Practice Squad expanding to 10

[SteelBuckeye]

Reports floating around that the NFL will expand the number of players a team may keep on the practice squad from 8 to 10 as early as next week. This could be good for us.

http://www.Invalid Link - Check SN Home Page/2014/08/report-nfl-expected-expand-practice-squads-10-players/

 

[madinsomniac]

Great but they have needed to expand the damn regular roster by 8 to 10 for a decade now. Injury concerns that used to be glossed over are now keeping a plethora of players out long term each season...this penalizes teams for doing the right thing and forces players onto the IR just to make room for healthy guys to fill out a regular season roster.... Listen Mr Goodell if you or a crony by chance reads this... expand the REGULAR ROSTER you ******** moron.... /end rant....

 

[steelerscotty]

Or at least let teams dress all 53 players. I've never understood the reason for that rule.

 

[keslerclan]

IMO, given the NFLs love for all things QB related, they should at least allow roster exemptions for additional OL only.

This minor adjustment would protect their prized possessions even more (who really wants to pay to go see a back-up QB anyway). This would allow teams to add 2-3 more OL players who could ONLY enter the game as OL replacements (under the same guidelines as the 3rd QB for instance wherein the 1st or 2nd team OL would not be allowed to re-enter the game after the 3rd team player has played a certain number of snaps.

Of course it wouldn't help US out all that much as our 2nd team will get any QB killed in short-order!

 

[antdrewjosh]

IMO, given the NFLs love for all things QB related, they should at least allow roster exemptions for additional OL only.

This minor adjustment would protect their prized possessions even more (who really wants to pay to go see a back-up QB anyway). This would allow teams to add 2-3 more OL players who could ONLY enter the game as OL replacements (under the same guidelines as the 3rd QB for instance wherein the 1st or 2nd team OL would not be allowed to re-enter the game after the 3rd team player has played a certain number of snaps.

Of course it wouldn't help US out all that much as our 2nd team will get any QB killed in short-order!

Classic made me ctfu..needed that laugh to wake up.

 

[Drink IRON City]

I think it is a good idea, overall. I think the regular roster should be expanded, but tampering with that, may get the "rog" his ultimate prize. He has wanted to expand to 18game season, if roster is expanded, that could help lead into that.


Salute the nationm

 

[Wingman]

That just means that there will be about 62 more spots for some other team to grab the one or two bright spots we try to put on the practice squad.

 

[SteelerAl]

That just means that there will be about 62 more spots for some other team to grab the one or two bright spots we try to put on the practice squad.

Yes, cause so many of those bright spots have gone on to do great things for other teams...

 

[Wingman]

Generally there are not a lot of bright spots there. This year we might have one or two. We lost some linemen real quick earlier in the year to other teams.

 

[SteelerAl]

Generally there are not a lot of bright spots there. This year we might have one or two. We lost some linemen real quick earlier in the year to other teams.

The premise of your comment was that we've lost good players to other teams by trying to sneak such players onto our practice squad. And my response is: name one. The last guy that I recall was Hank Fraley and that was a lifetime ago.

 

[Litos]

we tend to think of some scrubs that shine a little as if they were possible starters, then we realize they are still PS material here or anywhere else

 

[Atlanta Joe]

Or at least let teams dress all 53 players. I've never understood the reason for that rule.

Same here, but then today I saw and explanation that teams would have some injured players on their 53 roster. So, a team with less injuries would have more players to put into the game than the team with more injured players.

 

[Atlanta Joe]

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Or at least let teams dress all 53 players. I've never understood the reason for that rule.

Same here, but then today I saw and explanation that teams would have some injured players on their 53 roster. So, a team with less injuries would have more players to put into the game than the team with more injured players.