The 2012 season has not been too good to the Philadelphia Phillies. They’ve been in last place most of the season and just got their first three-game winning streak of the season on Tuesday. Not good for a team with a huge payroll and World Series aspirations.

Now, the team gets some more good news. One of their reliable starting pitchers (the only part of this team that has been solid this year), Vance Worley, has been placed on the 15-day DL with elbow inflammation.

Anyone see Tommy John in the future?

Not saying that will happen, but elbow trouble isn’t good. GM Ruben Amaro says that they will know more about the inflammation some time on Wednesday. Can’t wait to hear that report.

The designation is retroactive to May 12, but that doesn’t mean he’ll come off of the DL as scheduled.

Phillies fans: Hold your breath. This team can’t afford to take on more water.

Whoops! When Baltimore Orioles manager Buck Showalter named Jim Johnson as the team’s closer, we made light of it, saying basically “who the hell cares?”

Boy, was OTR wrong…again (happens all the time, we’re used to it around here).

While it may not last forever, right now Johnson is smoking hot. He closed out the New York Yankees tonight and now has 12 saves on the year, tied for first in MLB. He has an absolutely insane ERA of 0.54. 0.54!

This is coming from a guy who had an ERA well over six in spring training. In our defense, it wasn’t like Buck Showalter was thrilled to name him as his closer at the time.

But, kudos to Johnson and shame on OTR (for now). This guy is pitching his ass off and could develop into one of the best closers in the league. Unless he doesn’t, because then he won’t.

Well, if this doesn’t warm your heart then you are just an ass. On Sunday, De Graafschap, a soccer team that no one has ever heard of, drew to a 1-1 tie in their second promotion/relegation game.

It was after they lost their first game, and the club ended up getting relegated.

Rogier Meijer was visibly dejected after the game. He sat on the field afterwards, and then had someone come out to console him. Who? His young daughter Saar, who ran out in her dad’s jersey to see if he was okay. He shook his head and laid back down on the pitch.

Check it out, it’s too cute:

The 2012 season of the Philadelphia Eagles got off to a bad start in late March when Pro Bowl LT Jason Peters ruptured his Achilles tendon. There was a smidgen of hope that he might be able to play this year, but you can squash that talk.

A league source tells Derrick Gunn of CSNPhilly.com that Peters ruptured the tendon for a second time. Apparently, he was maneuvering in his kitchen when his Roll-A-Bout device broke. It’s expected to set him back about three weeks.

Peters had to have a second surgery to repair his heel.

Ouch. That sucks.

According to Gunn, Peters plans on suing the manufacturer of the device.

After lighting it up for my fantasy football team in 2011, Tennessee Titans WR Kenny Britt decided it would be a good time to tear his ACL and MCL in his right knee. It not only ended his season, it ended my fantasy season.

So, obviously Britt had surgery to repair the injuries, but it’s possible that he could need more. While no second surgery has been scheduled for him, he could possibly need a second, less-invasive surgery to fully repair the knee.

“I think it always is (possible),” head coach Mike Munchak said. “I don’t know if he will at some point, but I think that’s something that’s common with that injury. Derrick went through it last year. The good thing is that even if you do have it, it’s not a huge setback. It’s not something that sets you way back. But that is obviously part of the process, or could be, if that arises down the road.”

The good news is that a second surgery isn’t expected to set him back much.

“We don’t look at as a big deal. You have to look at it as why it’s happening, but it’s something that with guys who have had ACLs this is very common, something that’s gone on at times,” Munchak said. “Sometimes it happens much sooner than Derrick’s did, and sometimes it happens like Derrick’s did, once you get more active. We’ll see. He’s been doing well, running hard, and we’ll just have to see how the knee responds.”

Ken Rosenthal’s report makes it clear that no trade is immediate, nor is one likely. But, he says that the Toronto Blue Jays and Philadelphia Phillies have discussed possible trades including Cole Hamels and Shane Victorino.

It sounds ridiculous, but not when you consider that the Phillies are in last place in the NL East and continue to find ways to lose games and fall farther behind.

Both are in the last year’s of their contracts and if the Phillies don’t think they can resign them, they are likely trade bait. The Phils don’t want to bail on the season before Chase Utley and Ryan Howard come back, but at some point, they’ll have to face reality.

