It's Official - Packers Release Seven Players
by Brandon on Jul 29, 2011 5:58 PM CDT
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PrintThe Green Bay Packers just announced it on their website. From Packers.com:
The Green Bay Packers have released LB
Nick Barnett, LB Brandon Chillar, DE Justin Harrell, LB Brady Poppinga and T Mark Tauscher. The team also waived first-year S Michael Greco and first-year LB Curtis Young. The transactions were announced Friday by Executive Vice President, General Manager and Director of Football Operations Ted Thompson.
If you aren't very familiar with either Greco or Young, you're not alone. They both spent part of the year on the practice squad, but they both did travel with them to Dallas for the Super Bowl.
I'm surprised they couldn't trade Barnett for a low draft pick, but knowing the Packers were going to release him if they couldn't trade him certainly depressed his value. He may sign quickly somewhere, and the Lions are already in pursuit.
I'm not sure what the future holds for Chillar, Harrell, or Tauscher. I'm still surprised they released Poppinga, they had kept him around for so many years I don't know why they wouldn't keep him again. All four players ended the 2010 season on I.R., and while some are more injury prone than others, their immediate future will depend on how healthy they are.
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I'll miss Barnett and Tauscher.
off topic: with the Eagles getting Asomugha and if they keep Asante, I think it’s very important now that the Packers keep James Jones to counter that.
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by ThroughBeingCool on Jul 29, 2011 6:01 PM CDT reply actions
Nah, we're the champs
We don’t make moves answering to the Eagles, the Eagles make moves answering to us.
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by jobe on Jul 29, 2011 6:20 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
well of course
what I meant is that it’s important to keep Jones to continue to create those mismatches.
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by ThroughBeingCool on Jul 29, 2011 6:26 PM CDT up reply actions 4 recs
Bringing in 25 rookies this season is hardly complacency
I have seen rave reviews for both the 10 incoming draft picks and for the fifteen UDFAs the Pack netted. I think that the releases and FA departures must be seen in light of this flood of youth to camp. I imagine that it will be hard for many of these 25 to stick on a Super Bowl champion who already had about 15 quality players on IR at the end of last season, but the Pack seem to never stop bringing in volumes of quality kids.
The coaching staff is going to have some tough cuts this preseason.
by NYCPac on Jul 30, 2011 3:02 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
it is funny reading Bleeding Green Nation right
saying they’ll go undefeated and win the Super Bowl easily. Packers secondary still > Eagles secondary.
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by ThroughBeingCool on Jul 29, 2011 8:56 PM CDT up reply actions
We may still resign Tauscher, similar to what we did with Hawk earlier.
He seems like a guy that will retire a Packer and take less money to do so.
Yeah, they kinda screwed the pooch there...
knowing the Packers were going to release him if they couldn’t trade him certainly depressed his value
"Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser." - Vince Lombardi
Yep, limited trade value then
The only real value would be from a team that wanted him, and didn’t want to risk not signing him in FA.
Yeah but...
What would you have done in his position? I’m not disagreeing, but I imagine you want to feel like you’re important to the future of a team and – hell, we’ve been talking about the departure of all the guys on this list since the end of last season.
"Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser." - Vince Lombardi
I think he did it
Specifically so he could basically choose where he went. Instead of where ever the Packers traded him.
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I didn't say otherwise.
Nor that I would have done differently. Gotta look out for yourself in that situation. Just that it cost us the ability to trade him.
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If the Packers were concerned/serious about trading him
they probably would have had a deal in place before they brought him into the principal’s office. Doubt they were surprised he went public so fast. A lot of guys, especially the UFAs, were on the radio talking about what was happening or where they were before anything was official.
They weren't allowed to talk trade during the lockout
So they never had the chance to talk trade. Then Barnett showed up in GB as soon as he could have his talk w/ Thompson and tweeted away… Removed ANY chance of trading him.
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I don't think ownership/FO's weren't banned from talking to each other...
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by PhoenicianPakFan on Jul 29, 2011 11:05 PM CDT up reply actions
Yeah they were...
We talked about that on ROTB. And they confirmed it. No FO were allowed to discuss player transactions during the lockout. I was like you and didn’t think that was the case, but they proved it wrong.
