Where will Wildcat offense go from here?
Last September the Dolphins started a hot trend with the Wildcat offense. Alex Marvez says it’s here to stay, especially in Miami.

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Rams writer Bill Coats subs for Jim Thomas this week and goes one-on-one with readers at 1 p.m. Tuesday in a live chat.

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Positional Power Rankings: RB packages
The best ballcarriers usually come in pairs. Adrian Hasenmayer ranks the NFL’s top RB packages, headlined by a pair of Panthers.

Summer two-a-days: AFC South, NFC North
Can Peyton uphold Indy’s playoff streak? Will Cutler win in Chicago? Peter Schrager continues our summer two-a-days by division.

VIDEO: Schein rants on Brandon Marshall
With a rap sheet, injury issues and his stock at an all-time low, Brandon Marshall’s trade demand is a fantasy, Adam Schein says.

NFL’s top 10 smurfs
Height isn’t everything in the NFL. Jets RB Leon Washington is just one of Adrian Hasenmayer’s top 10 smurfs in a league full of giants.

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Stallworth 911 call: He ‘just ran in front of my car’
Cleveland Browns wide receiver Donte’ Stallworth said on a 911 call that the man he struck and killed while driving drunk came out of nowhere. Stallworth is serving a 30-day jail sentence after pleading guilty to DUI manslaughter in the March 14 death of 59-year-old Mario Reyes. Stallworth also has two years’ house arrest after his release from jail and is suspended indefinitely by the NFL. On the 911 call released Monday, Stallworth describes how the victim “just ran in front of my car.

Positional Power Rankings: RB packages
The best ballcarriers usually come in pairs. Adrian Hasenmayer ranks the NFL’s top RB packages, headlined by two Panthers.

Vick switches job to work with Boys & Girls Clubs
Suspended NFL Star Michael Vick is leaving a job with a Virginia construction company to work with youngsters at Boys & Girls Clubs. Steven Kast, CEO of the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Virginia Peninsula, says Vick will be working with children on health and fitness activities at several clubs in the Hampton Roads area. Vick was a regular at the Boys & Girls Club in Newport News as a youngster.

VIDEO: Can Ravens, Giants stay defensive?
With defensive gurus scoring promotions elsewhere, Alex Marvez asks whether the Ravens and Giants can sustain their stellar Ds.

Jags trade WR Northcutt to Lions for S Alexander
The Jacksonville Jaguars have traded receiver Dennis Northcutt to the Detroit Lions for safety Gerald Alexander. The deal was finalized Tuesday after both players passed physicals. Northcutt gives the Lions a veteran receiver opposite rising star Calvin Johnson. Alexander, a second-round pick in 2007, gives Jacksonville depth in the secondary. He started 16 games as a rookie, but missed most of last year following a neck injury.

Former Chief won’t be charged in fatal crash
Former Kansas City Chiefs offensive lineman Rich Baldinger will not face charges in a traffic accident that left a 61-year-old woman dead. Jackson County (Mo.) prosecutor’s office spokeswoman Velda Cook said Monday that investigators have determined that a car collision Saturday in Blue Springs between Baldinger and Marilyn Walters of Grain Valley was accidental. Walters was killed in the collision. Baldinger played for the Chiefs from 1982-93.

Vick plan offers more money to creditors
Suspended NFL Star Michael Vick would give up more of his future income under a revised bankruptcy plan. Vick’s lawyer, Paul Campsen, disclosed the basic outline of the new plan Tuesday in U.S. Bankrupcy Court in Norfolk. The full plan is still being finished. It’s due to be filed by Thursday. A judge in April rejected the first plan, saying it was not feasible. Under the new plan, Campsen said 10 percent of the first $750,000 Vick earns would go to creditors.

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NFL looks into Dolphins WR’s fake Twitter account
“Tweets” are not so sweet for Miami Dolphins wide receiver Davone Bess.

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Bills owner in no hurry to add games in Toronto
Buffalo Bills owner Ralph Wilson is in no hurry to have his team play more than one regular-season game in Toronto. Wilson told The Associated Press on Sunday he’d prefer waiting “two or three years” to determine whether the northern experiment is a success before he’d consider reworking the contract reached last year with Toronto-based Rogers Communications. Under the agreement which runs through 2012, the Bills will play one regular-season and three preseason games in Toronto.

VIDEO: Marvez on Steelers’ O-line
The Steelers are champs but far from perfect. Alex Marvez details their plans to fix a running game that fell off big time last year.

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7 Points: Ravens need a receiver now
Nearly every WR trade rumor involves the Ravens. Ed Thompson warns them to nix high-risk, high-reward options around Joe Flacco.

NFL asks high court to weigh in on antitrust case
In the legal equivalent of running up the score, the National Football League is going to the Supreme Court in search of a bigger victory in an antitrust tussle over team merchandise than it already won from a lower court. The Supreme Court could decide as early as Monday whether it will hear the case, which involves American Needle Inc.’s challenge to the league’s exclusive contract for selling headwear such as caps and hats with team logos on them. American Needle of Buffalo Grove, Ill.

Buzzwords: Latest news from every team’s camp
The NFL season can’t get here soon enough for Broncos coach Josh McDaniels. Until then, check out the latest NFL Buzzwords.