“My job is to keep all lines of communication open, for the good of the club today and tomorrow,” GM Ruben Amaro said. “I can’t shut any doors down. You try to be creative. And there are a lot of creative GMs out there who have different goals.”

I would think Roy Halladay or Cliff Lee would make more sense to move, considering the team needs to get younger and replenish the farm system. We’ll see what happens, right now this is probably a tire-kicking on behalf of the Jays.

Well, this isn’t good. In the early 2011 draft season, there were many mock drafts and experts who had Clemson DE Da’Quan Bowers as the No. 1-overall pick. Yep, the top pick. But, as we got closer to the draft, his stock fell due to concerns about his knee, which had microfracture surgery on it.

Ok, fair enough. But, he clearly had top-end ability, so I thought it was a great move by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers when they nabbed him in the second round. And while most of his rookie season didn’t produce much, he did show signs of his ability towards the end of the year, even if they entire defense stunk on ice.

Well, now things just got worse. Bowers will undergo surgery after tearing his Achilles tendon during the offseason program Thursday. This virtually assures that Michael Bennett and Adrian Clayborn will be starting defensive ends this year.

This doesn’t help Tampa’s defense at all, and it was awful before this. If you’re planning on betting on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers this year, I’d take the points as they are probably going to be getting a lot of them.

Not sure what to think of Bowers’ prospects moving forward, but microfracture knee surgery and a torn Achilles would certainly have to take its toll on him.

According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Oakland Raiders WR Darrius Heyward-Bey has gotten himself into a bit of trouble. Specifically, he was charged Thursday with DUI after an incident last month.

Heyward-Bey was pulled over around 2 a.m. on April 7 after his 2012 Range Rover was spotted driving erratically. He was given a field sobriety test and failed, although the police didn’t say what his BAC was. 0.08 is the legal limit.

Police said that he was “very cooperative.” They brought him in on suspicion of DUI and was later released.

That is, until now. He’s officially been charged with DUI now and could face discipline from the league. Although it should be noted that he doesn’t have a history of legal issues.

Being a bust is, in fact, legal.

The Anaheim Ducks announced on Wednesday that they signed veteran center Saku Koivu to a one-year contract. The deal is believed to be $3 million and does include incentives.

Koivu gets this contract despite the fact that he’s 37-years old and his production has steadily declined the last few years. He had 38 points last year, which isn’t very good.

Still, the Ducks want to keep him because he’s a two-way player who helps out on the penalty kill. It’s not always all about points scored, and here is proof.

The Washington Nationals are having a good-news/bad-news type of day. The bad news is that they obviously had to place Jayson “I hate all Philadelphia fans and will firebomb that city when my wrist is healthy” Werth on the disabled list. You’ll remember that he broke his same troublesome wrist on Sunday night against the Phillies.

Werth is likely to miss some 6-12 weeks (depending on which reports you believe), so whether he’s on the 15-day DL, 60-day DL, 135-week DL….it doesn’t matter. Cut him from your fantasy baseball team.

But, the Nationals do get some good news here. 3B Ryan Zimmerman will be activated off the DL, so his bat will be a welcomed addition.

We now wait to hear when Zimmerman will go back on the DL, which should be any time soon.

The Philadelphia Flyers are already in a lousy situation against the New Jersey Devils. They are down 3-1 in the series, but it’s much worse than that. The Devils are killing the Flyers in most aspects of hockey. The Flyers can’t even carry it out of their own zone without a huge fight.

And Game 5 just got a lot tougher. According to the Flyers’ Facebook page, Claude Giroux will be suspended for one game following his hit to the head of Dainius Zubrus.

“BREAKING NEWS: Claude Giroux was given a 1 game suspension by the NHL for a hit on Dainius Zubrus during the 2nd period of last night’s game,” the post reads.

He did hit him well after the puck was gone, but he didn’t leave his feet. Still, the NHL obviously thinks he went after his head (which he did hit). What do you think?

On Sunday night, Philadelphia Phillies stud Cole Hamels mowed down the Washington Nationals both literally and figuratively. He gave up just one run through eight innings, and also made sure he plunked Bryce Harper in the first inning.

That wasn’t seemingly a big deal, except that he admitted after the game that he did it on purpose.

