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Bourne hasn’t practiced in weeks. IR to start the season?

At this point, you don’t risk him getting injured.

But the good team gets to keep 55 players. The stronger team is stronger because players 1-55 are stronger than the weaker team. There are exceptions mostly from a team having an excess at a certain position, but overall the talent level of players 55-90 is not much different from a good team...

I’d keep my expectations in check. Last year the Pats had the 3rd waiver claim and were awarded 4 players- OT Demontrey Jacobs, OL Zach Thomas. DT Eric Johnson and LB Curtis Jacobs. All but Demontrey Jacobs are already gone. Teams don’t release guys who are ready to play and contribute so don’t...

This thread is hurting my head. First of all. Sidy Sow is not injured as he was present at practice on Tuesday (per Greg Bedard’s practice report listings players not participating). So, unless misfortune befalls him tomorrow night or a future practice, he’s not eligible for the IR. The...

Polk’s 2025 ($1,236,670) and 2026 ($1,676,349) salaries are fully guaranteed. If cut, his 2025 cap figure $2,203,351 would become a dead money cap charge of $4,516,233. If they could find someone to trade for him, there would be a 2025 cap credit of $220,536. Those guarantees are why I don’t...

Not necessarily. As pointed out here many times before, contracts are often written to allow the team to turn salary into a bonus without approval of the player as this is a method teams use extensively to gain cap space.

Requiring the emergency QB to be on the 53 also allows both standard elevations for each game to be used to elevate players at positions that have a higher rate of injury than the QB position which was the intention of the standard elevations from the practice squad in the first place

The more likely scenario would be for the Pats to pay a part of Dugger’s 2025 salary to facilitate at trade. This actually happens with some frequency rather than the Osweilor scenario. The Pats could redo did his contract paying him a bonus to reduce his salary before trading Dugger and his...

Averages are misleading as they include players who fail because of injury and organizational instability (there are a lot of Layden Robinson’s in those numbers; players selected to play a certain system only to have that coach fired and a new coach with different system installed). Drafting...

I keep seeing people using this designation, but the designation is not applied when the player is placed on IR but rather when the team decides to start a practice window in hopes the player can return to the 53 man roster. I think people are confusing it with the fact that a player placed on...

Perhaps some perspective will lessen your concern. Based on reports from the practices, Vrable has used a high percentage of the most competitive practices reps working goal line scenarios. It makes perfect sense given the strict rules and limitations on practice teams now face. I commend Vrabel...

You admit to knowing nothing about football if you believe for even a second that some drill is more telling as to projecting a player’s potential than a competitive game rep even against even a slightly inferior opponent. i get that Campbell is not your prototype LT speciman like Jonathan...

If Chism and Williams aren’t playing Thursday night and the regulars don’t play, they’ll need another body at WR to round out receiver corp for the game.

And they think there will be realistic trade interest in a Bourne, Jennings, Strange etc.

Or things aren’t as bad as the breathless dispatches from front-line correspondent, Andrew Callahan, indicate. It’s a work in progress and the results will never be perfect. It comes down to whether you trust this coach and his staff to get it right eventually which I do just like I did 25...

The emergency 3rd QB must be on the 53 man roster, so it’s likely that a 3rd QB whether it’s Wooldridge or another QB claimed or signed after cutdowns will be added back to the 53 even if they cut down to 2 QBs initially.

12 weeks ago today I had a heart attack. I’m only alive because I was a half mile from an ambulance and two miles from a hospital when it occurred. Plus, someone who worked on me in the ER visited me and told me I was also one tough SOB. Doctors put in three stents that day to rebuild the...

As of last year, teams were allowed two players who could go on IR during cutdown to the 53 and still be eligible to be activated later to the in-season roster.

This is what I thought. I suspect the Pats are low-keying the tension, and off-season workouts begin next Monday.