Wilfork is holding out his demand of new contract

We have not seen Patriots DT Vince Wilfork present at the teams voluntary workouts for a few weeks, and we may not be going to see him for some more time.

As it is widely regarded, Wilfork is one of the best DT players. He has been working for the Patriots since 2005 and has started all but three games. As 2009 is the last year in his current contract with the Pats, he has been looking forward to a new contract. He believes that with holding out he will be able to get what he want from the Pats, but before the contract issue is settled, he is unlikely to return to the field. However, according to what he told the Herald, he is hoping to end all of these as soon as possible, so that he can be with his teammates again.

Eagles CB Brown did not appear on voluntary practice

The Eagles CB Sheldon Brown may be not satisfied with his current contract and did not participate in Eagles Tuesday voluntary practice. Eagles coach Andy Reid told reporter "Sheldon is doing what Sheldon thinks he needs to do. I wish he was here." Is that something more important than preparing for coming season?

Eagles president Joe Banner denied in a radio interview that Brown was unhappy with his current contract. But afterwards, Brown expressed publicly he wanted a new contract or trade. The team has confirmed that there is no new contract for all players with four years remaining on their contracts, including Brown.

I guess Brown does not want to lose any opportunity to prove himself in games, so he still takes part in mandatory camp, but he also want to show his unhappiness, ant that is why he did not participate in voluntary team workout.

Cowboys has to worry about its defense

The Cowboys should not be too confident in its solid starters at almost every position. There are solid starters, but not enough.

In wide receiver positions, Roy Williams and Patrick Crayton are the only two elite wrs in the group. All others are in lack of experience or have health problems. The same situation to safety positions. Ken Hamiln was a pro-bowler two years ago, and Sensabaugh is the only one in the group who can match Hamiln's level. Except for the two, others are in lack of training.

The problem is there is really limited time. There is not enough time for a lot of training, and overworking will probably cause more health problems.

So as I say in the title, the Cowboys has to worry about its defense.

Fans can expect Packers of big improvement in 2009

The Packers' performance in 2008 season was really awful. In order to improve in 2009 season, the team did a lot of things.

First, the Packers promoted Shawn Slocum from his special teams assistant position to Special Teams Coordinator after Mike Stock's retirement. Slocum is an experience coach who coached 15 college seasons for four different schools.

Then, the Packers began to sign qualified players to their roster. Tramon Williams, Jarrett Bush, Michael Montgomery, and so on, and so on. We can see clearly that the Packers are trying to improve both defense and offense.

It can not be said to be a bad strategy. It is good enough to improve the Packers a lot. Packer fans can expect that 2009 will be a better year for the Packers.

Broncos is improving its defense

After the Broncos head coach Josh McDaniels forced QB Jay Cutler to leave, Josh McDaniels chose another QB Kyle Orton. Kyle Orton did perform rather well while in the Bears. Other improvements is being done.

Broncos also signed Brian Dawkins to improve the defense. All of the effort to improve should be applauded, but the new top defense players are not talented enough to make the team win the coming season. Since there is still time, hope it is enough for the Broncos to reach its best.

Packers' Driver thinks he values more than before

According to his current contract with the Packers, Driver will be paid $3.9 million in 2009 and $4 million in 2010. But he now consider himself valuing more than that. And perhaps for this reason, he did not take part in the OTAS recently.

His agent Jordan Woy told newspaper that Driver was training in Texas and the Packers knew it. Packers coach MikeMcCarthy did not make any comment about the absence of Driver.

What made Drivers think himself more valuable now?

His performance in last year was really good. He caught 74 passes for 1,012 yards and 5 touchdowns in last season. He won the Pro Bowl 3 times and has had 6 1,000 yards seasons during his 10 years of career.

The best sleeper woke up

He is 5-foot-9 tall and weighs 203 pounds. His physic features made many think that he was not capable of being a featured back. But recently these people have to change their mind.

With the guidance of assistant head head coach, Slaton improved a lot in playing. In his rookie season, he made a recorde fo 50 receptions, 1,659 yards from scrimmage and scored 10 total touchdowns. And now he was seen as the first-round fantasy back heading into 2009.

Slaton becomes more valuable now. Even his team the Texans is planing to use Ryan Moats and Chris Brown in the backfield mix, that wont impact much on his value.

It is not possible for Burress to join Rams

The free-agent WR Plaxico Burress has gotten interests from teams, it was said by his agent Drew Rosenhaus. But absolutely not the Rams, neither the Bears.

2 days after Bears' GM Jerry Angelo told reporters that the team has no interest in Burress, The Rams' Billy Devaney expressed the same attitude.

Till now, only the Jest showed publicly interest in Burress, the other team that was said to be interested in him remains a mystery.

Quinn V.S. Anderson, fiece competition begins

While looking OTAs conducted throughout the league this week, we can see that some notable quarterback competitions. One of the most notable compettions is in Cleveland, where Brady Quinn and Derek Anderson are competiting openly for the starting job under new coach Eric Mangini.

The first question for Mangini to ask is how to divide first-team reps between Quinn and Anderson during a pre-practice media session on Thursday. He said that both of them have done good jobs, with Quinn a little better than Anderson.

Although there are other choices such as Brett Ratliff and Richard Bartel Mangini shows more confidence on Quinn and Anderson.