And if it's not... someone needs to steal the idea and make it happen quick...

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Inside sources say that all three Bengals quarterbacks will be traveling to Florida to spend time working out with former Raiders and Bucs head coach Jon Gruden. Jordan Palmer, Dan LeFevour, and newly drafted Andy Dalton will likely be learning the West Coast Offense (WCO) from one of its masters. Gruden’s brother, Jay – the new Bengals’ offensive coordinator – will likely run a WCO very similar to the one that he helped Jon develop in Tampa. While we can be sure that Jay will add wrinkles to the scheme to fit the Bengals’ personnel, it will be good for the QBs to at least learn the basics from Jon. There is no word on whether any Bengals’ WRs, RBs, or OL will also attend the camp.

God bless loopholes and spare brothers.

 

The Atlanta Falcons kicked off their unofficial offseason workout program – minus the franchise’s coaches and support personnel – today at an athletic training facility.

About 30 players gathered at Ignite, according to Orlando Ledbetter of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution – to begin the kind of conditioning work that would traditionally be done at the club’s facility in Flowery Branch, Ga.

“We have to take it upon ourselves to continue working in a manner that will allow us to continue to establish ourselves as one of the top teams in the NFL,” linebacker Coy Wire, the team’s player representative to the trade group known as the NFLPA, told Ledbetter.

Wire and right tackle Tyson Clabo are helping organize the get-togethers.

The players are working out Monday through Thursday with Friday set aside as a “makeup day,” similar to what NFL clubs do. They’ve done their best to tailor the program after what the team does in the spring. The Falcons point to the work they did last offseason as a reason why they won six games in the fourth quarter or overtime in 2010 when they won the NFC South and were the top-ranked team in the conference playoffs.

“It’s given us a chance to pull together even stronger as a team,” Wire said. “Although it’s unfortunate that there is a lockout, there may be some good that comes from this.

“There is something about being away from the facility that we feel less like we are doing something because we have to, but because we want to. No one is telling us to be there. No one is telling us to workout. But we are all making a choice to do this together.”

 

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Take this with a huge gigantic grain of salt since the source is beyond questionable, but a guy on the Seahawks message board, who supposedly knows a guy who supposedly works for the Bengals, posted this:

According to my friend the Bengals and Seahawks have already agreed on a deal that includes this years 2nd rounder and next years first rounder from us for Carlson Palmer. He mentioned that in the contract there is provision for a contract extention of 3 years at the end of the 2011 season. The deal will be around $27 mil for the 4 years or something like that. He doesn't normally joke around and after the time I had with my son this week I don't think he would mess with me. Of course that is a possibility...but not likely.

He says that deal will be official right after the new CBA is signed. I guess I wont get to see Locker play in a Seahawks uniform after all. Too bad.

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