Cutdown Day: PATS NEWS thread

[Creative Username]

Ebert released

Are we planning on keeping seven million TEs?

 

[resdubwhite]

Thats a thumbs down from me.







I thank you.

 

[JMC00]

15 down, 7 to go

Branch
Hoyer
Koppen
Ihedigbo
Martin
Lavarias
Brown
Kettani
Kopa
Weems
Silvestro
Tarpinian
Dennis
J.Warren
Ebert

 

[jimmydasaint]

Gaffney Right knee injury it appears. Not bad though.
Looks like hes not going anywere.

 

[ctpatsfan77]

Greg A. Bedard‏@GregABedard

C/G Nick McDonald will be on the 53-man roster. CB Alfonzo Dennard and DE Jake Bequette are expected to be as well.

Ummm . . . I would be more shocked if they cut Bequette than by any other cut this week.

 

[RayClay]

No not Jesus. But they would cut him too if he wasn't "getting it".

It is what it is...

and so must it be.

 

[Richard Camembert]

Patriots Release 22 Players and Place Rookie Jeff Demps on IR

Final cuts are out.

 

[Froob]

Oh c'mon demps to IR??? I really hope he's the one they'll try to bring back with the new rule. Ethusiasm for this year was much higher monday morning lol. Oh well...

 

[Modest]

Patriots Release 22 Players and Place Rookie Jeff Demps on IR

Final cuts are out.

So under the new CBA, we can still use Demps by Week 8 right?

 

[patsinthesnow]

Demps to IR is dissapointing, congrats to Bolden though.

 

[The_Riddler]

So what do we have 4 WRs on the roster at this point?

 

[jah]

Interesting. The Demps move is disappointing because our return game is going to suck again. Forston, Francis, Rivera, Cole, and Moore shouldn't all stay either but I bet 2 or 3 will.

All in all, I don't think they're even close to done with their moves.

EDIT: My bad, didn't see Waldron was cut.

 

[BadMoFo]

So what do we have 4 WRs on the roster at this point?

I'm sure that will only be temporary. I hope.

That's messed up about Demps, I think we just placed him there to save him for next year. It didn't seem like his injury was a season ender.

 

[ctpatsfan77]

I'm sure that will only be temporary. I hope.

That's messed up about Demps, I think we just placed him there to save him for next year. It didn't seem like his injury was a season ender.

They could have designated him as a player to return at mid-season.

 

[The_Riddler]

Congrats to Dennard, I love his upside

 

[Deus Irae]

So under the new CBA, we can still use Demps by Week 8 right?

I don't think so. It had to be an in-season placement on IR, except for this year, and I think the only people who could use the exception for this year were people already on IR.

I could have that wrong, though.

 

[Joey007]

Wait, this leaves one spot open doesn't it??

Brian Waters roster spot??

 

[Patstopia]

Gives him a little time to bulk up a bit. He was track light.

 

[BadMoFo]

They could have designated him as a player to return at mid-season.

No, he's done for the year. That's not how the new IR rule works. Have to be placed there after 4 p.m. on Sept. 4 to be able to come back later in the year.

 

[Deus Irae]

No, he's done for the year. That's not how the new IR rule works. Have to be placed there after 4 p.m. on Sept. 4 to be able to come back later in the year.

There's an exception to that for this year, but Demps doesn't seem to fit in it:

Here’s where it gets complicated. Because teams already have cut to 75, a special procedure applies for 2012. As to teams that already have placed players on IR, the player for whom the short-term IR procedure will be used must be placed back on the active roster by 9:00 p.m. ET, August 31. He’ll then count as one of the final 53.

Then, after 4:00 p.m. ET on Tuesday, September 4, each team can place one player on the modified IR list.

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