“I was trying to hit him,” Hamels said. “I’m not going to deny it. That’s just — you know what, it’s something that I grew up watching, that’s what happened, so I’m just trying to continue the old baseball — I think some people kind of get away from it. I remember when I was a rookie the strike zone was really, really small and you didn’t say anything just because that’s the way baseball is. Sometimes the league is protecting certain players and making it not that old-school, prestigious way of baseball.”

What I still don’t get is why. Because Harper is good? Because he’s young? Because he’s getting a lot of hype? Are any of those reasons to intentionally pop someone?

Well, you can put Nationals GM Mike Rizzo down as not having cared for it.

“Players take care of themselves,” Rizzo said. “I’ve never seen a more classless, gutless chicken [bleep] act in my 30 years in baseball.

“Cole Hamels says he’s old school? He’s the polar opposite of old school. He’s fake tough. He thinks he’s going to intimidate us after hitting our 19-year-old rookie who’s eight games into the big leagues? He doesn’t know who he’s dealing with.”

Rizzo said that Hamels should be suspended.

“With all the bounty [stuff] going on in professional football, the commissioner better act with a purpose on this thing,” Rizzo said. “Players have a way of monitoring themselves. We’re not here to hit people and hurt people.

“He thinks he’s sending a message to us of being a tough guy. He’s sending the polar opposite message. He says he’s being honest; well, I’m being honest. It was a gutless chicken [bleep] [bleeping] act. That was a fake-tough act. No one has ever accused Cole Hamels of being old school.”

There was certainly a brand-new intensity in the Nationals-Phillies rivalry this weekend, but Rizzo says that intentional beanings are a different story.

“This goes beyond rivalry and all that stuff,” Rizzo said. “This points to, you take the youngest guy in baseball. He’s never done a thing. And then Hamels patted himself on the back. Harper’s old school. Hitting him on the back, that ain’t old school. That’s [bleeping] chicken [bleep].”

The Washington Nationals have been pretty damn excited lately and they’ve had good reason to be. They are off to an 18-10 start and own first place in the NL East.

However, they’re taking on a bit of water. 3B Ryan Zimmerman is already hurt, as is Michael Morse, who was supposed to the be the cleanup hitter. Well, now you can add another injury to that list.

Outfielder Jayson Werth dove for a ball Sunday night and tore up his left wrist. And, according to Amanda Comack of the Washington Times, it’s busted.

“Broken left wrist for Jayson Werth. He’ll be out “a while.” Will see specialist tomorrow, consulting w/Mayo Clinic surgeon,” she tweets.

“It’s a clean break,” manager Davey Johnson said. “He’s going to be out for a while.”

Supposedly at least six weeks. That’s a blow to a young team trying to make headway in the division for the first time in…ever.

“All of a sudden we seem to be getting a little more healthy and then boom, another one of our main guys goes down,” Johnson said. “We’ve dealt with it before we’ll deal with it again. We’re not alone. It seems like it’s rampant right now. It’s a tough blow.”

Guess we can kill any idea of Bryce Harper getting sent back down.

Still, for Werth, this is a big issue. He busted his same left wrist back in 2005 with the Dodgers and it was a career-threatening injury. Hopefully, this won’t be similar.

The Philadelphia Flyers have gotten a ton of contributions from rookies this season. Guys like Matt Read, Braydon Schenn and Sean Couturier have all been phenomenal this year.

Couturier, in particular, has been just insane on defense. Not many 19-year old kids are told to shut down Evgeni Malkin…and then are able to go out and do it. So, when he went down with a leg injury last week in a game against the New Jersey Devils, there was cause for concern.

But, Sam Carchidi tweets that he could return on Sunday night for Game 4, which would be great news for Flyers fans.

“Center Sean Couturier is making a quick recovery from a leg injury and is expected to be in the Flyers’ lineup tonight. Officially, it’s a game-time decision. Mez will not play tonight and is possible for Tues,” he tweets.

Mez is Andrej Meszaros, who hasn’t played in forever. So that’s of no consequence. However, getting Couturier back would be a nice addition, even if it wouldn’t solve the Flyers’ problems with the Devils fore check.

It is with a heavy pen that I write about the news of Beastie Boys co-founder Adam “MCA” Yauch passing away today. He was 47-years old and was diagnosed with cancer in 2009. I knew something wasn’t good when he didn’t make it to the group’s Rock’n'Roll Hall of Fame induction last month.

I’ll leave the long eulogies to other respectable media outlets. MCA was great, as were the Beastie Boys. I, like millions of others, spent a ton of time listening to their music over the years.

