I know, it's all about wrestling. But..do yourself a favor and watch Hard Knocks on HBO and see D. Woodhead take care of business.. What a smooth and undefeatable cat.

I just read that woodhead was cut today by the jets. after watching that game and offensive explosion they need to cut some others.

He should get picked up by their practice squad. They make about $88,000 during the season.

Like Sanchez.

I heard but have not confirmed that D Wood was picked up by New England.

Not only picked up by Pats but today scored on a sweet draw against the Bills!

To: Rex Ryan
From: Bill Belichick
Subject: Miami Game

Thank you. Got any others you don't want?

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Originally posted by dswitz:
To: Rex Ryan
From: Bill Belichick
Subject: Miami Game

Thank you. Got any others you don't want?

Good one, Doug.

D. Wood just got feature article in USA Today and Boston Globe. Brady loves him.

Love it.

Don't know if you'll are following D. Wood but this kid is one of THE hot stories in Boston sports. The Boston Globe is lovin' him and the radio stations call him part of the "Chipmunk Package." (with Welker and Edeleman, now Branch). His latest interview is on Patriots.com. Jets fans are furious.

Great feature on him, Branch and Welker on ESPN's Sunday NFL Countdown this morning. He had a great touchdown run this afternoon in the win over the Colts.

And to think Bill Callahan didn't think him worthy of recruiting to Nebraska.

He is clearly not good enough for D-1 football; He's just good enough for Bill Belichik, Tom Brady and their Super Bowl rings, which he might get of his own this year.

Today's Boston Globe has nice features and photos of number 39. Boston.com see sports.

Hey Red Rocker, can you help me please. The Provdence Journal at www.projo/patriots/content has a great article on D. Wood by Bill Reynolds but I am too inept to get the link posted to this site. Can you do it? Thanks.

Actually its at projo.com under sports. Sorry. Can you fix? Thx.

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Originally posted by dswitz:
Actually its at projo.com under sports. Sorry. Can you fix? Thx.

Here you go!



http://www.projo.com/patriots/...3K1N_v3.36d5c29.html



Bill Reynolds: Woodhead is New England’s small wonder

01:00 AM EST on Tuesday, November 23, 2010

By BILL REYNOLDS Journal Sports Writer
Just when you think when you’ve heard it all about the NFL, just when you think that nothing can surprise you, along comes Danny Woodhead.

Or how many other 5-foot-7 running backs can you name in the NFL?

But that’s not even the great part of the story, not really.

How many running backs are there in the NFL who didn’t even play Division I football?

If you were a scriptwriter looking to come up with some improbable tale, something that might lure people into the local Cineplex, credulity be damned, you would probably be laughed out of some mogul’s office.

Some little running back from some nondescript Division II school in the middle of nowhere is not only going to play for the New England Patriots, he is going to be one of the stars of the game against Peyton Manning and the Colts?

Yeah, right.

But that is Woodhead’s story, one more reaffirmation that the best stories are the real ones, and that just when we think we’ve seen it all in sports something comes along to tell us we haven’t.

A year ago we had Wes Welker, one of the great all-time overachievers in his own right, the high school player of the year in Oklahoma who had been given a last-minute scholarship to college, the knock on him that he was too small. And then how he wasn’t drafted by the NFL coming out of college because, you know, he was too small. And how now he is a big-time receiver on the game’s biggest stage.

Now it’s Woodhead.

Different player, same story.

Only more so.

All Woodhead did Sunday against the Colts was have a 36-yard touchdown run against the Colts, then go right back out there on special teams and make the tackle on the kickoff.

But even that wasn’t enough.

Afterwards, he was given the kind of attention the game’s glamour pusses get, standing at the podium in front of the media.

“Maybe next time they can bring in a stepladder for me to stand on,” he said.

Woodhead gets it.

Then again, he’s always been a boat against the current. Even though he was the all-time rushing leader in the Nebraska high school division he played in, the state university in Lincoln showed little interest in him. Too small. Too something. So he went to Chadron State, a Division II school in Nebraska. In both 2006 and 2007 he was named the best player in all of Division II, only the third player in history to do it.

That was the good news.

The bad?

Cows jump over the moon about as often as Division II college players make the NFL. So even though Woodhead was a two-time winner of the Harlon Hill Trophy, the Division II Heisman Trophy, and even though he became college football’s all-time rushing leader back in 2007, he was not invited to the NFL Combine. Big surprise, right?

He was a 5-7 running back from a Division II school, and in NFL terms he might as well have been playing on some deserted field in the middle of the night for all anyone cared. Excerpt for the Jets, who signed him as a free agent.

He went on to spend his rookie year in 2008 on the injured list. He spent 2009 with the Jets, moving from the practice squad to the roster, one of those guys just trying to hang in the league. Even so, it must have seemed like a long way from Chadron State.

We all know what happened next. How the Jets waived him in September and four days later Bill Belichick signed him, Woodhead essentially taking the spot that opened up with the Laurence Maroney trade.

At the time there was speculation that Belichick was signing him to get inside secrets on the Jets, Woodhead as a glorified spy. Less than two weeks later he had a 22-yard touchdown run against the Bills, the new fan favorite. So much for just being a spy.

Now he gets a lot of time as a running back, an integral part of the Pats’ offense, and who would have ever believed that?

“I am going to do everything possible on every single play, whether it’s special teams, on offense, or first, second, or third down, or whatever,” Woodhead said Sunday.

But he didn’t have to say that.

That’s what Woodhead always has done in this most improbable of football journeys, one that started in the Nebraska of youth when he always was told he was too small for his dreams. This improbable of football journeys that now has him in Foxboro, overcoming all the odds. This improbable of football journeys that now has him as one of the best sports stories we have, one of those stories that comes along just when you thought that nothing else in sports was ever going to surprise you again.

Boston Globe announced this morning that D. Wood signed 2 year contract extension with Pats. 425K signing bonus; 500k salary first year, then 700K second year.

The dream is complete.

Read the Boston papers. Woody's jersey is the hottest seller at Gillette Stadium and, by poular demand, is one of only three hanging in the pro shop at the stadium: the other two are Welker and Brady. Unreal.

that is awesome....I've been following him since chadrock and he has made guys on the d2 football board eat crow more than once.....awesome story

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Great feature on him, Branch and Welker on ESPN's Sunday NFL Countdown this morning. He had a great touchdown run this afternoon in the win over the Colts.

And to think Bill Callahan didn't think him worthy of recruiting to Nebraska.

Actually this one's on Solich. In his defense, he had other things to worry about those last few years...