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When the Super Bowl kicks off this Sunday, Ralph Cindrich will be watching two of his clients’ battle for the Lombardi Trophy.

Long time client, Jeff Saturday, will take his usual spot at Center anchoring the Colts offensive line and allowing Peyton Manning to work his magic.  Prior to the season, Cindrich was able to negotiate a new three year deal making Saturday one of the highest paid Centers.  Saturday has spent his entire 11 year career with the Colts and won his first world championship in Super Bowl XLI when the Colts beat the Bears.

On the other side line, Saints Offensive Tackle and Special Teamer, Zach Strief, will be gunning for his first Super Bowl ring.  Since the Saints selected Strief in the 2006 draft, he’s played in 57 games, including all games the past three seasons.  When asked who he was rooting for, Cindrich remarked that he doesn’t play favorites; he wants to see a hard fought game by both clients.

Tuesday, September 26, 2006

By Ray Fittipaldo, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Bruce Gradkowski was confident he would someday be an NFL starter. He just didn’t realize it wouldbe this soon.

Gradkowski, a 6-foot-1, 210-pound rookie from Dormont, will be the starting quarterback for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers when they play Oct. 8 at New Orleans. He is replacing Tampa Bay starter Chris Simms, who is out indefinitely after having his spleen removed Sunday night after a game against the Carolina Panthers.

“It’s a tough situation,” Gradkowski said to reporters in Tampa, Fla. “You never want to be named the starter in this situation, but things happen. I just have to take it, go with it and work hard.

“We just need to prepare like we’ve been preparing and come out and make plays. Just keep doing what we’re doing and things will fall into place. I’m just going to bring energy out there on the field and just do my thing. I’m just going to take things as they come and make smart decisions and rely on the guys around me. I’m a rookie, but I’m going to play my game.”

Tampa Bay, which is off this week, will bring an 0-3 record into the game at New Orleans.

It has been a meteoric rise for Gradkowski in Tampa Bay. He was drafted in the sixth round out of Toledo in April and quickly won over Buccaneers coach Jon Gruden with a stellar preseason.

After an injury to third-year pro Luke McCown in training camp, Gradkowski received more repetitions and won the backup job over veteran Tim Rattay. In four preseason games, Gradkowski completed 73.8 percent of his passes for 511 yards with five touchdowns and three interceptions. He had a passer rating of 105.3.

Gradkowski attempted one pass against Carolina and completed it for 16 yards.

“I was very fortunate to get a lot of reps in training camp,” said Gradkowski, who played at Seton-LaSalle High School. “I was just working hard. It was an unfortunate injury to Luke that got me some reps. I think it prepared me very well, getting in there in game situations with players around me. Now it can only get better. It’s going to be game time and I’m looking forward to it.”

It is not often that a rookie quarterback starts in the NFL. It is even rarer for a player drafted as late as Gradkowski to get the opportunity. But Gruden, at his weekly news conference yesterday, reiterated that he has confidence in his young rookie.

“This guy can make plays,” Gruden said. “I believe he’ll rise to the challenge if we rally around him.”

Montour coach Lou Cerro, who coached Gradkowski at Seton-LaSalle, is not surprised that Gradkowski has ascended to the top of the depth chart this quickly. He said Gradkowski’s work ethic and intellect are the reasons.

“He was excited to be the backup. He’ll be out of his mind now that he’s the starter,” Cerro said. “I’m not that surprised, really. Bruce was always a guy who was a leader on and off the field.

“I’m sure coach Gruden liked his work ethic. He has tremendous work ethic. When he came out of Seton-LaSalle, he was 160 pounds. He put on 30 or 40 pounds at Toledo. And I know Toledo’s offense is unbelievably difficult. He’s a guy who completed 70 percent of his passes, so he’s always making the right decisions.”

Gradkowski said he will be calling Simms and asking him many questions over the next two weeks as he prepares for his first career start. Even though he does not have a lot of experience in the pro game, Gradkowski is confident he can lead the Buccaneers to victories.

