Ross Verba OT about to hit the street! - Page 2 - Dallas Cowboys Forum

Yeagermeister · 06-08-2005

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Originally Posted by Woody'sGirl

Throw in Coakley and you got a deal...

Oh dang, that's right, he got cut...

Ok Singleton then

CaptainComeback · 06-08-2005

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Originally Posted by bsheeern

Browns | Verba to be Released Today? - from www.KFFL.com
Wed, 8 Jun 2005 07:31:44 -0700

Updating previous reports, Tony Grossi, of the Plain Dealer, reports Cleveland Browns OT Ross Verba will be released by the team Wednesday, June 8, when he agrees to repay a $465,000 roster bonus to the club.

I'd love to have him. Has a mean streak and has played guard a lot in the past. Maybe Rivera can lure him in. Our O-Line would be sick if he came aboard!!!

Verba is average or a little better than average, at best, the problem is that he wants to be paid like he is a top ten tackle. However, his production hasn't matched a top ten tackles production over the past few years. He seems to always be hurt, saying something stupid or publicly b*tching about something...
Ross Verba=Cancer

JakeCamp12 · 06-08-2005

The real question is, can he play FS in the 3-4???

bsheeern · 06-08-2005

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Originally Posted by JakeCamp12

The real question is, can he play FS in the 3-4???

he's definately fast enough

and has the moves

CaptainComeback · 06-08-2005

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Originally Posted by bsheeern

he's definately fast enough

and has the moves

now we are just getting stupid.

LOL

InmanRoshi · 06-08-2005

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Originally Posted by Chocolate Lab

He's supposedly a world-class and even many of his teammates can't stand him... He's a reputed partyer and IIRC has been in legal trouble more than once. I can't see Parcells being interested in him.

And a mediocre player to boot.

InmanRoshi · 06-08-2005

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Originally Posted by JakeCamp12

The real question is, can he play FS in the 3-4???

With all the foot speed that right tackle supposedly requires, the better question may be if any FS on the market can play right tackle.

Alexander · 06-08-2005

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Originally Posted by Chocolate Lab

He's supposedly a world-class and even many of his teammates can't stand him... He's a reputed partyer and IIRC has been in legal trouble more than once. I can't see Parcells being interested in him.

The Browns are trying to get him to buy out to grant him his release.

That is highly unusual and should tell you exactly what they think of him.

If Crennel and Carthon want nothing to do with him, neither will we.

davey999 · 06-08-2005

Looks to be released shortly and would seem to be a PArcells type player.

ANy thoughts?

dbair1967 · 06-08-2005

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Originally Posted by davey999

Looks to be released shortly and would seem to be a PArcells type player.

ANy thoughts?

turd alert...turd alert

Verba= has been+ turd

David

Yeagermeister · 06-08-2005

http://cowboyszone.com/forums/showthread.php?t=27751

a few

SCCowboyfan · 06-09-2005

Here's the latest...

Verba Buying His Freedom From Browns

Jun 8, 7:27 PM (ET)

By TOM WITHERS
CLEVELAND (AP) - Frustrated that he can't get a new contract, offensive tackle Ross Verba will be released by the Cleveland Browns once he repays a $465,000 roster bonus.

Verba and the Browns have agreed to the amicable split rather than drag out a contract dispute that began when the eight-year veteran said the club reneged on a promise to redo his current deal, which will pay him $2.9 million in 2005 and 2006.

Repaying the bonus he received in March was one of two options the Browns gave Verba and his agent, Tom Condon. The other was to give Verba permission to seek a trade.

Condon's background with the Browns might have been a factor in Verba's decision to buy his way out. Condon also represents Browns running back William Green, who was told in February he could seek a trade but is still with Cleveland.

A club spokesman said Verba has not yet returned the bonus, but once he does he will likely be released.

"The bottom line is they don't want to pay me and if they don't want to, then I'll play somewhere else," Verba said on WTAM-AM, the club's flagship station. "They didn't uphold their end of the bargain."

Verba said he'll give a check to the Browns on Thursday afternoon and expects to be released shortly after that.

The 31-year-old sat out coach Romeo Crennel's voluntary "passing camp" and demanded a new contract. Verba, who had two years left on his deal, claims that former coach Butch Davis promised to renegotiate his contract last year when Verba was coming off a biceps injury that forced him to sit out all of 2003.

Verba insists he doesn't want to leave the Browns, but that the club has left him no other option.

"As far as they are concerned, we're all replaceable," Verba said.

Phil Savage, Cleveland's first-year general manager, has said he will not honor any promises Davis made while running the Browns.

Verba, a first-round pick by Green Bay in the 1997 NFL draft, was the only Cleveland offensive lineman to start all 16 games last season.

The Browns have already made two moves to counter Verba's anticipated departure. The club signed former Arizona tackle L.J. Shelton last week and signed Marcus Spears, an 11-year veteran, on Tuesday.

Verba didn't criticize owner Randy Lerner for the separation.

"It's unfortunate that the organization on the business side did not uphold their end of the deal," he said

Charles · 06-09-2005

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Originally Posted by InmanRoshi

With all the foot speed that right tackle supposedly requires, the better question may be if any FS on the market can play right tackle.

That flew under the radar