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NFL Will Allow 250 Fans to Attend Combine

After fans were given the chance to wit­ness the mad­ness of Media Day and Radio Row first­hand dur­ing Super Bowl week, this month’s scout­ing com­bine will be NFL’s next event to open its doors to the public. May­ock: 2012 draft rankings Shift­ing the tone of what was once a mostly off-limits soiree, the NFL will allow 250 fans to take a gan­der at the nation’s top draft prospects as they work out for scouts inside Lucas Oil Sta­dium, The Indi­anapo­lis Star reported. You want in? Fans are being asked to reg­is­ter at 1iota.com, a site that will help hand-pick the lucky... 

Olympic Medalist Helps Football Players Prepare for Scouting Combine

Olympic medal­ist helps foot­ball play­ers pre­pare for Scout­ing Combine Posted by Mike Flo­rio on Feb­ru­ary 18, 2012, 9:47 PM EST As if any­one needed more proof of the dis­con­nect between foot­ball and the under­wear Olympics known as the Scout­ing Com­bine, the Asso­ci­ated Press explains that Olympic medal­ist Ato Boldon has been teach­ing incom­ing rook­ies to do some­thing that they’ll do on a foot­ball field only when some­thing really good is hap­pen­ing, or when some­thing really bad is happening. Run in a straight line. “I am basi­cally turn­ing... 

Samuel Asks Fans Where Eagles Should Trade CB

Maybe Asante Samuel knows some­thing the rest of us don’t. Or maybe he’s just try­ing to read between the lines when Eagles gen­eral man­ager Howie Rose­man says things like “We’re always open to phone calls and to see­ing if some­thing works,” when asked last week if he would lis­ten to trade offers for the three-time Pro Bowl cornerback. Either way, Samuel clearly is feel­ing a lit­tle uncer­tain head­ing into the off­sea­son, going as far as to ask his Twit­ter fol­low­ers where they’d like to see him end up. Samuel said last week that he’d like to remain an Eagle... 

Talks on HGH Testing Will Continue at Scouting Combine

Talks on HGH test­ing will con­tinue at Scout­ing Combine Posted by Mike Flo­rio on Feb­ru­ary 18, 2012, 4:06 PM EST The NFL and the NFLPA will get together in Indy next week to dis­cuss a vari­ety of issues. One of the biggest? HGH testing. NFLPA spokesman George Atal­lah told Alex Mar­vez and Jim Miller of Sir­iusXM NFL Radio on Fri­day that the league and the union will con­tinue to try to final­ize an HGH test­ing plan. The par­ties agreed in August that test­ing would com­mence for the 2011 sea­son. Due to union con­cerns regard­ing the valid­ity of the World Anti-Doping... 

Obama Asks 49ers’ Davis to Play for Bears

With a lit­tle free time on his hands, Ver­non Davis is get­ting involved polit­i­cally this off­sea­son, stump­ing for Pres­i­dent Barack Obama. Join­ing the pres­i­dent in San Fran­cisco on Thurs­day night, the 49ers tight end addressed sup­port­ers, describ­ing how Obama reminds him of another impor­tant fig­ure in his life. “I’m inspired by Pres­i­dent Obama the same way I’m inspired by my grandma,” Davis said, per KNTV-TV, telling how his grand­mother kept him out of trou­ble as a child in Wash­ing­ton, D.C. This played well with the crowd, much bet­ter... 

Franchise Tag Is a Possibility for Josh Scobee

Fran­chise tag is a pos­si­bil­ity for Josh Scobee Posted by Mike Flo­rio on Feb­ru­ary 17, 2012, 10:50 PM EST For an offense that scores plenty of field goals, it’s impor­tant to have a good field-goal kicker. The Jaguars have one, given that Josh Scobee made 23 of 25 in 2011. But they might not have him for much longer, given that Scobee is due to become a free agent. Tania Gan­guli of the Florida Times-Union reports that the Jaguars could use the fran­chise tag to hold Scobee in place. Though it’s unclear whether the Jaguars would do it, Gan­guli points out that there’s... 

Report: Browns Will Tag LB Jackson if No Long-Term Deal Reached

If the Cleve­land Browns are unable to lock D’Qwell Jack­son up with a long-term con­tract this off­sea­son, the team will place the fran­chise tag on the line­backer, a league source told the Cleve­land Plain Dealer on Friday. 2012-s notable free agents “We’re look­ing for a long-term deal and that’s what both par­ties would like to accom­plish before free agency starts on March 13,” Brian Mack­ler, Jackson’s agent, told the news­pa­per, adding that the nego­ti­a­tions are going “OK.” Jack­son had 158 tack­les, most on the team, and 3.5 sacks in 2011 after... 

Weinke: Manning Will Be ‘Just as Good if Not Better’

On paper, the NFL careers of quar­ter­backs Pey­ton Man­ning and Chris Weinke are night and day. Man­ning is a leg­end, a four-time NFL MVP. Weinke, mean­while, started a grand total of 20 games dur­ing a run that flamed out in 2007. Weinke has watched from afar as Man­ning attempts to return to the field after four neck surg­eries in two years, and believes his own come­back from spinal fusion surgery in Novem­ber 1998 offers hope to the Colts star. “I’ve spo­ken to Pey­ton early on in the process,” Weinke told USA Today on Thurs­day. “My gut feel­ing: It’s not a ques­tion... 

Goodell Says NFL Committed to Keeping Teams Where They Are

NFL Com­mis­sioner Roger Good­ell said Thurs­day that the league is not cur­rently plan­ning on adding new teams, clar­i­fy­ing com­ments he made in early Feb­ru­ary about expand­ing in order to get a team to play in Los Angeles. 2012-s notable free agents “We are not con­sid­er­ing expan­sion,” Good­ell said in an inter­view with ESPN 1050 in New York. Good­ell had said on “Costas Live” on NBC Sports Net­work in early Feb­ru­ary that if the league were to place a team in Los Ange­les, it would likely add two new teams rather than move one from another city. On... 

Goodell Says NFL Committed to Keeping Teams Where They Are

NFL Com­mis­sioner Roger Good­ell said Thurs­day that the league is not cur­rently plan­ning on adding new teams, clar­i­fy­ing com­ments he made in early Feb­ru­ary about expand­ing in order to get a team to play in Los Angeles. 2012-s notable free agents “We are not con­sid­er­ing expan­sion,” Good­ell said in an inter­view with ESPN 1050 in New York. Good­ell had said on “Costas Live” on NBC Sports Net­work in early Feb­ru­ary that if the league were to place a team in Los Ange­les, it would likely add two new teams rather than move one from another city. On...