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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.Well it's time to claim some players from other teams. Teams are like vulchers...(sorry if I messed up the spelling). They were all waiting for our cuts. I knew we would lose some good ones.
More than a dozen teams tried to sign Yeatman as a UDFA, BB won over his agent.
So, do the Patriots players who were claimed on waivers like Yeatman, Smith, etc. have to be placed on the claiming team's 53?
Yes. The alternative (that teams could force players to be on their PS) would be ridiculous.
Which makes it all the more puzzling that he then allows Yeatman to be exposed to the waivers, but I guess it came down to being a numbers game for BB, knowing that the odds are very low that he would lose all the options he has at backup TE (e.g., Crumpler from the shadow roster) and obviously put more value into stocking the roster with temporary fillers for the castoffs (e.g., Waters) as well as developing talent (Cannon).
I wouldn't mind seeing Mardy Gilyard join the Patriots practice squad
My question for anyone in the know, why have the Patriots maintained a roster spot for this Jeff Tarpinian character? Did he even play in the preseason (can't recall...)? Any good?
-Jamman
Already have (LS Danny Aiken from the Bills).
Good points.
Also, once that player clears waivers (i.e., if no other team makes a claim on him) he can then be signed by any of the 32 teams to either the 53-man roster, or to the PS, as opposed to the waiver claim meaning he has to go on the 53-man roster.
Once on the PS another team can try to sign him to their 53-man roster, but it's up to the player; he doesn't have to go to that other team. Another team cannot sign a PS player to their own practice squad; he would have to be released first, like Tyrone McKenzie was last year going from the Pats' PS to Tampa Bay's PS.
My question for anyone in the know, why have the Patriots maintained a roster spot for this Jeff Tarpinian character? Did he even play in the preseason (can't recall...)? Any good?
-Jamman
Looks like it's almost a certainty that Garrett Mills makes the team or the return of Crumpler
but thats 4 young guys we may lose due to the decision of keeping Ryan Mallett.
Danny Aiken Long Snapperretaliation? who is this guy?
"@NEPatriotsDraft Top rated LS in 2011, fires the ball consistently with good speed. Also able to get out of his stance and make plays down"
lee smith to bills
we lost both TE's this is Bull-****
If they don't make other teams 53 don't we get them back?
Think we will see Yeatman sooner than later..
Danny Aiken Long Snapper
https://twitter.com/#!/BillsDraft/status/110417636705320960