FanHouse Amani Toomer

After 13 years with the New York Giants, Amani Toomer spent this offseason searching for a team to finish his career with and landed in Kansas City. Now, less than two weeks before the NFL season begins, Toomer's hunt will begin anew.

The Chiefs cut the 34-year-old veteran on Tuesday -- part of Kansas City's effort to get down the mandated 75-man roster limit by the close of Sept. 1 -- which could mean the end of the line for Toomer's career.

K.C. brought Toomer aboard at the start of August as the team stockpiled veteran talent -- the Chiefs signed Bobby Engram in March, and Ashley Lelie a couple of weeks after Toomer.

Chiefs head coach Todd Haley removed Chan Gailey (right) as the team's offensive coordinator Monday after three preseason games, likely paving the way for Haley to handle the job himself.

The only real surprise here is the timing -- there's less than two weeks until Kansas City opens up its 2009 campaign at Baltimore on Sept. 13. All indications are that Haley will take over the play-calling duties, and considering his success running Arizona's offense the past two seasons, Gailey might be lucky this didn't happen sooner.

According to John Clayton of ESPN, veteran wide receiver Amani Toomer has inked a one-year deal with the Kansas City Chiefs.

Toomer had previously played his entire 13-year career with the New York Giants, who drafted him in the second round of the 1996 draft. He amassed 5 1,000-year seasons and 54 career touchdowns for the G-Men. After this past season, when Toomer compiled 48 catches for 580 yards and 4 touchdowns, the Giants decided to let Toomer -- who will be 35-years-old this season -- walk.

If Derrick Mason has retired as a negotiating ploy, his hand just got a whole lot stronger. The announcement that his replacement Drew Bennett has also retired means that once again, the Ravens are faced with arguably the worst receiving corps in the league.

You could argue that adding Bennett didn't do a whole lot to change that, but without Mason and Bennett, the Ravens are left with Mark Clayton and very little else.

It's hard to think of a receiver more important to his offense than Mason. He was Joe Flacco's target on 121 passes last year -- the rest of the receivers on the Ravens' 2008 roster were targeted for only 110 combined passes. According to Football Outsiders' stats, Clayton was the target for 82 passes, No. 3 wide receiver Demetrius Williams was thrown 23 balls and Yamon Figurs, a kick returner who occasionally will get a play at wide receiver, saw five balls.

From the moment wide receiver Michael Crabtree decided to leave Texas Tech for the NFL, he's been scrutinized. Crabtree didn't want to play for the Raiders, had a posse, was a diva, rubbed his new teammates the wrong way and almost cried in front of 49ers coach Mike Singletary.

Crabtree disputes all those claims -- according to Crabtree, his adjustment to the NFL has been pain-free.

"I haven't had too many surprises," Crabtree told FanHouse on Wednesday from San Francisco. "You expect the unexpected, that's how I live. I got my backup plan ready. It's what I do."

Instead of trading a bunch of draft picks for either Anquan Boldin or Braylon Edwards, the Giants elected to address the need to replace Plaxico Burress via draft. Nicks is a solid possession receiver and should see the field with regularity in 2009. Of course, the Giants have spent several draft picks on receiver in recent years -- Steve Smith (2nd round), Sinorice Moss (2nd), Mario Manningham (3rd) -- and they also added Domenik Hixon, so it's really tough to tell how everything shakes out as of now.

They'll be hoping Nicks develops into their go-to guy in the future, but the transition to that role in the pros will take more than a season. Let's check out the fantasy spin on the passing game after the jump.

With the draft approaching, we ignore projections and identify the dream scenario for each team in a series we call The Perfect Draft.

Success has its advantages. In a draft like this, the successful teams can get comparable talent for a mere fraction of the price. Teams picking in the bottom of the first round will gladly take the available players and be thrilled about it. There will be starter-caliber talent on the board, and teams like the New York Giants appear ready to reap the benefits.

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The New York Giants were an afterthought in 2007, but made their way to a Super Bowl title. In 2008, the Giants found a way to earn home-field advantage in the NFC playoffs, only to last one game. Their playoff loss to Philadelphia was certainly disappointing, but the fact that they earned the top seed after the drama they went through was impressive in itself. Now, it's time for the Giants to re-tool, reload, and get back to the Super Bowl.

It's unfathomable that the Dallas Cowboys are continuing to utilize Brad Johnson as their starting quarterback. As of this writing, the Boys are only down seven points, but Johnson is 4/9 for 52 yards and two picks. That's good for a 26.4 quarterback rating.

And yes, it's quite impressive, if you're into praising putridity.

But yet it appears as if Wade Phillips is content to let Johnson keep failing his team out of this game. Of course, Eli Manning just hit Amani Toomer for six more points, stretching the Giants lead to 14.

Somehow though, Johnson is still in. And Joe Buck, who I generally prefer to disagree with on principle, has pointed out that there are probably Dallas fans in the stadium and all over the country wondering when they're going get a little taste of the sweet poison pill that is Brooks Bollinger.

I want to know the same thing (and, like Shane Bacon, am totally confident I could do a better job taking snaps) and I also want to know what on Earth the Cowboys coaching staff thinks Johnson adds to their gameplan. He can't make deep throws, he's completely immobile and he can't really make the short throws. Also, his job is to "not turn the ball over" and he does that a lot. Which doesn't seem particularly good.

Hopefully, there will be an update tacked onto this puppy after halftime. Otherwise, things are just getting silly out of control in Phillips' head.

Update: Brooksy did indeed come in to start the second half ... and promptly threw a wobbly quacker that was intercepted and resulted in a Giants touchdown two plays later. Everything's coming up Cowboy!

In recent years, the Giants have good success with finding competent pass catchers to surround Eli Manning. Off-field baggage aside, Jeremy Shockey was among the league's best tight ends, and Plaxico Burress quickly became a favorite target when he arrived in 2005. And there's Amani Toomer and most recently, 2007 second-rounderSteve Smith.

One player who has had yet to fulfill the promise the Giants envisioned when they drafted him in '06 is Sinorice Moss. The former University of Miami star has had an uneven NFL career, and his biggest professional accomplishment to date is that his brother happens to be Santana.

Despite his struggles, Moss is hopeful:

"I mean, honestly, I don't know what to think about [being the only active player not to play against the Rams]," Moss told the Daily News Friday. "I'm going to keep working and stay positive, like I've been since Day 1. And when that times come, just be a humble person and go out there and shine." ...

"I haven't spoken to anyone about being traded," Moss said. "That's not even on my mind. My mind is to do what I have to do for the team, and when I get my opportunities, make some plays. I would love to be here. This is where I want to be."