At this point in time, we all know the deal with the Beastie Boys. They made seriously awesome music, even if they weren’t always so serious. On “Licensed to Ill,” they made frequent jokes about hardcore drug use, even if none of it was true.

Well, back in 1986, many people didn’t know who they were or what their sense of humor was like. Check out this clip from Oprah Winfrey during that time. Oh no! The destruction of our society!

I can’t think of much worse news for the New York Yankees. On Thursday night, closer Mariano Rivera was in the outfield during batting practice before their game. That’s all well and great until he collapsed in a heap holding his knee and had to be carted off the field.

The end result? A torn ACL.

“Girardi said preliminary report on MRI showed Rivera has a torn ACL. Will go back to New York,” tweets David Waldstein (no idea who that is).

Of course, a torn ACL means that he will be out for the year. But, the bigger question is: Is Mariano done?

According to Waldstein, even Mariano thinks he could be done.

“[F]ighting back tears, Mariano Rivera said he didn’t know if he would ever pitch again,” he tweeted.

It’s not crazy to think that he’s done for good. He’s 42-years old and we’ve been wondering when the end will be for him for about eight years. It takes a year to recover from an ACL and he wouldn’t be himself until probably 2014. But, at that point, what would “be himself?”

I’d have to think that Mariano is done.

Look for either David Robertson or Rafael Soriano to take over closing duties for the Yanks.

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“Golfers spend too much time calling multiple courses for a suitable tee time. Now users can visit our site, select a date and time, and choose from a number of available courses to instantly make a reservation,” said Brent Robertson, CEO of Back9Booking. “We saw tremendous response while demonstrating at the Chicago Golf Show. We are thrilled to have 40 Chicago-area courses on board with many more in the works.”

Seriously, if you are a golfer in Chicago, there is absolutely no reason whatsoever to not use this service.

New Jersey Devils forward Ilya Kovalchuk missed the team’s Game 2 victory on Tuesday night with a back issue. It probably helped the team win considering he was so god awful on defense in Game 1.

But, on Thursday, he says he’s healthy and ready for Thursday’s Game 3, which will be played on Thursday of this week.

“I feel good and I’m ready to go,” Kovalchuk said.

Head coach Pete DeBoer, however, says that Kovalchuk will be a “game-time decision.”

“I think with players, these guys know their bodies better than doctors, coaches, anybody else,” DeBoer said. “So, it’s not me seeing something. It’s him knowing what we need out of him and whether he feels his body is capable of giving us that. That’s where we’re at. Players have to make those decisions.”

It sounds like Ilya already made that decision then. Looks like he’ll be suiting up in New Jersey for a crucial game in the series tied at 1-1.

“Why would you sit there and rest if you feel better and you’re ready to go?” Kovalchuk asked. “Now, Pete, he will decide what he wants to see in the lineup tonight.”

As those of you who read OTR religiously know, Baltimore Ravens LB Terrell Suggs tore his Achilles tendon recently. Okay, so we never mentioned that, but you’re not a religious OTR reader anyway, so you wouldn’t know.

So yeah, Suggs tore his Achilles recently and will have to have surgery to repair it. That usually means (like in the case of Philadelphia Eagles T Jason Peters) that you’re done for the season. But, Suggs says that it was just a “partial Achilles tear” and that he’ll be back by midseason.

Suggs says that all the reports that had him out for the season “make it so much sweeter when I run out of that tunnel and prove everyone wrong.”

He also thinks that he’ll be better than he was before once he gets healthy.

“I’ve never had a real bad injury before,” Suggs said. “Sometimes you have to go through something like this to make you better.”

So yeah, the New Orleans Saints got smacked down following their little bounty scandal. We already knew the fates of guys like Gregg Williams, Sean Payton and Joe Vitt, but today we found out what happened to the players.

The big one for the players was Jonathan Vilma, the linebacker who apparently offered $10,000 to anyone who could knock Kurt Warner out of the Divisional Playoff game, or Brett Favre out of the NFC Championship game. Vilma was suspended from just about every football-related activity you could think of for one full year.

That’s a lot and that’s unprecedented.

And as you may have guessed, Vilma doesn’t appreciate it (especially because he reportedly found out about it via the television). And he released a statement saying as much.

