REAR ENTRIES: PFW GOES ALL TMZ

TRADE REVIEW: Yesterday, Kellen Winslow had two catches for 21 yards for the Bucs. The player the Browns selected with the pick they received for Winslow, Mohamed Massaquoi, had ten catches for 179 yards. For the year, Winslow is ahead in catches, but Massaquoi has more yards. And yesterday was Massaquoi’s first game where he caught a pass. Just putting it out there.

SEAU TO PATRIOTS?: There are unconfirmed reports that Junior Seau is on the verge of signing with the Patriots again. There had been some hard speculation that Derrick Brooks would be on the Pats’ radar since they are thin at linebacker and seem to have a thing for older players. But it looks like they may want the 40-year old more than the 36-year old because Brooks hasn’t gotten a sniff from New England so far. I have a hard time believing that Seau is better on the field than Brooks at this stage of their respective careers, so maybe it’s a familiarity thing. But it’s looking like Brooks may have had retirement forced on him.

PFW SKEWERS MORRIS, BUCS: This isn’t going to get the kind of press it would have if the sources in the piece had gone on the record, but whoever these people are fucking butchered Raheem Morris in this Pro Football Weekly piece. The quotes are too lengthy to copy/paste here without me feeling like an ass for pulling their whole story, so here are the broad strokes:

1) Greg Olson knew Byron Leftwich sucked.
2) Olson wanted Luke McCown, but Morris, Mark Dominik and Doug Williams wanted Leftwich, so that’s how it went.
3) Josh Johnson is one of the bottom 10 worst quarterbacks in the league.
3) Morris, a former secondary coach, now has a shitty secondary.
4) “Morris is all hype.”
5) Glazers wanted the next Mike Tomlin, but Morris is not in his class.
6) Glazers misevaluated Jon Gruden.
7) “Dominik is just a puppet.”

Again, if there were a named attached to this, it would be leading every football show for the next couple days. But with anonymous sources comes anonymous stories, so this will be relegated to the gossip sections of your less-reputable news sources and shittier blogs (hi!). I don’t agree with all of it (especially the stuff about Johnson), but it’s interesting that a “veteran personnel director” feels this way.