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Former NFL Quarterback Vince Young Rips NFL Teams For Signing 'Garbage' Quarterbacks Over Him
Patriots Logan Ryan Pays
Former NFL quarterback Vince Young sees a trou- bling trend in today's league, and he's not happy about it.
In an interview with Sports Illustrated, the for- mer third overall pick stated his belief that NFL has be- come oversaturated with lousy players under center.
"I'd see a quarterback and be like, 'Dude is garbage, and I'm over here in the kitchen cooking turkey necks!?'" Young said to SI's Greg Bishop.
The 34-year-old Young's last NFL snap came with the Philadelphia Eagles back in 2011. He recently attempted a comeback with the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the Canadian Football League, but his bid was cut
playing!?" Young said. "He leads the league in intercep- tions, and he's still f------ get- ting paid? I mean, what the f--- is going on?"
Fitzpatrick started 11 games for the New York Jets last season. While he fin- ished third in the league in interceptions, trailing Philip Rivers and Jameis Win- ston, he made significantly fewer attempts than either of those two.
Young also took the op- portunity to complain about former Titans head coach Jeff Fisher, describing a situation in which Fisher refused to hold a team flight after Young left his ID at home.
"I'm going to expose his a- -," Young said.
Off Brother’s Student Loans
VINCE YOUNG
short by a hamstring injury. Now, with Young's career in jeopardy once again, he wondered why other veteran quarterbacks continue to get opportunities to play in the NFL while he's been stuck on
the sidelines.
"I hate to name-drop, but
Bucs backup quarterback, [Ryan] Fitzpatrick is still
New England Patriots Logan Ryan gave his brother just about the best present one could ask for.
Ryan, who recently signed a 3-year, $30 million free agent deal with the Ten- nessee Titans, decided to pay off his brother’s student loans as a birthday present.
That’s a big fat check for $82,000. For his brother, the check is probably just as nice of a present as getting a car or something fancy like that. Now his brother is free of those daunting student
Logan Ryan gave his brother an incredible birth- day gift.
debts that he otherwise could have been saddled with for years.
As Birthday Present
Ex-Redskins RB Clinton Portis Was Ready To Commit Murder Until Friend Talked Him Out Of It
Reportedly Motivated To
Le’Veon Bell, Steelers
Former Washington Red- skins running back Clinton Portis contemplated killing one of his former financial managers after losing mil- lions of dollars in various in- vestments, helping to wipe out part of his NFL fortune.
In a story published by Sports Illustrated, Portis re- counted a night four years agoinwhichhesatinacar outside a building, holding a gun and awaiting one of the managers he felt had ruined him financially. Portis had made $43.1 million in his nine-year NFL career, but most of it had either been spent or lost through invest- ments or, as one lawsuit as- serted, bank withdrawals
CLINTON PORTIS
without his consent.
An anonymous friend, a
television producer who had been trained as a family ther- apist, talked him out of com- mitting murder. But Portis said he went there, sitting in his car late at night outside a
building in Washington, D.C., with one purpose.
"It wasn't no beat up," Portis told Sports Illus- trated. "It was kill."
The story does not specify whom Portis was awaiting that night in 2013, saying he was looking for one of several managers who had handled his funds.
But Portis told the publi- cation that if he had seen the person before settling down: "We'd probably be doing this interview from prison."
Le’Veon Bell is hoping for a long-term contract ex- tension before the July 17 deadline to negotiate with franchise tagged players passes, and the Pittsburgh Steelers would like the same. However, there’s a chance Bell will have to wait at least another season to get his big deal.
ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported on Tuesday that Bell’s contract situation “could go either way.”
“Both sides have motiva- tions to get it done, but no deal in sight now,” Schefter
LE’VEON BELL
wrote on Twitter. “A push before and at the (July 17) deadline is expected from both sides. Could go either way.”
Agree On Long-Term Deal
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