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Bennett to Arizona would make senseBy Len Pasquarelli
The slow start of the Minnesota Vikings, and of Michael Bennett, has rekindled the offseason rumors that the tailback-needy Arizona Cardinals might be interested in acquiring the fifth-year veteran before the Oct. 18 trade deadline.
Michael Bennett
Running Back
Minnesota Vikings
Rush Yds TD Rec Yds TD
9 35 0 4 20 0
Indeed, officials from the two clubs spoke this week, in very, very preliminary terms, about a potential Bennett deal. And it certainly makes sense for a number of reasons: The former first-round pick (2001) hasn't played very well and didn't exactly endear himself to coach Mike Tice with two fumbles last week. There are some Minnesota staffers who would prefer to go with younger tailbacks such as Mewelde Moore, Ciatrick Fason and even Joe Echemandu. And Cardinals coach Dennis Green is the guy who originally drafted the speedy Bennett.
But, because Bennett is in the final year of his original rookie deal (base salary: $1.446 million) and eligible for unrestricted free agency next spring, the Cards aren't going to trade for him without a contract extension. And according to agent Pat Dye Jr., there have been no discussions yet about a contract add-on.
So for now at least, or until someone draws Dye into the loop, the trade discussions are little more than idle talk. A lot more smoke than fire, which isn't to say things won't heat up. Pro scouts to whom we speak agree that Bennett still is a talented runner, but his career has come undone because of injuries. Nearly half of his career output came in 2002, when he rushed for 1,296 yards, earning a Pro Bowl berth in only his second season. Since then, though, a series of injuries has limited the former Wisconsin star to 169 carries and 758 yards.
More from Minnesota: Interesting move by the ever-calculating Tice this week in whispering to some of the Twin Cities media -- if you ever wonder about leaks in the Vikings' ship, folks, look no further than to the guy on the sideline with the pencil stuck behind his ear -- that the offensive play calls will be filtered through his headset. That means Tice will have veto power over the plays called by embattled offensive coordinator Steve Loney.
Hey, as the head coach, that's his right. But it also means that, if the Minnesota offense suddenly registers a pulse, you-know-who is going to grab credit for changing Loney's selections. And if the unit continues to sputter, Tice likely will whisper that he really didn't want to step on Loney's toes, and didn't alter much of the offense. It's a no-lose situation for the head coach. Then again, if Minnesota continues to be a no-win team, it really won't matter much longer. That vote of confidence that new owner Zygi Wilf gave Tice this week isn't worth the newsprint on which it was published.
As we noted Monday, the one thing that could save Tice -- well, beyond a winning streak, of course -- is that his staff doesn't have a lot of potential choices as interim head coach. Defensive coordinator Ted Cottrell probably is the only assistant with enough experience, and with enough respect from the players to step in. And we've written enough features in the past two years about how interim coaches rarely reverse a team's fortunes to understand that Wilf might stick with Tice until the end of the season.
Even more from Minnesota: Completing the Vikings' trifecta, one Minnesota veteran told us this week that, while the running-game problems are the sum of a lot of dysfunctional components right now, the biggest shortcoming is that the offensive line simply isn't very strong without Pro Bowl center Matt Birk anchoring the unit.
Birk's replacement, journeyman Cory Withrow, is being rag-dolled by bigger defensive tackles and it's only a matter of time until he is replaced by Melvin Fowler, acquired from Cleveland in a Labor Day trade. Left tackle Bryant McKinnie is a superior pass-blocker, but his great feet don't necessarily translate into the kind of functional strength needed to knock defenders off the line of scrimmage. Right tackle Mike Rosenthal also is a solid technician, but not very strong. And rookie right guard Marcus Johnson, a second-round draft pick, at times plays like, well, a rookie.
The Vikings had an opportunity to add a more powerful inside blocker this week when they brought in veteran free agent Ross Tucker, who has played center and guard and has 24 starts on his résumé, for a Tuesday workout. The Vikings didn't sign Tucker, though, in part because there was internal disagreement about how much he could help them.
Shakeup in Houston: From what we hear, deposed offensive coordinator Chris Palmer could have stuck with the Houston Texans through the end of the year, likely as the quarterbacks coach. But who could blame Palmer for not wanting to hang around after coach Dom Capers stripped him of the coordinator role earlier this week? It would have been an uneasy existence tutoring regressive quarterback David Carr, who helped grease the skids for Palmer's exit, after all.
It's also notable that the offense that was so miserable over the first two games was tinkered with during the offseason by Joe Pendry, the line coach who has been elevated to coordinator. Guess the changes that were made didn't pan out too well. The team's most obvious deficiency, ironically, is the line, the unit Pendry coached. It's tough to defend the results Palmer got from Carr, and from the offense in general, and we don't want to come off as an apologist. But the problems with the offense run a lot deeper than one man, and it will be interesting now to see whether Carr steps up his game, after acknowledging he didn't feel very comfortable with the design in the first two outings. Palmer eventually will land on his feet. In fact, he's already heard from one AFC team about a possible position down the road.
It was good to see, in the wake of Palmer's dismissal, that Capers took some accountability for the Texans' defensive shortcomings. The team benched two starters, linebacker Jason Babin and cornerback Philip Buchanon, two guys in whom Houston officials essentially invested five draft choices. They dealt three picks in the 2004 draft to Tennessee to move up for Babin and then sent the Oakland Raiders two selections this year for Buchanon. General manager Charley Casserly and owner Bob McNair expect more from this team and, given their efforts, they should. Now the heat is on Capers to deliver some victories.
One final ironic note on the Palmer departure: His wife, Donna, recently made the long drive back to Houston after an extended vacation in the New England area. Her traveling companion on the trip: Karen Capers, the wife of the head coach.
Thumbs up and thumbs down: Thumbs up to commissioner Paul Tagliabue and the league for last Monday night's telethon. No matter the argument about having the New Orleans Saints play their first "home" game in Giants Stadium, the telethon was well done, very tasteful (yeah, even Tony Danza), and raised a lot of money for people who desperately need it. The event once again demonstrated the commissioner's often overlooked social conscience.
Then again, thumbs down to The Commish for his backhanded swipe at the city of San Antonio, which he labeled a "small market" when reporters asked if the town might be a suitable permanent home for the displaced Saints. San Antonio has opened its arms to the homeless Saints and exercised great sensitivity in trying not to look like some NFL-hungry city attempting to steal a franchise.
Someone needs to remind Tagliabue that, a little more than a decade ago, the league awarded expansion franchises to Jacksonville and Carolina, when league-tested cities St. Louis and Baltimore were without teams. The Jags have had so many problems selling tickets that they had to cover nearly 10,000 seats at Alltel Stadium this season to help reach sellout status. Anyone who was at the Panthers' opener two weeks ago couldn't help but wonder where all the fans went at halftime. There were yawning stretches of empty teal seats for the second half. It's as if everyone went to the concessions stands and never returned.
Back on the defensive: Don't be too surprised to see wide receiver Troy Brown taking snaps again at cornerback as he did for New England a year ago. The Patriots coaches have apprised the versatile Brown, who recorded three interceptions last year while playing cornerback, to be prepared to play some on defense if the injury situation gets any worse.
The team felt it had sufficiently bolstered itself at cornerback this spring, and wouldn't suffer from the body-count problems of 2004, by trading for Duane Starks, signing Chad Scott as a free agent and using a third-round draft choice on Ellis Hobbs. But five of the 10 defensive backs on the Patriots' roster -- corners Tyrone Poole, Randall Gay, Starks and Scott, and rookie safety James Sanders -- are on the injury report for Sunday's game at Pittsburgh. So the buttressing efforts aside, New England is again thin in the secondary, although none of the injuries is considered serious and several of the walking wounded intend to play at Heinz Field.
