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Arizona Cardinals Fly Around the NFC West: Free Agency Mania Edition

The Arizona Cardinals rolled over hit the snooze button at the start of free agency and haven't so much as hosted a potential free agent signee. That's supposed to change today though as Darren Urban is reporting that three players are in town today to potentially help the corner back and running back situation. Other teams in the NFC West weren't quite as patient though with a couple making significant moves.

  • St. Louis Rams: The Rams made the biggest splash of any teams in the West when they landed Jason Brown, one of the best interior offensive linemen to hit free agency in some time. Brown's soon to be 26 years old and his five year $37.5 million dollar contract will keep him in St. Louis until after the 2013 season. Some other Rams' related free agency rumors involve them shopping Torry Holt and Orlando Pace
  • San Francisco 49ers: The Niners chose to nibble at the free agent pie by signing a couple of role players. They re-signed a couple of their own, Takeo Spikes and Allen Rossum, and added a 30 year old fullback who spent the 2006 and 2007 with them. Moran Norris received a modest three year deal and they also added Brandon Jones, a 26 year old wide reciever who's spent his previous four seasons with the Tennessee Titans. Jones got a five year contract worth an estimated $16.5 million. Despite these two signings though, the biggest news in the Bay Area (and also in Arizona) is that Kurt Warner will come in for a visit today. No one knows how serious Kurt is about San Francisco or even how serious the Niners would be about paying $14 million per season to an aging quarterback.
  • Seattle Seahawks: The Seahawks haven't been too busy in free agency either, in fact they basically traded one defensive lineman for another. They signed 29 year old Colin Cole, formerly with the Green Bay Packers, and they lost 29 year old Rocky Bernard to the Giants. Cole agreed to a five year deal worth $21 million but Hawk fans are not completely sold on his abilities quite yet. Seattle remains in the running for TJ Houshmandzadeh but they're not expected the land the former Bengal. Update: The Seattle Seahawks have signed TJ Houshmandzadeh to a five-year, $40 million deal. More work for DRC now. WIth this move, the Cardinals need to sign McFadden for CB support.

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Damn, TJ in Seatle! I was hoping he'd go to the Vikings!

Didn’t it seem like the Cards were going to have at least one more season of being able to take the division without to many worries? But now each team is preparing to show some big turn around and change how the NFC West is viewed.

Rams – New coach from the Giants, some big names have been signed
49ers – Last year they were good, but took a while to gel. If they get Warner it could give them a major jump start.
Seattle – Picked up Housh, that’s a major weapon for Hasselback to throw to. This is shaping up to be very interesting, as always.

by CardsFan08 on Mar 2, 2009 10:54 PM MST reply actions  

1 and done

the seahawks have one good year ahead of them (this year) and then they will start to go down. the team is too old and they wont attrack too many free agents with an old team in the northwest.

rams will still suck

niners will be tough and win a few games they shouldnt but loose a good portion of the ones they should win

Cards take the division with or without warner given they can plug some decent LB’s and DL’s into the defense.

by sc464 on Mar 3, 2009 2:12 PM MST up reply actions  

'Hawks sign TJ Housh?

Wow…. suddenly, their receiving corps doesn’t totally suck balls. They’ve got a #2.

But a #1??

We are truly in the presense of greatness here…-- unnamedDBacksfan

by DbacksSkins on Mar 3, 2009 12:17 AM MST reply actions  

TJ's stardom was boosted by his environment

Palmer and Johnson helped him a lot. The Bengals playing from behind all the time helped too. A least Seattle can give TJ the latter. ::rimshot::

We all leave footprints in the sands of time, just watch out for the discarded fish hooks!

by Hawkwind on Mar 3, 2009 7:03 AM MST up reply actions  

lol

yea I can’t wait to see how Housh handles being the #1.

by Bezekira on Mar 6, 2009 9:45 AM MST up reply actions  

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