IRVINE, Calif. (AP) — Although Andrew Whitworth had spent his entire 11-year NFL career in Cincinnati, the left tackle and his wife didn't even wait until the school year ended to move their four kids to the Los Angeles suburbs when the Rams called.
"As my wife says, most of her friends are coaches' wives,Cheap Jerseys From China, because she's so much older than all the players' wives and girlfriends," Whitworth said with a grin.
Whitworth isn't worried about learning his assignments under head coach Sean McVay,Cheap Shoes Online Free Delivery, the former Redskins assistant who runs a scheme similar to Jay Gruden's offense in Cincinnati. Even in his 12th NFL season, he embraces the chance to work on new techniques from offensive line coach Aaron Kromer.
"I will always go to Big Whit," Snead said. "He's someone that has been in the league and played a long time, knows how to play a long time, has been a part of helping groom a young QB and helping groom a young set of skill players, even though he plays offensive line."
"He is the epitome of a pro's pro," McVay said. "Doing the little things the right way all the time. A great example in terms of just playing the techniques, the fundamentals. I think it has been encouraging to see a guy that has had the level of success that he has had in Cincinnati, and then asking him to do a couple of things differently, and how willing he has been to buy in to those techniques. But he has been everything and more, and this is what I tell people: He is like a fine wine. He is just getting better with age."
There is evidence to back up McVay's flattery: Whitworth was a Pro Bowl selection in each of the past two seasons after getting just one previous nod in his entire career.
Until then, the new 35-year-old cornerstone of the Rams' offensive line will focus on protecting Jared Goff's blind side while his family enjoys a California adventure.
"We loved Cincinnati ... but I think it was hard for Cincinnati people to understand that we were always leaving there, one way or the other,Buffalo Bills Jerseys Cheap China," the three-time Pro Bowl selection said after training camp practice with his new team at UC Irvine.
"So (Los Angeles) was just another adventure along the way, as we saw it. We can never have a regret about taking this opportunity to go do something that very few people ever get a chance to do. ... It's just something I think my kids,Stitched NFL Jerseys, one day long when I'm gone, will be able to say, 'Man, what a cool experience that was.'"
They're counting on a sturdy season from Whitworth, whose experience has made him a valuable resource for McVay and his staff. When Rams general manager Les Snead was asked to name the newcomers most likely to become leaders this season, he answered quickly.

Whitworth also isn't thrown off by the fact that he is four years older than the 31-year-old McVay. The lineman realizes that if you stay in the league long enough, that's just what happens.
"I love challenges," Whitworth said. "I love opportunities to do something I'm not supposed to be able to do. Hell, that's my career. If you went and found my draft bio, I wasn't supposed to play left tackle, and I sure as hell wasn't supposed to play it for 12 years. The reality is I love that kind of stuff. It's made for me."
The Rams intend to preserve their oldest player's health this season. Whitworth was among several veterans who got the day off Monday before Los Angeles' first workout in pads Tuesday,Wholesale Football Jerseys.
Hopefully Whitworth will be able to say the same. He is the Rams' biggest offseason acquisition following their 4-12 return to Los Angeles, and this team badly needs his help.
Cincinnati was great, but it was never home — and neither is LA. Andrew and Melissa Whitworth are both native Louisianans, and they'll eventually head back there to live among their extended family.
Left tackle loomed as the franchise's greatest area of need after the struggles of Greg Robinson, the No. 2 overall pick in 2014. With the incentive of a three-year, $36 million contract, Whitworth accepted the challenge of moving his family cross-county, learning a new scheme and becoming a leader on an offense that finished dead last in the NFL in each of the past two seasons.

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"We played the worst we can possibly play, and we're on to Minnesota," receiver James Jones said.
At stake: the NFC North title and a home playoff game.
Getting healthier up front would help. McCarthy said it was too early to tell how much left tackle David Bakhtiari and right tackle Bryan Bulaga, who each have ankle injuries, would be able to practice this week.
After the Packers watched film of their nightmarish game in Arizona, McCarthy moved on quickly to getting his players ready for a meeting this weekend against Minnesota.
Aaron Rodgers got sacked eight times, and the offensive line is battered.

