Practice Squad

[Tony Oday]

I am surprised there wasnt a bus in Green Bay to Minneapolis for the Packer cuts...

[pbmax]

Weird, Gurley reported to be headed to Vikes but Packers still had exclusive negotiating rights. For 6 minutes. The things you learn on Twitter.

Dunne has a source that says Dale Moss may not be headed to Packers practice squad.

[denverYooper]

Datko signed to the PS

[pbmax]

Datko back on team on PS.

Further Dunne Tweets make it sound like his source was a Packers source, saying Dale Moss won't be back with team.

Marc Tyler on PS.

[rbaloha1]

Datko is promsing. Very good feet.

[CaliforniaCheez]

Whenever I here Datko, I think of the Batman Theme..... Datko......Datko.....Datko.

[Fritz]

Glad Datko and Guy are on.

[pbmax]

Whenever I here Datko, I think of the Batman Theme..... Datko......Datko.....Datko.

I'm thinking onomatopoeia.

POW!

BAM!

DATKO!

[Patler]

Both Andrew Datko and Sampson Genus can blame Patler and his Atlas Herrion Curse.

Don't forget Levine. He received the Atlas Herrion endorsement individually last year. Datko and Genus shared the endorsement this year.

[Patler]

Pete Dougherty says his source indicates no Packer cuts were claimed by other teams.

I think people over-hyped Borel and Gurley. Miami is in desperate need of receivers, Philbin knows the packers roster better than anyone... Don't you think he would make a claim on atleast one of them if they were as good as some people made them out to be...

I have mentioned off and on for the last couple weeks that the odds were the Packers would have an opportunity to sign anyone they wanted from their last cuts to the practice squad. In recent years it has become less and less common for a team to outright sign another teams cut to their 53 man final roster. Teams want to have a chance to work with a player before putting him on the 53 man roster. A few year ago, that wasn't the case and teams would cut below 53 and sign someone else. That is how the Packers got Bush.

If you look at the way it works now, the tendencies seem to be:

-teams would sign players from the first cutdown, because they had some training camp left to work with them. However, even that seems to have happened less this year, probably because there was very little time between the first and the final cutdown.

- teams will offer PS contracts to other teams' waived players, may practice them for a few weeks, then sign them to their 53 man roster a few weeks later.

That is why I said the Packers would have an opportunity to sign any of their cutdowns to the PS. The question would be whether or not the player would accept, or go elsewhere like McDonald did last year and Gurley apparently did this year.

Teams are now valuing players they have worked with over players they see only on tape. They use the PS as the vehicle for personal evaluation, and there seems to be more and more movement with PS players. Teams will sign someone and cut them just a week or two later when they bring someone else in.

[pbmax]

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That is why I said the Packers would have an opportunity to sign any of their cutdowns to the PS. The question would be whether or not the player would accept, or go elsewhere like McDonald did last year and Gurley apparently did this year.

Teams are now valuing players they have worked with over players they see only on tape. They use the PS as the vehicle for personal evaluation, and there seems to be more and more movement with PS players. Teams will sign someone and cut them just a week or two later when they bring someone else in.

I agree this is more and more true, but rebuilding teams are still playing scouting player roulette. The Colts, Bucs, Vikes, Jags and Jets and for some reason the Seahawks and Eagles.

[Iron Mike]

I'm thinking onomatopoeia.

POW!

BAM!

DATKO!

[Patler]

I agree this is more and more true, but rebuilding teams are still playing scouting player roulette. The Colts, Bucs, Vikes, Jags and Jets and for some reason the Seahawks and Eagles.

Sure, a couple teams were very active with waiver claims. But in the end, waiver claims were submitted on only about 4% or so of the final roster cuts. The chances of any Packer cut, let alone several of them being claimed was remote. It just doesn't happen much any more.

[Fritz]

I wonder if this is in part a consequence of seeing the success of the Packers' "draft and develop" system.

[Joemailman]

Packers add G/T Chris Scott to PS.

http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/sports/168376236.html