“I am shocked and extremely disappointed by the NFL’s decision to suspend me for the 2012 season,” Vilma said in the statement. “Commissioner Roger Goodell has refused to share any of the supposed evidence he claims supports this unprecedented punishment. The reason is clear: I never paid, or intended to pay, $10,000, or any amount of money, to any player for knocking Kurt Warner, Brett Favre or any other player out of the 2009 Divisional playoff game, 2010 NFC Championship Game or any other game.

“I never set out to intentionally hurt any player and never enticed any teammate to intentionally hurt another player. I also never put any money into a bounty pool or helped to create a bounty pool intended to pay out money for injuring other players. I have always conducted myself in a professional and proud manner.

“I intend to fight this injustice, to defend my reputation, to stand up for my team and my profession, and to send a clear signal to the commissioner that the process has failed, to the detriment of me, my teammates, the New Orleans Saints and the game.”

I think he has a point if the NFL never once told him what this evidence was against him. Whether he did it or not, you’d at least think he has a right to know why the NFL came to this conclusion.

It’s not known at this time if Vilma plans to join a bowling league with Sean Payton.

This is pretty great. No, it’s not great that this New Jersey mother, Patricia Krentcil, 44, was arrested on charges of second-degree child endangerment for allegedly taking her five-year old daughter to a tanning bed. But, it is great that we got to see Patricia’s picture.

Where do you even start? Your daughter was found with sunburn at school. They want to know what’s going on and then they get a whiff of Patricia’s face. Holy f’ing hell!

You’re going to tell me that there is no chance that you took your daughter to a tanning bed? This woman looks like she just followed Augustus Gloop into Willie Wonka’s chocolate river for a quick taste.

Her face was most likely all the evidence that the local authorities needed to make the charges. In court, when asked to make his/her opening remarks, the prosecutor will just motion to the defendant’s face and the judge will ask the jury if they’ve reached a verdict.

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Responsible journalists usually handle these types of stories with caution, as you don’t want to rush to print a story about someone being dead when they aren’t. But, OTR wants no part of responsible journalism, so we’ll pass along what TMZ is reporting.

According to TMZ, former San Diego Chargers and New England Patriots LB Junior Seau was found dead in his California home today, the result of gun shot wounds.

It wouldn’t be crazy to think it was a suicide. Remember, back in 2010 Seau drove his SUV off of a cliff and claimed he wasn’t trying to kill himself, but that he fell asleep at the wheel.

Seau was 43-years old and left behind an ex-wife and three children. Stay tuned.

UPDATE: From TMZ – 11:33 AM PDT — Law enforcement sources tell us … Seau died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest.

The New York Giants lost Brandon Jacobs this offseason to the San Francisco 49ers. It’s not a huge deal as he wasn’t cheap and wasn’t very good either. So, one had to figure that the G-Men would add a running back or two in the draft.

But, the first round? Yep, they picked up Virginia Tech RB David Wilson with their first pick, which has led to speculation about what will come of Ahmad Bradshaw. Has he lost his starting job?

Not so, says GM Jerry Reese; Bradshaw is still the “lead dog.”

“First of all, [Wilson] was the highest player on our board at the time that we picked,” Reese said. “That was an easy pick for us. It was a value and a need pick for us, we thought. We lost Brandon who did a terrific job for us while he was here. We’ve got [Ahmad Bradshaw] and he’s going to be the lead dog for us, but we wanted to get another running back at some point. We didn’t want to sacrifice value, but he was the top player on our board.”

“Lead dog” or not, the Giants have loved using some sort of rotation ever since Tiki Barber retired. We’d expect a healthy dose of both Wilson and Bradshaw.

Nothing sucks more than having to make an example out of a couple guys and punish the whole team. The Nashville Predators are down 2-0 to the Phoenix Coyotes in the best-of-seven second round series and could use all the help they can get. So, suspending a guy who is tied for team lead in goals and another guy who is plus-3 in the playoffs is not a good thing.

But, the Predators did what they felt they had to do. They said that Andrei Kostitsyn and Alexander Radulov were in violation of team rules and will be suspended for Game 3, according to Josh Cooper of The Tennessean.

“AK46 an Radulov out of Game 3 for a violation of team rules,” Cooper tweets.

The real story seems to be that they were out until 4 a.m. the night before Game 2. That’s pretty bad and you put the coaches and team in a bad position. They can’t let that behavior slide and now you are very close to helping your team to a 3-0 hole. Well done.