Forgetting about Arizona quickly might be the way to move forward for a team that failed the test in a 38-8 loss in the desert. A sluggish offense is once again the biggest worry.
"Well, the healthiest team gives you your best option to play on Sunday," McCarthy said.
"So we've had a long, bumpy flight home to grade the tape," McCarthy said Monday. "Just really wanted to get in there and get the team focused on the Vikings."
GREEN BAY,Bengals Jersey Color Rush, Wis. (AP) — Coach Mike McCarthy had a rough trip home to Green Bay, and it had nothing to do with the snowy weather.
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They have to beat the Vikings on Sunday night to claim a fifth straight NFC North title.
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"I have faith in the football team regardless of what happened (in Arizona)," McCarthy said.

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Defensive end Mario Williams went public with his complaints in October, questioning whether Ryan's scheme fit the team's personnel. Williams was released by the Bills earlier this month and has since signed with Buffalo's AFC East rival Miami.
The changes come after Buffalo's high-priced defensive line struggled in adapting to Ryan's system last year. After combining for an NFL-leading 111 sacks in 2013-14, the Bills managed just 21 last year, a team low for a 16-game season.
"This was a difficult decision as Karl both played for me and then coached on my staff," Ryan said,Zapatillas Nike Mujer Espa?a, in a statement released by the team. "I have a great deal of respect for him. But I feel we needed to make a change and go in a different direction at this point in time."

Dunbar's firing is the latest change to the Bills defensive staff. In January, Ryan hired his twin brother Rob to serve as the team's assistant head coach with a specific responsibility for defense. Retired five-time All-Pro safety Ed Reed was also hired by Buffalo to be an assistant defensive backs coach.
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Rex Ryan's Buffalo Bills defense is undergoing yet another shake-up this offseason after he abruptly fired defensive line coach Karl Dunbar on Sunday.
A defensive specialist, Ryan took partial responsibility for Buffalo's struggles and vowed the defense will be better.
The line returns two starters, Marcell Dareus and Kyle Williams.
Dunbar is a former NFL defensive lineman who played for Arizona in 1994-95,Cheap Shoes For Sale Online, when Ryan was a Cardinals assistant. And Ryan was coaching the New York Jets in 2012, when he hired Dunbar to be his defensive line coach. Ryan was hired by the Bills last offseason, and he brought much of his staff,Barry Larkin Jersey, including Dunbar, with him to Buffalo.
The move came as a significant surprise because Dunbar spent the past four years working for Ryan, and because most teams' coaching staffs are already set by mid-March.
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"You can't really do the same thing on offense and say, 'Who do we want to go after?' It's tough to pick out one person. You're not going to isolate on a particular linebacker or a corner. There is just less susceptibility to that on defense."
"There's not one thing that you can point out and say, 'Stop Julio Jones. Stop Sanu. Stop the running game,'" Patriots linebacker Dont'a Hightower said.
So Theismann has a couple of thoughts about what could happen in the Super Bowl on Feb. 5,Adidas NMD China Wholesale, when Belichick's New England Patriots, who allowed the fewest points during the regular season (15.6 per game), face QB Matt Ryan, wideout Julio Jones and the rest of the Atlanta Falcons, who scored the most points (an average of 33.8).