In a pinch, of course, free safety Eugene Wilson can move outside to cornerback, the position he played in college. Or Brown, who was recruited by the New Orleans Saints as an unrestricted free agent this spring and told he would be exclusively the No. 3 wide receiver, could return to his two-way responsibilities.
Stress management: In the wake of the stroke recently suffered by Seattle defensive coordinator Ray Rhodes, and the locker-room collapse of Jacksonville offensive line coach Paul Boudreau, there are some league assistants talking among themselves about the need to better assess the stress involved with their jobs. And it might become more than just private dialogue. Some coaches to whom we spoke this week might raise the issue with Larry Kennan, executive director of the NFL Coaches Association, and a gentleman with the ability to broaden the awareness of his constituents.
The recent salary spiral notwithstanding, NFL coaches work excruciatingly long hours and their lifestyles during the season leave a lot to be desired. Rhodes is one of the most high-strung individuals you'll ever meet in any walk of life. But his stroke might have served as a wake-up call that league coaches in general need to take better care of themselves.
Line issues in Jacksonville: It won't happen this week, but it's really just a matter of time (and not much time) until the Jacksonville Jaguars have their third different starting left offensive tackle for this season. Second-round draft pick Khalif Barnes, who some scouts felt was a first-rounder until a couple of weeks before the lottery, will be active for Sunday's game against the New York Jets and is expected to get some snaps.
The former University of Washington standout wasn't even active for the first two games of the season. But the two veterans in front of him, Mike Pearson and Ephraim Salaam, have struggled mightily and the poor play at the line's most critical position has to be rectified.
It's obvious that Pearson, who started the opener, hasn't recovered from the catastrophic knee injury (three torn ligaments) that he suffered in the fourth game last season. Salaam has played mostly right tackle in his career and doesn't have the feet to succeed on the left side. He was abused last Sunday by Indianapolis right defensive end Dwight Freeney. So likely within a week or two, Barnes will get his shot to see whether he can keep quarterback Byron Leftwich perpendicular. The only reason Barnes isn't starting Sunday is because the staff figures that Jets rush-end John Abraham might skewer him.
William Joseph
Defensive Tackle
New York Giants
Tot Ast Solo FF Sack Int
4 2 2 0 1 0
Patience is a virtue: Sometimes patience with a first-round draft choice who isn't immediately productive at the NFL level eventually pays off. And other times, it simply means a team has delayed too long in admitting its mistake on a first-round bust, and must eat its crow overcooked. For the New York Giants and third-year defensive tackle William Joseph, the club's first pick in the 2003 lottery, it is beginning to look like patience was indeed virtuous.
The former University of Miami standout, the 25th overall selection in '03, suddenly looks like the interior force he was projected to be by Giants scouts. In his first two seasons, Joseph came pretty close at times to being labeled with the dread "bust" moniker. He started in just four of 29 games, registered only 31 tackles and three sacks, and appeared to be a reach by a team that desperately needed line help in the '03 draft. But Joseph had a solid training camp, one in which coaches agreed he was much-improved and far more motivated, and has performed very nicely in the first two games of the year. He has four tackles, one sack and a fumble recovery, not statistics that suggest he will become a dominant interior defender, but solid numbers. As with most tackles, the statistics don't indicate how well Joseph has played so far.
No doubt about it, the free-agent addition of former Redskins middle linebacker Antonio Pierce (20 tackles in two outings) was the key defensive move made by New York general manager Ernie Accorsi in the offseason. But the play of Joseph also has helped secure the interior and, maybe now Accorsi won't have to listen to the skeptics who panned the selection of Joseph in 2003.
Backup plan: He told us so and now all the doubters, us included, might be forced to concede that Cincinnati coach Marvin Lewis made a solid move in choosing tailback Chris Perry in the first round of the 2004 draft. The former University of Michigan standout was a non-factor as a rookie, appearing in only two games and logging just two carries because of a spate of injuries. A pair of offseason surgeries to repair sports hernias limited Perry at the outset of camp, providing considerable fodder for the skeptics, but when we visited the Bengals this summer, Lewis was still adamant that the youngster was "terrific."
Through two games, Perry certainly has lived up to that assessment, and looks to be a pretty nifty complement to starting tailback Rudi Johnson. Coming off the bench, Perry has carried 14 times for 58 yards and has nine receptions for 70 yards, mostly as a nickel tailback. Last week, he had an 84-yard touchdown reception negated by a penalty.
Johnson remains a workhorse, on pace for 384 carries, which would break the franchise record he established last year, when he logged 361 attempts. But Perry has demonstrated through two games that, when Johnson requires a breather, the Cincinnati offense doesn't have to go on a ventilator. He certainly looks like the explosive-type playmaker Lewis felt he was getting when he chose him in the first round.
Without taking anything away from the inside power dimension that Johnson provides, the coaches want to get the ball into Perry's hands and let him make plays. That balancing act will be the challenge for coordinator Bob Bratkowski and his offensive staff. No true No. 2 tailback (we're not counting Pittsburgh's Duce Staley, who lost his starting job because of injury) recorded more touches from scrimmage in 2004 than Chester Taylor of Baltimore, who had 190. Perry is currently on pace for 184 touches and, if he gets that many, he is going to make Lewis look very good, indeed.
Marshall plan: On the subject of complementary backs, St. Louis Rams star Marshall Faulk ought to be complimented on the grace that he has demonstrated in handling his No. 2 role in the twilight of a Hall of Fame career. The seven-time Pro Bowl performer has only six carries and nine touches in the Rams' first two games. At the current rate, Faulk, 32, would finish the season with only 72 touches from scrimmage. This for a guy who had averaged 317.6 touches per season and 21.6 per game before this year, who five times had more than 340 touches in a campaign, and whose previous season low was 245.
We're betting when Rams coach Mike Martz told his veteran back that Steven Jackson was going to be the starter this year, and Faulk agreed that should be the case, he still anticipated a more ambitious workload than the one he has experienced through the first couple weeks. We're betting, as well, that Martz figured he could get Faulk on the field more, too.
But part of the equation is that young wide receivers Kevin Curtis and Shaun McDonald have developed so well as the Nos. 3 and 4 players at the position, with both capable of big plays, that there is little opportunity to use Faulk flexed out or in the slot. Faulk is a wonderful receiver, a back with better hands than many wideouts, and a guy who averaged 83.4 receptions in one five-season (1998-2002) stretch. As accomplished a pass-catcher as he is, though, Faulk isn't about to bump Curtis or McDonald off the field anytime soon on third downs.
Corey Simon
Defensive Tackle
Indianapolis Colts
Tot Ast Solo FF Sack Int
7 2 5 1 0 0
Money player: He's maybe 40 pounds over his listed playing weight of 293, and Corey Simon might spend the first half of the season simply getting into some semblance of shape, but the veteran defensive tackle still looks like an excellent pickup by the Indianapolis Colts. As we noted in the "Morning After" column on Monday, the former Philadelphia Eagles star has made an immediate impact in the Colts' locker room. He is a guy to whom the other players, veterans and youngsters alike, seem to gravitate.
While Simon has played just 55 snaps in two games, has just six tackles and is yet to register a sack, he is starting to make a difference on the field. It's not just happenstance that the Colts' two other tackles, Larry Tripplett and Montae Reagor, have five sacks between them. Or that six of Indianapolis' nine sacks for the year have come when Simon was on the field. "He just pushes people around, eats up blockers, and makes life easier for everyone else," said end Dwight Freeney, arguably the NFL's most dominant pass rusher now.
