Rhule's Interview Post-Cut Down

[kratos997]

He aaid he liked the way Rodney was coming along. Next thing you know. Guy is on waivers.

[Carl Spackler]

2 hours ago, davos said:

I get the feeling you may be iffy with our coach's plan and the current backup QB.  Call it a hunch.

Let’s not get ahead of ourselves. I don’t know what gives you that idea. 

[Evil Hurney]

5 hours ago, davos said:

Notable Observations:

• Waivers will get traction/pick up tomorrow.
• Shi Smith is 2-3 week timetable to return. NOT IR'd
• Roster is fluid, emphasized a few times
• Overall, he does not give me the sense we're set.  They're looking. He's talking with Scott about options. 

 

I also got the sense that the roster wasn't "final" hence the not wanting to talk about players specifically.

Shi could go on IR tomorrow and be eligible to return in 3 games. Easy way to create a roster spot for a waiver wire addition.

[shaqattaq]

15 hours ago, rmoneyg35 said:

I noticed that too. We keep signing all these players who can only play special teams. I mean Cannon sucks at Rb and is supposedly the top gunner in the league so he’s clearly just here for special teams. Stanford is a career special teams guy who doesn’t bring anything as a starter, Zylstra is a special teams player who might can be a decent back up but seems to only be on this team because of special teams. The DE we just traded for is a special teams guy. Maybe he does have potential as a starter but hasn’t shown it yet. We have JJ Jansen who is only a LS and drafted an LS when we could have drafted another position and I heard that we are keeping another player because of special teams. 
 

why not sign players who offer more than special teams? I remember when we had Greg Hardy on special teams laying people out. Keep one ace and the rest should be young players with potential or vets who are good back ups like we used Chase Blackburn. It’s wasting a roster spot to me.

"Roster is fluid, emphasized a few times"

1 or 2 of these guys may be simply holding a spot until we finish playing the waivers game. Same thing for the 5 TE's.