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| Giants tag P Weatherford |
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03/05/2012 |
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| East Rutherford, NJ (MySportsbook) - The New York Giants announced Monday that the team will use their franchise tag on punter Steve Weatherford. Weatherford averaged 45.7 yards per punt in 2011, his first year with the Giants. He spent the previous two seasons in New York, but as a member of the Jets. The sixth-year pro announced the move via his Twitter account: "What a blessing to have another opportunity to be a NY Giant for atleast another season. God is good!!!" Weatherford will be paid the average of |
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| Former Giants RB, coach Webster dies |
NFL Football |
03/03/2012 |
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| (MySportsbook) - Alex Webster, who was a New York Giants running back for 10 seasons, then their head coach for five, has died. He was 80. The Giants said Webster died Saturday in Port St. Lucie Hospital in Florida. Webster rushed for 4,638 yards and 39 touchdowns for the Giants from 1955 to 1964 and won an NFL Championship in 1956. He also caught 240 passes for 17 TDs and 2,679 yards. As a head coach, Webster went 29-40-1 from 1969-73. He was inducted into the Giants Ring of Honor Dec. 4. The Giants said W |
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| Giants re-sign WR Hixon |
NFL Football |
03/02/2012 |
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| East Rutherford, NJ (MySportsbook) - The New York Giants re-signed wide receiver Domenik Hixon on Friday. Hixon played just two games in 2011 before suffering a torn ACL. He suffered the same injury in 2010 and did not play in a game that season. "It's one of those things, they gave me an opportunity when I got released from Denver (in 2007)," said Hixon. "And then these past two years with knee injuries they stuck with me. They could have cut me and let me be on my way and be done with me. But they didn't |
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| Falcons place franchise tag on Grimes |
NFL Football |
03/02/2012 |
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| The Atlanta Falcons have placed the franchise tag on cornerback Brent Grimes. After starting all 16 games and earning a Pro Bowl nod thanks to five interceptions and 87 tackles in 2010, Grimes was bothered by a knee injury during the 2011 season and started just 12 games. He had 49 tackles with one interception and missed Atlanta's NFC playoff game against the New York Giants. Signed by Atlanta as an undrafted free agent out of Division II Shippensburg, Grimes has 13 career interceptions in five NFL seasons. |
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| Falcons place franchise tag Grimes |
NFL Football |
03/02/2012 |
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| The Atlanta Falcons have placed the franchise tag on cornerback Brent Grimes. After starting all 16 games and earning a Pro Bowl nod thanks to five interceptions and 87 tackles in 2010, Grimes was bothered by a knee injury during the 2011 season and started just 12 games. He had 49 tackles with one interception and missed Atlanta's NFC playoff game against the New York Giants. Signed by Atlanta as an undrafted free agent out of Division II Shippensburg, Grimes has 13 career interceptions in five NFL seasons. |
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| Cardinals, Saints to play Hall of Fame Game |
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02/29/2012 |
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| Tempe, AZ (MySportsbook) - The Arizona Cardinals and New Orleans Saints will open the NFL's 2012 preseason in the annual Hall of Fame Game in Canton, Ohio, on Aug. 5, the league announced Wednesday. The Cardinals, who tied the New York Giants 21-21 in the inaugural Hall of Fame Game in 1962, will make their fourth appearance and first since 1986. New Orleans is making its first appearance in the contest since 2007, when it lost 20-7 to the Pittsburgh Steelers. The Saints are 1-3 in Hall of Fame Games. The g |
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| Line of Scrimmage: Rams looking like the lucky ones now |
NFL Football |
02/29/2012 |
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| ng war for Griffin's services. The Rams are holding some awfully good cards at the table. However, they still need to be careful of overplaying their hand. The cost to move up to the No. 2 spot figures to be somewhere in the neighborhood of what the New York Giants paid San Diego in the famed Eli Manning-Philip Rivers trade of 2004. Big Blue gave the Chargers the fourth overall pick and its third-round selection (No. 65 overall) of that draft, as well as the following year's first-rounder plus a 2005 fifth-rou |
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| NFL season to start on a Wednesday |
NFL Football |
02/28/2012 |
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| work) - The 2012 season-opening NFL Kickoff game will be played on Wednesday, September 5 instead of the traditional Thursday night start. The change was made this year to avoid a conflict with President Barack Obama's Thursday night speech at the Democratic National Convention. The Super Bowl XLVI-champion New York Giants will host the 8:30 p.m. (et) contest at MetLife Stadium. Their opponent has yet to be determined. The last NFL game to take place on a Wednesday occurred on September 22, 1948 (Rams-Lions). |
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| Line of Scrimmage: Combine questions have a need for speed |
NFL Football |
02/22/2012 |
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| Washington ($41.3) also in position to be big spenders in free agency. The Raiders ($15.6 million) are one of four teams presently over the cap along with Pittsburgh ($27.4 million), Carolina ($5.2 million over) and the reigning Super Bowl champion New York Giants ($1.7 million), with Detroit ($712,000 under) and the New York Jets ($2.3 million under) also lacking much operating room at the moment. *Speaking of the Steelers, there's been a lot of speculation about Ben Roethlisberger's perceived unhappiness ov |
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| Sheridan to helm Buccaneers defense |
NFL Football |
02/17/2012 |
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| ll be a great benefit to our defensive staff." A 31-year coaching veteran, Sheridan arrives from the Miami Dolphins, where he spent the last two seasons as their linebackers coach. He had previously served as linebackers coach (2005-08) and defensive coordinator (2009) for the New York Giants. The 53-year-old has also logged time in the college ranks with Maine (1987-88), Cincinnati (1989-91), Army (1992-97), Michigan State (1998-2000), Notre Dame (2001) and Michigan (2002-04), primarily as linebackers coach. |
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