Actually, I’m pretty certain nobody will bother, other than perhaps working him out. There are younger, probably cheaper, and at this point unquestionably better street free agents out there already- Matt Jones, Pete Warrick, Jerry Porter, Ronald Curry, Marvin Harrison…
As someone privy to Texans games, I can state with some confidence that would be Schaub’s predecessor, David Carr, currently back-up for Eli Manning. He suffered through 76 in 2002. Nowadays with the Giants line around him, he understandably looks a whole lot less gun shy.
Though still useless.
Certainly possible that he’ll be gathering dust considering how most teams prefer to develop from within and wouldn’t want to release a guy with upside to bring him in, however I disagree that there are better and cheaper guys out there. Galloway would essentially be playing for the veteran minimum were he to get picked up by a team so it’s unlikely that anyone would be cheaper than him. Also, Galloway is considerably faster than every player you mention and is still faster than most WRs who are active in the league. He’s also quick in a small space and accelerates well. Guys like Marvin Harrison, Jerry Porter and Ronald Curry are essentially a dime a dozen, fairly big (though not large enough to be special), unexplosive possession WRs who would need to fit in a system. Galloway can still be a game breaker and could play the slot or weakside flanker for many teams. I think he’d be an especially good fit for a team like Tennessee who has a glut of tall, big WRs but lack a real downfield threat or a shifty underneath guy.
Matt Jones’ drug issues make him a nonstarter, I’m not even sure he’d be eligible to play. And Peter Warrick? Are you frigging kidding? I think his commitment to the Bloomington Extreme will preclude his availability to a NFL team.
So is Josh McDaniels the front runner for coach of the year at this point? Everyone predicted Denver would be a 3-6 win type team after imploding over McDaniel’s apparent ineptness in the preseason, the Denver defense that was the worst in the league last year, and the offense that seemed productive based mostly on Cutlers arm. I predicted about 4 wins for Denver myself. And yet they’re now 6-0, Kyle Orton looks like a good starter, and the defense has gone from the worst to one of the best. Credit for this probably mostly goes to Mike Nolan, but the head coach ultimately is responsible for his coordinators so McDaniels should get credit for this.
Rodgers is still on pace for 80 this year. I’ll be sure to keep some bubbly chilled.
Didn’t watch many Buccaneers games last year, did you? Galloway hasn’t just lost a step. He’s lost a stairway. Did you really think that a team like the Buccaneers would let any useful wide receiver go? We gave Michael freaking Clayton a $20 million extension, for chrissakes.
Jerry Porter ran a 4.4 at the Combine and is 7 years younger than Galloway. He’s definitely faster than Galloway now and was probably faster three years ago.
Jones is 26, and would have posted an 80-catch, 1000-yard season last year if not for the drug suspension. His drug issues don’t make him a “nonstarter” at all; he has already served his suspension, and there are plenty of guys with much more severe drug issues in the league right now (Antonio Bryant and Ricky Williams, anyone?). Keep in mind that contrary to news stories that Jones was arrested “while cutting up lines with a credit card”, he was arrested while sitting in a car with two other guys. There was a bag of cocaine also in the car, but not in his possession.
McDaniels has to be frontrunner for coach of the year. The stat that the commentators keep mentioning is how well Denver is doing in the second half of games, and that seems to point to good half time adjustments, and good conditioning work.
Although I’m still not sold on the Broncos, since they haven’t really played anyone yet, as shown by the fact that everyone they’ve played has lost to the Broncos.*
*stolen from FARK
Yeah, it’d be tough to give it to anyone else at this point, but I think that by the end of the season he’ll have fallen behind guys like Sean Payton, Jim Caldwell and Tony Sparano. Guys like Mike Singletary and Marvin Lewis could even give him a run for his money if they solidify things and win their divisions.
True, but in the offseason and during Pats camp it was repeatedly stated that he’d gotten his speed back. Coming into this season it was pretty universally accepted by the talking heads that last season in Tampa was a fluke and a circumstance of the QB/Coach situation. Obviously take that with a grain of salt, but his speed was pretty soundly validated in this offseason. That’s not the type of thing that lends itself to much bias or misinformation. Most of the reporting out of New England didn’t blame age or lack of speed for his ouster but rather blamed personality and acclimation to the “Patriot Way”.
Incidentally that contract Clayton got was what got him booted more than anything else, it wasn’t the other way around. The Glazers couldn’t afford them both and the powers that be decided to go young.
Porter had a serious leg injury that killed his speed. Though, he’s a guy that I’m a little surprised hasn’t been worked out anywhere too. It’s getting to the point where some hard work should have allowed him to regain that speed, though perhaps he’s just aged faster than Galloway (and was never as good to begin with).
I had thought that his parole violation in March would potentially get him another longer suspension from the NFL when and if he signed with a team. I think that would have been his 3rd strike and gotten him a mandated 16 games suspension. However some Googling reveals that the league has already ruled on the matter and apparently doesn’t consider a parole (court supervision?) violation for alcohol to be a further violation of it’s drug policy and that no further punishment would be coming. So yeah, he’s a option for teams. I’d probably go for him over Galloway if I was an NFL team and I trusted that his drug issues were being managed, but considering the questions some conservative teams might not think the same.
His quarterbacks and coach that last season in Tampa both adored him, and those same quarterbacks got a Pro Bowl season out of longshot-to-even-make-the-final-roster Antonio Bryant.
I wasn’t implying that anyone disliked the guy, I was pointing out that his poor production last season was a circumstance of him a) being injured all season (playing only 9 games and starting just 4) and b) of the inconsistency at the QB position and c) the generally panned play calling from Gruden. The Bucs still had a halfway decent season, mostly because of Bryant I think, but saying that Galloway “lost several steps” is not a particularly insightful analysis and not one shared by much of the media, and considering him and and his QBs’ constant injury issues and lack of practice time together there are many more likely explanations.
I don’t know about the reporting, but I assumed the reason he was benched (and now let go) was the fact that he kept dropping all the passes thrown to him when the season started. He looked completely inept out there from what I saw.
Yeah, that certainly contributed. Supposedly Belichick was killing him for not doing the “little things” that they expect from their players. Dropping balls certainly will get you noticed on that team. His speed was the one thing that wasn’t criticized.
If you’ve got any of their games DVRed you can go back and watch them. I don’t think he was able to create separation on a single route.
Certainly possible, I didn’t get to see enough of the few plays where he was actually on the field. When I did watch the camera isn’t usually very good at keeping fly routes in the field of vision when the ball isn’t in the air. Kinda have to rely on the talking heads on that count. A handful of the talking heads do actually watch game film these days so we’ve at least got that going for us.
That was exactly my impression.
I had to chuckle about this post as I was reviewing my DVD copy of the game, and was reminded that in fact, Heath Miller was called for offensive pass interference in that game.
I’ve got no dog in this fight, I just want to complain about the camera shots used on TV hardly ever show the receivers running their routes, so you have to hope one of the replays show it off in the corner or something. grumble grumble…
Galloway wasn’t running anything more complicated than streak routes, with the occasional stop-and-go and deep out.
Well, at least part of that strategy worked.