Also, as noted on Monday, forget the talk that Simon is playing for his future. Contrary to some reports, the $8 million option bonus the Colts owe Simon next spring is fully guaranteed. It's guaranteed for skill and injury and there is also a non-exercise penalty of $8 million. So if Simon is injured, the Colts still owe him the money. If he is released, he still gets paid. And if the Colts don't exercise the option, he collects then, too. The upshot is that Simon will be around in 2006, meaning he'll earn a whopping $16.045 million in his first two seasons with the Colts, and $20 million if he sticks around through 2007. After that, his base salaries jump to $5 million each in 2008 and 2009, so he'll either have reworked his deal or could be gone by then.
Running to nowhere: Rumor has it that, during the Baltimore Ravens' bye week, starting wide receiver Clarence Moore will be demoted, possibly in favor of first-round pick Mark Clayton. If so, the move is probably a good one, but it's also like sending the fictional Little Dutch Boy to New Orleans to see if he can plug the leaky levees there.
Brian Billick brought in Jim Fassel and Rick Neuheisel to try to fix the offense problems he apparently couldn't correct himself, and the results to date have been disastrous. Never mind that the Ravens lost starting quarterback Kyle Boller to a toe injury that will probably sideline him until late October. A more glaring problem is that the Ravens have panicked in each of their two losses and abandoned their onetime run-first mind-set.
In the opener, they trailed Indianapolis only 3-0, but came out in the second half throwing on six straight downs and all but ignoring tailback Jamal Lewis, their offensive centerpiece. Last week, down 10-0 to Tennessee at the half, Baltimore threw on its first nine snaps, and 14 of its first 15 plays, in the third quarter. Most scouts from other teams who have seen Lewis in person contend he still isn't recovered from offseason ankle surgery. Still, he's the horse that the Ravens have to ride. And if he isn't 100 percent, backup Chester Taylor is a pretty nice alternative. The offensive line, led by veteran assistant Chris Foerster, who is in his first season with the franchise, hasn't played very well, either.
Lewis ran for 40 yards on seven carries in the first quarter of the opener against the Colts. That included bursts of nine and 25 yards. In the seven quarters since then, Lewis has carried 19 times for just 17 yards. His longest run has been for 13 yards. Ten of his 19 carries have been for minus yardage and 15 have netted one yard or less. How about this un-Ravens-like offensive split: 80 pass plays and just 34 runs in two games.
Building depth: One of the most impressive elements about the Carolina Panthers when we visited with them in training camp in late July was the improved depth that general manager Marty Hurney and coach John Fox worked so hard on creating in the offseason. Just a couple weeks into the season, that depth, especially at a few key positions, had already proved invaluable.
A good example is at safety, where without any fanfare the Panthers added veterans Idrees Bashir and Marlon McCree, with 90 regular-season starts between them. With first-round pick Thomas Davis struggling at strong safety, McCree has provided a big lift at the position. And if free safety Mike Minter can't play Sunday, although his physical situation has improved during the week, Bashir will start.
The Panthers signed former Falcons starter Chris Draft because he has lined up at all three linebacker spots, and he might have to start on the weakside Sunday if Will Witherspoon can't go. Former starter Ricky Manning Jr., who has been playing as the nickel corner, could start if Ken Lucas is still laid up. It wasn't as if the Panthers paid a fortune to get Bashir, McCree and Draft. In fact, all are minimum-type players, but all might pay handsome dividends.
Replacing Darius: A year ago, no one would have dared suggest this: The Jacksonville Jaguars' defense might actually miss starting strong safety Donovin Darius more against the pass than the run. Jags coaches are confident that fourth-year veteran Deke Cooper, who will replace Darius (torn anterior cruciate ligament) the rest of the year and has just 10 previous starts on his résumé, will remain stout in run defense. In fact, last summer, there were some Jags staffers who felt Cooper might be pushing Darius for the starting job, because of his big-hitting style.
Playing down "in the box," Cooper, a special teams standout, figures to deliver some jaw-rattling tackles. He isn't nearly as good as Darius, though, in coverage. Then again, until 2004, most scouts felt Darius was a coverage liability as well. That was before Darius suddenly emerged as a solid cover player, and authored a career-best five interceptions. Darius gave the Jaguars a secondary player who could alter games with the big takeaway, something he hadn't done in the past.
Out with the old: ESPN.com colleague John Clayton will write on Saturday about the "disappearing" fullback in the NFL. A timely topic, given that there were just 36 starts (of a possible 64) by fullbacks in the first two weeks of the season. In the situations where teams did not have a fullback in the starting lineup, they used either an H-back or third wide receiver.
One fullback who really is disappearing, and who has been suddenly relegated now to splitting playing time is Fred Beasley of San Francisco, a onetime Pro Bowl performer who isn't quite as admired by the Mike Nolan staff as he was by previous coaches. The new coaches have quickly fallen in love with journeyman Chris Hetherington, who is with his fifth different franchise in nine seasons, and has largely been a special teams contributor during his NFL tenure. Hetherington was claimed on waivers at the outset of the season and, given Beasley's recently shrinking workload, could soon move into the starting lineup.
An eighth-year veteran who recently earned his master's degree, has expanded his interests beyond the field and is beginning to plan for his football afterlife, Beasley missed a lot of the offseason program that Nolan and his staff set up, and that didn't sit well with some members of the new staff. He's making $1.5 million this year, the final season of his contract, and it isn't likely the 49ers will bring him back for '06 at anything close to that kind of salary.
No criticism of the Nolan staff, but this is how it is sometimes when a regime change is made. The new guys don't owe any loyalty to the players they inherited and sometimes, as in the case of both Hetherington and Beasley, view players through a different prism.
Veteran RBs looking for work: Add the rehabilitated Charlie Garner, who is nearly 100 percent recovered from the knee injury that limited him to three appearances in '04 and basically got him pink-slipped by Tampa Bay last month, to the list of 30-something tailbacks still looking for work instead of filing for retirement. Garner's representatives have been phoning around, attempting to generate some interest, and at least got a call-back from the Raiders, a team that never will be taken to court for age discrimination. But no one has promised Garner a workout yet, not even Oakland, for which he once starred, and he appears to be facing the same sobering reality as the rest of the unemployed tailbacks in his age group.
Nobody seems to want any of these guys. Eddie George (age: 32), Tyrone Wheatley (33), Dorsey Levens (35) and Garrison Hearst (34) all still want to play.
Like those players, Garner, 33, should not expect the phone to ring anytime soon. The Indianapolis Colts, because of injuries to backup tailbacks Dominic Rhodes (shoulder) and James Mungro (knee), had to sign two running backs this week. They didn't even consider any of the old guys. Instead they added rookie Anthony Davis, a seventh-round pick who had been in camp with them but was waived, and Kory Chapman, who spent most of the 2004 season on the New England practice squad.
Eli Manning
New York Giants
Att Comp PaTD RuTD Int Rat
47 23 3 0 2 76.3
Hostile territory: During his stellar SEC career, Eli Manning played in front of some pretty nasty crowds. But even Manning conceded this week he has probably never seen, or certainly heard, anything like the reception he figures to get when the Giants travel to San Diego for the week's Sunday prime time matchup. The Chargers fans, at least the ones who show up, aren't apt to forget that Manning refused to play for the team after it made him the top overall choice in the 2004 draft. That precipitated, of course, the landmark deal in which the Chargers dealt Manning to the Giants for fellow first-round quarterback Philip Rivers.
