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NFL Roster Cuts: Chiefs Quickly Establish 8-Man Practice Squad

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The Kansas City Chiefs released 13 players over the weekend but announced on Sunday that eight of those players would be returning to the practice squad.

Here's the list of the Chiefs first practice squad:

• NT Garrett Brown
• DE Dion Gales
• RT Bobby Greenwood
• G Darryl Harris
• QB Tyler Palko
• DB Ricky Price
• WR Verran Tucker
• LB Pierre Walters

I'm not too surprised at any of these. Palko woud be one quick transaction away if Matt Cassel went down.

What do you think of the practice squad? About what you expected?

I thought the might bring Lokey back but other than that it's about what I expected.

Hey Colin Brown:

http://i590.photobucket.com/albums/s.../Gifs/gtfo.gif

Was Garrett Brown originally cut by us or was he on another team? What is the scoop on this kid?:shrug:

harris

cool

Over half our practice squad are folks who didn't make it on our team.

So... let's bring them back in, shall we?

As did I. Oh well.

You know... eventually, you think we'd give Harris a ****ing shot.

How long has this guy been filling the back end of our roster? Isn't this his third season here?

Just give the guy a ****ing shot.

Thats pretty much how the practice squad works....

Nice of you to pay attention to the off-season.

He was picked up by us as an UDFA rookie that played last season at the University of Minnesota.

One of those guys that could have went in the fourth round or undrafted. He was the later. Purportedly a good guy, a very hard worker that needs to get stronger in the weight room and on the field, but has some potential, i.e., practice squad material.

Um... he was starting for us while Waters was injured...and then he got injured...

wut

Undrafted rookie from I think Minnesota. Good to see that they saw enough to keep him. I didn't see him at all this preseason, so no idea if the kid's any good.

Pierre Walters is a better LB than that Justin Cole guy. I've never even ****ing heard of him.

Cole was the guy who caused Arenas' kick return TD in ATL to get called back.

He was also a pretty productive player at SJSU.

Cole was strong on special teams.

I've seen absolutely nothing out of Walters that justifies keeping him.

I thought that was Herron? Oh well.

They don't play the same position.

You know what, I think you're right. There is an article out there that blames it on Cole, but once you said Herron I was reminded of him doing something stupid that should have cost him a roster spot.

Oh, and Pierre Walters has done........well, nothing.

Yeah, I remember Arenas' return being called back, and I shouted "cut his ass."

Herron popped up on the replay.

And now has been cut.

Nah, it was Cole. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsSFY...eature=related

#57 unless the ref got the number wrong.

Thx for the info but please get a life with some maturity. Some of us have not only have a life outside the NFL but responsibilities that go with it apparently unlike you:rolleyes:

:thumb:

I had never heard of Tucker before, but he actually looked pretty decent in the Green Bay game.

i think we did give him a shot...then the injury

would be pretty surprised if he doesn't play for us at some point this year

can someone tell me what the Chiefs see in Palko??

A practice squad qb?

just curious how much money do practice squad players make?

NFL practice squad players are paid $5,200 a week minimum but teams may choose to pay them more if they'd like. This doesn't usually happen. The players will also get small signing bonuses, usually in the area of a couple thousand bucks.

thanks

Darryl Harris was an undrafted rookie free agent in 2009.

This will be his second season in the league.

This is exactly what I predicted yesterday. He was starting before the injury and rather than place him on IR (where he'd be lost for the year) or the PUP (six weeks), he can now practice with the team (or not) and can be placed on the active roster at any time.

It's utterly ****ing amazing to me that Scott Pioli burned a 5th round pick on Colin Brown last year when he most likely would have gone undrafted.

Then, he stashes him on IR for the year, even though the severity of the injury was never mentioned.

A year later, the ****ing guy isn't even worth putting on the Practice Squad? Are you kidding me?

Nice scouting, Pioli.

I've given this considerable thought and I think it's pretty clear that, in 2009, our scouts consisted of a blind clown named "Blinky" and two lesbian midget wrestlers from Mexico City.

