The Pats to sign Michael Hoomanawanui?(Merganawanui)

[PatsWickedPissah]

Mary Paoletti of CSSNE now claims it is Winslow getting a physical and about to replace Shiancoe. Either her sources are off or Hoomanawanui flunked his. He did tear his ACL last November.

This thread is nothing without pictures
Of Mary, I mean...

 

[nowayback]

think its about time we had TE thread. maybe BB is trying to get all the teams to change to TE's so they release some good wr's for us to pick up

 

[nabwong]

Too bad he wasn't here during the preseason. Would have loved to see how Don Criqui and Randy Cross would have butchered his name.

"That's the new TE signed from the rams.... jeremy Ebert from northwestern." Lol. Everyone's jeremy Ebert.

 

[PATRIOTSFANINPA]

Mary Paoletti of CSSNE now claims it is Winslow getting a physical and about to replace Shiancoe. Either her sources are off or Hoomanawanui flunked his. He did tear his ACL last November.

All reports from Seattle say Winslow's knees are like scrambled eggs and thats why they released him after Kevin refused to take a pay cut.....I would be surprised if his knees passed the physical

 

[BradyBranch39]

I can't believe we're gonna waste the new IR thing on f--kin Shiancoe.

 

[nowayback]

Mike Reiss?@MikeReiss

Agent confirms. RT: @RickSmith1956: Congrats to @Hooman86 Michael Hoomanawanui for signing onto to the @Patriots 53 Man Roster

 

[McCourty Island]

Adam Caplan on twitter

The #Patriots signed TE Michael Hoomanawanui, according to his agent, @RickSmith1956.

 

[ATippett56]

If the New England Patriots sign tight end Michael Whose-your-mama, which player currently on the roster gets cut?

 

[nowayback]

Thanks to @JThom1, we know Hoomanawanui is pronounced "Oh-oh-mah-NAH-wah-NEW-ee

learn it, and probably forget it

 

[Urgent]

Who is out?
Release Shiancoe?
Marcus Forston? Would they really carry five TE's?

 

[MoLewisrocks]

Mary learned a hard lesson about breaking stories. As Bedard tweeted, Winslow just starting his workout and physical is generally part of the process. He's just a fact finding mission for the old rolodex.

Will be interesting to see if they use the in season IR option on Shiancoe or he's done. Done adds half a mil to the dead cap. Loss of IR exemption could cost a lot more if someone actually crucial to the season were to go down in week 4 or 6...

 

[nowayback]

Mike Reiss?@MikeReiss

Here is an Aug. 29, 2010 piece by St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter

Hoomanawanui making a name for himself : Stltoday

 

[Deus Irae]

If the New England Patriots sign tight end Michael Whose-your-mama, which player currently on the roster gets cut?

Brady. BB's going with the 6 TE offense.

 

[Urgent]

...for those counting, that's eight TE's on payroll right now.
Can you name them all?

 

[MoLewisrocks]

Who is out?
Release Shiancoe?
Marcus Forston? Would they really carry five TE's?

Maybe for a week or two. It really depends on what they think of Shiancoe and where his injury situation is at.

 

[BradyManny]

Loss of IR exemption could cost a lot more if someone actually crucial to the season were to go down in week 4 or 6...

Is that how it works...damn. Why didn't they write the rule so that if a guy the team deems is more worthy of the IR exemption goes down, you can move the current IR exempt player to season-ending IR.

 

[ATippett56]

Brady. BB's going with the 6 TE offense.

That's what Tannenbaum would do.

 

[BadMoFo]

So this guy has to be on board for three weeks since he was signed off someone's practice squad. I'm predicting Lex Hilliard gets cut, Shiancoe gets IR'd. Sounds like this new guy can also play fullback.

 

[ATippett56]

...for those counting, that's eight TE's on payroll right now.
Can you name them all?

Gronkowski
Hernandez
Fells
Shiancoe
Hoomanawanui
Ballard
Silvestro
??????

I count seven by the way.

 

[ATippett56]

So this guy has to be on board for three weeks since he was signed off someone's practice squad. I'm predicting Lex Hilliard gets cut, Shiancoe gets IR'd. Sounds like this new guy can also play fullback.

Since Hoomanawanui has played 16 NFL games, I thought he was not practice squad eligible.

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