In the first two games of his first year as the Giants' full-time starter, Manning has done a pretty nice job managing the offense. But the famous Manning Family Nerves certainly will be tested against the Chargers' defense and in front of a crowd that will attempt to verbally blitz him into submission. You think, knowing the marketing geniuses in the NFL, that it's just happenstance the Giants-Chargers encounter is a prime time affair?
"I don't know," Manning said, "if I've ever played in a place where the team had a reason to dislike me." Well said but, in truth, not quite accurate. The Chargers players, who went 12-4 with Drew Brees playing quarterback, aren't taking Manning's snub nearly as seriously as are their fans.
Receiving a helping hand: Maybe it was just the normal due diligence that every franchise performs, bringing in free-agent players for workouts, updating their files on veteran players who might be part of the "ready" list in event of an injury. Or perhaps, in quietly auditioning free agent Jerome Pathon on Friday, the Atlanta Falcons really are finally ready to concede that the wide receiver position needs to be upgraded.
The rhetoric from Atlanta officials is that the young wide-receiver corps continues to make progress, that the West Coast-spinoff offense installed in 2004 takes time for everyone to assimilate, and that it's only a matter of time until first-round receivers such as Michael Jenkins and Roddy White begin to make plays on a consistent basis. But deeds speak louder than words in the NFL, and the Atlanta wideouts have just 12 catches for 160 yards and one touchdown in two outings. There are 10 individual wide receivers in the league with more than Atlanta's aggregate catches and 16 with more receiving yards.
Released by Seattle just before the start of the season, Pathon has subsequently worked out for Green Bay, Indianapolis and Kansas City and, somewhat surprisingly, remains unsigned. The seven-year veteran has played in 93 games and has 259 catches for 3,332 yards and 15 touchdowns. Pathon, 29, has never quite lived up to the second-round status he enjoyed when the Colts chose him in the 1998 draft, but he might provide Atlanta a steady, veteran presence and a receiver who knows how to get open.
QB shuffling: When the Baltimore Ravens released Derek Anderson on Tuesday, they hoped to sneak the rookie quarterback, whose potential they like, through waivers and then re-sign him to the practice squad. But the Cleveland Browns, where former Ravens personnel chief Phil Savage is now the general manager, scuttled the plan by claiming Anderson. The Ravens then were forced to sign former Pittsburgh third-stringer Brian St. Pierre to the practice squad.
To make room for Anderson, the Browns released journeyman Doug Johnson. That leaves the Browns with a pair of backups who have never thrown a regular-season pass (third-round pick Charlie Frye and Anderson) behind Trent Dilfer.
Early returns: It's only two games, but some people are beginning to wonder if the Falcons overpaid new middle linebacker Ed Hartwell, their most significant free-agent acquisition in the offseason. The former Ravens starter hasn't done a lot yet and Atlanta gave him $8 million in bonuses as part of a six-year, $26.25 million deal. Oddly, that came after the Falcons pursued Eagles middle linebacker Jeremiah Trotter, but couldn't get him when general manager Rich McKay decided he didn't want to pay more than $2.5 million per year for a player who's only on the field for first and second down. Notably, Hartwell doesn't play in the "sub" defenses, either. Sounds suspiciously like one of those deals in which Falcons owner Arthur Blank wanted a player a little more than some of his football people did.
Stat of the week: A victory at Pittsburgh on Sunday would give Tom Brady of the Patriots 50 regular-season wins in only 65 starts and he would become the second-fastest quarterback in NFL history to achieve that milestone. Ken Stabler earned his 50th win in just his 62nd start. There were six quarterbacks chosen in the 2000 draft ahead of Brady, a sixth-rounder and the 199th player off the board: Chad Pennington (New York Jets, first round, No. 18 overall), Gio Carmazzi (San Francisco, third round, No. 65), Chris Redman (Baltimore, third round, No. 75), Tee Martin (Pittsburgh, fifth round, No. 163), Marc Bulger (New Orleans, sixth round, No. 168) and Spergon Wynn (Cleveland, sixth round, No. 183). Those six have combined for just 51 career victories.
Punts: Pittsburgh quarterback Ben Roethlisberger has thrown just 32 times in two games. But he is averaging 14.8 yards per attempt and 20.5 yards per completion. ... If defensive end Brady Smith (quadriceps) can't play on Sunday, the Atlanta Falcons will flip left end Patrick Kerney to the right side for the second straight week, and play rookie Chauncey Davis as the starter at left end. Kerney was dominated last Sunday when he played the right side and faced Seattle star left offensive tackle Walter Jones. ... Out-of-work wide receiver Freddie Mitchell, released by Kansas City two weeks ago, is nearly finished rehabilitating from arthroscopic knee surgery and should soon be able to work out for any interested teams. ... New Orleans coaches are still kicking themselves for calling an ill-fated reverse on the opening kickoff of Sunday's loss to the New York Giants in the Saints' so-called "home opener." The staff spent the offseason talking up the need for simplicity and then failed to practice what it preached. When the Saints fumbled the kickoff, one coach noted in retrospect, it "sucked all the air" out of the team's emotional balloon. The Saints then lost ace return specialist Michael Lewis later in the game. ... Chicago Bears second-year corner Nathan Vasher, who some scouts felt was emerging as one of the best nickel defenders in the NFL, has played extremely well in starting the first two games in place of the still-recovering Jerry Azumah. ... Lions wide receiver Charles Rogers, who missed most of the past two seasons after suffering a fractured collarbone each year, is struggling to retain his starting job. ... Defensive end John Abraham, the Jets' "franchise" player, has been terrific in the first two games of the season. The team, though, hasn't opened talks yet on a potential long-term contract. ... A few Indianapolis offensive players feel the team misses tight end Marcus Pollard, who signed with Detroit as a free agent in the offseason. ... Redskins quarterback Mark Brunell had more passing yards in the final four minutes of Monday's stunning comeback at Dallas (119) than he had in seven of his previous 11 appearances. ... Philadelphia kicker David Akers has missed five of his last eight field-goal attempts. He had missed only five in his previous 44 tries. ... San Francisco rookie quarterback Alex Smith, who figures to soon get his first regular-season start, threw one pass last Sunday in relief of Tim Rattay and it was incomplete. Still, the first overall choice in the 2005 draft has a higher passer rating (39.6) than does Rattay (21.3). ... Will Allen has retained his starting job at left cornerback for the Giants, but might be holding on only because second-rounder Corey Webster is battling a quadriceps injury. ... Kerry Collins is 3-12 as the Oakland Raiders' starter. ... It's not his preference, but Tennessee coach Jeff Fisher will continue the time-sharing plan with first-rounder Pacman Jones and Tony Beckham at right cornerback for at least another week or two. ... Steelers tailback Duce Staley, who has been inactive for the first two games, could see his first action of the season on Sunday against the Patriots. ... Redskins linebacker LaVar Arrington, he of the $60 million contract, continues to play behind Warrick Holdman, and continues to chafe about his backup status.
The last word: "Tuesday is no longer [like] a ghost house around here." -- Cincinnati coach Marvin Lewis on how many more players have been at the team's complex on Tuesdays, the normal off-day, with the Bengals' 2-0 start.
Len Pasquarelli is a senior NFL writer for ESPN.com. To check out Len's chat archive, click here .
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Topic: Husband recently diagnosed
Good Morning,
I'm Christine and my husband was diagnosed with CC on 4/22. Completely devastating as he is so very healthy otherwise and always hyper vigilant with his health. We feel blindsided with this diagnosis as we weren't really given a chance to discover it sooner, it presented with upper right stomach pain only after it had basically engulfed his liver.
