Tuiasosopo, Mahan pay a visit

In Berea: Raider QB Sav tried to acquire last year, Buc Guard

Writes Mary Kay of the PD: The Browns hosted two more free agents today, guard/center Sean Mahan of the Tampa Bay Bucs and quarterback Marques Tuiasosopo of the Raiders, a source said Monday.

Mahan, a fifth-year pro, has started at left guard, right guard and center for the Bucs. He started 12 games at left guard in 2006 and 16 games at right guard in 2005. He would most likely replace Browns free agent Cosey Coleman, who's not expected to return.

Mahan is scheduled to visit the Seahawks on Tuesday if the Browns don't sign him, but they are expected to make a strong push.

Another Great Job by PFT

Fact checking at its finest, proving once again that Mike Florio is a dipshit

Even when he tries to seem like he's not the Rooney's piss boy, Mike Florio screws it up. After throwing up a story about a couple Steelers being arrested for their involvement in a brawl, Florio was forced to post the following "woops". Notice the fact that he made it clear someone else made the mistake first. Come on, Mike. If someone else tried to pull that crap, you'd be allllllllll over them. One of the Steelers alleged to be involved in the incident isn't a pro football player at all... he's a bartender. Well done, Mike.

http://www.profootballtalk.com/rumormill.htm

POSTED 5:44 p.m. EST; UPDATED 5:51 p.m. EST, March 5, 2007

DESHEA DENIES ARREST

Well, we might have to revise the Turd Watch.

Per a league source, Steelers cornerback Deshea Townsend denies a report that he was arrested for an early Saturday bar fight. Townsend also claims, we're told, that he was not involved in the altercation that gave rise to a story in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review that Townsend and another player on the team had been busted.

We're also told that Raymond Burgess, identified by the Tribune-Review as a member of the Steelers' practice squad, has no connection to the team. He's supposedly a freaking bartender at the club where the fight occurred.

Stay tuned.

Oh, and by the way... Terry Bradshaw is not dead.

Great Blue North: Quinn Workout Just "OK"

According to the draft experts at GBN,
Brady Quinn was just "okay" in his workout yesterday.

"It wasn’t quite the stuff of legends, but Notre Dame QB Brady Quinn reportedly had a solid enough performance during the first of two Irish pro days yesterday in South Bend.

Quinn went through a series of brisk passing drills throwing a total of just over 60 passes, but opted not to run until Notre Dame’s second on-campus workout on March 22nd. Quinn reportedly is still not 100% because of a minor knee injury; he had fluid drained from his right knee at halftime of a game against Southern California last November and then aggravated the injury in the Sugar Bowl against LSU.

Through the magic of the internet ESPN actually has some footage of Quinn’s workout on their NFL site and truth be told several of Quinn’s passes weren’t the crispest we’ve seen this off-season. However, what’s on the video is obviously only a fragment of Quinn’s overall workout. We think this is the link.

For the record, at least 30 teams had scouts in attendance at today’s workout with three – Cleveland, Minnesota and Houston – having their head coach in attendance. All three of those teams have top 10 picks with Cleveland picking third, Minnesota 7th and Houston 8th."

The Plain Deal - it's a QB

PD Reporter Mary Kay Cabot was on ESPN2'S Cold Pizza today saying if Quinn or JR are there, they'll take one of them. This echo's Tony Grossi's recent podcast saying if JR is there Phil would absolutely take him, given their long relationship. JR attended Sav's camp's in Mobile in his high school years.