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I woke up this morning to the great news that the Jets had signed LB Bart Scott and OG Chris Kemoeatu. Then Kemoeatu decided to stay in Pittsburgh and Scott offered Baltimore a chance to match. That derailed my afternoon and I’ve been hiding under my desk since 2 o’clock. However, NFL Live on ESPN is treating the Scott deal as done, so I have emerged content for the moment even though the hole at guard still needs to be dealt with.

Some of the other stuff that’s happened…

The Redskins are putting out as much as $155 million to bring in Albert Haynesworth from Tennessee and keep DeAngelo Hall. Haynesworth, who you may remember, likes to stomp on guy’s heads. That seems to lean against stability. He’s really good, but I think he’ll blow up at some point in Washington because that’s what happens there. The DeAngelo Hall signing still feels odd to me. Someone is really stupid. Washington for giving him all this money now, or Oakland for cutting him in the middle of last season. It’s still too early to tell in regards to Hall, but I don’t have a problem if you want to go ahead and pre-emptively annoint both Washington and Oakland as inept.

Cleveland unloaded Kellen Winslow to Tampa Bay. This isn’t as big a deal as everyone is making it. Kellen Winslow is not a superstar or a soldier.

Kerry Collins re-signed in Tennessee.

And in case you missed it, Patriots QB Tom Brady married his homewrecking girlfriend, Gisele Bundchen, yesterday. Since abandoning his family in 2007, Brady has lost a Superbowl and had a career altering knee surgery. We wish the couple much happiness in their weeks and months together.

Brett Favre has informed the Jets he plans to retire. Cross your fingers and hope he means it. It’s time for Favre to finally go after collapsing down the stretch, costing the Jets the playoffs and Eric Mangini his job.

The Jets can now look forward and are $10 million or so under the salary cap for next year. All speculation is that they’ll attempt to bring someone new in to fight with Kellen Clemens for the QB job. After last season, with Joe Flacco in Baltimore and Matt Ryan in Atlanta, I’m not really worried about who the starter is.  I want the Jets to sign Bart Scott away from the Ravens and turn Vernon Gholston into, at least, a contributor on defense. If that happens, the quarterback becomes less important. They’ll just need whoever it is to limit mistakes, manage the running game, and not collapse in December.

Favre will hold a press conference at 6. I’m going to guess that he won’t cry this time.

UPDATE: Here’s a link to an ESPN story with audio from his retirement conference call and another link to Kerry Rhodes on the Doug Gottlieb show. In other news, Doug Gottlieb has a radio show.