Anyway, we just spent a week in Rochester,MN at Mayo. What an amazing place. Unfortunately, he is not a liver transplant candidate. Our course of treatment is going to be Therasphere and then chemo. We will be going back to Mayo for this treatment. Does anyone have experience with this? He has already had his mapping angiogram.
Another question I have is that although we haven't started treatment, he is extremely tired and sleeps a lot. I expect this after treatment but is this also just a sign of this hateful disease? We have three kids and this just isn't their daddy. .
Ok, thanks...nice to "meet" all of you

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Del Monte Fresh Produce NA Inc. is the winning bidder for the majority of farmland that was auctioned by the defunct East Coast Brokers and Packers Inc.
In a bankruptcy auction, the Coral Gables, Fla.-based Del Monte paid $34.8 million for 5,851 acres of the former tomato grower-shipper's land and packinghouses in Florida and Virginia owned by the Madonia family, according to court documents.
The purchase includes East Coast's principal packinghouse in Mulberry, Fla., as well as in Mappsville, Va.
Del Monte's bought 3,370 acres in central and south Florida and 2,481 acres in Virginia's Eastern Shore, as well as numerous worker camps in both states.
Immokalee, Fla.-based Lipman-owned Kuzzens Inc., purchased a Mappsville packinghouse for $325,000, according to court records.
Jack Sizemore, president of Plant City, Fla. strawberry grower-shipper JayMar Farms, bought 178 acres of land near Lakeland, Fla., for $3 million, according to court records.
Potato grower-shipper Benny F. Hall & Sons, Hallwood, Va., paid $196,000 for East Coast's Byrd Foods packinghouse in Greenbush, Va., according to court records. In a credit bid, a bank paid $770,000 for a Ruskin, Fla., packinghouse.
Other packing and cold storage facilities in Ranson, Va., and Winchester, Va., as well as the Madonia-owned Red Rose Inn & Suites in Plant City, went unsold.
A variety of real estate developers and individuals purchased other Madonia properties, homes and condominiums.
A bankruptcy court is scheduled to approve bids on Sept. 5.
One of Florida's biggest tomato grower-shippers, East Coast stopped operations last fall and filed for bankruptcy protection in March.
When it closed, its owners owed at least $51 million to a variety of agribusiness and crop production-related firms.


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There's a a spot somewhere around your right pec, maybe just passed your right pec. It kind of feels like the disc is falling into a little pothole on it's path across your chest and towards the target, where your wrist bends closed from neutral (the momentum and weight of the disc seem to cause it). I've been waiting to hit this little "pothole" (I think this is BW's "apex") to wait until I apply any power at all to my throw. I've been getting a lot of 380 to 400 footer's.
Right below my first knuckle along the side of my index finger is getting really raw from starting the drills. I do feel the "feeling" of whats suppose to be going on, but do I stop after the rawness starts to get intense and resume the next day to let the callus come? I've got the first three drills down. I've been repeating them.
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2. make sure you bring the head of the hammer (outer edge of the disc) around during your extension. ideal position is where the head of the hammer is pointing towards the target (your hand will be at around a 4 o'clock orientation).
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NEW YORK -- Terry Collins is nothing if not persistent.
New York's manager stuck to his guns Saturday, when he used the same batting order that netted three hits in a shutout loss to the Phillies on Friday. Collins credited opposing starter Kyle Kendrick for shutting his team down, but he said he can't allow that to interfere with his game plan.
Mike Baxter was batting leadoff again on Saturday, and Daniel Murphy and David Wright were batting back to back in the heart of the lineup. Collins said things will change in Sunday's series finale against left-hander Cole Hamels, but he wanted to give Wright another shot in the cleanup slot.
"We thought this out pretty good to try to get some guys on ahead of David," said Collins. "Giving it one night and then saying, 'Blow it up,' I don't like the way that looks. We'll try it again."
Wright went 1-for-4 on Friday night, and the Mets had just one runner reach scoring position against Kendrick. But there's reason to believe the new alignment can work. Wright has played in 192 games as a cleanup hitter, and he's batted .308 with 31 home runs and 123 RBIs in 730 at-bats.
The Mets grouped Lucas Duda, John Buck and former cleanup man Ike Davis in sequence after Wright, giving the team plenty of power to spare in the bottom part of the order. Now, said Collins, the key is to be patient and wait for Philadelphia's pitchers to make a mistake or two.
"You always hope somebody runs away with the job. On a daily basis, you put the lineup up there and say, 'I want one of those guys to step up and start mashing,'" said Collins. "That team over there, I know it's been a couple years, but they won five years in a row. They're pretty good. And [Kendrick] pitched a good game. It wasn't that we put the wrong guys in the lineup. He pitched a great game, and I'm not going to show panic by saying, 'Now we've got to change the lineup again.'"
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ORLANDO, Fla. - The University of Central Florida has confirmed that a fraternity is temporarily suspended, pending an investigation, after a photo of alleged hazing was posted to a social media website.
WKMG-TV obtained a letter that was sent to UCF's chapter of Sigma Chi. Dated Feb. 8, it alerts the fraternity to its interim suspension and charges the student organization with disruptive conduct, alcohol misconduct and hazing.
The allegations stem from the photo, which appears to show a fraternity member giving a male pledge a drink, while two others sit hunched over appearing sick from drinking too much alcohol.
Student media outlet KnightNews.com reported the photo was posted to the Facebook page for a website that mocks Greek Life, TotalFratMove.com. The picture was accompanied with the following caption: "Forcing a pledge to chug while two others puke in misery. Total Frat Move," reports Knight News.
Chad Binette, a university spokesman, said the university had received the photo, which launched the investigation. Binette said the university also received some additional information about the incident, but could not elaborate.
Hazing is against Florida Law, but the Orange County Sheriff's Office would not commence its own investigation unless the university or a victim reported the allegations. Binette was not aware if the university reported the hazing allegations to law enforcement. The photo was taken at a local bar within OCSO jurisdiction.
According to the letter detailing Sigma Chi's punishment, a review meeting will be held on Feb. 22. The attendance of the chief officer of the group is mandatory. In the interim, the fraternity is not allowed to hold any group activities.
This weekend marked the end of a week-long philanthropy event called Derby Days for the fraternity. Its final event, a barbecue set to take place Saturday, was abruptly canceled according to the event's Facebook page.
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Fritz wrote:Frank Delicious wrote:Use full names dammit (I have figured out who Emac is)
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BELDING, Mich. — Supermarket apple prices have climbed to the highest levels in nearly three years, and retailers are bracing for further increases, even with Michigan growers expected to harvest one of their largest crops in the past two decades.
Apple supplies have tightened because of a smaller crop from Washington, the top U.S. apple grower. That's pushing up costs for supermarket chains such as Strack & Van Til, which operates 16 stores, mostly in northwest Indiana. Washington's pain will be Michigan's gain, said Rick Wise, director of produce.
Michigan growers "are going to take advantage of the market," Wise said. "Prices are going to start out high."
Wise said prices he's paying for 3-pound bags of paula red apples, for example, were already up 65-70 cents, or 30%, compared with levels a year ago.
Nationwide, red delicious apples averaged $1.37 a pound at retail during July, up 6.2% from $1.29 the same month in 2010, according to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data. That's the highest monthly price, not adjusted for inflation, since $1.42 in October 2008.
As apple supplies tightened, prices rose faster than for many other produce items, contributing to a broader acceleration in food inflation that's pushing Americans' grocery bills higher. For the full year, fresh produce inflation is on pace to rise 3.5% to 4.5%, the largest annual increase since 2008, according to a recent U.S. Department of Agriculture forecast. Prices rose 0.6% last year after falling 4.6% in 2009.
