Here go the New York Yankees again, making their huge splashes in free agency. Who is it this time? Clemens? Kevin Brown? A-Rod?

Nope, they’ve signed heavyweights Russell Branyan and Bill Hall to minor league contracts. Both will get invites to spring training.

Hall will make $600,000 if he makes the club and there are $600,000 more worth of incentives there. He’ll most likely be used as a utility man.

And who cares what Branyan will make? He’s 36-years old and has back problems. He could pop a couple off the bench, but so what?

You may or may not have heard about the little incident involving Minnesota Timberwolves big man Kevin Love. On Saturday, Love took umbrage with Luis Scola of the Houston Rockets being on the floor.

So, he decided to stomp on him as they ran back up the floor and the NBA certainly took notice. Love has been suspended for two games without pay, even though he contends that it was an accident.

Yeah right.

Love will be able to come back to play against the Mavericks on Friday night, but will miss the Grizzlies and Kings. Expect Derrick Williams and Michael Beasley to pick up more minutes.

The sports world is stunned today as they have learned that Pat Burrell plans to retire. The 35-year old has had foot problems that will just make it too painful to continue.

He told the AP back in November that it’s too problematic to keep playing, even though he wasn’t sure of his decision at the time.

“I have not decided yet, but I don’t think I can play anymore [due to a chronic foot injury]. It hurts me to say that,” he said.

He will retire with the fourth most home runs in Philadelphia Phillies history with 251. He’s behind Del Ennis, Ryan Howard and Mike Schmidt.

The first-overall pick in the 1998 draft, Burrell will be eligible for the Hall of Fame in 2016.

You can never have enough depth. For the Philadelphia Phillies, that depth is needed in the outfield. Shane Victorino is back in centerfield, but they are trusting John Mayberry to play a full season in left and maybe hoping that Dom Brown emerges in right after competing with some of the average joe’s they signed in the offseason.

So, why not roll the dice on a low-risk, decent-upside deal with a guy who was once a damn good player?

According to Jim Salisbury of CSN, that’s what the Phillies have done. He says they’ve signed Juan Pierre to a minor-league deal.

“Confirmed. Pierre agrees to minor lg deal. “@Ken_Rosenthal: Pierre minor-lge deal with #Phillies – @JSalisburyCSN reports serious talks,” Salisbury tweets.

If Pierre even has a decent spring, expect him to stay up with the club.

One of the highest profile free agents in baseball this year is/was Prince Fielder. It was believed that he was looking for a deal in the neighborhood of eight years, $200 million.

And obviously, he wasn’t worth that because no one would give it to him. Hell, that’s why he was on the market for so long.

But, it only takes one team. And that team is the Detroit Tigers.

According to SI’s Jon Heyman, the Tigers have signed Fielder to a nine-year, $214 million contract. Seriously.

Fielder is a phenomenal hitter, but is he really worth that much? He’s only 27-years old, which means I automatically like this deal better than Pujols’ deal with Anaheim. But, Fielder hit a career high .299 last year and you have to think that won’t happen again as he’s .282 for his career. He’ll always get you 30 HR’s and might even get 40 or 50. For that money, he better be north of 40 every year.

Time will tell if it’s truly a bad signing, but right now, I can’t see committing that many years and that much money to one guy.

Hope you like chubby guys, Detroit. ‘Cause you just got a very pricey one.

Not sure that this is a shock really. There was a good portion of the season spent wondering whether or not the Indianapolis Colts would be joining the 2008 Detroit Lions as the only two teams to lose all 16 games.

But, without Peyton Manning, was head coach Jim Caldwell really culpable? The Colts think so, as they have shown him the door and fired him not long after the Polians got the boot.

In short, the Colts are rebuilding. And that might just be yet another reason for Peyton to play elsewhere next season (if he’s able to play at all). All new coaches, front office execs, new systems….nah, Peyton can’t be bothered with that crap.

And he likely won’t have to. It’s widely expected that the Colts will take Stanford QB Andrew Luck with the first-overall pick in next April’s draft.

The Peyton Manning era is likely over in Indy.

If you’re like us, you have been sitting on the edge of your set as Jeff Fisher made his huge decision of which football team to coach. We can’t tell you how much sleep we’ve lost over the last week or so just wanting the indecision to end. Ok, that’s a huge lie. We really don’t care.

But, for those of you who do, Fisher has been named the head coach of the St. Louis Rams.

