Tasco

thanks for the info, didn't know that!

PatsWickedPissah

Too bad for the guy. Liked the signing. Can you imagine the panic here were this IR move announced weeks ago before collective training camp confidence built via Welker's unexpectedly early return, Tate's performance and Edelperson's spectacular game?

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JoeSixPat

My guess is, beyond the wear and tear of a great career, he wasn't.

It just became apparent that his skills stood little chance of displacing a promising player off the roster, and there was probably limited interest by both Holt and other teams in having him move on with another team.

In that respect I'm thinking that IR was a nice respectful face saving move in which the Pats take the classy road, decline to cut a player of Holt's caliber, and place him on IR so that he can announce his retirement on his own terms.

JoeSixPat

I have some question as to whether Holt is truly injured. It may be that IR was a nice respectful face saving move in which the Pats take the classy road, decline to cut a player of Holt's caliber, and place him on IR so that he can announce his retirement on his own terms.

I believe, but am not certain, that players on IR collect their salary (as opposed to just the signing bonus) as opposed to those who are cut.

If so this is an especially classy move by the Patriots because I think Holt's $1.15 million contract was mostly salary and not bonus.

Moves like that make veterans want to play for Kraft and Belichick, even though there's no guarantee every veteran works out.

EDIT - I guess Holt has a knee injury that will require surgery... so I guess he really is injured, but then again I'm getting my knee scoped in a few days and that's pretty minor surgery.

JSn

Wrong. He's having knee surgery. Unless knee surgery is also a face-saving move...

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patsfan13

He will collect his contract I believe.

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mgteich

He will collect his contract. Many contracts have injury clauses, reducing the compensation if there the player is injured.

JoeSixPat

Yeah - just saw that on the later report. So probably legit - but still, I'm having my knee scoped soon and that's surgery but pretty minor... something I could not have done for a few years if I wanted to put it off...

There's a lot of players who might benefit from a scope to clean out their knees but are going to play through the season.

SoCal Pmen

That sucks. Doesn't seem like a lot of depth is left.

mgteich

????
Our #4 from last year is now our #6.

We have Moss, Welker, Edelman and Aiken back from last year.
Aiken won't get any WR reps since we have SO MUCH DEPTH in Tate and Price.