Tighter apple supplies partly reflect a cold, wet spring that curbed production in key growing regions. Washington's apple harvest was projected at 5.4 billion pounds, down 2.7% from 2010, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. New York's crop is expected to decline 1.6%.
"The weather has been the biggest culprit at this point, with an assist from energy-based inputs and transportation costs," said USDA economist Gary Lucier.
"All these products also have to be transported to market, and with high petroleum costs that has added to retail prices."
A continuing food price escalation raise questions whether consumers, pressed by high unemployment and expensive gasoline, will cut back on some items, analysts have said.
Wise said he is mostly absorbing rising produce costs rather than passing higher prices along to his store aisles.
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Now, I don't consider myself to have an addictive personality (the number of cars owned doesn't count, does it?), but the first time "the juice" kicked in at wide open throttle and threw my ass back in the seat, I was sucked in. Talk about being blown away! I had no idea the rush one could get from just 100 extra horsepower. I was hooked. I needed more.
I know there are a lot of you guys who have been "juicing" for a long time and deal with your nitrous addiction by either banning yourself from the stuff completely or becoming a hopeless junkie and have built a tolerance for a larger hit; say in the 200hp range? Or maybe you've gone as far as a 400 shot delivered in a multi-stage application. And for those of you yet to take that first hit—don't judge. You have no say until you've given it a shot (no pun intended).
Like all over-the-counter "mood enhancers," it's very important you remain in control and mindful of a possible overdose. You must abide by the laws of physics and take some necessary precautions before you experiment with larger doses. For example, that "trusty" 10-bolt you have back there now. That won't last. Your stock clutch, say good-bye to that slipping disc. And while you're at it, look into a stronger driveshaft. Trust me on that. I've twisted up one of those like a string of angel-hair pasta—and that was without nitrous. Drag radials and a nicely prepped track took car of that.
Those street-wise racers who have taken the obvious precautions and developed a high tolerance to nitrous most certainly are on their way to shots of 200, 400, and even larger. But to the less experienced, those amounts can be lethal. Be careful! I'm not going to pretend to be an expert and offer Dr. Drew, Dr. Phil, or even Dr. Seuss-sort of advice, but I will say, detonation is your absolute, number-one enemy. The end result of your reckless behavior could be catastrophic to say the least. You don't want to be the guy who causes an hour of downtime at the dragstrip. Heck, no one wants to clean up that mess, and I'm sure you don't want to get into the cost of a new engine.
So I'll go ahead and say it right here; I, Nick Licata, am addicted to nitrous oxide, but I'm totally under control and can stop any time. So, go ahead and talk behind my back, that's your prerogative. I mean, it's not like I'm to the point of retarding the timing and bumping up to a 250 shot ... well not yet, anyway.
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Wayne, having told the cook to "burn me a good thick one," is infuriated and snarls: "That's my steak, Valance. Pick it up." Marvin barks at Stewart: "You heard him. Pick it up." Wayne puts his hand near his six-shooter and repeats, "I said you, Liberty. You pick it up." Just as the two gunslingers are about to draw on each other, Stewart retrieves the steak and shouts, "There! What's the matter? Is everybody in this country kill crazy? You woulda killed him for one measly steak!"
And at the risk of offending Mom, apple-pie makers of America and the girl next door, what did Hollywood GIs like William Bendix and Richard Conte really dream about in those foxholes? A two-inch T-bone smothered in onions, with a baked potato on the side and a pitcher of cold beer. Beefsteaks are as tied to American machismo as old blues songs like "It Ain't the Meat, It's the Motion."
For most men and many women, a good thick steak represents one of the purest pleasures of gastronomy, but for others it symbolizes unbridled gluttony. Despite all the nutritional "terrorism" of the 1980s, Americans are still consuming prodigious amounts of beef--66.4 pounds per person last year. That's about 16.9 billion pounds annually, with 280 million pounds grilled on Father's Day alone, and another 200 million steaks thrown on the grill when the Fourth of July rolls around.
The beef industry loves to repeat the cliché that, while Americans may be eating about half the beef they did 20 years ago, when a man wants a steak, he wants a good one and is willing to pay handily for it. For this reason, America's most expensive steakhouses, from Peter Luger in Brooklyn to the Grill in Beverly Hills, are doing gangbuster business, and chains like Ruth's Chris, Morton's, and Palm are opening up more and more units every year, each one of them serving highly marbleized, fat-rich U.S. Prime.
With this proliferation, the need to know what you're getting becomes more important than ever, as even a big-league beefeater--the kind of man who thinks nothing of putting away a 16-ounce sirloin, a platter of french fries, a three-inch slice of cheesecake, a bottle of Cabernet, and then smoking a good cigar with a glass of Port--may know little or nothing about the beef he's eating. Even assuming that all the better steakhouses use high-grade meat, the differences in cut, preparation and price vary widely, as does quality itself. Most steakeaters regard good beef as an American birthright and assume there is an endless supply of U.S. Prime, like Ford Fiestas and lawyer jokes.
"I haven't had an empty table in 12 years," says Pat Cetta, who, with his brother Mike, owns Sparks Steak House in New York. It is a sentiment echoed in other New York beef emporiums like Peter Luger, Palm, Smith & Wollensky, Ben Benson's, Gallagher's, and the Old Homestead. This year the Palm chain will expand its current 11 units, Morton's of Chicago will add to its 18, and Ruth's Chris, out of New Orleans, is aiming for 35 or more units before the end of next year, including, like Morton's, a recent move into the big league, New York, in the fall.
Going into the tough New York market is a scary proposition for a steakhouse chain, but it is done for the same reason clothing designers open in Paris, opera singers go to Milan and gamblers to Monte Carlo. Those are the places that establish the standards, set the mold and form the traditions. For while chophouses and beefeaters' clubs existed in 18th-century London, the American steakhouse as we know it is really a phenomenon of the Prohibition era in New York.
True, the Old Homestead in Manhattan opened in 1868, Keens Chop House in 1885, Brooklyn's Gage & Tollner debuted in 1879, and Peter Luger in 1887, but those revered establishments drew more on English and German models. Luger still features only one cut of steak--the sliced porterhouse, a term derived from English taverns serving porter beer and popularized about 1814 as a steak in America by porterhouse proprietor Martin Morrison in New York.
The New York steakhouse--a term still used outside New York to draw customers in the same way ads proclaim "London pub" or "Parisian bistro"--developed along lines drawn at Palm (1926) and Gallagher's (1927), both of which originated as speakeasies during the Noble Experiment of Prohibition. Palm was run by two Italians, John Ganzi and Pio Bozzi, on Second Avenue. (The name was supposed to be "Parma," after the owners' hometown, but a city bureaucrat spelled it wrong on an official document, and so "Palm" it remained.) Gallagher's, on 52nd Street off Broadway, was named after former Ziegfeld-girl-turned-speakeasy-owner, Helen Gallagher. Both places democratically served a little beer, a little hooch and a little beefsteak to everyone from New York's politicians and journalists to Café Society, who sometimes got their pictures or caricatures put up on the walls. Such places had a swagger, a very masculine feel to them and a perception of exclusivity that made everyone want to go there.
After Prohibition ended in 1933, Palm, Gallagher's, Jack Lyons, Manny Wolf, Cavanaugh's, Christ Cella and Farrish's flourished. New York steakhouses got the best meat because they paid the most and charged the highest prices. The menu, rarely varied, became a formula for success: prime beef, lamb chops, lobsters, fried potatoes and cheesecake were pretty much the whole shebang. Wine lists were unknown until the 1980s, when Sparks and Smith & Wollensky invested heavily in wine cellars, winning some of the earliest awards from the Wine Spectator; both still hold the magazine's Grand Awards for their lists. Today Smith & Wollensky prides itself on having one of the largest selections of Cabernet Sauvignons in the world.
