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Matt Leinart excited to join Houston Texans

Matt Leinart is “excited” to be a Houston Texans. Leinart told the media yesterday that the reason he wanted to become a Houston Texan was so he could be coached by Gary Kubiak, the Texans head coach. A career back-up quarterback coaching the next career back-up quarterback, seems like a perfect fit to me. Speaking [...]

Seattle Seahawks to release Julius Jones

Several sources, as well as Adam Schefter form ESPN are reporting that Julius Jones will or has been released by the Seattle Seahawks. Other names reported to have been released include, S Jordan Babineaux, DT Kevin Vickerson and FB Owen Schmitt (I hope Schmitt isn’t anywhere near a locker without a helmet on when he [...]

BREAKING-Matt Leinart signs with Houston Texans

Adam Schefter and Chris Mortensen of ESPN are reporting that former Arizona Cardinals QB Matt Leinart has reached a 1 year agreement with the Houston Texans. Matt Leinart will now have to compete with Dan Orlovsky for the #2 back-up position. Perhaps the biggest news is that Matt Leinart’s former coach, Pete Carroll who he [...]

Preseason wraps up, what did NFL fans learn?

The 5 weeks for preseason are over with, the wrangling for fantasy football sleepers are over, and now we are 4 days from putting toe to leather to kick off the NFL season, what did fans actually learn this preseason? Oh, there was a lot to be learned this preseason. 1.-Overpaid players which produce little [...]

So when does Max Hall become the starter in Arizona?

The Arizona Cardinals released QB Matt Leinart outright yesterday and named Derek Anderson the starter. Any Cleveland Browns fan will tell you that this will be a temporary move, so when do the Arizona Cardinals decide to make Max Hall the starting quarterback? As I wrote here on Friday, I really like Max Hall and [...]

Seahawks Say No, Leinart to Bengals?

QB Matt Leinart was released by the Arizona Cardinals and now the Leinart where will he end up sweepstakes in underway. Place your bets, round and round he goes, where he ends up, nobody knows. One place he won’t end up is with the Seattle Seahawks. Pete Carroll and the Seattle Seahawks have decided that [...]

Max Hall stakes claim for #2 for Arizona Cardinals

September 3, 2010 by ericschmidt  
Filed under Arizona Cardinals, Latest News, NFC, West

As someone who has watched all 4 of the Arizona Cardinals preseason games, QB Max Hall has definitely staked his claim for the #2 position at the quarterback spot. The debate has been recently about Derek Anderson and Matt Leinart but I think the debate should be about Max Hall. This 24 year old out [...]

Will the Seattle Seahawks make a move for Matt Leinart?

The Seattle Seahawks have been the most active team in the NFL in drafting, trading for and claiming players this off season but are they interested now in acquiring Arizona Cardinals quarterback Matt Leinart? Matt Leinart is rumored now to be on the trading block and ESPN’s Adam Schefter is reporting that three team have [...]

Cardinals Matt Leinart is angry with his coach

August 31, 2010 by ericschmidt  
Filed under Arizona Cardinals, Latest News, NFC, West

The Arizona Cardinals quarterback situation is a mess right now, plain and simple. The retirement of Kurt Warner was supposed to open the door to Matt Leinart, but things haven’t progressed that way as of yet. Now Cardinal’s quarterback Leinart is angry with head coach Ken Whisenhunt. In a report on Yahoosports, Leinart is quoted [...]

Cardinals Matt Leinart is not happy

August 27, 2010 by ericschmidt  
Filed under Arizona Cardinals, Latest News, NFC, West

Arizona Cardinals QB Matt Leinart is not happy with his current demotion to the #2 position. Throughout his career however, Matt Leinart has been hype, hype, hype and no delivery. The Arizona Cardinals are facing a dilemma in replacing retired QB Kurt Warner and Leinart was concerned to be the hir apparent, however his on [...]

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