Packer Cuts

[Brohm]

If they reach an injury settlement, they can be resigned during the season. The length of time until a team can resign someone after settlement is the amount of weekly pay they received + 6 weeks (I believe the +6 is so it's not abused and PUP still has meaning/use). I read somewhere that Blackmon got ~2weeks pay so he would be able to be resigned after week 8 (or something like that). Otherwise IR is out for the year and Blackmon is a FA after this year. The risk is losing the player outright as he becomes a FA.

[retailguy]

If they reach an injury settlement, they can be resigned during the season. The length of time until a team can resign someone after settlement is the amount of weekly pay they received + 6 weeks (I believe the +6 is so it's not abused and PUP still has meaning/use). I read somewhere that Blackmon got ~2weeks pay so he would be able to be resigned after week 8 (or something like that). Otherwise IR is out for the year and Blackmon is a FA after this year. The risk is losing the player outright as he becomes a FA.

Can the team that placed him on IR resign him? I know other teams can resign him, but I thought the team that placed him on IR is not able to resign for the year? Is this true, anybody know?

[Brohm]

If he reaches a settlement, he can be resigned after 6 weeks + the length of the settlement. The risk is that with the settlement, the player can sign elsewhereafter the initial settlement time is done (for Blackmon ~2weeks, whereas GB cannot resign until after the 2+6). The way I understand it, Blackmon is going to have a window there where he can not sign with the Packers but can still play for another team (between week 3-7).

Bit convoluted, anyone have a rulebook handy for the exact language

Edit: This was done with Peprah last year and he ended up in Atlanta for the last 5 games.

[Patler]

I think Bedard was more puzzled by the lack of claims than anything else. I'd be interested in seeing how many claims Ted has made over the years, but it does seem odd he wouldn't even make one claim. Really there isn't one single player that is an upgrade over what we have from all the cuts?

Don't forget, waiver claims are awarded in the reverse order of last year's record, so the Packers are pretty low on the priority list. When the Packers had bad seasons, TT put in a lot of claims. As TT mentioned yesterday, a few years ago they made their final cuts down to 50, because they knew they would make a bunch of claims.

TT general brings in a couple guys each week for tryouts, and I suspect he will starting this week. He might want to actually see what is available in person before giving up what he has for a guy he knows mostly on film only. Most of the players he might have been awarded on Sunday via a waiver claim are probably still available now anyway.

[falco]

Chris Bryan signed with the Bucs and is on their 53-man roster.

RB James Johnson fills out the Packer practice squad.

Wow, either TT found 2 starting quality punters this offseason, or he found 1 (and somebody is screwed at P this season).

Or I guess he could have found none...

[vince]

Chris Bryan signed with the Bucs and is on their 53-man roster.

RB James Johnson fills out the Packer practice squad.

Wow, either TT found 2 starting quality punters this offseason, or he found 1 (and somebody is screwed at P this season).

Or I guess he could have found none...

GBPG jumped the gun a bit on their reporting of the Bryan signing. He has a tryout scheduled this week with the team, but hasn't yet been signed.

[vince]

No. of players claimed (initial wave):

Packers 5;
Steelers, Vikings, Cowboys, Chicago 3;
Dolphins, Jets, Browns 2.

[vince]

When a tweeter replied suggesting the number of players claimed indicates that the Packers were deeper this year than other teams, Bedard suggested that it means that they let go of better players in favor of younger ones.

That guy is an incorrigible buffoon.

[imscott72]

With us having the most players claimed out of all teams, I wonder if it means we're extremely deep or if we just parted ways with some good talent to remain one of the youngest teams. I guess we won't know until the season gets going.

[pbmax]

When a tweeter replied suggesting the number of players claimed indicates that the Packers were deeper this year than other teams, Bedard suggested that it means that they let go of better players in favor of younger ones.

That guy is an incorrigible buffoon.

I wish he would make up his mind. Seven months ago, they had abandoned the youth strategy when they re-signed Clifton, Collins and Tauscher.

[imscott72]

When a tweeter replied suggesting the number of players claimed indicates that the Packers were deeper this year than other teams, Bedard suggested that it means that they let go of better players in favor of younger ones.

That guy is an incorrigible buffoon.

Why is he a buffoon? Would you have kept guys like Johnson or McDonald over Havner?

[vince]

With us having the most players claimed out of all teams, I wonder if it means we're extremely deep or if we just parted ways with some good talent to remain one of the youngest teams. I guess we won't know until the season gets going.

The notion that Thompson is more interested in having a young team than winning is preposterous in my opinion.

[vince]

When a tweeter replied suggesting the number of players claimed indicates that the Packers were deeper this year than other teams, Bedard suggested that it means that they let go of better players in favor of younger ones.

That guy is an incorrigible buffoon.

Why is he a buffoon? Would you have kept guys like Johnson or McDonald over Havner?

Yes. You can only dress 45 on game day anyway. Run the numbers. Havner was the least talented TE on the roster and no team can afford to dress five of them on Sunday.

[hoosier]

He is a buffoon for two reasons (to my mind). First, because his criticisms of Thompson are inconsistent and he seems to forget one week what he had written the previous week. Sometimes the inconsistencies show up between articles (re-signing Clifton and Tauscher means TT has abandoned his "obssession" with youth; cutting Barbre, Giacomini and Havner in favor of McDonald and Crabtree is evidence of TT's "obsession" with youth. Second, because he is focusing on parts of the machine that are relatively minor if not downright irrelevant in the big picture. Havner vs. Crabtree and McDonald vs Giacomini or Barbre: we're talking about fringe players at the bottom of the roster here, none of which are going to make or break a season. If TT feels that McDonald has a higher ceiling than Giacomini and might someday transform himself into a starting RT, all the more power to him. We know Giacomini won't become that, at least not on this team and not with this coaching staff. Same for tight end: if Crabtree can provide elite level performance at just one task, that makes him more valuable than Havner, who is adequate or worse at everything. But Bedard doesn't go into any kind of substantial analysis of the cuts; he just insinuates--without showing what ground he's standing on--that Thompson might be leaving the Packers flank uncovered.

[Patler]

When a tweeter replied suggesting the number of players claimed indicates that the Packers were deeper this year than other teams, Bedard suggested that it means that they let go of better players in favor of younger ones.

That guy is an incorrigible buffoon.

Yup, Lumpkin, Toribio, Obiozor and Dietrich Smith have SO much experience and were SO good in the fake games. Havner himself doesn't have that much experience.