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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- The Patriots have made a one-for-one swap on the defensive line, signing free-agent Landon Cohen with the roster spot creating by releasing Louis Leonard.
Cohen (6-foot-3, 300 pounds) worked out for the Patriots this week. He entered the NFL as a seventh-round draft choice of the Detroit Lions in 2008 after playing at Ohio. As a rookie, he played in six games, and then followed that up by playing 14 games (4 starts) his second season.
The Lions waived Cohen at the final roster cutdown at the end of training camp this year, and the Jaguars claimed him. Cohen appeared in two games for the Jaguars before he was released in early November.
Over his two-plus year career, Cohen has played in 22 NFL games and accumulated 26 total tackles.
With yesterday's news that the Patriots had waived Leonard, one line of thinking was that it could have been a reflection of improvement by injured linemen Mike Wright (concussion), Ron Brace (concussion) and Myron Pryor (back). But with Cohen coming aboard, it clouds that line of thinking.
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I'm kind of curious as to why the Pats keep signing players off the street rather than promoting players from the Practice Squad.
If guys like Cohen and Leonard are a better choice than Lorenzo Washington, shouldn't they take Washington's place on the PS?
Good question. It must have something to do with their perception that others would then sign the particular player off our PS to THEIR 53. Playoff opponents especially.
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That's not the news I was looking for re: Wright/Pryor/Brace. At this point I just hope they are healthy for the playoffs (which they should, I'd think 5-6 weeks is plenty of time for concussion and Pryor's back, seeing how he wasn't IR'ed yet). Luckily we should be able to gut one out @ Buffalo.
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Re: Patriots Sign Landon Cohen
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I'm kind of curious as to why the Pats keep signing players off the street rather than promoting players from the Practice Squad.
If guys like Cohen and Leonard are a better choice than Lorenzo Washington, shouldn't they take Washington's place on the PS?
IIRC, if the team promotes the PQ player to the 45 man roster and are sent back down, they would need to clear waivers again. My assumption is that they don't want to lose them to another team.
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the DL is being saved for the postseason. when the pats play in the divisional playoff, they will have at 100%: wilfork, warren, brace, pryor, wright, deaderick.......and that's all they will need.
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the DL is being saved for the postseason. when the pats play in the divisional playoff, they will have at 100%: wilfork, warren, brace, pryor, wright, deaderick.......and that's all they will need.
they'll also have spikes back.
Love will get the nod over Deaderick in the postseason IMO.
Spikes is huge.
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IIRC, if the team promotes the PQ player to the 45 man roster and are sent back down, they would need to clear waivers again. My assumption is that they don't want to lose them to another team.
Somebody correct me if I am wrong - but if another team tries to claim him off waivers that other team has to put him on their 53-man roster. If that was their intent, to sign him to their 53-man roster, they can simply do the same thing by signing that other team's practice squad player. In other words they don't have to wait for him to be released; they can sign any PS player in the league right now if they wanted to.
Granted the PS player has to agree to go to the other team, but generally they will because the money and opportunity for being on a 53-man roster is usually a lot better than the money and opportunity being on the PS.
Maybe it's one of those unwritten rules between NFL teams: unless I get your okay first, don't mess with my PS players and I won't mess with yours.
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