Pac Man Jones and Brett Favre were both in today's NFL news for their potential returns in 2009. Given the question marks they both have (for entirely different reasons), the probability either will play a full 16-game slate is relatively low.

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  It's been a while since I dropped one of these on everybody, but then again, we've had a pretty quiet summer.  Well, this morning was anything but quiet for the NFL's favorite offseason story of the last, what, 5 years?

  First, we learned that Brett Favre underwent shoulder surgery last month after avoiding the operation as much as possible.  The saga continues, but at this point, it looks like he and the Vikings are going to come to terms so that Brett can enact his revenge against the Green Bay front office.  Expect to hear more about this...every week...until the season starts.  Ugh.

  Meanwhile, everyone's favorite parolee program, the Dallas Cowboys, is feeling a bit reticent about cutting ties with their failed reclamation project in PacMan/Adam Jones.  Jerry Jones suggested he is open to bringing him back, although at this point, it's far from being nearly as certain as the Favre-Viking marriage.

  With these two in mind, I'll throw this at you guys: who plays more in 2010 and why?  Brett is old and coming off a substantial surgery to his throwing arm, while Pacdam/A-man doesn't really have a team lined up.

Anquan Boldin and Braylon Edwards are both on the verge of being traded to a new team. Besides the question of where they'll end up and what compensation the Cards & Browns will receive is the question of who goes first. That could determine the terms of whichever trade comes second.

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  Jason Cole at Yahoo! Sports wrote a solid piece recently on teams trying to get fair value in trades that come just before the draft.  With two premier WRs about to find new teams, those two being Anquan Boldin & Braylon Edwards, it's certainly a relevant article.  I'm not really keen on writing a Boldin vs. Edwards piece, as SI.com's Ross Tucker did recently, but I am interested in comparing the deals once they're done.

  The rumors are already floating as to how much either could command in a trade, but I think the most interesting piece of the story will be determined by which trade happens first.  With a couple teams in the mix for both, including the WR-hungry New York Giants, the order of the two trades could be very interesting, especially if either happen on day 1 of the draft.

  That being the hypothetical case, which WR will find a home first?  Boldin or Edwards?

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Jason Peters jogs during a Buffalo Bills practice inside Ralph Wilson Stadium in Orchard Park, N.Y., Dec. 19, 2007. The Bills agreed to trade Peters to the Philadelphia Eagles after failing to negotiate a new contract with the disgruntled two-time Pro Bowl selection Friday. (AP Photo/David Duprey)

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  About 8 months ago, we Rams fans were dealing with Steven Jackson's holdout, and the stress that put us under.  While it ended up being resolved in our favor, a similar drama was playing out in Buffalo.  LT Jason Peters was also in the midst of a preseason hold out, a situation we discussed a couple times (here's an example) only so much as to link Jackson's and Peter's holdout through agent Eugene Parker who they shared (and still do, to my knowledge).

  While Jackson and the Rams have moved well past the bad feelings engendered by the holdout, Peters and Buffalo could never get back to even footing, and today the Bills agreed to trade him to the Eagles (Y!, ESPN).

  In return for Peters, the Bills get the 28th pick in the 1st round, the 21st pick in the fourth round (121st overall), and an undisclosed pick in the 2010 draft.

  Given Peters' talent (two Pro Bowls at just 27 years of age), did Buffalo get a fair deal?

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Jacksonville Jaguars running back Maurice Jones-Drew celebrates his 6-yard touchdown run against the Detroit Lions in an NFL football game in Detroit, November 9, 2008. Jones-Drew and the Jacksonville Jaguars agreed to terms today, on a four-year contract extension. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

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I tend to check in every night around 8 p.m. (2000, or "twenty-hundred" in military time), so I figured I'd start a new series with just a basic question to see if it can stimulate some discussion and maybe bump everyone off to older stories and fanshots to update their comments/responses.

So tonight's question:

Did Jacksonville RB Maurice Jones Drew deserve the contract he got today or no?  The deal was a 5-year contract for $31 mil with 17.5 guaranteed.