“I definitely feel like I’m ready,” Gradkowski said. “I know coach Gruden wouldn’t have thrown me out there if he didn’t think I was ready. I’ve been preparing for this. Coach didn’t bring me in here to be a clipboard holder my whole career. This just came a little faster than [expected]. … I’m going to make this happen.”

Gradkowski is the second quarterback from Seton-LaSalle, or its forerunner South Catholic, to play in the NFL. Dan Darragh played for the Buffalo Bills in the late 1960s after being drafted out of William & Mary in the 13th round of the NFL draft.

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General Manager A.J. Smith and the Chargers made their second move of the 2006 freeangency period by signing former Cleveland Browns tight end Aaron Shea to a three-year deal.

“Aaron is a tough, competitive guy that will bring a package to our passing game so that (Offensive Coordinator) Cam Cameron will be able to utilize him,” Smith said. “He’s got some very good speed, quickness and hands. He’s a competitive blocker. The experience factor is huge. He’s been in the league for a long time. He’s another player with high character who will represent our program well. ”

A native of Ottawa, Illinois, Shea spent the first six years of his career with the Browns. After visiting with the Steelers and 49ers earlier in the week, a recruiting pitch that included Head Coach Marty Schottenheimer’s family helped seal the deal with the Michigan grad.

“The situation was perfect,” Shea said. “I got a great feel from the organization. There seems to be a real family atmosphere here. I met Coach Schottenheimer’s wife Pat, and she was so nice and welcoming. I hoped my free agent tour would end in San Diego, and fortunately we were able to make that happen.”

Like Marlon McCree, whose connections with secondary coach Brian Stewart assisted in his signing last week, Shea has strong ties to his new position coach with the Chargers. Bolts tight ends coach Rob Chudzinski held the same position with the Browns in 2004. Shea set career highs that season in receptions (26), receiving yards (252) and touchdown catches (4).

“It’s no coincidence that I had my best season that year with Rob,” Shea said. “Chud found a way to really get me involved and help me be productive. He’s such a technician. He really helped me with my footwork and mechanics. He really knows how to coach me, and I’m thrilled to get to play for him again.”

Aaron Shea had the best season of his six-year career in 2004 with Rob Chudzinski.

With All-Pro Antonio Gates already in the mix, Shea give the Chargers a second tight end that can contribute in the passing game. Shea is also committed to doing the “dirty work” when necessary.

“I’m looking forward to playing with Antonio, the best tight end in the game,” Shea said. “If you get two guys that can stretch the middle of the field like that, I think it will help the entire offense. I’ve played on the line of scrimmage, spent time at fullback and in an H-back role. I can block, play special teams or do whatever they need me to. I’m going to give it all I’ve got and hopefully help this team.”

In addition to his ties with Chudzinski, Shea is also closely connected to a pair of Chargers’ offensive linemen. Those relationships also helped nudge him to San Diego as well.

“I grew up about 10 miles from Mike Goff and hung out with him some in high school,” Shea said. “I also played with Roman Oben in Cleveland and am excited to be around him again. It’s always nice to have some familiar faces around. I’m also looking forward to a change of scenery. I’ve been in the Mid West. I played at Michigan and spent six years in Cleveland. I need a little sunshine. I can’t wait to work on my tan.”

Former Chargers on the move

Free agent wide receiver Reche Caldwell signed a two-year contract with the New England Patriots Friday, ending his four-year tender with the Bolts. Caldwell caught 76 passes for 950 yards and seven touchdowns in his four seasons in San Diego. He fills a need for New England, who lost free agent receiver David Givens to the Tennessee Titans earlier this week.

On Wednesday, free agent guard/center Bob Hallen went home, signing a two-year deal with the Browns. A native of Cleveland suburb Mentor, Ohio and graduate of Kent State University, Hallen will have the opportunity to earn a spot on the Browns’ revamped offensive line that includes recent additions LeCharles Bentley and Kevin Schaffer.

Former Chargers guard Tonui Fonoti signed a one-year contract with the Oakland Raiders earlier this week, but the deal became void when Fonoti failed his physical. Fonoti remains a free agent, but had a visit with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers this week.

Earlier this week, the Washington Post reported that the Redskins have an interest in free agent cornerback Jamar Fletcher.

