of the Year. Vick hasn’t communicated with Burress, but shared his thoughts on what he would say to him. “Just take your time coming back and getting acclimated. Think
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Vick to Burress: Put family first
Negotiations between representatives of the NFL and locked-out players resumed Tuesday in New York. Neither side formally announced Tuesday’s talks. They were confirmed by several people who did not participate in the talks but had knowledge of them. The resumption of the negotiations was first reported by the league-owned NFL Network. There were reports that NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and DeMaurice Smith, the executive director of the dissolved players’ union, again participated in the talks, along with several owners and players. This week’s talks come after representatives of the two sides met last week in Chicago. Last week’s meetings originally were intended to be secret. The
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Negotiations resume between league and players in New York
That Plaxico Burress has usurped this many headlines outside of New York, where the former Giant rose to hero and fell to villain in a 10-month span, demonstrates the lack of substantial NFL news circulating this summer. Blame it on the lockout. As negotiations to end the lockout grind on, just about every beat writer in the league is popping up at public appearances, staking out voluntary team workouts to decipher which teams are and are not interested in Burress. Never mind the fact that Burress, who was released from an upstate New York prison Monday after serving 21 months on a gun possession charge, can’t negotiate with, or sign a contract, with a new team until a new collective
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Plaxico Burress not point of emphasis for Eagles coach Andy Reid
The NFL filed a “motion to dismiss” the Brady et al v. National Football League et al case with the district court in Minnesota on Monday, setting up a play to shut down the antitrust suit and take away the players’ biggest piece of leverage in the ongoing labor fight. The filing was largely a procedural matter, coming on the same day the league’s response to the players’ amended complaint was due. The NFL will still be responsible for filing an answer, but not until after the court rules on its motion. U.S. District Judge Susan Richard Nelson has scheduled a hearing on the motion for Sept. 12, which is four days after the scheduled start of the NFL regular season, a factor that could put
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NFL files motion to dismiss players’ antitrust lawsuit
When the NFL lifts its lockout, one of the first free agents off the shelf will be Oakland cornerback Nnamdi Asomugha — with the expectation that the Philadelphia Eagles are first in line. Or maybe not. There’s no question that Asomugha will be a hot property. He’s one of the game’s elite defenders, so proficient that once he hits the free-agent market a bidding frenzy should erupt. But don’t expect the Eagles to join the charge. I don’t. And neither do others who are close to the organization. They tell me there is an indifference toward Asomughha, mostly because he will cost a fortune but partly because he’s a press cornerback who plays only the right-cornerback position. I know, I
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Asomugha not high on Eagles’ wish list
The chatter about Michael Vick and Plaxico Burress being rehabilitated teammates in Philadelphia is a story with legs recently. We’re just not sure if this one holds water. In checking with sources around the team, the feeling we got was that there was perhaps only lukewarm interest in Burress, who will be freed from prison on Monday and will be a free agent once the lockout is lifted. Certainly, Vick has gone to bat for Burress, his friend off the field, and likely will again when football business resumes. The Eagles have seen firsthand what the rehabilitation process can do, as it helped turn Vick into perhaps the league’s most electric player last season.
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Burress to Eagles? Perhaps not best fit
The Seattle Seahawks need a quarterback. Badly. But ESPN’s John Clayton believes the Arizona Cardinals need one, too, and writes in his Wednesday column that because of that need, the Cardinals are a 2-1 favorite to land Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Kevin Kolb. You know, whenever that becomes possible. Clayton does see the Seahawks as the runners-up in this sweepstakes, putting their odds of trading for Kolb at 10-1. Miami (100-1) and Cleveland (1,000-1) are also listed as potential but unlikely suitors. So, why Arizona? Clayton points out that the Cardinals play the league’s easiest schedule next season, and the fact that they’re in the NFC West will make it easy for them to “plug”
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John Clayton says Seahawks not favorite to land Kevin Kolb
The NFL Coaches Association filed an amicus brief with the U.S. 8th Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday, supporting the players’ cause as the league appeals an injunction granted to lift the lockout. The NFLCA’s contention, as stated in the brief, is that the NFL “is attempting an end-run around a unanimous Supreme Court,” saying that the court clearly stated the league is subject to the Sherman Act in the American Needle case last year and held it responsible for subsequent antitrust violations. “To me, this is a real simple deal: Coaches are opposed to the lockout because it’s negatively affecting coaches,” said Larry Kennan, director of the NFL Coaches Association. “If it were a
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Citing job security, coaches side with players in labor dispute
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell made clear on Wednesday that a decision for him to start cancelling preseason games because of the lockout is approaching. “We don’t have a date, but obviously that time is coming,” Goodell said as owners wrapped up their spring meetings. The league cancelled its annual rookie symposium this week. It was the first formal casualty of the lockout that began on March 12. The league is mired in a labor impasse, with a hearing at the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals on June 3 set to determine the validity of the lockout. “We’re getting close enough where those will have to be considerations,” Goodell said of considering cancelling preseason games. “Obviously we would
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Roger Goodell: Time coming soon to cancel first NFL game due to lockout
The NFL Spring Meeting is being held in the next season’s Super Bowl city, as usual. The circumstances are anything but. With the clock ticking toward July’s training camps and September’s regular season, NFL general counsel Jeff Pash on Monday echoed the words of New York Jets linebacker Bart Scott, who last week cited the fans’ growing ire toward the lockout. “I really thought he put it very well, that we’re getting to the point where we’re really putting our fans at risk,” Pash said. “We’re getting to the point where people just can’t understand why there’s not a deal being made. And I think in many respects the best thing for all of us to do is get out of court, get out of the media
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Owners talk business at spring meeting as lockout continues
NFL general counsel Jeff Pash was one of the last to file out of a conference room at the downtown Westin following a Monday night meeting with the league’s labor committee. His message to the media was one he has voiced for months, and one he will continue to endorse as long as the labor dispute separates owners and players. Pash insisted the time is right to reach a new collective bargaining agreement and ensure no disruption in the upcoming preseason and regular season. And that resolution will come at the bargaining table, not through ongoing litigation. “I haven’t given up and I’m not going to give up,” Pash said at the onset of the NFL owners’ spring meetings. “Maybe six months from
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Pash: Let’s get back to bargaining table
The notion that Donovan McNabb’s career was approaching the finish line wasn’t an unpopular one when the Eagles dealt him to the Redskins on Easter Sunday in 2010. Sending the greatest offensive player in team history to a division rival not only screamed from the mountaintop that the Eagles were not afraid to start fresh at coach Andy Reid’s favorite position but also that they feared McNabb much less than the rest of the league did. But to end like this — so suddenly, so uncomfortably? Make no mistake, McNabb’s career is spiraling toward its end. This week, reports emerged from D.C. that McNabb had refused to wear a playsheet wristband last season for coach Mike Shanahan because he
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Market for McNabb shrinking quickly
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