NFL Notebook, July 8: Giants WR Steve Smith Seeks Greg Jennings-Type Raise

Here's what's happening around the National Football League on Thursday, July 8, 2010:

• Steve Smith is looking to cash in on his record-breaking season.

The Giants' wideout, who set a franchise mark and led the NFC with 107 receptions a year ago, does not want to play out the final year of his original rookie deal and is seeking a new contract, the New York Post reported.

But Smith told the newspaper he would not use a training-camp holdout as leverage, saying he understands that the absence of a collective bargaining agreement is hampering potential negotiations on both sides.

"It's bad timing for me to be doing well in the National Football League,'' Smith said.

The report said the Giants would like to sign Smith to a multi-year contract but would only be able to offer him a 30-percent increase in the uncapped year. The Giants could load the deal with bonus money, but the Post said the team does not like to guarantee the vast majority of any contract it negotiates.

"I deserve to at least be getting what these other players in the NFL are getting, like a Greg Jennings, at least," Smith said of the Packers wide receiver, who signed a 4-year, $26.8 million contract last year that included $16.25 million in guaranteed money.

• Terrell Owens is having a hard time finding work. And he says the media is the reason why.

"People have listened to a lot of the commentaries throughout a lot of the media outlets, mainly ESPN, that has my character in question as far as things that have happened in the past," Owens told FanHouse's Clay Travis on 104.5-FM in Nashville.

"I may do 99 good things right and if I do one thing wrong, ESPN and the people on there ... make it out to be the worst thing ever.

"I think with the years that I've had, the last three to four years, I feel like I've tried to turn over a new leaf. But still they won't let go of what I did in the past."

Owens had 55 catches for 829 yards and scored five touchdowns in his one and only season in Buffalo last year.

Transaction Wire

• The Panthers and third-round pick Armanti Edwards, who played QB at Appalachian State but is expected to convert to WR for Carolina, agreed to a four-year rookie deal.

• The Lions cut safety Daniel Bullocks, a second round pick in the 2006 draft. Bullocks missed all of last season with a knee injury.

Injury Ward

• Veteran Chiefs DT Kenny Smith will miss the entire 2010 season after tearing his Achilles. Smith, who saw limited duty in six games last year for Kansas City and has not made a start since 2003 with New Orleans, will undergo surgery Monday.

• The Lions placed DE Copeland Bryan on injured reserve, ending his season. Bryan was placed on IR last October after spraining the MCL in his right knee and has not yet recovered completely from the injury, according to the Detroit News.

Tweet Up

• Cardinals DE Darnell Dockett (@ddockett): "If lebron is "KING" he will not go to miami! Real kings take over something don't join someone else army! That's WADE'S house!"