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Friday, February 17, 2006

By Paul Zeise, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Bruce Gradkowski was a record-setting quarterback at Seton-LaSalle High School, but he was overlooked by almost every Division I college. In fact, it wasn’t until after his senior season — and only after a coaching change — that Toledo gave him a scholarship.

Five years, three brilliant seasons and 19 Toledo passing records later, he again finds himself having to answer questions about his ability. And, once again, he is eager to prove he is more than capable of being a big-time quarterback.

Gradkowski, who threw five touchdowns in his final college game Dec. 21, a win against UTEP in the GMAC Bowl, is one of seven players represented by Carnegie-based agent Ralph Cindrich who are working out at the UPMC Sports Performance Complex on the South Side for the NFL combine.

“I feel like I am starting from scratch again,” Gradkowski said. “I have to prove myself all over, but that’s what these workouts are for, and that’s what the combine is for.

“So I’m excited about it because it is another opportunity. And I’m not afraid to do anything. I am going to do all the workouts because I feel like anything I can do will increase my stock, and that’s the goal — to get drafted higher.”

The questions about Gradkowski are two-fold — his size (he is listed at 6 feet 2) and his arm strength. Despite that, he is projected by most scouting services to be a third- to fifth-round pick in the NFL draft. He believes that once he attends the combine Feb. 22-28 in Indianapolis he’ll answer any lingering questions about his arm strength.

He said that while he hopes to make a lasting impression at the combine and subsequent workouts, he believes his body of work the past three seasons with the Rockets builds a strong case.

“People talk about my arm strength, but I don’t question it at all. And that’s why I’m excited to get to these workouts because I can go out and make the throws they want to see,” Gradkowski said.

“The system I played in college was high percentage decision-making and short passes, and we didn’t throw the ball downfield all that much, but that doesn’t mean I don’t have the arm strength to do it.

“But, ultimately, you make your name through game tape, and that’s really where you get your grade at. All this other stuff is extra, and it is a chance to show them that what they see on film is really what they are going to get.”

Since the GMAC bowl, Gradkowski, who graduated in December, has focused his energy on getting ready for the combine. He spent some time in Atlanta working out with former Green Bay Packers assistant coach Zeke Bratkowski efore returning to Pittsburgh to begin an intense six-week program at UPMC.

Joining Gradkowski in the program are Minnesota center Greg Eslinger, Virginia linebacker Kai Parham, Louisville guard Jason Spitz, Wisconsin receiver Jonathan Orr, Michigan State center Chris Morris and Michigan guard Matt Lentz. Parham and Orr are probably the two highest-rated prospects, but all seven are expected to be drafted in April.

The program, under the direction of UPMC’s director of sports performance training, Ronald DeAngelo, is designed to increase strength, quickness, speed and conditioning and prepare them for drills and testing at the combine.

“What we’re trying to get them to be is as fast as they can be, as quick as they can be and as explosive as they can be,” DeAngelo said. “This is unique in that we have everything under one roof — physicians, physical therapists, sports nutrition, sports psychology — it is all here in one building.”

(Paul Zeise can be reached at pzeise@post-gazette.com or 412-263-1720.)

Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Sunday September 18, 2005
Ron Cook, columnist

The hit was made, and the big crowd gasped. The runner went one way, the ball another. In an instant, both were on the Heinz Field turf. The Steelers didn’t just recover the fumble; they took control of the game. The ball carrier picked himself up slowly and walked to his bench, head hanging, all the while wondering where the train came from.

You don’t have to guess who made the play for the Steelers.

You know it was James Farrior.

Doesn’t he always make the big play for the Steelers’ defense?

Farrior said he wants to have a better season than last year, when he was the Steelers’ Most Valuable Player and first team All Pro and played like it in the 34-7 victory against the Tennessee Titans last Sunday. His defense had a rough start, allowing the Titans to take the opening drive for a touchdown. After the Steelers answered with a touchdown, the Titans were moving again when Farrior changed the course of the game.

He stood up running back Travis Henry in the hole over right guard, knocking Henry backward and the ball flying. Ike Taylor recovered for the Steelers, who turned the gift into a field goal and never looked back.