FAX

It's a process.

It's frustrating.

Call me a "Drafturbator" or "Draftabulator" or whatever you'd like, but the bottom line is that is that I correctly predicted the awful nature of our 2009 NFL draft (along with Goff, Thomas, Engram, et al).

I wish I had been wrong. Or at least, I wish someone had paid me $5 million a year in 2009 to be right.

If Tyson Jackson and Alex Magee continue to tread water, it will set this franchise back even further because they'll need at least two more 3-4, 5 tech defensive ends before truly being able to compete, along with at least one inside linebacker and a QB.

More to the point, the Chiefs will need the same exact players in 2011 as they drafted/traded for in 2009.

:facepalm:

Wasn't the scouting department in 2009 part of the old regime? Pioli had been hired so late that he had to go with what was already in place?

Not to defend him in any case, since ultimately it is his ass on the line, but this year was drafted much (we hope) better than last.

Darryl Harris...the Dane McCloud dream lives on.

No. Absolutely not. I said this last year and it's been verified by Bob Gretz as well.

The Chiefs scouts turned in their reports, which Pioli promptly tossed in the trash. He used all of his reports compiled by New England's scouts for the 2009 draft.

Well obviously, I'm not the only one who sees it with this kid.

I just hope that someday soon, he owns the position and keeps it for a decade.

The scouting excuse pisses me off to no end. Isn't scouting and assessing talent a year long job? I don't care if you change teams you should be aware of what talent is out there and draft accordingly. There is no excuse to draft that poorly given the fact that Pioli was supposed to be the best available GM out there. JFC.

:cuss::cuss::cuss:

That makes it even worse. JFC

Quentin Lawrence ... the Dane McCloud dream lives on

Uh, no, ****Face

I think it's better than a GM that stubbornly holds on to turds just because he drafted them. Flush 'em and move on. Let's hope he'll be willing to do the same thing with the QB if it doesn't pan out this year.

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If he had dumped Magee, Jackson and Cassel, I'd agree.

But he hasn't.

Yet.

The higher the pick, the longer the leash, I guess.

It could've been worse. At least we didn't trade a 1st round pick to take a player that was cut a year later. Granted, our first rounders haven't exactly been lighting it up lately.

Which, no offense, negates your earlier thoughts.

The Chiefs have too much money invested in TyJack and Cassel than to just cut them after one year (that would be $30 million out the door with minimal to no return on investment).

I guess they'd rather shell out another $30 million before determining their fate.

:eek:

If you're disappointed because he didn't dump starters on cutdown day, then I'd say you're just looking to be disappointed. Magee's another story, although it looked like he may have gotten the "you're expendable" message judging by the way he played against the Packers. I'm thinking somebody straight out told him "show something or you're gone".

There's still some conjecture that Jackson maybe needs to get that message, too, but I can't say either way on that.

As far as Cassel goes, the problem with cutting him now is that he was the only first string QB throughout the offseason and preseason it would leave Croyle as the only QB on the roster. If they were going to make that move, it needed to be done in March, not now.

This.

The only good moves Pioli has made other than the Thomas Jones signing have been SUCH gimmes. Cutting Mike Brown, signing Lilja (representing offensive line help), Chambers, drafting Eric Berry, etc. These are all moves 99.9% of the tards here on Chiefsplanet would have made. They're so obvious. No amount of NFL experience was necessary to make these choices.

People said, "PIOLI IS REDEEMED" with the home run pick of Berry. Uhh... no, not really. Scott Pioli wouldn't have been able to show his face at an NFL executive meeting without others pointing and laughing at him if he didn't pick. Hell, he's made so many goddamn mistakes that he probably wanted to take some asshole like Okung but instead drafted Berry out of fear.

I will give him credit. His personal connections did land us two pretty damn good coordinators. All of his other moves have been dogshit.

My post was contradictory to Rad's, not a realistic depiction of events.