VIDEO: Should PEDs affect Canton votes?
With Rodney Harrison’s recent retirement, should a past positive drug test void his HOF status? Adam Schein urges an open mind.

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Rams to retire Deacon Jones’ number

ST. LOUIS a ‘ Deacon Jones, the Hall-of-Famer who coined the phrase “quarterback sack,” will have his number 75 retired this season by the St.

VIDEO: Marvez Minute on Peppers
Julius Peppers didn’t get a long-term deal or a trade, but he is getting $16.7 million. Alex Marvez asks if the holdout was worth it.

Goodell starts reviewing Burress shooting incident
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell has started his review of the Plaxico Burress shooting incident under the league’s personal conduct policy. The league confirmed Friday that Goodell was examining the incident in which Burress shot himself in the thigh in late November in a New York City nightclub. The commissioner could suspend him if he finds that the receiver violated the NFL policy on personal conduct.

Jurevicius sues Browns over staph infection
Former Cleveland Browns receiver Joe Jurevicius is suing the team and the Cleveland Clinic, accusing doctors of negligence over a staph infection in his right knee that kept him off the field last year. Shannon Polk, an attorney for Jurevicius, said the lawsuit was filed Friday in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court. It alleges that team physicians failed to warn Jurevicius that therapy equipment was not always cleaned at the team’s training facility.

Positional Power Rankings: QB packages
Tom Brady is the game’s best QB, but one injury and the Pats miss the playoffs. Adrian Hasenmayer ranks every team’s QB corps.

Rams Team Report (Yahoo! Sports)

•? When Billy Devaney took over as general manager of the Rams and started his search for a new head coach, he knew whoever he hired would be dealing with a roster that needed a major overhaul.

Coach Steve Spagnuolo has spent the offseason getting the roster younger and trying to fill as many holes as possible. They also knew everything necessary wouldn’t happen in one offseason.

With training camp approaching, the area that appears to be in most need of upgrading is at wide receiver. Releasing Torry Holt and Drew Bennett, along with the decision not to re-sign Dane Looker and Dante’ Hall, left the Rams with a group headed by second-year players Donnie Avery and Keenan Burton, Laurent Robinson, who was acquired in a trade from Atlanta, Derek Stanley, who…

7 Points: Ravens need a receiver now
Nearly every WR trade rumor involves the Ravens. Ed Thompson warns them to nix high-risk, high-reward options around Joe Flacco.

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Rams Team Report (Yahoo! Sports)

•? When Billy Devaney took over as general manager of the Rams and started his search for a new head coach, he knew whoever he hired would be dealing with a roster that needed a major overhaul.

Coach Steve Spagnuolo has spent the offseason getting the roster younger and trying to fill as many holes as possible. They also knew everything necessary wouldn’t happen in one offseason.

With training camp approaching, the area that appears to be in most need of upgrading is at wide receiver. Releasing Torry Holt and Drew Bennett, along with the decision not to re-sign Dane Looker and Dante’ Hall, left the Rams with a group headed by second-year players Donnie Avery and Keenan Burton, Laurent Robinson, who was acquired in a trade from Atlanta, Derek Stanley, who…

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Peppers ends stalemate, signs with Panthers
Julius Peppers’ long stalemate with the Carolina Panthers is over. The four-time Pro Bowl defensive end signed his one-year, $16.7 million tender under the franchise tag Wednesday, ending the chances that Peppers could hold out at the start of training camp. Peppers said at the end of last season that he wanted to play elsewhere and pleaded with Carolina to allow him to become a free agent. The Panthers still placed the franchise tag on him, limiting his movement.

Source: Lions C Raiola banks $20M in new deal
In 2008, Detroit Lions center Dominic Raiola was a member of the worst team in NFL history.

St. Louis Rams Select State-of-the-Art System from AstroTurf(R) for Practice Field

First NFL team to install an advanced synthetic turf system from AstroTurf RALEIGH, N.C., June 22 /PRNewswire/ — AstroTurf brings its latest innovation directly to the National Football League.

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Summer two-a-days: NFC East, AFC West
Does L.T. have anything left? Who will Eli throw to? Peter Schrager kicks off our summertime two-a-days by division.

Peppers ends stalemate, signs with Panthers
Julius Peppers’ long stalemate with the Carolina Panthers is over. The four-time Pro Bowl defensive end signed his one-year, $16.7 million tender under the franchise tag Wednesday, ending the chances that Peppers could hold out at the start of training camp. Peppers said at the end of last season that he wanted to play elsewhere and pleaded with Carolina to allow him to become a free agent. The Panthers still placed the franchise tag on him, limiting his movement.

Giants‘ new $25M LB has surgery; return unclear
Linebacker Michael Boley, who signed a five-year, $25 million contract with the New York Giants as a free agent, had hip surgery Wednesday and almost certainly will miss the start of training camp. Boley had arthroscopic surgery to repair a torn labrum in an operation performed by Dr. Bryan Kelly at the Hospital for Special Surgery. The former Atlanta Falcon hurt his hip during the Giants‘ offseason program. A full recovery is expected in approximately 8-10 weeks, the team said.

Schein’s Nine: Cutler should grin and bear it
Jay Cutler may want the Bears to add a certain former teammate, but Adam Schein says his current wideout options are just fine.

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