He had also met with the Miami Dolphins and was thinking about the same position there. We aren’t sure what he was using to base his decision off of, but it clearly wasn’t weather or hot chicks wearing next to nothing.

So there you go, Rams fans. You now have an established coach who has proven that he can take your team to within one yard of tying a Super Bowl.

When the Oakland Raiders hired Reggie McKenzie as their new general manager, we knew that changes could be coming. Head coach Hue Jackson was not his guy, and there was the possibility that he could be tossed (especially the way he was running his mouth the last few weeks).

Well, according to Adam Schefter, McKenzie won the power struggle and has told Jackson to pound sand.

“Raiders fired Hue Jackson. More on ESPN,” Schefter tweets.

Jackson had accrued a decent amount of power in his short stint with the Raiders, and that could have cost him his job. Trading the first- and second-round picks for Carson Palmer did not help his cause. If Palmer lit the world on fire and they made the playoffs, Jackson would probably still have a job.

But, they didn’t make the tournament and now their future is weaker for it. They just have to hope that Palmer returns to form. Otherwise, that’s one of the worst trades in recent memory.

As for potential replacements, who the hell knows right now? We’ve heard Winston Moss, but there are so many coaches and coordinators being linked to this job and that job that we’d prefer not to keep up. Let us know when someone accepts a position.

One of the big reasons that I can’t stand Andre Iguodala is the fact that he plays so much. He’s being paid way too much and the Philadelphia 76ers think he’s an important part of their team. He’s not, he ruins everything.

But, there is another guy I want the hell off my basketball team and that’s Marreese Speights. The one saving grace that he has over Iguodala is that he never plays. I don’t even think they assigned him an authentic jersey. He’s soft, gutless and oft-injured. Yay.

Well, worry about Speights taking up valuable bench space no more, because he’s been shipped to the Memphis Grizzlies in a three-way deal that also sends guard Xavier Henry to the New Orleans Hornets. The Sixers will get a medium-sized package of assorted Kuerig cups couple second-round picks at some point.

Speights might actually be pressed into action quickly in Memphis. The knee injury to Zach Randolph that everyone was hoping wasn’t that big of a deal? Yeah he’s going to miss up to eight weeks with a torn ligament. And Darrell Arthur is already out for the year following his Achilles injury.

Have fun with Marreese, Memphis!

When you go 10-6 one year with a promising young quarterback and then follow that up with a season where said young quarterback regresses big time and you finish the year with 10 straight losses, something has to change. And something did change for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers as they have fired head coach Raheem Morris.

“I can’t do nothing but be gracious to everybody involved,” Morris told Roy Cummings of the Tampa Tribune. “I almost pulled it off. I almost did it. I almost got us winning again. At the end, though, I had nothing to stand on. The last 10 games – you can’t do that.”

What? You almost got the team winning again? Are you talking about 2010? That’s fine, but the Bucs were a sack of horse manure this year, losing the final five games by an average of 23 points. Yowsers. That’s not almost winning. That’s not even almost tying.

But, Morris seems to know that he was going to get the axe. He had to.

“I can’t be negative to anybody in the organization – not Mark Dominik, not anyone, not one bit. I can’t do it. They were too good to me,” Morris said.

So yeah, no one here is surprised. The Bucs ended up as one of the worst teams in the NFL this year, even though they supposedly had playoff aspirations at the beginning of the season. The coaching search now begins.

Is it physically impossible for the Oakland A’s to keep any good players? Every time you turn around, they are shipping off proven talent for prospects. And they just did it again.

The A’s have sent closer Andrew Bailey and OF Ryan Sweeney to the Boston Red Sox in exchange for RHP Raul Alcantara, 3B Miles Head and OF Josh Reddick. The Red Sox get their closer to replace Jonathan Papelbon, and the A’s get whatever these three become. If they turn out to be stars, great, they can trade them.

The Red Sox had previously shown interest in Phillies closer Ryan Madson. As did the Phillies before signing Papelbon. But, now, it seems like Madson has been left out in the cold as neither team went with him.

So, poor Ryan Madson, who now is still a free agent and may have to sign for less with a team that just doesn’t have a sizable payroll.

Once thought of as a possible upside fantasy player, Washington Redskins RB Ryan Torain is now homeless. Well, he most likely has an actual place to live (we’d assume), but he no longer has an NFL home. According to Chris Russell of ESPN 980 AM, the Redskins have parted ways with Torain.

