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- Ricky Williams is getting closer to coming back, but it is unlikely that he will finish the season in Miami or even play a single game in WadeLand. He still faces a suspension and with the trade deadline so early in the season, a borderline playoff team in desperate need of backfield help, will surely be willing to take a chance on Williams.

Williams will never be the player that he was prior to his retirement. The shelf life for an NFL running back is too short to take a yearlong sabbatical, but he should be a very effective second tier runner, particularly if he was thrown into an offensive system that featured a world-class line.

- The NFL is getting closer and closer by the week to returning to Los Angeles.

Getting a team to come is like getting a baseball team to California in the early 1950?s. For a team like the Saints or Chargers, moving to Los Angeles is a no-brainer, no matter how you possibly look at it.

New Orleans is a very small market, with an aging Superdome and has a history of failing sports franchises. The Jazz couldn?t make it there, so they moved to the exciting state of Utah and now the Hornets have become one of the NBA?s most miserable failures after having a string of successful years in Charlotte.

San Diego is also an area where professional sports has failed in the past. The Clippers played at the San Diego Sports Arena before making the move to Los Angeles and the Chargers should follow suit.

With only eight games per season, die hard San Diegans will have no problem going up the 405 to see the Chargers play and they will be able to cash in on the heaps and heaps of Angelinos.

The Chargers are also a ready-made playoff team and with Ladainian Tomlinson at running back, they will be competitive for a long time to come.

When the Raiders moved from Oakland to Los Angeles, the airport was always mobbed with silver and black on Sunday mornings and evenings, making the easy one-hour flight to see their team live at the Coliseum.

The NFL wants to avoid sacrilegious moves like when the Colts were moved from Baltimore to Indianapolis.

They have cushioned the blow of team?s skipping town by forcing the franchise to leave the nickname with the town, as what happened when Art Modell moved his franchise to Baltimore, a policy that Baltimore could only dream would have been applied to them.

- Jerry Rice is now with his third team in one year and he is going out without as much grace as an elephant in a china shop. He will still be considered the game?s greatest receiver, but he is a decade removed from his last Super Bowl win and two years removed from his last effective season.

Christopher Reina is the Managing Editor of RealGM.com and he may be reached at Christopher.Reina@RealGM.com.
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