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Notre Dame quarterback Everett Golson is expecting a lot more of himself and the Fighting Irish offense next season.
Joe Flacco knows his stature as the highest-paid player in NFL history may not last for long, and he's OK with it.

The Baltimore Ravens quarterback will receive a $29 million signing bonus and $52 million in guaranteed money.
Joe Flacco's impeccable timing earned him the richest contract for a quarterback in NFL history. That doesn't mean he's the game's best QB.
Joe Flacco will have a huge contract to go along with his Super Bowl ring.
Joe Flacco and the Baltimore Ravens reached a tentative agreement Friday on a new contract that would make the Super Bowl MVP the highest-paid player in NFL history.

Terms were not immediately available, but Flacco was expected to get a long-term contract close to the $20 million average salary Drew Brees earns with New Orleans.
Tom Brady will be a Patriot until he is 40 years old.
Pro football Hall of Famer Marshall Faulk has been picked to replace Drew Brees as host of a celebrity golf tournament.
Drew Brees wore gray sneakers to his first full day of Super Bowl-related appearances _ a wise move for an ambassador of a city who had to walk briskly from end to end of a sprawling convention center to make all of his scheduled stops.
Drew Brees wore gray sneakers to his first full day of Super Bowl-related appearances _ a wise move for an ambassador of a city who had to walk briskly from end to end of a sprawling convention center to make all of his scheduled stops.

Flacco, it seems, is regarded as a guy who is just kind of there. He wouldn't be on anybody's bottom 10 list. Yet few people, if any, seem to regard him among the NFL's elite quarterbacks. Maybe it is time to change that thinking. To put him in the top five would be absurd. To put him in the next five seems more than reasonable.
The two kids from Northern California burst from NFL afterthought to championship contender in eerily similar fashion a decade apart.
Headphone maker Monster's gadget show event was expectedly monstrously cheesy with a healthy dose of hype.
Doug Marrone is set to try to turn around an NFL team after improving a college program down the road.
"I know the city is going to be a great host regardless," Brees said. "The city wants to put their best foot forward, they want everybody to have a great experience. I don't like the fact that we've got the NFC team practicing in our facility, but we're going to be gracious hosts and hope that it pays us back in the future."
"We've said what needed to be said," Brees said. "Sean's back, all the pieces are in place, and now it's time for us to put ourselves in a position to make a run."