“Ryan Torain had 135 yards rushing in STL & a combined total of 65 yards since, before his release this AM as ESPN 980 has learned. #Redskins,” Russell tweets.

And he isn’t kidding about those awful numbers. The Redskins really have not found anyone to run the ball since Clinton Portis was actually good. Shocking since Mike Shanahan has paid some much attention to the position. His first year with the Skins, he had old versions of Portis, Larry Johnson and Willie Parker. And it didn’t work out! How?!

This season, he had the grouping of Tim Hightower, Roy Helu, Ryan Torain and Evan Royster. And that didn’t work out either!! Baffles the mind.

Torain could get a look in Dallas, Detroit or Buffalo, but who knows?

Before this season, the San Francisco 49ers signed Braylon Edwards to a one-year, $1.6 million contract. The hope was that he would be a deep threat for them, but that never happened for a variety of reasons.

“I was released today by the 49ers due to my injury that required more time to rehab and hasn’t allowed me to re-sync with the offense…,” Edwards tweeted.

First of all, Alex Smith stinks when it comes time to throw the ball deep. That’s quite a big problem to start with. But also, Edwards had knee issues all season and isn’t very good anymore to begin with. 2007 was a long time ago.

Kyle Williams eventually surpassed him on the depth chart and Edwards only got into nine games this year. He finished the season with 15 catches for 181 yards and no touchdowns.

You may remember the end of last year’s Dallas Mavericks/Los Angeles Lakers playoff series. The Mavs were thoroughly embarrassing the Lakers, already up three games to none and absolutely pounding them in Game 4. So, Lakers big man Andrew Bynum decided that if his team was going to lose, he was going to go out like a thuggish punk.

J.J. Barea drove the lane for the Mavericks and Bynum committed the closest thing to assault as possible during play on a basketball court. It’s here if you don’t remember:

That move got him ejected and earned him a five-game suspension to start the 2011-12 season.

Today, the NBA announced that it has reduced the suspension to four games. Why? Because of the lockout-shortened season. Notice, they didn’t say because what he did wasn’t that bad. No, it’s because of the shortened season.

We’d still have given him the five games because that kind of behavior isn’t tolerable on the court. Punk. We just got pissed off all over again after watching that.

We’ve been wondering for a while now (not really) where former New York Mets outfielder Carlos Beltran would land. Once an elite player, Beltran has broken down physically over the last few years, even though he continues to put up some decent number.

Well, wait no more!

Derrick Goold of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch tweets that the Cardinals have signed Beltran to a two-year contract.

“#Cardinals and Beltran have agreed upon a two-year deal, according to sources. News posted on Stltoday.com #stlcards,” he tweets.

It’s reportedly worth $26 million, which is kind of a lot for a 34-year old who has hardly been a model of fitness and health the last few years.

However, it’s tough to argue with Beltran’s numbers despite the injuries. His power isn’t remotely what it used to be, as he hit 22 bombs and just 84 RBI’s in 142 games in 2011. You’d be well within your rights to point out that he wasn’t in hitters parks in Queens and San Francisco (it’s not Russia after all), but those still aren’t dominant power stats.

However, he did hit .323 at the end of last season with the San Francisco Giants, and there wasn’t much (any) protection in that lineup.

Still, $13 million per year is a lot and he could spend most of the year on the DL.

Remember when we told you about 20 minutes ago that the Boston Red Sox were trying to trade for Oakland A’s pitchers Gio Gonzalez and Andrew Bailey? Well…we ummm…see it wasn’t our report, we were just running with someone else’s crap.

Anyway, my point is that you can ignore that talk. There was too much of it anyway. According to Keith Law on Twitter, the A’s have sent Gonzalez to the Washington Nationals in exchange for four prospects. He’ll also be asked to help with the federal deficit, and to urge Republicans to extend the Payroll tax cuts.

“Gio to Nats for Cole, Norris, Peacock, and Milone. Love this for Oakland,” he tweets.

So, Gio is now a National (our condolences to him and his family) and A.J. Cole, Brad Peacock, Derek Norris and Tommy Milone are headed to Oakland.

Here is a breakdown on the new A’s from Rotoworld.com:

Cole, a 19-year-old right-hander, posted a 108/24 K/BB ratio in 89 innings this past season at the Single-A level. Peacock, a 23-year-old righty, had a 2.39 ERA and 177/47 K/BB ratio in 146 2/3 innings between Double-A and Triple-A in 2011. Norris, a 22-year-old catcher, has an .861 career OPS in the minors, and Milone registered a 155/16 K/BB ratio in 148 1/3 innings this past season at Triple-A.

