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Quote of the Week I

"I have this year and next year here in St. Louis and hopefully I can finish those years out. Then I will see where I am at. I will see where I am at physically and emotionally and financially. Then, if they would like to do something here I will consider it. If not, then I will have the option to go and explore and give my services somewhere else. If that happens, Carolina will definitely be my first choice. There is no question about it.''
-- St. Louis wide receiver Torry Holt, a North Carolina State product, on his football future.

Interesting story. Holt was born in North Carolina, raised in North Carolina, schooled in North Carolina. He turns 32 in June, so he would be 34 in 2010, as a potential free agent. He fought through knee issues to play 16 games last year; he has missed only two games due to injury in his nine-year career. He's exceeded 90 catches for the past six years, and he has 805 career receptions. Imagine Holt, with 1,000 catches, migrating to Carolina for two final NFL seasons.

Quote of the Week II

"Go ahead, wrestle each other, pull each other's facemasks, yeah, great, wonderful, have fun. If we can get all this out of the way now, scrapping and being undisciplined and 80 men jumping in a pile together, fine. So now we've proved I'm tough, you're tough, hooray, we're all tough. Are we a good football team? What's more important, proving you're tough or proving we're a good football team? That's how I look at it."
-- Baltimore defensive lineman Trevor Pryce

Pryce was seemingly disgusted by an 85-man scrum at Ravens minicamp Saturday. No one was hurt, but there was lots of pushing, shoving, cursing and punching.

Quote of the Week III

"It doesn't feel like a job, which is cool.''
-- Rookie St. Louis defensive end Chris Long, during his first professional full-squad minicamp.

Stat of the Week

I've got the perfect reason why the Philadelphia Eagles shouldn't even think about trading Lito Sheppard. It's called the evolution of pro football. If you're a general manager, and you don't enter the season with three corners you can trust, you either have a pass-rush like the Giants or you're ignoring what's been going on in this game in the past five or 10 years.

The Eagles did a couple of smart things on draft day. Without a prospect they had to have in the first round, they dealt their pick for first-, second- and fourth-round picks. And they hung on to the dissatisfied Sheppard. His value to the Eagles, simply, was more than the value of a second-round pick, even though he's missed 14 games in the past three years due to injury. I applaud Philly for not dealing him, though to be truthful, a big reason why he wasn't dealt was because he wanted too much money in a renegotiated contract.

According to NFL playing-time documents, the average third corner in the league played 57 percent of his team's defensive snaps last year. Let's look at couple of teams with good secondaries to see how they divvied up cornerback playing time, and that will make my point for me:

Team Cornerbacks Percent Of '07 Defensive Snaps San Diego Quentin Jammer 80% Drayton Florence 79% Antonio Cromartie 72% Denver Dre' Bly 97% Champ Bailey 90% Dominique Foxworth 57%

Third corners most often played more than half of the time, including New England's Randall Gay (53 percent), Hank Poteat of the Jets (54 percent) and the Raiders' Fabian Washington (53 percent).

I remember talking to San Diego GM A.J. Smith the night of the draft. "We got our corner,'' he said happily, referring to first-round pick Antoine Cason. You might wonder why Smith was so focused on getting his corner, with two good starters -- Jammer and Cromartie -- in house, even after losing Florence in free-agency to Jacksonville. "I'm a firm believer in this game today that you need three starting corners to win.'' Amen.

Enjoyable/Aggravating Travel Note of the Week

I had a cringing moment -- the entire plane must have shared it with me -- while boarding a packed United flight from Chicago to Los Angeles last week. A male business traveler, maybe 45, wouldn't take no for an answer as he tried to find a spot in the overhead bin for his wheeled luggage. That's obnoxious. But he actually found a spot with one small shopping bag taking up the space that his bag could fit in. He asked the man sitting below if it was his bag, and the man said it was. "Can I move it over to the side? It'll fit.'' Not an unreasonable request.

The seated passenger, a man of about 70, said no. "Don't touch it,'' he said. "They've been making announcements about checking bags. Just check it.''

Mr. Business Traveler turned to the flight attendant and asked for help. Again, the seated guy said, "Don't touch that bag.''

The flight attendant saw there was enough room for the small bag to be moved to the side, to allow the rolling bag to fit in the bin. "Sir, I'm just going to move your bag to the side,'' she said diplomatically, and she did.

"Son of a bitch!'' the seated guy spat out, staring at the businessman. "Son of a bitch!''

The businessman loaded his bag into the overhead bin and stood there for a minute, trying to decide what to do. He looked at the seated guy, who was still simmering. The businessman thought better of slugging the idiot in the jaw and sat down two rows behind him.

Can't we all just get along?

In an unrelated note:

A few minutes later, one of the flight attendants announced the movie that would be shown, Bucket List, starred "Morgan Freeman and Jack Nichols.''

Enjoyable/Aggravating Travel Note of the Week II

Wednesday, Santa Monica, Calif., 76 gas station, full-service regular: $5.09.9

Saturday, Iselin, N.J., Shell gas station, full-service regular: $3.53.9.

Somebody's got some 'splainin' to do.

Factoid of the Week That May Interest Only Me

In Los Angeles, it is now against the law for an adult to smoke in a car when a minor is a passenger in the car.

Wow. I remember the days when my parents smoked during dinner.