Wednesday Morning Quick Hitters

the latest is this quote about Chris Brown:

"He's a player that we want back," Reinfeldt said of Brown. "I talked to his agent before free agency started and I've talked to him two or three times since."

Why?  Why?  Why?

He played his way into the 3rd string RB last year and also asked to be traded...he is way too injury prone...why on god's green Earth do we want him back?

As for Stallworth. He already turned down a 5 year 32m deal. What the heck are we willing to offer him?

He hasn't played pro-football in about 15 years. He's been running track in the over 40 league...

I really don't think that rumor is true at all.

You don't want Meachem? What if he played for another team in college. He's a good WR and a nice guy...why wouldn't you want him on your team?

Hell I hate Florida but when Jevon became a Titan I forgot all about the fact he was a former Gator.

I tend to flip-out sometimes, lol.

"Howard Balzer of the Sports Xchange explains that the eight-year, $80 million deal given by the 49ers to cornerback Nate Clements contains a phony final year, which automatically will be voided when a $10 million option bonus is paid to the player in 2008.

So either the option bonus won't be paid, and it'll be just a one-year deal -- or the option bonus will be paid, and the contract will be worth $64.02 million over seven years.

This is far different from a puffed up back end; it's a complete fabrication of the final year.

They could have picked any number for that final year.  Instead of eight years, $80 million, the contract could have been eight years, $100 million.  Or eight years, $800 million.  Or eight years, infinity.

So why did they plop $15.98 million into the eighth year that will disappear a year from now?  It was, in our view, a favor to the agent, who'll now be able to trumpet to recruits the fact that he negotiated an "eight-year, $80 million" contract.

He didn't.  It's seven years, $64.02 million.  Still impressive, but not as catchy."