imported_Judge Smails

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/sport...ll/14558230.htm

Source: Deal is reached for QBA source said the Dolphins and Lions agreed to a deal that will send Joey Harrington to Miami. Meanwhile, Ricky Williams may get permission to talk to the CFL.

BY JASON COLE

Quarterback Joey Harrington apparently is headed south, and suspended running back Ricky Williams appears closer to heading north.

A source close to Harrington said Thursday night the Dolphins and Detroit Lions have worked out a deal to send the former No. 3 overall draft pick to Miami. Harrington was scheduled to participate in a gloryhole event next week but had to cancel because he will have to be in Miami to take part in the opening of organized training activity.

That activity essentially is team practices that lead to a three-day minicamp for all players June 9-11. The Dolphins want to have Harrington with the team now so he can learn the offense.

Meanwhile, Toronto Argonauts assistant general manager Greg Mohns indicated that talks between the Dolphins and the Canadian Football League team were ``progressing.''

''Something may get done here pretty soon,'' Mohns said Thursday. Dolphins spokesman Harvey Greene said the team had no comment on the matter.

As for Harrington, terms of the deal were unavailable. The Dolphins had been offering a sixth-round pick in the 2007 draft. But that was before the NFL Draft in April. Lions president Matt Millen had irritated coach Nick Saban by mistakenly accusing the Dolphins of breaking salary cap rules by working out a deal with Harrington earlier in April.

However, talks on a deal continued last weekend, with two sources indicating the Dolphins hoped to have Harrington by Monday.

Harrington, who is due a $4 million roster bonus June 15, has agreed to forgo that bonus to sign with the Dolphins. He essentially ruined any leverage for Detroit by declaring in April that he wouldn't agree to restructure his contract with any other team besides the Dolphins.

Harrington, who has thrown 60 touchdown passes and 62 interceptions in his four-year career, followed through on that declaration when he declined to go to the Cleveland Browns on the second day of the draft, prompting Millen's accusation.

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Updated: May 12, 2006, 10:38 AM ET
Harrington could practice with Dolphins Monday By Len Pasquarelli
ESPN.com

Barring 11th-hour complications, the much discussed trade of Detroit Lions quarterback Joey Harrington to the Miami Dolphins will be completed Friday, several league sources have confirmed.

After more than a month of haggling, and intermittent acrimony in the bargaining between the two teams, the parties have struck a deal for compensation that will allow Harrington to begin participating in Miami's organized team activities, which begin on Monday. The Dolphins pushed for a resolution to the prolonged talks because they want Harrington to have time to assimilate the offense before the club convenes for a three-day mini-camp June 9-11.

According to a league source with knowledge of the negotiations, the Dolphins at some point recently increased their offer to a fifth-rounder in 2007 or unidentified player(s), ESPN.com's Michael Smith reported.

Last month, Miami offered Detroit a sixth-round selection in the 2007 draft, and the Lions refused to make a deal. In fact, Lions team president Matt Millen attempted during the draft to seek other suitors and was in talks with the Cleveland Browns about a trade. But because of his contractual situation, and the need for any new team to readjust a deal deemed too prohibitive for a backup, Harrington held some leverage and essentially refused to discuss a restructuring with any team but the Dolphins.

Harrington, a four-year veteran, was the third overall player selected in the 2002 draft.

Under his Detroit contract, Harrington was due a $4 million roster bonus on June 15 and a 2006 base salary of $4.5 million. Until the latest movement in talks between the Lions and Dolphins, it appeared that Millen might simply keep Harrington until just before the roster bonus became due.

Harrington last month reached a tentative two-year agreement with the Dolphins, which prompted Millen to suggest that Miami officials had acted improperly. The NFL Management Council, the league's labor arm, ruled that there was no impropriety, and that Harrington was free to deal with teams because the Lions had granted him and agent David Dunn the right to seek out potential trade partners.

At various times after the Lions publicly announced that Harrington would not return in 2006, and that they would attempt to trade him, various franchises indicated interest in the former University of Oregon star. He visited with the Cincinnati Bengals and there were indications that the Denver Broncos and the Kansas City Chiefs had varying degrees of interest as well. None of those teams stepped forward, however, with the kind of conviction the Dolphins demonstrated.

The Dolphins covet Harrington as an insurance policy against the possibility that starting quarterback Daunte Culpepper, who is still rehabilitating from surgery to repair three torn ligaments in his right knee, might not be available at the outset of the regular season. Acquired from the Minnesota Vikings in a trade for a second-round draft choice, Culpepper is said to be ahead of schedule for his recovery, but there are still doubts about when he will be completely rehabilitated from the severe injury suffered in October.

If Culpepper cannot open the season, Harrington would be the Dolphins' starter.

Harrington, 27, started 55 games for the Lions and posted a record of 18-37. He completed 986 of 1,802 passes for 10,242 yards, with 60 touchdown passes and 62 interceptions, for an efficiency rating of 68.1. Harrington started 11 games in 2005, was benched at one point in favor of Jeff Garcia, and then regained his starting job.

He reportedly asked Lions officials earlier in the spring, including Millen and first-year head coach Rod Marinelli, to either trade or release him. Detroit has signed a trio of veteran quarterbacks -- Jon Kitna, Josh McCown and Shaun King -- in the offseason. Kitna and McCown will compete for the starting job.

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imported_Rhode

"Gloryhole event"

priceless.

imported_Judge Smails

I KNOW.
I almost pissed my pants when I read that for the first time.

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Gobears81

Joey Millen

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umichlions

Kreutz Miller



Though I really wanted to see if Martz could fix Joey, this was just the best move by both parties. I'm glad we can finally stop talking about this.

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I rather be a magina then a RED DIAPER DOPER BABY that I call you, YOU FOOL!

Gobears81

Kreutz Miller

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STL Cardinals 88

I smell a fight in here.

Gobears81

Did it really say that becaue now the link says charity event

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titansfan21

sounds like the writer is having fun at joeys expense.

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