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Rolle: Giants Were Confident, Not Cocky, in Title Run

The Giants unabashedly expressed their con­fi­dence — some might call it cock­i­ness — dur­ing their run to the Super Bowl XLVI title. And at the fore­front of it all was safety Antrel Rolle. Con­sider: Rolle refused to put the Pack­ers on a pedestal before their divisional-round game, then called out 49ers tight end Ver­non Davis ahead of the NFC Cham­pi­onship Game. And head­ing into Super Bowl week, Rolle was blunt in say­ing the Giants wouldn’t have boarded the plane for Indi­anapo­lis if they didn’t believe they would beat the Patri­ots — which they did. Was it legit... 

ProFootballTalk — Rumor Mill

ProFootballTalk - Rumor Mill Pro­Foot­ballTalk on NBCSports.com 2012–02-14T22:02:52Z http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/feed/atom/ WordPress.com Mike Flo­rio http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=242100 2012–02-14T21:53:26Z 2012–02-14T21:53:26Z]]>0 Gregg Rosen­thal http://nbcprofootballtalk.wordpress.com/?p=242069 2012–02-14T21:52:55Z 2012–02-14T21:52:55Z]]>2 Michael David Smith http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=242073 2012–02-14T21:48:24Z 2012–02-14T21:48:24Z]]>1 Mike Flo­rio http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=241763... 

Ravens’ Caldwell Not Intent on Making Flacco the Next Manning

New Bal­ti­more Ravens quar­ter­backs coach Jim Cald­well is mak­ing it a point to set the bar low for Joe Flacco. At least, lower than where it would be if Flacco were Pey­ton Manning. Cald­well coached Man­ning, a four-time league MVP, for a full decade. While he sees plenty in Flacco that makes him “dan­ger­ous,” he’s not try­ing to make the Ravens’ starter the next Manning. “Everybody’s dif­fer­ent,” Cald­well told the team’s offi­cial web­site. “[Flacco] has his own strengths, and what we want to try to do is accen­tu­ate those. “I’m not here to try... 

Solomon, Integral to Two 49ers Super Bowl Titles, Dies at 59

SAN FRANCISCO — Fred­die Solomon, the for­mer San Fran­cisco 49ers wide receiver who became known as “Fab­u­lous Fred­die” and com­mit­ted him­self to com­mu­nity ser­vice for decades, died Mon­day. He was 59. The 49ers announced the pass­ing of Solomon, who lived in Florida and had bat­tled can­cer over the past year. He played on the first two of the franchise’s four Super Bowl cham­pi­onship teams in the 1980s dur­ing an 11-year NFL career. “The 49ers lost a mem­ber of our fam­ily today,” 49ers CEO Jed York posted on his Twit­ter account. “We’ll miss you,... 

Ravens Committed to Signing Flacco to Long-Term Extension

The Bal­ti­more Ravens and quar­ter­back Joe Flacco’s agent, Joe Linta, are sched­uled to begin talks on a con­tract exten­sion next week at the 2012 NFL Scout­ing Com­bine in Indi­anapo­lis, a league source said Tuesday. The Ravens are com­mit­ted to keep­ing the 2008 first-round draft pick, whose con­tract expires after the 2012 sea­son, and Flacco hopes to sign a long-term exten­sion this offseason. Flacco led the Ravens to the AFC Cham­pi­onship Game this past sea­son — a last-second 23–20 loss to the New Eng­land Patri­ots — and he threw for 3,610 yards, 20 touch­downs... 

Randy Moss Says He’s “Coming to Tear Somebody’s Heads Off, Man”

Randy Moss says he’s “com­ing to tear somebody’s heads off, man” Posted by Mike Flo­rio on Feb­ru­ary 13, 2012, 11:29 PM EST In 1998, then-rookie Randy Moss non­cha­lantly vowed to come to the NFL and “rip it up.” And he did. Now, a sea­son after retir­ing, Moss has made a more col­or­ful promise. “I’m com­ing to tear somebody’s heads off, man,” Moss said in a com­pelling Mon­day night video ses­sion on Ustream, roughly 12 hours after using the tech­nol­ogy to announce his return to football. He dubs his casual lap­top encoun­ters with fans “Moss TV,”... 

Former Seahawks LB Tatupu in New Orleans on Monday

For­mer Seat­tle Sea­hawks line­backer Lofa Tatupu vis­ited the New Orleans Saints on Mon­day, a league source said. The evo­lu­tion of the NFL:Take a look at how the NFL has evolved from its hum­ble roots, and the efforts being made to ensure it con­tin­ues to grow. Tatupu did not play dur­ing the 2011 sea­son after being released by the Sea­hawks after the con­clu­sion of the lockout. Tatupu was a Pro Bowl selec­tion his first three sea­sons in the NFL, and he was first-team All-Pro in 2007 when he had 83 tack­les, four inter­cep­tions and three forced fumbles. Fol­low... 

Weekend Rewind: Teams Can Carry Over Cap Space

Week­end rewind: Teams can carry over cap space Posted by Mike Flo­rio on Feb­ru­ary 13, 2012, 4:56 PM EST Since plenty of you still don’t check out PFT on non-work time, every once in a while there’s a week­end story that bears repeat­ing on Monday. On Sun­day, we had sev­eral items regard­ing a new twist in the labor deal that allows teams to auto­mat­i­cally carry over any unused cap space from one year to the next. To do it, the team in ques­tion sim­ply has to want to do it, and to reduce its inten­tions to writing. There’s no down side. Though some thought that car­ry­ing... 

Moss Ends His Retirement, Sets Sights on NFL Return

Randy Moss cel­e­brated his 35th birth­day Mon­day by announc­ing the end of his short-lived retirement. “I just wanna go to a team and play some foot­ball,” the six-time Pro Bowl wide receiver said on a video posted at the web­site Ustream.tv, accord­ing to ProFootballTalk.com. Moss didn’t play in 2011 after a tur­bu­lent 2010 sea­son that included stops with the Patri­ots, Vikings and Titans. He said Mon­day he retired because of issues he needed to address off the field, but his fam­ily has since told him, “It’s fine, what­ever you wanna do.” “Faith, fam­ily and... 

Moss’ Agent Claims Interest, but Final Options Could Be Limited

Randy Moss wants back into the NFL, announc­ing online Mon­day — his 35th birth­day — that his one-season retire­ment was really a sabbatical. The tim­ing puts him back on the radar just as teams have started for­mu­lat­ing their draft and free-agency boards. Nice touch, inject­ing him­self back into the con­scious­ness of the NFL right as teams are fig­ur­ing out whether they need rookie or vet­eran help at wideout. Joel Segal, Moss’ agent, said teams have already called to gather pre­lim­i­nary infor­ma­tion about Moss fol­low­ing his dec­la­ra­tion. The teams mainly...