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Julien Rodriguez and Matt Sherman - Our New Team Members



Julien Rodriguez (pictured) and Matt Sherman are the newest members of our NFL team, which includes Bill Chackhes, Walter Anaruk, and the famous author Wil Mara.

Gaines Adams Audio Interview



Gaines Adams's interview comments were also captured on Mp3 by Bill Chackhes. You can hear what he said with a click here: Gaines Adams Audio Interview

Adrian Peterson Audio Interview



Adrian Peterson's interview comments were also captured on Mp3 by Bill Chackhes. You can hear what he said with a click here: Adrian Peterson Audio Interview

Calvin Johnson Audio Interview



Calvin Johnson's interview comments were also captured on Mp3 by Bill Chackhes. You can hear what he said with a click here: Calvin Johnson Audio Interview.

Brady Quinn Audio Interview



Brady Quinn's interview comments were also captured on Mp3 by Bill Chackhes. You can hear what he said with a click here: Brady Quinn Audio Interview

Ja Marcus Russell Audio Interview



Ja Marcus Russell's interview comments were also captured on Mp3 by Bill Chackhes. You can hear what he said with a click here:

Ja Marcus Russell Audio Interview

From NFL Friday (Today's) Luncheon - CAA Agents and Brady Quinn Negotiating With Oakland Raiders - Quinn To Become First Pick



Photo by Bill Chackhes - SBS and FieldPosition.com

I've just returned from the NFL's great luncheon at The Rainbow Room, where I had the accidental pleasure of sharing a table with people from Hummer, Players, Inc., and one gentleman who lives in Washington, DC and who works for Creative Artists Agency, or CAA.

CAA represents Brady Quinn.

As we were listening to Sterling Sharp entertain the audience, the CAA man who's name I am not going to drop was hurredly working his Blackburry. I asked what was going on and if it involved Brady Quinn. He confirmed that it did. "This is great, he said without directly spilling the beans, except that Mike Lynch of Visa may or may not like it. It harms our deal if he (Brady Quinn) were to go to the Browns." By this, he means CAA's endorsement deal with Cleveland and for Brady Quinn.

So, I asked. "Does this mean the Raiders are going to pick Brady Quinn first?" I asked.

"It looks that way," he said. But we'll see what happens. Then he got up from his chair and said "That's what I'm going to check on now."

So the bottom line is that CAA's trying to seal a deal with the Oakland Raiders, who are ready to sign Brady Quinn as their number one pick. It all adds up because:

1) Ja Marcus Russell said he'd not got a call from the Oakland Raiders.

2) Brady Quinn -- this is in the video -- mentioned that he and his agents had talked with the Raiders "but I can't talk about details," Quinn said.

3) Brady Quinn said that the Raiders new offense is very much like the Notre Dame system, meaning he could step right in. This is also in the video on this blog.

So, unless they can't work out the contract, Brady Quinn will become an Oakland Raider.

We'll know officially tommorrow, but will keep the updates coming.

This is good for CAA, because they lost Matt Leinart.

NFL Draft Media Luncheon Video - Pts 1 - 5



All photos by Bill Chackhes - SBS and FieldPosition.com Ja Marcus Russell's pictured above.

This is part one and two of our five part NFL Draft Video series. The National Football League has it's media lunch on the Thursday prior to the draft and that was true again for the 2007 NFL Draft.

This event, held at Chelsea Piers, had the five invited NFL Draft players -- Ja Marcus Russell, Brady Quinn, Adrian Peterson, Calvin Johnson, and Gains Adams -- on hand for interviews and photo ops with the invited media, including us.

Some of the highlights were Ja Marcus Russell's admission that he'd not got a call from the Oakland Raiders -- though I believe he was coached to say that -- and Brady Quinn's comment that the offense the Oakland Raiders (who have the first pick) are installing is very much like the system he worked in at Notre Dame, which in turn is like the Patriots offense.

On that note, Quinn mentioned in the video below that he met New England Patriots signal caller Tom Brady the previous evening. He commented that Brady was a lot of help in assisting Quinn in how to think about what was happening to him.

Brady Quinn also went on quite a rant about how people make judgements about him without really watching film, saying "I mean, if I throw an incompletion, do they see why," or words to that effect. It was quite a show and demonstrates just how worked up he is over being over-analyzed by everyone.

Ja Marcus Russell presented himself as simply "smooth": very soft-spoken and warm in his approach.

Adrian Peterson seemed the most amused by it all. He comments that of all the players, he should go number one to the Raiders. Period.

Gaines Adams is the elder statesman of the group. He's not older, but he seems that way. Very grounded. Calvin Johnson is more like Ja Marcus Russell in the way he carries himself and talks.

I asked most of the players if they had experienced any change in the way their friends treated them, and all in different ways said they had not, which is good to report.

In all, the luncheon was quite fun and we've got a lot more video content and news, but I'm off to another NFL Draft event.

But what I could not figure out was why one Raiders representative spent part of his time photoging me from a distance! I'm serious. More on this later!

We ate with Adam Schafter of the NFL Network, Andrea Kramer of ESPN (who's down to just 97 pounds after biking!) and she dropped a news bomb about a certain LA Times sports writer -- Mike Penner -- who decided to become a woman names Christine Daniels!

Here's the video set...remember, it will be in complete five parts in about three hours or so. He're two of them now.

Video Part One:



Video Part Two:



Video Part Three:



Video Part Four:



Video Part Five:

 

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