It looks like Billy Beane has done it again. Maybe it’s time for another movie.

On December 20th, Pittsburgh Penguins defensman Deryk Engelland thought he could make Jello out of the head of Chicago Blackhawks forward Marcus Kruger. The big man launched himself into his head and pasted him up against the boards. It was pretty nasty.

And the NHL would tend to agree with that last sentence. Its Department of Player Safety came down on Engelland today, levying a three-game suspension.

This is precisely the kind of crap the NHL wants to get rid of. So, Engelland will sit for a while and will be eligible to return against the New Jersey Devils on December 31st.

Miami Dolphins coach Tony Sparano had his team playing some really good football these last five or so weeks. This was after an 0-7 start, but it did look as though things were getting better for the embattled head coach.

Likewise, Kansas City Chiefs coach Todd Haley got his team’s ship turned around after a miserable start to the season. He had things going pretty well and then Matt Cassel got hurt and he had to try to win games with Tyler friggin’ Palko.

And the brass for both the Chiefs and the Dolphins finally had enough of them, as they each axed their guys with three games left to go in the season following terrible losses.

We don’t know who is replacing them and we haven’t bothered to find out either.

This isn’t the most surprising news in the world as there has been speculation about their jobs all year. Expect each team to continue to stink for the rest of the season.

The Washington Redskins have not made a ton of great decisions to put their team in position for success in 2011. See: thinking John Beck and/or Rex Grossman were good quarterback options. But, they’ve also had a lot of bad luck as well. See: Cooley and Moss missing a lot of time.

Sadly, now two of the few remaining good players on offense will most likely miss the remainder of the season too. Tight end Fred Davis (perhaps the most consistent weapon on offense) and 2010 first-round pick Trent Williams have been suspended for failing drug tests, according to Sports Illustrated‘s Jim Trotter.

“BREAKING: redskins players fred davis and trent williams suspended four games for failed drug test. story coming on http://si.com,” tweets Trotter with poor use of capitalization.

It doesn’t say right now what the drugs were. Pot? Shrooms? Crack? Steroids? Combination of all of them smoked in one lethal joint?

Regardless, they can appeal but if there were indeed failed drug tests, what is really to appeal?

Apparently, the brass within the Jacksonville Jaguars organization isn’t thrilled about a 3-8 start. And they seem to be less thrilled with the overall performance of head coach Jack Del Rio. How do we know?

They fired him.

Yep, after his latest loss and latest round of “throw a coach under the bus,” the Jags decided they had had enough. Del Rio, you may have noticed, has been blaming late-game play calling and timeout usage on his offensive coordinator Dick Koetter.

Sources tell Pete Prisco of CBS Sports that people within the organization were upset that Del Rio used to show up at 9 a.m. and leave the building relatively early. They think that he got very lazy once he signed his contract and it sounds like that was the case.

Oh well, the interim job now goes to defensive coordinator Mel Tucker. All he has to do is win out with a substandard rookie QB who has no receiving weapons on the outside and he’ll be able to say that his team was 8-8 as they make tee times at one of the many gorgeous Jacksonville-area golf resorts.

The Kansas City Chiefs are the big winners in the Kyle Orton Sweepstakes. So, it would seem that we’ve seen the last of Tyler Palko for a while.

Or have we?

Orton was putting it out there earlier that if the Chiefs claim him, he won’t report to the team. That could be a problem.

But, he would be screwing himself over big time. Why wouldn’t he show up? The Chiefs would most likely send him a five-day letter. Basically, the five-day letter says “show up or else.” And that else is reserved/did-not-report list.

That means he’d forfeit the remaining balance of his 2011 $4.5 million salary and jeopardize his chances of free agency in 2012.

It would make absolutely no sense whatsoever for him not to show up and play.

Good new, Chicago Bears! The Denver Broncos have cut Kyle Orton. It’s kind of a surprise, but not really when you consider that if any QB on the roster is going to get a look should something happen to Tebow (bench/injury), it would likely be Brady Quinn.

So, why pay Orton the remaining $2.5 million on his contract to just sit the bench?

So, one would think that either the Bears, Chiefs or Texans could claim him as they all have injured starting QB’s. And the Bears and Texans are doing well in the playoff race.

