While we can debate the wisdom/insanity of trading an in-his-prime quarterback within the division to a rival that desperately needs a QB, we won't know for two or three years whether Eagles coach Andy Reid did the right thing for his franchise Sunday night in dealing Donovan McNabb to the Redskins.
After striking 59-year-old Mario Reyes near dawn on a Miami causeway a year ago, Donte' Stallworth said he stopped his Bentley in the road, dialed 911 on his cell phone to report the accident, and got out of the car to see if Reyes was seriously injured. But he said he couldn't look at Reyes, laying motionless on the six-lane road. "You've got to send an ambulance right now, man,'' Stallworth told the 911 operator.
The Baltimore Ravens, desperate for receivers for young star quarterback Joe Flacco, have signed free-agent wideout Donte' Stallworth, who sat out the 2009 season after being convicted of vehicular homicide in Miami.
You might have heard lately that Braylon Edwards is a member of the Bad Guy Club. You don't apply to that club; people apply for you, after checking your credentials for roughly 2.1 seconds. Edwards got in for "off-the-field issues." (I've always wondered: if a guy has an Oedipus complex, but he never thinks about his mom while he's playing, is that an off-the-field issue?)
NEW YORK (AP) -- Cleveland Browns receiver Donte' Stallworth was suspended without pay for this season Thursday after pleading guilty to killing a pedestrian while driving drunk. He cannot participate in any team activities until his reinstatement after the Super Bowl.
Suspended Cleveland Browns wide receiver Donte Stallworth walked out of a Miami jail Friday after serving 24 days out of a 30-day sentence for killing a man while driving under the influence of alcohol.
MIAMI (AP) -- Cleveland Browns wide receiver Donte' Stallworth has been released from a Miami jail after serving 24 days for DUI manslaughter.
My last mailbag for a month will be yours, mostly, with a few announcements up top:
It's happening to Derrick Brooks. After 11 Pro Bowls, six first-team all-pro nods, one Super Bowl victory and one Defensive Player of the Year award, football is saying to him, "We don't need you anymore.''
It's hard to say what exactly constitutes a typical week in the NFL any more, but with Plaxico Burress, Brandon Marshall and Donte' Stallworth once again in the news for all the wrong reasons, it's pretty obvious that receivers continue to dominate the headlines as much as they do most NFL offenses.
Cleveland Browns wide receiver Donte Stallworth has been suspended indefinitely by the National Football League, days after he pleaded guilty to killing a pedestrian while driving under the influence of alcohol, the NFL said.
Cleveland Browns wide receiver Donte Stallworth will spend 30 days in jail for a DUI manslaughter that killed a construction worker in March under terms of a plea agreement, prosecutors said Tuesday.
The Cleveland Browns wide receiver charged with killing a pedestrian last month while driving under the influence was expected to turn himself into authorities on Thursday morning.
Cleveland Browns wide receiver Donte Stallworth was charged in Florida on Wednesday with killing a pedestrian while driving under the influence, a spokesman for the Miami-Dade County state attorney's office said.
A day after New York Giants wide receiver Plaxico Burress received good news with an adjournment of his trial, another NFL wide receiver received terrible legal news. The Cleveland Browns' Donte Stallworth has been charged by Florida authorities with DUI manslaughter. If convicted, Stallworth would face a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison, although mitigating circumstances would likely lead to a much shorter sentence.
The Cleveland Browns' decision to shop Braylon Edwards is a head scratcher.
Poring over all the glowing Matthew Stafford critiques on Thursday got me thinking: Anybody know what the reviews were like for Johnny Unitas' pro day at the University of Louisville in 1955?
The Colts-Patriots game threw some light on the Official Injury Report, with subtle jabs from both sides, interesting reports, additional reports, and general shenanigans. While it's all within the rules, one could argue that the rules have got enough wiggle room in them as to make the report mean whatever a team wants it to mean. There have been some lines that look to be informed by something beyond the report, especially last week as the Rams' late scratch of Steven Jackson caught everyone off guard -- except Las Vegas. This week, the line is shifting on Pittsburgh with late reports of Ben Roethlisberger's shoulder problem. Is this funny business or someone guessing right? I don't know, and frankly, I've stopped looking at the report as anything more than a starting point. It's time the rest of you did too. On to the injuries:
If they were to ever make a movie of the Philadelphia Eagles 2008 training camp, there would be only one logical working title: Fight Club II.