“You never know when big plays are going to happen so you have to go hard every play.” Farrior said.

The man has a gift for making them.

There wasn’t a better all around inside linebacker in the NFL last season. Farrior’s versatility showed in his statistics: a team high 119 tackles, three sacks, four interceptions, four forced fumbles and three fumble recoveries.

He made the biggest play of the season in Game 6 at Dallas, turning a sure loss into an unlikely win when he forced a late fumble by quarterback Vinny Testaverde, his second sack and third forced fumble of the day, for which he was honored as the AFC Defensive Player of the Week. Who knows what would have happened the next Sunday against New England if the Steelers had lost that afternoon? As it was, they crushed the Patriots, finished 15-1 in the regular season and made it to the AFC Championship game.

Only Bill Cowher knows how the voting went for team MVP, but Farrior should have been the unanimous choice. With all due respect to Hines Ward, Alan Faneca and Ben Roethlisberger, there shouldn’t have been a close second.

“I didn’t always play great games,” Farrior said. “If you sat in the film room with the coaches, you’d see I made mistakes.”

What?

Did Farrior forget to tie his shoelaces one play?

Did he mess up a high-five with Joey Porter?

Was he in the bathroom for one of Cowher’s halftime talks?

“No player has every played the perfect game,” Farrior said. “There’s always room to improve and ways to get better. That’s what I’m working to do.”

As a Steelers captain, Farrior takes that same never-good-enough approach with the defense. It didn’t matter that the titans didn’t score after the first drive. “We gave up a couple of long runs and a couple of long passes,” he said. “If we’re going to be the type of defense we want to be, we can’t do that. We expect more out of ourselves. We’re a prideful group. Against a better team – a team that’s a little more explosive – those big plays could hurt us.”

It could happen today against the Houston Texans, but it’s not likely. The Texans managed just one touchdown, 25 passing yards and 120 total yards in a 22-7 loss at Buffalo last Sunday. Quarterback David Carr was sacked five times, continuing a horrible trend that’s had him sacked 145 times in his first three-plus seasons. The poor guy could be wearing Farrior by the time the day is done.

Of course, the Texans will be looking for Farrior. He might have sneaked up on a few teams last season. Certainly, he didn’t get the recognition that fellow All Pro inside linebacker Ray Lewis of the Baltimore Ravens did, even though he’s twice the player Lewis is at this stage of their careers.

But that was then.

This is now.

“It’s going to be my most challenging season,” Farrior said. “I’m no secret anymore. Teams are going to be game-planning for me, looking to take me out of the game.”

The Titans tried and failed.

Don’t be surprised if most teams fail with Farrior.

TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Sunday, April 14, 2002

Mary Rose Cindrich can stay. No offense, but everyone else must get out.

Mary Rose has been around her husband, Ralph Cindrich — they were college sweethearts at Pitt — long enough to know that draft day is his holy day of obligation. When the NFL conducts its 2002 draft Saturday and Sunday, he will demand peace and quiet in their Mt. Lebanon home and nothing but a television tuned to ESPN, a radio tuned to Myron Cope and his annual dinner of spaghetti, salad and a glass of wine.

“I shoo everyone out of the house,” said Cindrich, one of the most influential and successful player agents in the NFL. “My wife will be there because she doesn’t bother me. If my kids are home, out. My mother-in-law, out. People stopping over, out.”

Cindrich is totally devoted to his clients, but especially when they are among the anxious group of prospects hoping to hear their name called early in the draft-day proceedings.

He’s also a realist, and he doesn’t sugar-coat the often-agonizing process. Said Cindrich: “I’ll be letting them, many of them, know, it’s going to be a long, long day.”

ATHLETE REPRESENTING ATHLETES

Cindrich knows about agony and frustration. He was an athlete long before he started representing athletes.

At Avella High School in the 1960s, he was undefeated in dual wrestling meets as a junior and senior and was a WPIAL champion and PIAA runner-up. In football, he was captain of his team at the Big 33 Classic and went on to Pitt, where he was an All-America linebacker as a sophomore and senior.