The decor was copycat, too: red-checkered or white tablecloths, unfinished furniture, varnished wood, inexpensive flatware and china, big oak bar and brusque waiters in ill-fitting, tan jackets apparently all bought from the same warehouse. Some, like Christ Cella, were as bare bones as a schoolroom; others, like Gallagher's, were decked out with autographed portraits of Broadway and sports legends. But they all expressed the no-nonsense, no-frills, we-don't-need-you attitude that made them both exasperating and irresistible--so that going to a New York steakhouse became a rite of passage for a young executive on his way up, the kind of place where you had to prove you belonged before they'd accept you.
But the supremacy of the New York steakhouse was always due to its service of U.S. Prime beef--and not just Prime, but the best Prime available. The simple fact is, until about 1980, almost no restaurants except New York steakhouses even bought Prime beef, which has never totaled more than 2 percent of all beef production in this country and usually stays steady at about 1 percent. Even after restaurants in Chicago, Washington, D.C., New Orleans and California began buying Prime, New York still had dibs on the finest available in the market. "The truth is, New York still pays the most and gets the best," acknowledges Henry Norton, owner of the superb Chicago Chop House in Chicago.
The distinctions that make one steak--even a Prime steak--good and another pure ecstasy are grounded in the realities of an industry where a lot of people will tell you anything you want to hear and make you believe it. One thing everyone in the steakhouse industry knows is that it's getting tougher and tougher to get Prime and that no matter what you pay, it's not going to taste as good as it did 20 years ago.
While all beef is inspected for health reasons by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), grading of meat by the agency is done only at the request of the meat packer, who pays a fee to a USDA grader. Over the past decade, the USDA, under pressure from the beef industry, has consistently lowered standards for fat and marbling in beef. The ostensible reason for this is to encourage leaner meat in the American diet, but it handily enables beef producers to reduce costs: it takes eight pounds of grain to build one pound of beef; a leaner animal costs less to produce. As a result, the higher grade of Choice may now be graded "low Prime," and within the Prime category itself, three degrees of marbling are recognized.
"I could put two pieces of Prime meat in front of you, and you'd see the difference immediately in the marbling," says Brian Reidy, general manager of Gallagher's. "The USDA has gotten so lax with its grading that it's become a joke, and a steakhouse operator has to be very demanding to get top quality. We buy only meat on the bone and butcher it and age it ourselves. That way we can tell the age and sex of the animal. The containers come in on Monday or Tuesday, we get the meat on Wednesday or Thursday and we never take meat on Friday because those are the leftovers. We then date it and dry age it for three more weeks at 36 degrees in our own lockers, so we control that steak every step of the way."
Indeed, when you go to Gallagher's, you'll actually see the meat hanging in the cold locker in the window. "What you see is what you get here," says Reidy.
At Bern's Steak House in Tampa, Florida, the steaks are aged in their own lockers for an extraordinary five to eight weeks. The gargantuan menu offers customers 62 options for cut and degree of done-ness on a steak.
"Even though we are one of the best-known steakhouses in the world, we occasionally have problems getting the quality U.S. Prime we want," explains David Laxer, the son of the owner. "This summer we had a tough time getting it, and when the Japanese come into the market, the supplies get very short."
Alfred Thimm, CEO for Palm restaurants, concurs: "It's harder and harder to get a consistently good product. We have a lot of clout in the industry, but we also have our own meat company--JORM [Just One Restaurant More] that operates as a wholesale business whose only customers are Palm steakhouses."
Almost all Prime meat is bought from a handful of Midwest meat packers, principally IBP out of Nebraska, Monfort out of Colorado, and Excel out of Kansas. These companies don't raise cattle; they slaughter and pack it up in a Cryovac bag for shipment to wholesalers, retailers and restaurants. If the meat is left in the Cryovac bag with its own juices, "wet aging" (actually a form of decay) takes place at a slower rate. "Dry aging" refers to meat removed from the bag and aged in cold, dry lockers, a process preferred by the best steakhouses.
Because of the proliferation of steakhouses around the country, many industry veterans wonder just how low competitors are willing to go to get what they call Prime.
"Listen," says Pat Cetta of Sparks, which maintains its own proprietary aging cycle, "The difference between Choice and Prime can be $6 or $7 a pound, and some guys are buying black Angus, which is a stockier animal with a shorter loin, but it's not the best breed for a great steak. Others use what are called 'gravy cuts,' whose water-soluble proteins and collagens go out of the meat when it's cooked and make good gravy. That doesn't happen in a great steak."
Other steakhouse owners don't worry quite so much about the supply of Prime. Ruth Fertel, owner of the Ruth's Chris chain, argues, "the truest supply-and-demand commodity is beef. As long as there's a demand for Prime, the producers will produce it. If Ruth's Chris is going to open up another two or three units, I call my supplier three or four months in advance and tell him what our needs will be and he'll have the meat for us."
While most industry spokespeople say that kind of supply and demand can be met, they caution that raising cattle for Prime is not quite as mechanical as building VCRs--or as predictable. The facts of animal husbandry dictate that it takes about two-and-a-half years for a steer to grow big enough for slaughter, and, based on the breed and the individual animal's genetics, there's no assurance that you'll get a steer with enough interior fat to grade out at Prime.
"No large producer targets Prime," says Terry Dockerty, director of meat-science programs at the National Livestock and Meat Board. "It's just not very economical for a producer to feed an animal longer so that it grows much fatter. Remember, it is the meat packers who request the grading, not the producers." Harry Katz of Stockyards Packing Co., a Chicago wholesaler, agrees: "I don't think anybody is taking out cattle just to make them Prime meat. I couldn't. And right now, if a new account of mine wanted to buy only Prime, I'd have to turn them down. There's just not enough out there."
The fact is, Prime is more or less an accident of breeding, not a coerced result. "To a small extent, you can bulk up an animal by extra feeding," says Jens Knutsons, director of economic research and industry affairs for the American Meat Institute, "but it's really a function of genetics. There are about 70 different breeds of cattle in this country, and only a very few make a good beef animal because they tend to put on the kind of intermuscular fat that producers want. Producers don't want external fat, because they have to trim it off and their yield is lower. But the main thing is that some individual animals put on more fat while others in the same herd, eating the same feed, don't. And those fatter steers are the ones that grade Prime after they've been slaughtered."
As Pat Cetta says, "There's no mystery to it. People are waiting for a magic supplier or producer. It doesn't exist. You just have to be able to look at an individual carcass and cartilage and say, 'that one's good; that one's not so good.' We buy only the best of what's in the market."
Another bone of contention has to do with what the animal eats. Some, like Ruth Ferrel, swear they use only animals raised on corn.
Others, like the Chicago Chop House, contend that finishing off a steer on alfalfa gives it a nice sweet flavor. And others in the industry say it's almost impossible to tell what the animal ate. "Fat's fat," says one producer.
Assuming that there will be an adequate, if not plentiful, supply of good beef in the future, what is it that distinguishes one great steakhouse from another? In the case of a restaurant like Smith & Wollensky, the attraction of a great wine list is significant, but offering a wide menu of soups, salads, seafood and an array of desserts by an Austrian pastry chef gives it a wider audience, including more women than go to traditional steakhouses.