BEREA, Ohio -- Braylon Edwards admits nothing in his first three NFL training camps really came close to preparing him for what the Cleveland Browns are experiencing this summer. Until this year, Edwards thought the Browns preseason would always be filled with more questions than answers, and played out amid an ever-present backdrop of controversy, distraction, or football misfortune.
SI.com has dispatched 10 writers to report on the 32 NFL training camps across the country. For the complete schedule of postcards, click here.
While the celebrated return of Jevon Kearse has received the majority of attention from Titans observers, it's the homecoming of Justin McCareins and Mike Heimerdinger that may have the biggest impact in Tennessee in 2008.
• Asante Samuel's move to the Eagles was met with criticism in some circles. But when you examine his skills merging into the Eagles' scheme, it appears to be an ideal fit for the player and team. Samuel, who had 16 interceptions the last two seasons, is a ball-hawking corner who excels at "reading the three-step".
The old quarterback knew long before the rest of us what this season could bring. Back on the first day of September, the New England Patriots released 43-year-old Vinny Testaverde. He'd spent 20 seasons in the NFL and had never seen anything like what had been assembled for 2007 in a sprawling complex alongside Route 1 in Foxborough, Mass.
SI.com: Lee Jenkins:updated: Tue Nov 06 2007 08:54:00
Kelvin Hayden awoke in the middle of the night to the images that haunt defensive backs everywhere. They had already been consuming his mornings and afternoons. Now they were interrupting his dreams. The moment he opened his eyes, he saw Randy Moss, Donte' Stallworth and Wes Welker, running patterns at the foot of his bed.
NEW YORK -- I'll get to the best game a back ever had, to Saints alive, to the once-fraudulent Lions and to the Super Bowl-bound Browns here in a page or two. But let's begin with this week's Game of the Century, which actually turned out to be everything we all wrote it would be. And more.
• The Patriots' favorite play in clutch situations appears to be Wes Welker on a quick out from the slot. Twice in the fourth quarter (Welker's touchdown and third-down conversion), the Patriots spread the formation out of their three-receiver set and hit Welker on option routes. Even though defenses know the route is coming, they are unable to take it away in two-deep zone due to Donte Stallworth and Randy Moss taking outside releases to expand the zone. And nickel corners are unable to challenge Welker in press man due to his quickness.
He knew precious little about the New England Patriots. There were those three Super Bowl rings. There was the coach in the gray sweatshirt who seemed so imperious and distant. "He never smiled," says Adalius Thomas, a Pro Bowl linebacker who spent seven seasons with the Baltimore Ravens before reaching the open market last winter as an unrestricted free agent. There were the players, enemies whom he scarcely knew.
We're getting an anti-veteran reaction. A couple of weeks ago people were sympathetic to the retired players' demands. Now we're seeing the other side of the coin. And both letters I'm responding to this week were decidedly mean-spirited in nature, the thrust of each one being, hey, they made plenty during their careers, at least more than I did. If they weren't smart enough to save enough, well, that's tough.
FOXBORO, Mass. -- We interrupt this offseason to bring you football. Real, live football from the practice fields of the New England Patriots.
SI.com: Not so fastupdated: Thu May 03 2007 14:37:00
The Patriots have had the best offseason of any team in the NFL. They signed arguably the best defensive player available, Adalius Thomas, and traded for the best offensive player on the move in Randy Moss, and further rebuilt their weak wide receiving corps by adding Donte Stallworth, Kelley Washington, and Wes Welker.
The text messages from free-agent wide receiver Donte' Stallworth to his agent, Drew Rosenhaus, began enthusiastically on the first night of his visit to New England, after Patriots quarterback Tom Brady happened by Stallworth's table at a Boston restaurant on March 5 to preach the team's gospel. By the next day, as Stallworth was meeting in Foxborough with Pats officials, the texts to Rosenhaus revealed a man whose mind was made up. I want to be here. Let's get it done. I don't want to leave here without a contract.
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