This is the 51st Super Bowl, and the seventh featuring the No. 1 offense against the No. 1 defense; the "D" is 5-1 in the previous such matchups .
"It's the best defense that we've seen in the NFL this year. The numbers show it, and watch the film and you see exactly why their numbers are the way they are," Shanahan said.
Joe Theismann knows how it feels to bring the NFL's most prolific offense into the Super Bowl and leave with a loss.
Also, the past seven times a season's top "O'' was in the Super Bowl, it went 2-5, while the past seven times a top "D'' vied for the Lombardi Trophy, it went 5-2.
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The Falcons (13-5) scored at least 30 points in 13 of their 18 games this season, including the playoffs, reaching 40 a half-dozen times. During their current six-game winning streak, they never scored fewer than 33.
In New England's 36-17 victory over Pittsburgh in the AFC title game last weekend, for example, the Patriots made sure to limit what Steelers star receiver Antonio Brown did.
He won the Super Bowl in 1983 and lost it the following year after having directed Washington to a then-record 541 points in the regular season.
Make no mistake: This is a versatile Falcons offense overseen by coordinator Kyle Shanahan, who is expected to be hired to run the San Francisco 49ers after this season ends and whose father Mike was the head coach of two Super Bowl champions with the Denver Broncos.
The Patriots (16-2) allowed more than 25 points only once in their 18 games, a 31-24 loss to Seattle in November. Since then, they've won nine games in a row, never trailing at any moment in their past seven.
"Bill basically uses common sense: 'If you have one player who's really good, let's see how you play without him.' They weren't going to allow Antonio Brown to make plays. They said, 'Look, we're going to bump him at the line,Stitched NFL Jerseys, put somebody over the top, and you're going to have to make plays with the other nine players.' If a defense can limit 20-25 percent of an offense by taking one individual away from it, the pendulum swings to the defensive side," Theismann said.
One of his Redskins' NFC East rivals back then were the New York Giants, where Belichick was the defensive coordinator during the 1985-90 seasons.
"A lot of offenses go through one or two players, and so a defense — and Bill is great at this — will focus on a particular player or a particular concept and that's where they will make sure to stop the opponent," Theismann said.
Or as Belichick put it: "Every guy that gets the ball can score a touchdown from 80 yards away or more."
"In this Super Bowl," he added,Scarpe Air Force Just Do It, "Julio Jones is going to get the bulk of the attention."
His catches amounted to only 77 yards, with no TDs.
Ryan spread out his 38 TD passes to a league-record 13 receivers. Jones is the best of the bunch, but Mohamed Sanu, Taylor Gabriel and running backs Devonta Freeman (who ran for more than 1,000 yards and caught 54 passes) and Tevin Coleman (more than 500 yards rushing,Air Max 720 UK Sale, more than 400 receiving) need to be accounted for, too.
"They have very good players all around, players that are interchangeable, that can be pass rushers, that can be linebackers, that can be corners, that can be safeties. And they have an extremely good scheme."
Why is that?
"We know that they're the cream of the crop, offensively," Patriots cornerback Logan Ryan said. "And for us, we feel like we're that, defensively."
"On offense, just generally speaking, there are more things that can go wrong than can on the defensive side of the ball," Theismann said

ASHBURN, Va. (AP) — Tight end Vernon Davis is heading to the Washington Redskins, signing with the club as a free agent.
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"For obvious reasons," Peterson said Wednesday. "I'm not really going to get into details about that, but my vision is making it to the playoffs. That's what I believe, and that's what I have my eyes on right now."
"The guys that are out here, I'm trying to coach the best I can, and when he comes out, I'll try to coach him the best, whenever that is,Cheap Shoes China," Zimmer said.
EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. (AP) — Neither the Minnesota Vikings nor Adrian Peterson have been willing publicly to put a timetable on his potential return to the field nearly three months after he tore the meniscus in his right knee.
Peterson rushed 31 times for a mere 50 yards in two games before he went down Sept. 18. Without the four-time All-Pro running back, the Vikings are last in the NFL in rushing with 72.4 yards per game and 3.0 yards per attempt.
Peterson has maintained a presence on the sideline, often seen encouraging a teammate after a bad play or trying to pump up one of his fellow running backs during the course of a game. Whether or not at his age coming off an injury behind a shaky offensive line he would provide a significant increase in rushing production is uncertain, but his return would unquestionably lift the spirits of a Vikings squad that has lost six of the last seven games.
While Peterson was speaking in the locker room, Zimmer was at the podium in the indoor practice facility trying to focus his comments on upcoming opponent Jacksonville rather than the star running back's rehab or the coach's own condition following surgery to repair a detached retina in his right eye.
The 31-year-old Peterson, who is making $12 million this season,Benson Mayowa Jersey, has one more year on his current contract. None of the $18 million he could earn in 2017, though, is guaranteed.
Peterson, who is 11 weeks out from a surgery that carries a minimum recovery estimate of three months, famously returned from a torn ACL and MCL on his left knee suffered in the second-to-last game in 2011 to play in the opener in 2012. He said he felt back to normal about six weeks ago, though he acknowledged the stark difference in cutting and sprinting on the side when there are no defensive players trying to take him down.
"I'm going to play it by ear and just keep working, and when that time comes, it will come," said Peterson, who led the league with 1,485 yards rushing and tied for the lead with 11 touchdowns in 2015. "You guys will know what's going on. We'll just wait and see."
Peterson made two points clear, though, in his first comments to reporters since he got hurt. He is trying to get in position to return this year, but if the Vikings are eliminated from postseason contention he wouldn't come back and risk re-injury.
"I definitely feel like I'd be ready for the opportunity to go out there and make it better than my last start. So we're just going to take it as it comes," Kearse said. "Harrison's a great player, so it's always going to be big thing when you lose a guy like that. But us as young guys, me and Anthony Harris, whoever gets the nod, we have to go out there and perform. There can't be a drop-off."
"Harrison Smith is a pretty tough guy, and he plays all the time,Wholesale Jerseys," Zimmer said. "When he's hurt, he plays. He always plays, so I don't care about reports. I just go by what happens in practice."
Coach Mike Zimmer has consistently dismissed questions about Peterson's status this season,Cheap Jerseys Online. He said there are no factors beyond Peterson's health that will determine if and when he plays again.
Either Anthony Harris or Jayron Kearse would replace Smith in the starting lineup.
In the latest setback in a season that has been blemished by a whole bunch of bad luck, free safety Harrison Smith could miss multiple games with a severely sprained left ankle, according to a person with knowledge of the situation speaking on condition of anonymity to The Associated Press. Smith has a Grade 3 sprain, according to the person,Stitched Arizona Cardinals Jerseys, who was not authorized to address the injury that was aggravated last week against Dallas.