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Hmm... didn't know that.
Well I guess thas why none of these deals were worked out in advance. Makes sense.
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by PhoenicianPakFan on Jul 29, 2011 11:20 PM CDT up reply actions
no…Barnett screwed the pooch. That still annoys me, he did it in a classy way but NOW was the time to do it, not on Tuesday. He was never about the team…only about his ego. The more I looked at him, the less I liked him and I used to really like him.
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watch out for the Bears
per Schefter
Official now: Bears agreed to terms with former Jets DL Vernon Gholston and former Cowboys WR Roy Williams.
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by ThroughBeingCool on Jul 29, 2011 6:29 PM CDT reply actions
That's an upset
that Gholston’s even making it to a camp. He’s a UFL’er.
"Tragedy is what happens to me. Comedy is what happens to you." -Mel Brooks
Maybe it isn't surprising...
But I was just doing a little research on Gholston. Turns out he is still looking for his first sack in the NFL. Going into his 4th year and he hasn’t even somehow lucked into getting at least 1 sack?
If Gholston would have recorded 1 sack, 1 forced fumble, or 1 recovered fumbled, he would have gotten a 9 million dollar bonus
guess what? he did none of those things in 3 YEARS!
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by ThroughBeingCool on Jul 29, 2011 8:58 PM CDT up reply actions
Turrible, just turrible.
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by OBrienSchofieldismyHero on Jul 29, 2011 10:06 PM CDT up reply actions
Bears fans have deluded themselves into thinking this signing isn't just a waste to fill up cap space
Switching back to defensive end instead of pass-rushing OLB (pass-rushing OLB who can’t get a single sack) will change him from one of the worst busts of the last 5-10 years, to great reclamation project of this decade.
by Packers3485 on Jul 29, 2011 11:32 PM CDT up reply actions
Now I also see that some Bears fans are trying to trick themselves into thinking Roy Williams to Chicago could = Randy Moss to NE in 07
Of course, they’re ignoring the obvious difference there…….you know, the fact that Randy Moss was actually a star before his little slump in Oakland.
Instead of a guy who had one 1000+ yard season. A guy who hasn’t had 800 yards in a season since 2007, and hasn’t even reached 600 since then.
by Packers3485 on Jul 30, 2011 12:07 AM CDT up reply actions
not to mention Jay Cutler ain't no Brady
well maybe Marcia Brady
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by ThroughBeingCool on Jul 30, 2011 12:15 AM CDT up reply actions
I was trying to be generous to the Bears fans
And go along with their story that “Jay Cutler really is a great QB, he just hasn’t been able to show it in any way.” Though obviously the rest of the world can see the reality.
But even if Cutler suddenly transformed into the next great QB, Roy Williams would still be Roy Williams. Comparing him to Randy Moss is like…..um…..comparing Javon Walker to Randy Moss. A Javon Walker that started sucking even without the butt-load of injuries.
by Packers3485 on Jul 30, 2011 12:35 AM CDT up reply actions
Except I just remembered that Javon Walker had two 1000+ yard seasons
One with the Packer before he got injured, one with the Broncos before he got injured again.
So you can’t even compare Roy Williams to Javon Walker.
by Packers3485 on Jul 30, 2011 12:40 AM CDT up reply actions
All I know is that Lions fans will enjoy seeing him twice a year
I remember all the “oh noes! This really hurts them in a big way!” when he left for Dallas. This has last laugh written all over it.
"Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser." - Vince Lombardi
JJ possibly to the Jets
…lets go eat a god damn snack
He would make a good compliment to Holmes
Better the Jets than the vikes or bareasses.
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by Jedi Master A-Rod on Jul 29, 2011 7:25 PM CDT up reply actions
I should be used to this by now
But after all these days of watching teams acquire free agents, it’d be nice to see ANY Packers news that isn’t releasing a guy.
Resign Jones. Or Kuhn. Or… someone.
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We re-signed Crosby....
thats your FA splash for the year. Take it and be happy!
