So we just signed Fernando Velasco

[nctarheel0619]

Thinking Chandler's injury is more severe than we expected.  

[Chaos]

Just IR the sumbitch already so we no longer have to worry about him taking the field.

[Jeremy Igo]

Plays center too which probably had more to do with it. 

[nctarheel0619]

Plays center too which probably had more to do with it. 

Probably the combo of us being extremely thin at tackle, and Remmers being our emergency backup.  Probably a combo of those.  

[Ricky Spanish]

Makes sense with all the practice squad Centers we've been throwing at the wall.

Don't want him starting, or really playing for that matter but he knows the offense and is capable of stepping in in case of injury. Who'd we drop in order to sign him?

[nctarheel0619]

Makes sense with all the practice squad Centers we've been throwing at the wall.

Don't want him starting, or really playing for that matter but he knows the offense and is capable of stepping in in case of injury. Who'd we drop in order to sign him?

Nothing posted about who's dropped yet.  

[TheWiz]

WCW Style Announcement:

"Feeeeeeeernnnnnnnandooooooooo Velllllaaaaaaaasccccoooooooooooooo!!!"

Not to get all racial... but he's not the kinda amigo I envisioned.

 

[nctarheel0619]

Plays center too which probably had more to do with it. 

And they just placed Nate Chandler on IR.  Boy was I right or was I right?  

[Ivan The Awesome]

Why is Chandler in the roster? lol

 

Great signing though. 

[Thorrez]

Why is Chandler in the roster? 

Because he can play left tackle! (Albeit not very good)

[PhillyB]

wait really? isn't he semi-decent?

[L-TownCat]

wait really? isn't he semi-decent?

So decent we had him, cut him, watched him try to get a job over Bell in Tennessee, fail, get cut then signed him back!

Super mah fuggin Bowl Bitches!

[KB_fan]

Don't want him starting, or really playing for that matter but he knows the offense and is capable of stepping in in case of injury. Who'd we drop in order to sign him?

Chandler to IR

[KB_fan]

So decent we had him, cut him, watched him try to get a job over Bell in Tennessee, fail, get cut then signed him back!

Super mah fuggin Bowl Bitches!

This has NOTHING to do with wanting Velasco back on the roster, but everything to do with being DESPERATELY thin at Oline with JJWatt & crew coming to town.

In case people didn't realize it, we only had 7 healthy linemen this a.m. before this move.

Our starting 5 (Remmers, Turner, Kalil, Norwell, Oher)

and 2 backups:  Amini Silatolu and Chris Scott.

2 guys to backup 5 in a week when you've got one of the best Dlines coming to town.

Wasn't gonna happen, and the only OLine on our PS are Foucault (UGH!) and the brand new Center signed yesterday.  So, it was pretty obvious when Chandler didn't practice yesterday that unless that changed today, we were gonna have to find someone we could plug and play.

I think we're pretty fortunate Tennessee cut Velasco and that he was available.

Thankfully they cut him and not Bell!!!  My word, can you imagine the Huddle meltdown if we had resigned Bell.  LOLOLOLOL!