Union vetoes revised emergency QB rule

[mgteich]

The league gave teams an extra active player. Many teams abused this by making it an extra roster spot. The union chose to go back to the rule.

 

[Force Zero Boomer]

lmao...literally made me laugh out loud... either way we win

Now that he's cut, I find it hilarious. I'm not sure why he'd want to be on the Pats' PS. He obviously has no future in NE.

 

[Pape]

Now that he's cut, I find it hilarious. I'm not sure why he'd want to be on the Pats' PS. He obviously has no future in NE.

Because the teams can pay ps players what ever they want iirc.

He might get get picked up by another team, he might not. If he works it for a few years there's no reason he can't be a Brian Hoyer... I would rather have zappe on the roster than brisket truth be told.

 

[Force Zero Boomer]

Because the teams can pay ps players what ever they want iirc.

He might get get picked up by another team, he might not. If he works it for a few years there's no reason he can't be a Brian Hoyer... I would rather have zappe on the roster than brisket truth be told.

Hmm, perhaps you are right. I just know the Pats' don't subscribe to my type of logic, so I won't try to predict what they will do as a "brain trust".

 

[DaBruinz]

Very interesting. I'm not exactly sure why the union vetoed it. Perhaps they felt like it would cause many QBs who would otherwise have jobs on the 53-man roster to instead be carried on the Practice Squad for far less money? So it promotes higher pay and job security for veteran QBs...? All I can think of.

I don't think it really affects the Pats since they're likely to carry 3 QBs regardless, although I guess theoretically they might've wanted to declare Milton a game-day inactive and make Zappe the "emergency 3rd" from the PS or something. Now, they'd need to have Zappe on the 53 man roster instead but otherwise functionally the same process would apply. In all likelihood, Zappe probably won't be here and Milton will be the "emergency 3rd" on the roster regardless.

The Union vetoed it because they want to force teams to have 3 QBs on the main roster. If the 3rd QB is on the PS, that's significantly less pay that they get whereas, on the Pro-roster teams would have to pay the Vet Minimum instead of just the PS pay of 12.5K - 21.3K / wk..