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by PhoenicianPakFan on Jul 29, 2011 7:30 PM CDT up reply actions 4 recs
All kidding aside
I do not care how boring the off seasons are as a Packer fan, as long as the seasons always go really deep into wintertime.
per Silverstein
#Packers have signed 1st-round pick Derek Sherrod to a four-year, $6.6 M contract that includes $5.32 M in grnteed money, a NFL source said.
Green remains the only unsigned rookie
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by ThroughBeingCool on Jul 29, 2011 7:33 PM CDT reply actions
I find nothing wrong with this contract.
Get the Hawaiian under contract!
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by OBrienSchofieldismyHero on Jul 29, 2011 10:07 PM CDT up reply actions
Happy for him....
but yea…..lol
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by PhoenicianPakFan on Jul 29, 2011 7:35 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
I wish him well!
Just not against the Pack!
From what I’ve read, he’ll be welcome there. Cool.
"Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser." - Vince Lombardi
I wish him well too...
I was really surprised to hear it. Can’t say I even considered him playing again.
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I was really surprised when I heard that
I thought for sure he was done for good once he reinjured his hammy and was out for the year after a game or two in Miami.
Best of luck to him. If anyone deserves an improbable comeback, it’s definitely him.
by Packers3485 on Jul 30, 2011 12:12 AM CDT up reply actions
Rams are gonna be good
but Al Harris is done.
"Tragedy is what happens to me. Comedy is what happens to you." -Mel Brooks
Donald Lee
Too the Eagles? Am I late on this?
'I was the guy who took all the reps in the offseason, Brett was the one who took all the reps during the season.' - Aaron Rodgers
I did not hear this!
Knew Lee was out, but hadn’t heard anything official.
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They're sure to win the Super Bowl now.
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by Wiedmann on Jul 30, 2011 12:13 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
Sims-Walker signed with the Rams
lol at the Bears once again
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by ThroughBeingCool on Jul 29, 2011 8:29 PM CDT reply actions 1 recs
The Bears had a great offseason.......
According to Packers fans.
Whiffing on the bigger names they wanted, trading away one of their few decent offensive weapons on an already terrible O, and signing a pair of major busts in Williams and Gholston.
How much do you want to bet those two get huge contracts just so the Bears can fill up the mandatory cap space?
Ah, this is too good. So good that I’m starting to get worried. Too much good is happening to the Packers in 2011, I’m worried something bad will have to happen to balance it all out……
Eh, what am I saying? Here’s to the NFC North Championship!
Now they need to miss a bid on Jenkins
and the humiliation will be complete!
"Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser." - Vince Lombardi
Eagles Cornerbacks
They are Over- Rated….. they are going to be a joke, You have no Idea of Namdi and DRC can play togther
And they're still the run defense that turned James Starks from the last hope of the Packers run O, into a star.
And I think Grant was having a good game in Week 1 until he went down.
So even if their CBs work out……..we’ll just set up in two TE and run the ball right down their throats.
Grant was on his way to 110, 120 before he got hurt.
The Eagles used to be built on stuffing the run and blitzing the QB into mistakes. They can have all the CBs they want, but if their run defense is soft they’re not ging anywhere.
DRC is badly overrated but still good
Samuel is a feast or famine guy so he’s naturally overrated because if his gaudy pick #‘s but Namdi is the real deal, he’s a younger CWood who’s not quite as good at tackling but still good at it and even better at coverage. He’s better than anyone we have.
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by Buddhasillegitimatechild38 on Jul 29, 2011 10:30 PM CDT via mobile up reply actions
The way I look at it, with everyone healthy
CBs – Advantage Eagles.
Nearly every other position on the defense and offense – advantage Packers.
by Packers3485 on Jul 29, 2011 11:30 PM CDT up reply actions
per @RichCimini
Jets showing varying degrees of interest in James Jones and Randy Moss, haven’t ruled out re-signing Braylon Edwards.
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by ThroughBeingCool on Jul 29, 2011 9:39 PM CDT reply actions
NFL.com already annointing the Eagles as the team to beat in the NFC
this is a good thing for the Packers, they won’t have that unnecessary hype like most Super Bowl winners have going into a new season. Please underrate the Packers, it’s one of the best things that could happen to them.
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by ThroughBeingCool on Jul 29, 2011 10:28 PM CDT reply actions
Please underrate the Packers, it’s one of the best things that could happen to them.
