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Apparently Tiki Barber has a new book coming out, one in which he rips Tom Coughlin for essentially forcing him into retirement:

“[Coughlin] robbed me of what had been one of the most important things I had in my life, which was the joy I felt playing football,” Barber writes in excerpts printed in the newspaper.

Barber credits Coughlin for curing a fumbling problem, but he believes his performances helped Coughlin retain his job. Barber also accuses the Giants of underpaying him by $10 million over the course of his career. The running back was one of the NFL’s top-five rushers each of the past three seasons.

Anybody else sick and tired of Tiki Barber yet? Seriously, this guy is trying to do whatever he can to stay in the limelight since retiring last season (actually, since retiring in the middle of last season). Let’s see, nobody is paying attention to me, so I’ll criticize Eli Manning for not being a leader and once that dies down, I’ll introduce my new book and make sure to blame Coughlin for why I retired prematurely. And if that’s not enough, I’ll use the tired old act of claiming I was underpaid. You were a great player Tiki – this isn’t the right way to go about trying to drum up attention for your new career.

We used a different format for our 2007 NFL Preview this year for Bullz-Eye.com. Instead of ranking teams 1 through 32, we’ve decided to group them into five different tiers: Super Bowl Contenders, Playoff Bound, Heading Forward (teams that should improve in ’07), Heading Backward (teams that will take a step back in ’07) and Spinning Their Wheels (teams that will roughly stay the same). For each team, we’ll take a look at one key offseason addition and loss, as well as either a player to keep an eye on or one that’s on the hot seat entering the season. Plus we threw out a question mark that may keep that team from reaching their ultimate goal, as well as a season outlook.

So head over to Bullz-Eye to check it out!

The Jaguars officially parted ways with quarterback Byron Leftwich, ending his four year stint in Jacksonville.

David Garrard now becomes the starter and as long as he stays upright and doesn’t throw every ball at Mach 9, the Jags will probably be happy. Leftwich seems like an upstanding guy and will certainly land on his feet somewhere (Atlanta maybe?), but the Jags are wasting such a talented defense on poor QB play, so maybe the cut will provide a spark.

This team could easily compete for the AFC Wild Card every year with just average quarterback play. So, hopefully Jack Del Rio picked the right guy, because there are rumblings that his job is on the line.