There are some here that think Cassel won't be cut in 2011, regardless of his 2010 performance because that would mean Pioli admitting defeat. I'm not to condemn him at this point but it'll be interesting to see how it plays out.

But IMO, there is no reason why Magee should be on the squad. None.

I'm with you on that one. I think if Cassel plays poorly to the point that it costs the team victories, he's gone. What I worry about (and what I expect to see) is what happens when Cassel has an average year that doesn't either significantly hamper or enhance the team's performance.

he could - and should - easily put up an 80 QB rating with Weis' dink and dunk...

which would probably mean we keep him for 4 years

and all the pats fans, pioli zombies, and pawnsmokers spend two more years celebrating the time we're wasting on a fraud...

and then we start all over again in 2012

i honestly believe this is the most probable series of events...and it makes me want to kill all the candy and sunshine in the world

ROFLROFL


i know this feeling

I honestly think Pioli is stealin' the Hunt's money. That draft last year set the franchise back as much as any of CP's. Don't look now but I think the Lions are closer to building a consistent winner than our Chiefs.

JETS RELEASE TRICH!!!!!

Come on Pioli, sign him to a 1 yr deal, let him retire a Chief.

Ain't gonna happen, but I wouldn't bitch if it did. TRich's departure was symbolic - the team hasn't been competitive since he left.

For all the talk about leaders might as well sign Richardson.

Man,you guys are just a bunch of miserable old women. Its been a ****ing year. They were a 2-14 disaster to start with. Why don't you try to relax and enjoy the season.

why don't you cheer us all up by killing yourself?

Why don't you take a flying leap into a vat of nuclear waste?

I fail to understand why Palko should be on practice squad.
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As opposed to?

As are the Rams.

In no way am I boasting on the Chiefs '09 draft class. But, a lot of the actual scouting falls in the hands of Herm's scouting department. This years draft was actually conducted by Pioli's hand picked scouting crew an should be a better determining factor in how the guy should draft in the future.

Being lined up in front of a firing squad so that we are assured that we never see his sorry ass on a football field again.

Actually it doesn't, Pioli froze them out and made the picks he wanted to make. That draft is on him.

That's a fact people like to forget, that the '09 draft was handled by Peterson's scouting staff, and that they were nearly all fired the day after it was over.

Yes and no. The problem was when Pioli froze out Peterson's scouts and he absolutely should not have done that. Stupid to not at least listen to Peterson's scouts. I do agree that the 2010 draft is much more representative of how we'll draft moving forward.

Scott Pioli didn't use any of the info acquired by the Cheifs scouts in the '09 draft.

He used the info he had accumulated from the Patriots scouts while still in New England and brought in a buddy to help him conduct the draft.

That '09 draft is all on Pioli.

I agree with this.

Well, it's wrong.

Wrong.

Gretz reported that Pioli tossed the Chiefs scouting reports in the trash and used information strictly gathered by his New England people for the 2009 selections.

It's a fact.

Wrong, wrong, WRONG.

That clip is great! I like the guy in the foreground sitting there with no reaction or emotions. Totally hilarious.

You're agreeing with something that is patently false.

They hired Pioli and Haley late and they held over staff. Where is the evidence that the new regime completely ignored the old staff? I'd like to see it.

I don't want to argue an unknown.

Gretz reported it earlier this year. You'll need to do a search but it's definitely true. Someone linked the story, I think in January.

Pioli tossed out all the info gathered by the Chiefs scouts and used info obtained by his scouts in New England for the 2009 draft.

Whether those rumors are true or not is not really relevant; the 2010 Chiefs draft was handled by a completely different scouting (and coaching) staff than the 2009 draft, whether that draft was handled by New England people or Kansas City people. Which doesn't change or excuse the facts of the '09 draft, but it may explain why the 2010 draft seems to make more sense.

Although as I've said a number of times, I think a significant issue with the '09 draft was the '09 draft class itself, which I believe was a historically poor collection of talent as a whole. But that's just my opinion.