That I totally agree with. But it won’t matter once the games begin, the SB Champs are the hunted and THE team to beat.
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agreed
and to that I say, bring it NFL haha
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by ThroughBeingCool on Jul 29, 2011 11:04 PM CDT up reply actions
COME AT ME BRO
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by OBrienSchofieldismyHero on Jul 29, 2011 11:06 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
Yup…Eagles are the team to beat, I love it! Let em have it.
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The team to beat
often is the team that gets beat.
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and they ask me to pick up a piece of paper.
You call that job satisfaction?
'Cause, I don't."
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We’d better hope Hawk continues to play how he did last season. We went from having the deepest ILB corps in the league to, well, not the deepest haha. Either way, it’d be nice to bring in another guy.
Fire Slocum
I think we did fine last year without Barnett and Chillar
they were both done for the season by like week 5 were they not? I trust TT, he’ll find some glue guys for bargains in the next few weeks
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by ThroughBeingCool on Jul 29, 2011 11:17 PM CDT up reply actions
I'm not saying it will. But Chillar and Barnett have been injury prone the last few years, so even if the team kept them, odds are they would have missed time in 2011
I’m sure Thompson will address that position once training camp gets rolling.
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by ThroughBeingCool on Jul 29, 2011 11:23 PM CDT up reply actions
Odds are that the players who haven't been injured are the ones who will get injured.
As long as we’re talking odds & the law of averages.
I hope he does address it soon.
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TT usually makes one low-key FA acquisition (other than UDFAs) that winds up being decent
I’m guessing he waits until the craziness subsides, and he brings in one underachieving but talented ILB that is still unsigned, and he winds up being a good backup that can spell the starters.
by Packers3485 on Jul 29, 2011 11:28 PM CDT up reply actions
I hear Barnett is still available...
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by PhoenicianPakFan on Jul 29, 2011 11:30 PM CDT up reply actions
I'm through with him
I’ll wish him well, and look forward to when he’s on the Lions, celebrating making a tackle after Jermichael Finley gets a 15 yard gain.
by Packers3485 on Jul 29, 2011 11:33 PM CDT up reply actions
I just laughed picturing Nick Barnett trying to cover Jermichael Finley.
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by ThroughBeingCool on Jul 29, 2011 11:38 PM CDT up reply actions 3 recs
I laughed picturing you laughing as you were typing that.
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Lol.... didn't see that.
Sorry. But in fairness, its a pretty easy joke at the moment.
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by PhoenicianPakFan on Jul 30, 2011 2:07 AM CDT up reply actions 2 recs
Barnett
If the Pack had traded Barnett the team he was traded too would have to pick up his contract. IMO that was a greater problem in trrading him.
seems like the market for Jenkins is dying down.
Dallas and Washington passed over him, I know New Orleans has shown interest but that position isn’t a big need for him, perhaps Jenkins comes back to the Pack. Jets and Vikings still mulling over Jones. Would be awesome if the Packers managed to keep both of them, but I’ll be happy if they can just maintain one.
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by ThroughBeingCool on Jul 30, 2011 9:55 AM CDT reply actions
Good News
We’ve been waiting for this with baited breath, Packers sign Havner to a new contract.
phew At least that nightmare is over.
by GinSlinger on Jul 30, 2011 11:59 AM CDT reply actions 2 recs
Our season is saved!
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by AdamA on Jul 30, 2011 12:12 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
Which position did we sign him at?
A very mediocre TE, or a bad LB?
by Packers3485 on Jul 30, 2011 12:15 PM CDT up reply actions
TE
Everything is now in place for MM to run a 5 TE set!
Hell, even if one gets hurt, we've got another one lined up to take his place
Finley, Quarless, Crabtree, Williams, Taylor, and now Havner. And I’m sure Thompson has probably signed about 4 UDFAs too. He’s going after a a Rodgers + all-TE offense, even at the OL positions.
……..And it would still be good enough to beat the Vikings and Bears.
by Packers3485 on Jul 30, 2011 12:32 PM CDT up reply actions
geez serious? What the hell do we need so many TEs for? Has to be a ST move, don’t ya think?
