Seems to be a made up rumor. The account that supposedly originated the "report" didn't say it at all, if you go to their page. Complete BS.
Maybe they mean he's on the way there to meet with them tommorow. Flights need to be booked... gotta get press conferences in before the weekend.
dude wanted to go to NY all along. Houston being "in the lead" only meant they made the biggest $$$ offer. Agent plays Smith/McNair to raise his boy's price. Same stuff, different day. Same song, different verse. 5-7 by week 13.
No one misheard anything. It's just the unfortunate nature of Twitter and people who latch onto anything without trying to understand the context. Earlier today, some complete rando tweeted what he later called a "wish" that Oakland was bringing back Asomugha for 5 years, $85 million. Within 30 minutes, a friend of mine texted me about it in a panic, assuming it was a done deal. Sigh. People are so desperate for news that they'll believe anything, and Twitter offers the perfect setting to falsify info and laugh as certain people believe it. If any radio station on the planet says something like that, you'll hear it from the Twitter rooftops - not one random account that you can't even track down.
WFAN tweet is not true. @WFAN660 any credibility to this tweet? RT @NFLDraftInsider WFAN is reporting that #Asomugha is going to Jets HQ. Big news there" 8 minutes ago in reply to ↑ Jared T. @NFLDraftInsider Jared T. @griffinsean nope none
No news = bad news for Texans. Jets just shoring up the cash... would like to be proven wrong, but the fact that the Jets are still being mentioned is enough to realize that there's plenty of mutual interest there. That's all you need with today's NFL... mutual interest. The $$$ and salary re-structure and cap stuff all gets figured out later.
In real news, some encouraging stuff from CNBC's Darren Rovell, who talked with a top accountant and is on top of all sports biz issues: http://twitter.com/#!/darrenrovell Of course, those figures are all assuming an equal offer. In reality, you can add those savings on top of whatever the financial edge is for the Houston offer (since multiple reports have HOU as top bidder).
Darryl Kile says, "hi." As a Houston fan, I've played this card one-trillion times...but i've never heard of a guy signing with a Houston team citing it as a reason at all. It does not seem to be making an appreciable difference for any of our franchises.
Players... who have more money than they need... and spend it on a whole lot of crap they don't need... don't end up caring about this all that much. If so, Houston would have signed more free agents in all sports where this argument is constantly used. They don't.