Vaughn McClure of the Chicago Tribune says that the Bears will claim him. But, he’s confirming Jay Glazer’s report, even though Glazer never reported that. So, we don’t know what to make of that one.

The Bears have the 30th waiver priority, so there is a chance he doesn’t even make it to them.

File this under “somewhat shocking.” The New England Patriots win a lot of games because of their offense. Their defensive is just horrific, so one would assume that they can’t afford to be losing players. But, after cutting Leigh Bodden a week ago, they have let go of another veteran player.

Albert Haynesworth.

“BREAKING: The Patriots have released DT Albert Haynesworth, I’m reporting. Wow,” Ian Rapoport of the Boston Herald tweets.

Greg Bedard of the Boston Globe said Monday night that Haynesworth turned in three of the worst plays every by a defensive tackle. He got “ragdolled easy,” got pancaked and then fell to the ground on an easy shove against the New York Giants Sunday. This led to a sideline confrontation with defensive line coach Pepper Johnson.

Could the Eagles be interested? Would he play hard for Jim Washburn, his old coach from Tennessee? It’s possible.

Albert clearly has enough money at this point. He’s playing…why? He has a ton of talent but he’s clearly just gutless at this point. Oh and throw in the fact that he’s a royal pain off the field too.

Perhaps the biggest offseason priority for the San Francisco Giants (besides finding out a way to rid themselves of Barry Zito’s awful pitching and huge contract) was to improve their lineup. Their pitching has always been stellar, but they have about two guys in the lineup that can hit a curve ball and one was hurt.

So, the Giants seem to have done just that. They sent Jonathan Sanchez and Ryan Verdugo to the Kansas City Royals in exchange for Melky Cabrera.

Sure, Melky isn’t going to be a great defensive player in that huge outfield, but he hit .305 last year with 18 home runs and the Giants could sure as hell use that. He also stole 20 bases last season, so that should help too.

Sanchez was phenomenal in 2010 when the Giants won the World Series with a 3.07 ERA that year. He dropped to 4.26 with a 4-7 record this past year, but should still be a boost to that Royals staff.

While most Dallas Cowboys insiders weren’t surprised that the team released RB Tashard Choice, most national media were. That probably just goes to show how little the national media knows about individual teams, but we’ll leave that conversation for another day.

The truth is, Choice wasn’t playing well and he was never a favorite of Jason Garrett. That’s how you end up getting cut.

But, good news for Choice, he was claimed today by the running-back-needy Washington Redskins, according to Adam Schefter.

“The Redskins claimed former Cowboys running back Tashard Choice on waivers,” Schefter tweets.

Ryan Torain just hasn’t been getting it done, but then again falling behind 20-0 doesn’t help a coach stick with the run game. Tim Hightower is out for the year and all they have is Torain and Roy Helu. And knowing how Mike Shanahan rotates his backs, Choice will get a chance to show that he can play for them (if they aren’t down 20-0).

Choice averaged just 2.7-yards per carry this season, so memo to Washington D.C., you aren’t getting Barry Sanders.

However, the Redskins are getting a guy that over the last few seasons has filled in admirably when his number was called. It remains to be seen whether he’ll bet that guy, or the 2.7-yards per carry guy.

We mentioned previously that there was a chance that Atlanta Braves starter Derek Lowe might not be in the team’s plans for 2012, despite the fact that they gave him a decent free agent contract just a few years ago. He has a big salary, and there really is no room for him considering his production and the young talent they have coming up.

Well, the Braves definitely didn’t want him, because according to Jon Heyman of SI.com, they shipped him to the Cleveland Indians.

“Derek lowe was traded to the indians,” Heyman tweets with poor use of capitalization.

The Braves apparently received a Single-A left-hander of little consequence and have agreed to eat $10 million of Lowe’s $15 million salary. Ouch.

Lowe was pretty awful in 2011 considering what they pay him. He had a 5.15 ERA and 1.51 WHIP this year, which is unacceptable. And in five starts in September, he had an ERA of almost nine. Yikes!

And with the Braves having Tim Hudson, Jair Jurrjens, Brandon Beachy and Tommy Hanson already in the rotation, Lowe just didn’t fit. Sure, you say, there is one more rotation spot. Well, the Braves – as always – have young guys coming up. Mike Minor, Randall Delgado and Julio Teheran who they like a lot and will give them a chance to fill that void.

