Ex-Packer update - KEVIN BARRY and FERGIE

[gbpackfan]

Texans | Barry could miss season
Mon, 20 Aug 2007 10:12:53 -0700

John McClain, of the Houston Chronicle, reports Houston Texans OG Kevin Barry (biceps) could miss the entire 2007 season after suffering a torn biceps in the team's preseason game Saturday, Aug. 18.


Texans | Ferguson to have physical with team
Mon, 20 Aug 2007 09:58:37 -0700

John McClain, of the Houston Chronicle, reports free-agent WR Robert Ferguson (Packers) will meet with the Houston Texans and will undergo a physical with the team Monday, Aug. 20.

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Damn, Bacon just can't stay healthy!

It also looks like Fergie is one step closer to joining Sherman.

[Zool]

Texans | Barry could miss season
Mon, 20 Aug 2007 10:12:53 -0700

John McClain, of the Houston Chronicle, reports Houston Texans OG Kevin Barry (biceps) could miss the entire 2007 season after suffering a torn biceps in the team's preseason game Saturday, Aug. 18.


Texans | Ferguson to have physical with team
Mon, 20 Aug 2007 09:58:37 -0700

John McClain, of the Houston Chronicle, reports free-agent WR Robert Ferguson (Packers) will meet with the Houston Texans and will undergo a physical with the team Monday, Aug. 20.

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Damn, Bacon just can't stay healthy!

It also looks like Fergie is one step closer to joining Sherman.This is unbelievable. Its Packers South down there. What are they doing?

[PaCkFan_n_MD]

Barry, Ferguson < Moll, Jones

Were much better off.

[MadtownPacker]

Maybe when Favre retires he will go down there too.

[Deputy Nutz]

I don't know how he does it, but how the hell does Sherman have any say whatsoever in the personnel department? That guy should just coach, he has a hard enough time doing that consistently

[Harlan Huckleby]

RUSHING—Houston, Gado 8-29 Dayne 6-23 Green 6-19

The boys from Wisconsin not exactly tearing it up.

[vince]

Here's quite a scathing article about M2 that oughta burn up a few of his supporters...


Sherman cleanup continues

Mike Sherman By Dylan B. Tomlinson
, dylan1226@gmail.com
Aug 20, 2007

Parting ways with underachieving wide receiver Robert Ferguson, another glaring mistake in the Mike Sherman era, last week was long overdue, says PackerReport.com's Dylan Tomlinson.

With the release of receiver Robert Ferguson last week, the Green Bay Packers got one step further away from the Mike Sherman era.
Sherman doesn't get all of the blame for the idiotic decision to take Ferguson with the No. 41 pick in the 2001 draft. He was sharing general manager duties with Ron Wolf at the time, so the two can share the blame.

Ferguson was hardly the worst pick of the Sherman era. That distinction lies with Jamal Reynolds (2001) or Ahmad Carroll (2004), and if you can have a conversation about the worst picks of the Sherman era without mentioning B.J. Sander (2004), Joey Thomas (2004) or Donnell Washington (2004) it gives you an idea of how completely inept Sherman was as a general manager. He was a decent coach, but as a GM, they just didn't seem to get any worse.

The difference with Ferguson and Sherman's other mistakes was that it just seemed to take so long for him to go away. The Packers passed on Pro Bowl receivers Chris Chambers and Steve Smith to take him, yet at his best Ferguson was barely mediocre. He was always injured and never seemed to be happy. He never passed on an opportunity to complain about having to play on special teams.

Ferguson will get another chance in the NFL because either another team from the NFC North, like Minnesota, will pick him up to see what it can learn about the Packers' playbook, or he will go where most Packers players go after they're cut - Houston.

With Sherman as the offensive coordinator, Texans coach Gary Kubiak seems perfectly intent on letting Sherman pick up as many Packers castoffs as he can find. How else can you explain why the Texans have grossly overpaid for Mike Flanagan and Ahman Green, trading for Samkon Gado and finding jobs for guys like Kevin Barry? I'm surprised Sherman hasn't tried to convince Kubiak to pick up Cletidus Hunt, Joe Johnson or offer Carroll his third chance at success in the NFL.

It wouldn't be fair to write a column ripping Sherman without pointing out that every now and then, he could draft a decent player. Javon Walker and Aaron Kampman, both of whom Sherman drafted in 2002, have both made the Pro Bowl. Corey Williams was a steal in the sixth round of the 2004 draft. Nick Barnett has played to his potential after being taken in the first round of the 2003 draft. He also was able to steal Al Harris from the Philadelphia Eagles for a second-round pick.

And no, I'm not forgetting about Scott Wells. Sherman gets no credit for drafting Wells in the seventh round because he cut him at the end of training camp in 2004 so he could keep two punters on the roster.

Sherman did a respectable job as Packers coach, but every time you see a former high pick like Carroll or Ferguson jettisoned from Green Bay, we can all be reminded that while nobody is ever going to mistake Ted Thompson for Scott Pioli, he is about 1,000 times better than his predecessor.

Sherman was dumb enough to draft Ferguson. Thompson was smart enough to cut him. Almost three years after arriving in Green Bay, Thompson is still cleaning up the mess left by Sherman.

[MasonCrosby]

i find the situation down there in houston so funny and yet so sad... what the heck is sherman doing? does he think these players will really improve that much on the houston squad?

[Jerry Tagge]

RUSHING—Houston, Gado 8-29 Dayne 6-23 Green 6-19

The boys from Wisconsin not exactly tearing it up.
Does this mean we're starting up Sam's Club again? :D

[Lurker64]

KFAN out of the Twin Cities is saying that Ferguson left Houston without a contract and is heading back to Minnesota, they're speculating he's about to become a Viking and they're excited about what a boon they're getting and what a mistake the Packers made by cutting the guy just to get his salary off the books.

Heh.

[Badgerinmaine]

The Strib is saying much the same. Note the Darren Sharper quote at the end:
http://www.startribune.com/vikings/story/1371568.html