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For the week, NBC averaged 7.8 million viewers in prime time. CBS had 6.2 million, ABC had 4.2 million, Fox had 2.7 million, Univision had 1.6 million, Telemundo had 1.4 million, ION Television had 1.3 million and the CW had 910,000.
CBS usually dominates the ratings from September to May, but NBC has won 12 of the last 14 weeks due to the leadership of "America's Got Talent."
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Next week's ratings will be even more closely watched, since conservative groups and Fox News Channel's Sean Hannity have called for people angered by the protests to boycott this weekend's games.
ESPN was the week's most popular cable network, averaging 2.48 million viewers in prime time. Fox News Channel had 2.08 million, MSNBC had 1.62 million, USA had 1.5 million and HGTV had 1.24 million.
NEW YORK (AP) — Through three weeks, viewership for national telecasts of NFL games is down 11 percent this season compared to 2016, the Nielsen company said on Tuesday.
The NFL ratings are in focus because of President Donald Trump's suggestion that viewers are turned off by a protest against police brutality that began with quarterback Colin Kaepernick refusing to stand for the national anthem. The protests spread rapidly this past weekend following the president's criticism of people involved.

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"It's growing and it's been very special," coach Jack Del Rio said. "I think from Day 1,Cheap Basketball Jerseys, Michael has been a guy that we all consider very friendly to the quarterback. He has great hands, he understands how to get open. He's a very competitive guy. Getting all those guys on the same page is huge."
After matching career highs with 85 catches and nine touchdowns last season, Crabtree is off to an even better start this season.
"It's just effortless to him, sometimes he'll catch the ball and he's not even looking. ... The stuff he does is ridiculous. He can get away with it because he's gifted in that way. I wouldn't tell little kids to try and catch like that."
"He was so committed to running the routes how I wanted it done, he was so committed to our relationship being right," Carr said.
That chemistry has contributed to Crabtree becoming perhaps Carr's most trusted option in key moments. His 21 catches for first downs are the most in the league and he has been on the receiving end of some of Oakland's most important passes this season.
Carr lobbied the Raiders last spring to sign Crabtree, who played with Carr's older brother,Aaron Ness Jersey, David, in San Francisco. Crabtree took part in offseason passing drills with Carr to build that chemistry and the work continues to this day.
"What I want most is to be great," Carr said. "That's what he wants. We always consistently push each other to make sure we're getting those reps.
After setting a career high with three touchdown catches in last week's 28-27 win at Baltimore , Crabtree has 26 catches for 308 yards and four touchdowns, just one quarter of the way through the season as he builds a strong rapport with Carr.

They frequently try to get in extra work and practice to make sure they are on the same page on game day.
Crabtree caught the game-winning 2-point conversion in Week 1 at New Orleans and then made three catches for 49 yards in last week's game-winning drive at Baltimore,Wholesale Jerseys China, including a 23-yard touchdown with 2:12 left that gave the Raiders a 28-27 win.
"On top of that, making sure we're always talking. Even during the games, we sit near each other and he'll come up to me before the drive. We'll talk about the situation. He's in the game like a quarterback. He wants to know what I'm thinking at all times."
NOTES: The Raiders promoted TE Ryan O'Malley to the active roster and placed TE Lee Smith on injured reserve. ... The team also signed LB Tyrell Adams and LB Darnell Sankey to the practice squad. ...  RT Austin Howard returned to practice after missing the past two games with an ankle injury. ... RB Latavius Murray (toe), RT Menelik Watson (calf), LB Malcolm Smith (quadriceps), TE Clive Walford (right knee) and S Nate Allen (quadriceps) were among the players to miss practice.
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ALAMEDA, Calif. (AP) — Despite being in their second season as teammates in Oakland, Derek Carr said there are still times even he is surprised by the strength and reliability of Michael Crabtree's hands.
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"He'll just turn around and just catch it with one hand and it makes you feel like you can't throw the ball hard at all," Carr said Wednesday.
"He was so committed to making sure he made so many plays for me that I would always look his way, that's what he wants and so far he's done that."