Due to a knee injury suffered in the first football game ever played on Astroturf at Pitt Stadium in 1970, Cindrich wrestled only one year in college. Still, he was a heavyweight champion in the eastern region and ranked fourth nationally as a sophomore. He was invited to the Olympic trials, but the injury forced him to decline.

Cindrich was dedicated to the athletic lifestyle.

“This was the flower era,” he said of the late 1960s and early 1970s. “When things were wild, I was clean. I didn’t do the partying.”

He wore his hair short and vowed to avoid alcohol and tobacco.

“You lived like a monk,” he said.

After three knee operations, he was a fifth-round draft choice of the Atlanta Falcons in 1972 and he managed to play four seasons in the NFL (one with the New England Patriots and three with the Houston Oilers).

His career was cut short by the lingering effects of the knee injury, but he was ready for the rest of his life. While playing for the Oilers in 1974, he went to law school at the South Texas College of Law at Texas A&M. He received his license to practice law in Texas in 1978.

Today, Cindrich sits in his handsomely appointed office in Carnegie, and speaks on a speaker phone to many wealthy clients, including former Steelers center and future Pro Football Hall of Famer Dermontti Dawson, who make positive imprints on society.

Then, however, one of his first clients was a Manson-like cult follower, a woman who was the ringleader among three people accused in the one-at-a-time murder of two 18-year-old hitchhikers near the Astrodome in Houston. Cindrich remembers the grisly details better than he does the numbers on his richest contract.

“They tied them up like pigs, (by their) feet, with their hands behind their backs,” said Cindrich, who was ordered to defend the suspects by a Texas judge named Jimmy James. “They put a rope around the neck of one, one (suspect) got on one side and the other (suspect) on the other side, they put their foot on his shoulder blades and pulled until he died. And he took a while to die.”

The second boy watched his friend die and was killed in the same manner, Cindrich said, after the suspects went out for donuts and coffee.

Eventually, the suspects confessed to the killings. But another murder case went Cindrich’s way, even though his client shot the victim six times with a snub-nose gun.

“After the first two, he was down on the ground,” Cindrich said, “and he put another four in him.”

Cindrich won, arguing self-defense and noting that the victim — “Just a nasty character,” he said — was known to carry a hook knife in his back pocket.

“We argued it more as a benefit to society because he was a bad guy.”

Happily for Cindrich, his clients still are involved in brutal, violent acts, but it now revolves around the controlled chaos of the NFL.

VETERAN NEGOTIATOR

Cindrich has been negotiating contracts for NFL players for a quarter-century, starting with former Pitt lineman Glenn Hyde, who signed a deal in the 1970s with the long-defunct WFL’s Chicago Fire. The Fire’s general manager was Bill Polian, now the president of the Indianapolis Colts.

This year, Cindrich and Polian were back at the bargaining table, hammering out a six-year, $40 million deal, with a $10 million signing bonus, for offensive tackle Tarik Glenn, the largest contract awarded in the NFL this year.

Former Pitt offensive lineman and Outland Trophy winner Mark May was one of Cindrich’s first high-profile clients in 1981. But it was more than a cold, business relationship. The two men became friends, their families vacationed together and Cindrich was the best man at May’s wedding.

Four years later, Cindrich worked out a deal for another Pitt lineman that was and still is one of the most creative and lucrative in NFL history.

The year was 1985, and Cindrich had landed two top college players, Penn Hills’ Bill Fralic and wide receiver Al Toon, who were drafted second and 10th, respectively, in the first round.

The Fralic deal with the Falcons was unique in that it was written to yield a $150,000 annual payment long after the end of his playing career. In fact, for the rest of his life.

“Every January, when he wakes up, he has a check for $150,000 coming,” Cindrich said.

For Cindrich, his 3 percent fee was nice, but it cost him an entire bottle of Pepto Bismol to finalize the deal.

Trouble was, Falcons general manager Tom Braatz, loved to drink beer.

