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CLEARWATER, Fla. -- The Coast Guard was searching off Florida's Gulf Coast on Sunday for a fishing boat carrying NFL players Corey Smith and Marquis Cooper and two other men missing nearly a day in choppy seas.

Smith and Cooper were on a 21-foot vessel that left Clearwater Pass for a fishing trip Saturday morning and did not return as expected, the Coast Guard said Sunday. Crews used a helicopter and a 47-foot boat to search a 750-square mile area west of Clearwater Pass, but poor weather made the search difficult. Officials did not receive a distress signal from the missing craft.

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - The Coast Guard on Monday narrowed the search area for two NFL players and a third man missing since a weekend fishing trip off the Florida Gulf Coast after crews rescued a fourth man clinging to their capsized boat.

Survivor Nick Schuyler, a former University of South Florida player, told rescuers that the boat the four friends were aboard was anchored when it flipped Saturday evening in rough seas, said Coast Guard Capt. Timothy M. Close. Since then, Schuyler, who was wearing a life vest, had been hanging onto the boat found by a Coast Guard cutter 35 miles off Clearwater.

Schuyler said the other three men got separated from the boat. The 21-footer belongs to Oakland Raiders linebacker Marquis Cooper, who, along with free-agent defensive lineman Corey Smith and former South Florida player William Bleakley, remained missing.

jman3134 wrote:Am I the only one who thinks that Marquis Cooper's wife was ecstatic that her husband might not come back? She was smiling the entire interview.

jman3134 wrote:Am I the only one who thinks that Marquis Cooper's wife was ecstatic that her husband might not come back? She was smiling the entire interview.

studcrackers wrote:i just dont think i could deal with somebody telling me that they're calling off this search

CJ_18 wrote:

studcrackers wrote:i just dont think i could deal with somebody telling me that they're calling off this search

thats what i thought when i heard that- theres 3 human beings out there that could be alive, you can not just let them die

like if they are all alive they must be thinking 'dam i hope they hurry up and find us cuz i wont survive out here much longer'

yea well guess what they won't ever find you cuz theyre not even **** looking

CJ_18 wrote:

studcrackers wrote:i just dont think i could deal with somebody telling me that they're calling off this search

thats what i thought when i heard that- theres 3 human beings out there that could be alive, you can not just let them die

like if they are all alive they must be thinking 'dam i hope they hurry up and find us cuz i wont survive out here much longer'

yea well guess what they won't ever find you cuz theyre not even **** looking