The skid that ended slim hopes includes close losses to San Francisco and Washington, plus last week's 21-point setback at Minnesota.
The Bears have lost three straight after a stretch in which they won five of eight to climb to the edge of contention for a NFC wild-card berth in their first season under coach John Fox.
"There's ups and downs — it happens every year," Cutler said, characterizing what's gone wrong.
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Smith's old team, the Chicago Bears, visit Raymond James Stadium on Sunday. Tampa Bay closes with a season-ending trip to unbeaten Carolina.
Winston has given the Bucs everything they could hope for from a young quarterback handed the starting job from the first day of training camp.
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — There are two games remaining in Jameis Winston's rookie season. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers want to use them to make a statement about what kind of team they can be next year.
EDGE CUTLER?: Bears quarterback Jay Cutler has won all three of his previous starts against Tampa Bay, completing 57 of 93 passes for 583 yards, three touchdowns and two interceptions.
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"I think we've made strides,Fjallraven Backpack Australia Sale," Fox said. "Obviously we're disappointed in our record at 5-9. We've been competitive in many, many games, ones we've fell a little bit short on. We're just looking to finish strong, much like I'm sure Lovie is talking to Tampa Bay about."
WITHIN REACH: The Bucs will miss the playoffs for the eighth straight season, but still can accomplish a franchise first. Doug Martin is second in the league with 1,305 yards, 9 behind Adrian Peterson with two games remaining. The fourth-year pro — and his offensive line — want that title of No. 1 rusher. "It would be awesome ... a great accomplishment," the fourth-year pro said.
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One of the keys to the Bears rebounding from an 0-3 start to give themselves a shot at salvaging their season was getting better play from Jay Cutler, who's topped 3,000 yards passing for the seventh time in his career while throwing for 18 TDs and cutting down on interceptions (eight).

The No. 1 overall pick in the draft has improved steadily since turning the ball over five times during a Week 4 loss to Carolina. He has  joined Cam Newton, Robert Griffin III and Andrew Luck as the only QBs in NFL history with 3,000-plus yards passing, 20 touchdown passes and least five TDs rushing as rookies.
The coach played down the significance of going against his former team. "There will be some meaning with that, but there are not a whole lot of players on the team that I coached," Smith said.
The coach's message to a young team that's already tripled Tampa Bay's victory total from a year ago is there's still plenty to accomplish by finishing strong.
"What we do now helps us build momentum going into next season," Pro Bowl defensive tackle Gerald McCoy said. "Carolina did the same thing. They finished last season strong and look at where they are now. We could take a lesson from them — always have something to play for."
Chicago (5-9) is in a similar position after being eliminated from the race last week, too.
"There's not going to be any shutting it down or anything like that,'" coach Lovie Smith said in the wake of the Bucs (6-8) officially being eliminated from playoff contention.
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"We got two starters, and we're going to add a third at No. 13," he said. "I look at it as, we moved back five spots and got three starters, so I was all for it."
The position is high on the Dolphins' list of priorities because they lost three-year starter Lamar Miller in free agency and have had no success finding a veteran replacement.
Gase was hired after one season as offensive coordinator for the Chicago Bears; he also worked with Peyton Manning in Denver. He said preparation for his first draft as a head coach has gone well.
Miami needs someone to complement Jay Ajayi, who had only 49 carries as a rookie last year.
TOP PRIORITY: There's a bountiful pool of cornerbacks, which may be why the Dolphins were willing drop in the first round. Potential picks include William Jackson III of Houston, Vernon Hargreaves of Florida, Eli Apple of Ohio State,Cheap Basketball Jerseys, and Mackensie Alexander of Clemson. Miami might trade down again and still land one of them.
Here are things to consider as the Dolphins mull their options:
OR A BALL CARRIER?: The offensive player most likely to tempt the Dolphins is Ohio State running back Ezekiel Elliott, but he could be gone before their turn comes.
Because of Brent Grimes' departure via free agency, the Dolphins remain in the market for cornerback help.
In fact,Atlanta Falcons Wholesale Jerseys, they've already done so. Miami moved down five spots, to 13th from eighth, to acquire cornerback Byron Maxwell and linebacker Kiko Alonso from the Eagles.
Rookie reinforcements at linebacker or in the front four would also be welcome for a defense that was anything but dominant last year, even with tackle Ndamukong Suh, the highest-paid defensive player in the NFL.
DRAFT HISTORY: The Dolphins haven't won a playoff game since 2000, and their fortunes won't improve until their draft record does.
The Dolphins have chosen an offensive player in the first round in four of the past five drafts, which might explain why the defense ranked 25th last year, worst since 1997. That contributed to Miami's seventh consecutive season at .500 or below.
"Mike and Chris are sick of me, because we spend so much time together," Gase said. "I tell them what we're looking for as far as a player, and that's why they're in the positions they're in — to go out and find those types of players that fit what we're looking for."
CHAIN OF COMMAND: The latest organizational shake-up left executive vice president of football operations Mike Tannenbaum in charge of the draft. He was consultant to the Dolphins in 2014 and was hired a year ago, but general manager Dennis Hickey had the final say on the 2015 draft.