This additional female-customer base is certainly the case at Chops in Atlanta, where designer Pat Kuleto married elements of traditional steakhouse decor to rather glamorous, subdued lighting some women feel comfortable in. The Capital Grill steakhouses in Providence and Boston promote family dining, and the grand restoration of the cavernous boiler room of the Providence train station has made the restaurant as much an attraction as a place to eat.
At Bern's Steak House in Tampa, the decor has been called everything from kitschy to bordellolike, but in addition to stocking the world's largest wine list--2,500 pages, with more than 300 dessert wines--owner Bern Laxer grows his own organic vegetables and herbs, has specially built water tanks for live fish, offers more than two dozen caviars and serves more than 65 different kinds of dessert each night in a series of upstairs dessert rooms (each of which have two television monitors so that customers can watch The Simpsons or the Tampa Bay Buccaneers). There's also a pianist who takes requests via closed circuitry. Last but not least, Bern's measures out vermouth out by the eyedropper for Martini drinkers.
At the Chicago Chop House, they do an extraordinary bar business and feature a Prime Rib No. 1, which is charred before roasting and takes on a wonderfully succulent flavor.
Morton's of Chicago has always prided itself on having a distinct Windy City style, and the original, opened in 1978, was characterized by owner Arnie Morton as a "comfortable saloon." Morton himself had been director of Playboy's worldwide dining operations, and the restaurant had a definite Midwestern masculine bravado that continues to this day in the 29-unit chain, now owned by Quantum Restaurant Group Inc. Unlike the no-frills look of Palm and the extravagance of Bern's, the Morton's restaurants are built around a clubbish atmosphere of dark woods and subdued lighting accented by Leroy Neiman prints (Neiman was Playboy's quintessential sports artist) as well as historic photos of the city in which each restaurant is located.
New York's Old Homestead is unique for offering Japanese Kobe (actually wagyu) beef, an incredibly rich meat from a steer that is fed on beer and gets massaged by hand every day. Even at $100 per one-pound steak, the restaurant sells plenty, although their $20 sampler portion is a much saner way to taste something that tastes closer to pure butter than beef.
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text: General clashed with Yankees in Putnam By Rick Steelhammer March 19, 2013 Story Share CHARLESTON, W.Va.-- When Brig. Gen. Albert G. Jenkins and about 400 members of the 8th Virginia Cavalry neared the Putnam County town of Hurricane Bridge on a late March morning 150 years ago, fond memories of a previous visit to the community must have darted through the Confederate commander's mind.It was at Hurricane Bridge (now known as Hurricane) that Jenkins, a lawyer and son of a Cabell County plantation owner, won an 1856 debate against incumbent U.S. Rep. John S. Carlile, a Republican stalwart who would later become a leader in West Virginia's statehood movement.Bouyed by favorable press coverage of the debate, Jenkins, a Democrat, went on to win his party's nomination and challenge Carlile for his seat in Congress. During the 1857 election, he won by a 1,000-vote margin.But after serving two terms in the House of Representatives, Jenkins declined to run for a third term, opting instead to fight for the Confederate cause. In early 1861, he raised a company of mounted partisans, called the Border Rangers, from Cabell and Mason counties. The Border Rangers were soon absorbed into the 8th Virginia Cavalry.In June of 1861, during the Battle of Scary Creek near St. Albans, Jenkins rallied a group of retreating Confederates who had been overpowered by a federal force sweeping into the Kanawha Valley. His action helped turn what had been shaping up to be a Confederate defeat into a victory.In September of 1862, Jenkins led a raid through Spencer and Ravenswood that continued across the Ohio River, where he captured the Ohio town of Racine and became the first Southern commander to plant the Confederate flag in a northern state.After spending the winter of 1862-63 camped in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, Jenkins and his men returned to what is now West Virginia, camping in the Hamlin area before marching on toward Point Pleasant. But as they entered Putnam County, they encountered a man with a two-horse team hauling a load of bacon to what he said was an encampment of Union troops at Hurricane Bridge. Jenkins decided to serve the federal troops lead, instead of bacon, for breakfast, if they resisted an invitation to surrender. Shortly after dawn on March 28, 1863, Jenkins' force arrived at a partially completed fort the Union force at Hurricane had erected.Under the cover of a truce flag, he sent a courier with a message to the Union commander, Capt. James W. Johnson of the 13th West Virginia Infantry."I have now an overwhelming force so disposed as to completely surround you and cut off your retreat," Jenkins wrote. "A humane desire to avert the loss of life induces me to demand your surrender. In the event of your compliance, and the surrender in good faith of all in your command, they shall receive the treatment warranted by the usages of war, and both officers and men will be paroled. Twenty minutes will be allowed, for the consideration of this note and to return a reply." Johnson replied with a note informing Gallatin that surrender would not take place, at least not without first seeing "an exhibition of your boasted strength."As Johnson positioned his 150 men within the fort, "the enemy appeared in force and opened a furious fire upon us simultaneously on three sides and from as many different hills," the Union captain wrote in an after-action report. Due to the high elevation of the hills surrounding the fort, "the unfinished condition of our works exposed our men to a most galling cross-fire, which they withstood and returned with the firmness of veterans."The two sides traded small arms fire for about five hours until Jenkins decided he would be unable to dislodge the federal troops without artillery, which he lacked. According to Johnson's report, three Union soldiers were killed outright in the gun battle, and a fourth died of injuries a short time later. According to a history of the 8th Virginia, Gallatin's force had one man killed and several others injured.Jenkins bypassed the fort and continued on to Buffalo, where he commandeered a pair of flatboats and floated his force down the Kanawha River to Point Pleasant. The following day, he unsuccessfully tried to capture the steamboat "Victor No. 2" which was believed to have been carrying a Union paymaster and quantity of payroll cash.The steamboat crew warned the Union garrison in Point Pleasant of the presence of the approaching Confederates, prompting them to hole up in the Mason County Courthouse. Jenkins' force attacked the courthouse and another extended small arms duel ensued, this time with no casualties on either side. Jenkins and his regiment broke off the attack and made their way to an encampment in Cabell County.A few months after his skirmishes in Hurricane and Point Pleasant, Jenkins was wounded by shrapnel during the Battle of Gettysburg. In May of 1864, during the Battle of Cloyd's Mountain in Virginia, a bullet pierced his left arm, which had to be amputated. He died a short time later.Jenkins' family plantation, Green Bottom, which stretched along the shore of the Ohio River near the Cabell-Mason County line and relied on the labor of up to 50 slaves, is now the state-managed Greenbottom Wildlife Management Area. The Jenkins family's home has been stabilized and partially restored, and can be seen from W.Va. 2.Reach Rick Steelhammer at firstname.lastname@example.com or 304-348-5169. Story Share Story Share Trending Now 1 Facebook founder visits Cabin Creek Health Systems 2 Safety shutoff disabled prior to June coal-mining death, report says 3 Huggins, WVU tap South Florida hoops talent 4 Teen pleads guilty to voluntary manslaughter in Oakes Field shooting 5 WVU hopes to get injured defenders back for TCU W.Va. 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hi dr since 150 day i have not ate any food just fluids and i became so weak and dying slowly .. my problem is i have a hyiod bone dislucation becaus a traumma 3 months ago ( i was in the sport club and during trining a weight fell on my neck devolped later to dislucation) .. and then lost the ability to eat at all .. local doctors said to me after some tests that is my hyiod bone is dislucated and makes the laryx to dislucate to the left side during swallowing and the hyiod dislucation is very rare and complicated issue !! and don`t know what to do ??!! so doctors what should i do ?
I suggest you request a consultation at a University ENT program. Ask for a specialist who concentrates in head and neck trauma or laryngeal surgery.
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