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Still think theres a very good chance
The Packers keep 4 TE, and only 1 FB. Hopefully that Kuhn… Williams, Taylor and Havner could all be FT type players and much better on ST, than Johnson. That would allow us to keep 6 WR if we wanted.
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Still really not seeing the point of Havner
5 TEs before we even get to UDFAs or waiver wire guys is already enough. I don’t see any chance Havner makes it over any of the 5 we already have.
Maybe just doing a favor to a guy who did good work for us, giving him a last chance to play his way on to the opening day roster.
Competition
And camp bodies… There are 90 roster spots right now. Worth taking a look at him again isn’t it? I’m no Havner fan by any means, I called his release when everyone else thought he was a sure in to make the team, but its worth looking at him again. I don’t think he makes the team either. He and Taylor seem almost identical, and I’d honestly rather have Taylor even tho we haven’t seen him on the field yet.
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Schefter just tweeted that the Eagles are already referring to themselves as The Dream Team
Lol
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by ThroughBeingCool on Jul 30, 2011 12:38 PM CDT via mobile reply actions
Seems appropriate
Reaching the Super Bowl is nothing but a dream for them.
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by Wiedmann on Jul 30, 2011 12:54 PM CDT up reply actions 4 recs
I didn't think it was possible for the Packers to get the "Super Bowl Champion bullseye" off their back.
Philadelphia and the media are certainly doing their best to help us out there. Thanks guys!
by Packers3485 on Jul 30, 2011 12:57 PM CDT up reply actions 3 recs
Like the Miami Heat?
Screw typical signatures. I'm getting married on August 6th and I'm very, very thrilled about it.
by GMan83201 on Jul 30, 2011 1:12 PM CDT up reply actions 2 recs
We'll just have to play the Freddy Krueger to their 'dream...'
E-5-1-50
by mike_o on Jul 30, 2011 2:58 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
Is Harrell really through?
With the not so hot DL situation, could or should the Packers try resign Harrell at bargain prices. The guy has first round talent or the Pack wouldn’t have stuck with him this long. If he is truly healed from his latest injury and they can get him at minimum wage, he might be worth another shot.
No offense, but this exact comment could have been made last year......or the year before.
When is the last time he didn’t have an injury when he tried to play football? At the latest, in 2005, since he was injured in 2006, his last year of college before we drafted him.
There have got to be plenty of guys in the bargain bin who have at least played NFL football, and have not been injured for 5 years straight.
Time to move on. If someone else takes the risk of signing him, and he does well, I will have no regrets. Just wish he could have done it with any one of the numerous chances Thompson gave him.
by Packers3485 on Jul 30, 2011 2:03 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
Not a typical bargain binner
Some guys are in the bargain bin because of lack of talent. Harrell is very talented, that is why the injuries are so frustrating. Note that I heavily qualified it: “truly healed”, by that I mean no doubts whatsoever, AND will to come to camp for minimum wage. Otherwise, I agree to forget it. Of course, what he was making was ridiculous for the contribution and he needed to be let go.
Harrell is as talented as anyone on the DL, of that there is no doubt.
No guys that don’t have the talent aren’t in any bin. The bargain bin is full of guys that have talent but can’t put it together for one reason or another (opportunity, injury, stupid decisions, etc).
Harrell is NOT as talented as anyone on the DL…there is a lot of doubt there. What has he done in actual games as a pro to make you think that? I could list a ton of guys who have shown glimpses of greatness in practice or scrimmages but who aren’t great in real games. When he has played he’s been average at best. I honestly don’t even think, if he were healthy, that he’d even be able to secure a roster spot this year. Especially if we end up with Jenkins back again.
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So Harrell is as talented as BJ Raji now.
“Some guys are in the bargain bin because of lack of talent” – actually, most people who lack the talent to make an impact are not sitting in the bargain bin. They’re sitting at home. Resting this weekend until they go back to the office/factory/other workplace.
What has this guy done to show you this great talent of which you speak? What makes you think he is “as talented as anyone on the DL” despite the fact that, you know, he has never shown that in an NFL game, in 4 years?
As for “truly healed.” How exactly are you going to determine this? Ask him, “are you sure you won’t just get injured again this year?”
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