K Harrison Butker Makes It To The Practice Squad. DT Eric Crume Released. Panthers Add An OT

[Mr. Scot]

9 minutes ago, top dawg said:

I would have kept Crume over Parms, Frasier and Clausell, and maybe Zach Moore, but that's me.

It's not just you.

[KB_fan]

18 minutes ago, top dawg said:

I would have kept Crume over Parms, Frasier and Clausell, and maybe Zach Moore, but that's me.

Agree, though I might substitute Key Garrett for Frasier.  I thought Frasier showed a bit more upside in preseason than Garrett.  But yeah, I didn't think Crume should have been the bottom of the pecking order on the PS.  Easily 2 or 3 guys who should have been cut ahead of him.

[Hogmolliesmaht]

What's so great about Crume? He got run over for most of the pre season and we have DE's that can move over and play tackle in an emergency. Meanwhile, we have a really good 4 DT rotation right now.

[JawnyBlaze]

That's a shame, I thought Crume had real potential.  Not gonna cry over that one though.  Glad Butker made it through, I don't particularly like the guy but we need SOMEONE to develop at Kicker.

[Murph]

I will be surprised if Butker makes it through the entire season on our Practice Squad. Some team will be needing a kicker over the next few months.

[Johnny Rockets]

14 minutes ago, Murph said:

I will be surprised if Butker makes it through the entire season on our Practice Squad. Some team will be needing a kicker over the next few months.

Got a feeling the guy the Eagles signed off the Bengals practice squad might not last long. Butker might be next on their radar. 

[TN05]

Yet again, a Huddle freakout amounted to nothing. This idea Harrison Butler is some amazing kicker who wouldn't even make waivers was just as absurd as the idea someone would immediately snatch up Armah, a project fullback. Butker looked bad in practice, and you can literally grab a decent kicker off the street. He's on the practice squad to keep pressure on Gano, and Gano made all five kicks last week. And of course with contracts, I see little to complain about so far with Davis, Olsen, and Turner all getting extremely reasonable deals. 

Maybe, just maybe, it's time to consider the idea that management knows what it's doing and give them even the tiniest benefit of the doubt. They aren't stupid, and maybe there are valid reasons they made some of these moves.

[TheSpecialJuan]

3 hours ago, KB_fan said:

Our PS surely is a bit interesting looking right now - pretty different to past years.

K + QB

3 DEs, no DTs (of course 1 of the 3 is Obada who can't be promoted, is just an extra)

2 S, no CBs

No RB or TE [RB is fine since we have 4 on 53, but we're not deep at TE, no developmental prospects...]

No Gs, but again we're fairly deep at G depth on the 53  (Moton, Silatolu, Larsen, Van Roten)

No LBs (but we're so deep on the 53, it hopefully won't be an issue.)

Good to have Harrison back on the team.

[grimesgoat]

2 hours ago, iamhubby1 said:

 

    Where does this idea that 3mil is going to cost us Norwell, or Stah? I mean c'mon man. They are going to get close to 20mil a year between them. But that lousy 3mil is going to hamper those deals from happening. lol Folks are willing to say just about anything to make a point. Damm the torpedo's, fake news ahead.

Hurney has a history of not managing the cap very well. It's sort of his thing. But if you aren't worried about overpaying our kicker or running out of money, I guess I won't either. 

[csx]

16 minutes ago, grimesgoat said:

Hurney has a history of not managing the cap very well. It's sort of his thing. But if you aren't worried about overpaying our kicker or running out of money, I guess I won't either. 

Gettleman paid Gano. Can't blame Hurney for this one.

[grimesgoat]

1 hour ago, csx said:

Gettleman paid Gano. Can't blame Hurney for this one.

Gettleman paid Gano last year. Then he drafted his replacement. This is all Hurney. 

[TheSpecialJuan]

[iamhubby1]

15 hours ago, saints4lifeagain said:

I think it's mainly because of the type of defense you play. Try to take away the long stuff and force a team to be patient and drive down the field. That forces a lot of checkdowns. I don't know the yardage numbers, but I would assume it's small, because of how good the linebackers are. Not a huge deal, in my opinion.

 

    To piggy-back on that. Another reason teams like to keep things underneath, is to make teams use lots of plays to move down field. The more plays it takes to move down the field. The better chance they will get antsy, and make a mistake. Whether that mistake is a penalty at the wrong time, or an untimely turnover.

 

    Most teams are not built to continually make long drives to score points. If you can make them do exactly that. You are putting yourself in good position.