Have fun, Cleveland!

To say that we are shocked on this one is an understatement. The Cowboys dumped Marion Barber in the offseason, but drafted DeMarco Murray to be some new blood. They still have Felix Jones, but he’s hurt all the time and ineffective. In the last couple years, Tashard Choice has always done a more-than respectable job to fill in when one of these guys went down with an injury.

But, he won’t be doing a respectable job for the Cowboys now. The Cowboys have waived Choice, according to Tim McManus of ESPN.

“Tashard Choice cut to make room for Bruce Carter. More to come on @ESPNDallas and 103.3,” he tweets.

Bruce Carter, a linebacker, is coming off a knee injury at North Carolina and hasn’t played football since 2010.

“Very excited, very excited,” Carter said. “Trying to get every down, down pat so I don’t [expletive] up, excuse my language. A lot of special teams. A lot of learning, getting in, making mistakes, lot of coaches yelling at you, ‘Go this way and go that way’ and all of that stuff.”

We’re still baffled, though, by this move. We need to find out more. The Cowboys are hardly deep at the running back position and Choice is a nice player. Did he mouth off to someone? Why would you cut a guy at a thin position to make room for a guy who is going to spend most of his time at special teams?

McManus, who follows the team closely, isn’t surprised by this move. He says that Garrett never really liked him.

“Can’t say I’m stunned by Tashard Choice being cut. Jason Garrett clearly was never high on 23. Choice gave him no reason to be this year,” McManus tweets.

Oh well, we thought that they’d hold on to him for depth if nothing else. Someone else will pick him up.

All offseason, many people were wondering why the Buffalo Bills didn’t go out and get a QB. Everyone thought they needed a QB except them. And maybe they were right with the way Ryan Fitzpatrick has been playing.

Fitzpatrick has the team off to a great start and apparently the Bills noticed. According to Joe Buscaglia of WGR, they have signed him to a pretty big extension.

“According to @john_wawrow of the AP, Ryan Fitzpatrick has agreed to a contract extension with the Buffalo Bills,” he tweets.

Rotoworld says the contract is a six-year, $59 million deal with $24 million guaranteed. This is insane. Fitzpatrick doesn’t have a ton of physical gifts, and he’s played well for periods of time before, only to fizzle out.

Don’t ignore any QB’s that might fall into your lap in the draft, Buffalo. We just don’t think he’s a great long-term solution. Especially since OTR thought the Bills should have addressed the QB situation in the offseason.

You may have heard that the Denver Broncos put WR Brandon Lloyd on the trading block recently. Several teams popped up as being interested in his services, including the New England Patriots, Tennessee Titans and St. Louis Rams.

According to Jason La Canfora of NFL Network, it looks like the Rams will be the winners.

“Brandon Lloyd is being dealt to the Rams. More to come on NFL.com and NFL Network,” La Canfora tweets.

This is all the information we have right now. No word on compensation, but with Lloyd in the final year of his contract, we can’t imagine that they give up higher than a third-round pick, but that’s completely just a guess.

We would have to guess that offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels lobbied hard for Lloyd, who he had when he was the head coach in Denver.

We may or may not pass along more information when we hear more about it.

The NFL trade deadline is on Tuesday.

The capital of Nebraska is Lincoln.

UPDATE: We were way off on the trade compensation. It’s actually a conditional sixth-round pick that can jump to a fifth. Unless they sign him to a new contract (which they’re likely to do), it’s a complete waste for the Rams, who are going nowhere this year.

In 2009, the Seattle Seahawks made LB Aaron Curry the No. 4-overall pick in the NFL Draft. In 2011, they are still waiting for him to do something. Anything.

Apparently, they don’t want to wait any longer, because they have shipped him to the Oakland Raiders, according to FOX’s Jay Glazer.

“Sources on Raiders & SEA tell me they’ve agreed to a trade sending Aaron Curry, 4th pick in 09 draft, to OAK for pick this yr, 1 next yr,” Glazer tweets.

It looks like it’s a seventh-round pick in 2012 and a mid-round choice in 2013. Not much of a return for a guy you invested all that money and time into.

Rolando McClain, another high first-round pick, suffered what could be a nasty ankle injury on Sunday and Curry could be some sort of insurance for that. Darryl Blackstock is backing him up now.

Not sure what kind of insurance Curry is though. He’s there just in case you need someone with no visible instincts and can’t cover anyone?