It’s never easy when you get hurt and can’t help your team, especially during the playoffs. But, it must hurt that much more when your injury was self inflicted and the result of acting like an idiot.

Yep, we’re talking about New York Knicks big man Amar’e Stoudemire. You probably heard that Monday night after another loss to the Miami Heat, he decided to punch a fire extinguisher outside of the locker room. He cut his hand up pretty good, and according to Al Iannazzone from Newsday, he’ll miss Game 3 and most likely the rest of the series against the Heat (let’s be honest, he’s done for the year).

“Amare is seeing a hand specialist right now. He won’t play in Game 3 and a return this series is doubtful,” Iannazzone tweets.

Well done, Amar’e. The good news is that the Knicks seem to play better without him.

Los Angeles Lakers forward Jordan Hill is in a bit of trouble. It would seem that he’s being charged with third-degree felony assault stemming from a February 29th incident when he was still with the Houston Rockets.

He allegedly choked out a family member.

Yikes.

Hill is facing a $10,000 fine and 2-10 years in prison (won’t happen) and will need to return to Houston to face the charges.

The Lakers have released a statement.

“We are aware of the media reports alleging an incident involving Jordan Hill from two months ago when he was a member of the Houston Rockets,” the statement read. “We do not have any details regarding these reports and therefore, as well as due to the personal and legal aspects, it would not be appropriate for us to comment. Any further inquiries regarding this should be directed to Jordan’s representative.”

Stay tuned.

We first saw this on our buddy Cleveland’s Facebook page. He went to Game 1 of the series between the Philadelphia Flyers and the New Jersey Devils. When I saw this picture, I just thought “that guy has some balls.”

If you haven’t figured it out, No. 17 Wayne Simmonds of the Flyers is black. And this guy thought it would be funny/endearing to get a Simmonds Flyers jersey with “The Black Guy” on the back of it.

Simmonds claimed in the pre-season that he was used to the racism stuff. This was after a Canadian fan threw a banana on the ice as he prepared to take a penalty shot. But, whether he’s strong enough to deal with it or not, he shouldn’t have to be. While this isn’t the most offensive thing we’ve ever seen, it’s not remotely necessary.

Dude should have more class than that.

A couple days ago Detroit Tigers OF Delmon Young had a little incident that involved a physical skirmish, booze and racism. Needless to say, the Tigers and MLB didn’t appreciate it.

Young was placed on the restricted list and, according to Danny Knobler, will be re-evaluated on Monday.

“Dombrowski says if Delmon is cleared by MLB evaluation process, he will play for the Tigers, potentially as soon as Tuesday,” Knobler tweets.

Young got insanely hammered in NYC one night and went off on a pan handler, screaming “f*cking Jews!” Yeah, that didn’t sit well with a lot of people. He was actually so bombed that they had to take him to the hospital to detox. Experienced drinkers know that it takes a lot of booze to need a hospital visit.

On Thursday, the Dallas Cowboys jumped up to the No. 6-overall pick so they could grab LSU cornerback Morris Claiborne. They also signed Brandon Carr this offseason and have Orlando Scandrick as their slot guy. So, where does that leave former first-round pick Mike Jenkins?

On the trading block, according to Profootballtalk.com.

“Per league source, with Mo Claiborne in the fold the Cowboys are shopping Mike Jenkins,” PFT tweets.

Jenkins is coming off an injury and is entering the final year of his rookie deal. He’s been very good at times, and woefully awful at others. The Cowboys obviously aren’t thrilled with him or they wouldn’t have traded up to get Claiborne and thrown big free agent money at Carr.

The Cleveland Browns are obviously not thrilled with the progress of Colt McCoy. If they loved him so god damned much, they wouldn’t have drafted OSU QB Brandon Weeden with the No. 22-overall pick.

So what do they do with him? Well, according according to Scout.com, they are considering trading him to the Green Bay Packers, who need a backup QB (or someone to compete with Aaron Rodgers) since Matt Flynn left.

“It’s something we’ll talk about tonight and tomorrow,” Browns general manager Tom Heckert said on Thursday night.

Scout.com says the Packers have some sixth- and seventh-round picks as trade bait, so that would indicate that the Colts aren’t going to get dick in return.

If I’m Colt McCoy, I’d be thrilled to go to the Packers or any team not named the Cleveland Browns.