“The word about him was if you drink beer with him, you’ll go under,” Cindrich said. “He could drink all night long and look like a choir boy in the morning. We had three or four meetings and each time, he said, ‘Let’s have a beer.’ I said, ‘No, I don’t want a beer.’ ”

Sober, the men failed to come to an agreement. One day, Cindrich invited Braatz to go fishing on an Avella pond that sat on land owned by Cindrich’s father.

“I take two cases of Iron City beer, we get hammered and do that deal, probably, within an hourn-and-a-half,” Cindrich said.

But before setting out on the water, Cindrich drank a full bottle of Pepto Bismol to coat his stomach.

“I tried to pace myself and he kept shoving them in front of me. It was the first and last time I’ve ever done that.”

RULES MUST BE BROKEN

In world of negotiating, compromise is critical. So, Cindrich compromises some of his values in order to survive — and thrive — in the business.

Two years ago, he said he never would have made arrangements for a client to purchase a car. He does now, just to keep up with rival agents.

“That’s so neandarthal, so prehistoric in this business that you can’t survive,” he said. “That I survived through that amazes me. Whether it’s against your good judgement or not, if you don’t do that you’re not competitive.”

Now, Cindrich said the “worst” favor he’ll do for a client is arrange for a line of credit and/or a vehicle.

“Even though, if it were my son, I wouldn’t do it, but to be competitive, I would do it,” he said.

Not that Cindrich has always been a boy scout.

His associate, Greg Diulus, remembers the time when “we out-Al Davised, Al Davis.”

It involved the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ desire to trade offensive lineman Paul Gruber to Davis’ Raiders at the NFL’s trading deadline in 1993.

Gruber didn’t want to play for the Raiders, but the Raiders called Cindrich and said, “He’s coming to us. Here’s the money. That’s it.”

When the time came for Gruber to sign the papers to finalize the contract and complete the trade, Cindrich purposely had Gruber wait in the Buccaneers’ parking lot until after the 4 o’clock trading deadline. Since the trade was officially late, the NFL Players Association voided the deal, and Gruber remained in Tampa for more money, Cindrich said.

Davis’ reaction?

“Mad is kind,” Cindrich said.

A RICH STABLE

Cindrich and his firm, Cindrich and Company, have flourished for years, but especially since the NFL ventured into the era of free agency in 1993. In the first two years alone, he negotiated more than $120 million worth of contracts, according to his records.

About 10 years ago, The Sporting News compiled a list of the 100 most powerful people in sports. Steelers president Dan Rooney was 37th. Cindrich was 49th. Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones was 65th.

Cindrich’s stable of clients includes some of the highest-paid players in the NFL, including Glenn and Denver Broncos quarterback Brian Griese. Two years ago, the first big-money deal of that year’s free-agency signing period went to quarterback Jeff Blake, a Cindrich client who got a four-year, $17 million contract from the New Orleans Saints. Center Jeff Christy got an average of $3.5 million from the Buccaneers. Offensive lineman Harry Swayne got a $5 million signing bonus from the Baltimore Ravens in 1998 when he was 34-years-old.

When Steelers linebacker James Farrior was a rookie with the New York Jets in 1997, Farrior fired his original agent, who couldn’t get a signing bonus included in his initial contract. Farrior hired Cindrich, who proceeded to negotiate a $4.02 million signing bonus. Five years later, Steelers officials will tell you that Cindrich’s patience while the team ebated whether to re-sign Earl Holmes helped Farrior get the job as Holmes’ replacement.

This year, Cindrich represents four of the top offensive lineman in the draft — Ohio State center LeCharles Bentley, Texas A&M center Seth McKinney and Miami guard and tackle Martin Bibla and Joaquin Gonzalez — plus Iowa running back Ladell Betts and Nevada quarterback David Neill.

Perhaps none will get drafted in the first round and Cindrich will have to soothe some hurt feelings if the wait lasts longer than anticipated.

“When they sit and they watch, and they go through the agony of seeing other people drafted, it kills them,” he said.

Somehow, Cindrich will find the right words.

Just like he did the other day while speaking to Gonzalez, who has made a good accounting of himself during his pre-draft visits with several NFL teams.

“You’re selling your (butt) off, man,” he told Gonzalez. “If you don’t make it in the football business, we’ll make you an agent.”

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