Hickey departed after last season and was replaced by Chris Grier, who was director of college scouting the past nine years and has been with the Dolphins since 2000.
Against the run they ranked even worse, 28th in the NFL compared with 21st against the pass. So it's reasonable to assume the Dolphins will devote their first-round draft pick to defense.
They've had 17 first-round picks since 1995, and only three of those players went on to a Pro Bowl for the Dolphins. The 33 players they've drafted since 2012 have combined for one Pro Bowl berth — by receiver Jarvis Landry. And none of the players drafted last year started even half the games as a rookie.
TRADING DOWN: Miami will have a longer wait on the first night of the draft because of the trade for Maxwell and Alonso, which received mixed reviews.  Both players had a disappointing 2015 season in Philadelphia. But Gase said the deal still gives the Dolphins appealing options with their pick.
MIAMI (AP) — Round numbers tell the tale. The Miami Dolphins allowed exactly 4,Air Max 720 Soldes,000 net yards passing last year, the highest total in their 50 seasons and a big reason they lost 10 games.
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Free agent Arian Foster met with Miami, but he's recovering from Achilles tendon surgery and still unsigned. Former NFL rushing champion Chris Johnson visited Miami but decided to stay with Arizona, and after the Dolphins signed C.J. Anderson to an offer sheet,Scarpe Air Max 97 Saldi, Denver matched.

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But they had to make do without him for most of the next two seasons.
The Lions announced Levy's departure as soon as teams could start signing free agents. Earlier in the day, the team announced it had re-signed defensive tackle Khyri Thornton, who was a restricted free agent.
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"On behalf of our entire organization, I would like to thank DeAndre for his many contributions to the Detroit Lions over the past eight seasons," general manager Bob Quinn said in a statement Thursday. "While he excelled as a player during his time with us, DeAndre also had a genuine desire to make a difference off the field, investing a lot of his time and resources in social causes throughout the Detroit community. We wish DeAndre the very best in all his future endeavors."
DETROIT (AP) — The Detroit Lions released linebacker DeAndre Levy as free agency opened Thursday, cutting ties with a veteran who had played in only six regular-season games since agreeing to a contract extension before the 2015 season.

Levy had a career-high 151 tackles (117 solo) in 2014,Cheap Carolina Panthers Youth Jersey, but he's been unable to contribute much since then. He played only one game in the 2015 season because of hip problems and was limited to five games — plus one in the playoffs — last season, when he dealt with knee problems.
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The New Orleans Saints have signed linebacker James Laurinaitis and safety Jamarca Sanford to free-agent contracts,Wholesale Shoes Uk Cheap.

The 30-year-old Sanford, a former Mississippi standout who is also a seven-year veteran,Babe Ruth Jersey, joined New Orleans during the 2014 season. Last season, he was in on 29 tackles and made an interception.
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The Saints, who announced the moves Thursday, say Laurinaitis has signed for three years and Sanford for one year.