(11-21-2022, 06:03 PM)pally Wrote: Each week, the team can protect 3 practice squad players from being poached by another team so the Bengals should they be so inclined will protect Trent Irwin

(11-21-2022, 08:56 PM)bfine32 Wrote: That sounds like the silliest rule ever.

Are you saying if I'm on the PS and a team contacts my agent to sign me to their 53, we can say: Nope, we're keeping him on our PS?

(11-21-2022, 05:25 PM)pally Wrote: or they know that they can elevate Mike Thomas from the PS 3 times.  This is of course assuming Mike Thomas is signed to the PS and I don't see why that wouldn't happen unless he signs with another team first.  He's a free agent so we don't have to wait out the waiver wire

(11-21-2022, 11:35 PM)Go Cards Wrote: Dang, not even a chance another team signs Thomas imo, but I can hope. 

Irwin they may try to claim though, but guess he can be protected as you say. 

This is my Brandon Tate nightmare all over again. 

(11-21-2022, 11:52 PM)StoneTheCrow Wrote: Oh my God. Geez thanks a lot, I had COMPLETELY forgot about that guy.

(11-21-2022, 11:31 PM)Go Cards Wrote: Agree, that does sound very silly and surely not correct. If it is correct then the players union needs to address this problem.

Maybe it comes with the caveat that if a team does turn in a claim you can either add him to your 53 man roster or lose him to the team claiming.

but to just force a player to stay on a PS when offered a contract does not seem fair

(11-22-2022, 12:11 AM)bfine32 Wrote: If that is true;  Ican't imagine any player being happy about being protected on the PS. 

(11-22-2022, 01:46 AM)michaelsean Wrote: Pally seems to know what she’s talking about in this area.

(11-21-2022, 08:39 PM)michaelsean Wrote: I may not be remembering correctly but t I seem to remember him doing pretty well as a 3rd tackle last year. If his job is just to go maul someone he does ok.

(11-22-2022, 02:29 AM)NATI BENGALS Wrote: We brought Kareem back from IR and to the 53 man roster and cut him the next day then brought him back to the practice squad a day later. Hopefully we are able to do that with Prince and bring Irwin up.

(11-22-2022, 02:29 AM)NATI BENGALS Wrote: We brought Kareem back from IR and to the 53 man roster and cut him the next day then brought him back to the practice squad a day later. Hopefully we are able to do that with Prince and bring Irwin up.

(11-22-2022, 01:56 AM)bfine32 Wrote: Yeah, I see where they can do it starting on Tuesday, so if you want another Team's PS player you can have your pick on Monday. So there is a risk of having a player revert back to the PS.

But as I said; it's a silly rule; they're denying a player a possible game-day check. 

(11-22-2022, 09:48 AM)Sled21 Wrote: They can be poached Sunday Night or Monday. Protection starts on Tuesday. And, if a player is activated for game day, they receive 3 weeks of active roster pay, regardless of when they revert. So they really are not losing money. He gets paid for 3 weeks, and if another team wants him they just wait till the next week. The protection is not ongoing and the team can only protect 4 players. If they keep protecting the same guy, he's going to get a season worth of game checks.

(11-22-2022, 12:50 PM)Forever Spinning Vinyl Wrote: I don't hate Mike Thomas. I hate the fact that they have somehow convinced themselves that he's the best they can find off of the street for the 3rd straight year now.

He's pure trash as a WR and maybe I'm missing it but I don't see any outstanding special teams performances either. I've seen lots of Stanley Morgan highlights and replays on special teams throughout the last two years. I don't recall seeing many Mike Thomas highlights, if any at all.

(11-22-2022, 12:50 PM)Forever Spinning Vinyl Wrote: I don't hate Mike Thomas. I hate the fact that they have somehow convinced themselves that he's the best they can find off of the street for the 3rd straight year now.

He's pure trash as a WR and maybe I'm missing it but I don't see any outstanding special teams performances either. I've seen lots of Stanley Morgan highlights and replays on special teams throughout the last two years. I don't recall seeing many Mike Thomas highlights, if any at all.

(11-22-2022, 12:54 PM)bengalfan74 Wrote: I don't hate Thomas either. But he's one of those questions I can't figure out. Like you say he's not a very good WR and I'm trying to be nice. And I don't get why he's called a ST monster?

Only thing I can figure is he's just a great guy everybody likes. But you don't win NFL games by keeping substandard guys everybody likes.

(11-22-2022, 09:48 AM)Sled21 Wrote: They can be poached Sunday Night or Monday. Protection starts on Tuesday. And, if a player is activated for game day, they receive 3 weeks of active roster pay, regardless of when they revert. So they really are not losing money. He gets paid for 3 weeks, and if another team wants him they just wait till the next week. The protection is not ongoing and the team can only protect 4 players. If they keep protecting the same guy, he's going to get a season worth of game checks.