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<blockquote data-quote="TJV" data-source="post: 378800" data-attributes="member: 4300"><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Yes, trades for "past considerations" aren't allowed anymore and they can’t hide anyone on the PUP list this year. A player like West would have to agree to go on IR if he didn’t really have <em>that</em> serious an injury and any team playing that game could get sanctioned by the league. One other thing, players have to clear waivers for something like 24 or 48 hours before they can be signed to the practice squad. After being waived, players aren’t required to accept another team’s offer so the Packers could suggest to a player like West that he stick around on the PS another season (I think he’s eligible) and let him know he’ll have a real shot to make the team next season (with Nelson or Driver gone, for example). But from West’s point of view, he would probably want to join a team that will allow him to get his NFL career under way since he may end up in the same position next year if he's still a Packer. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Here are a couple of Packers/Bears anecdotes regarding the PS: Remember the name Hunter Hillenmeyer? He was a LB Sherman drafted in 2003 in the 5th round. Sherman tried to hide him on the PS and of course had to waive him and hope he made it through waivers. Unfortunately the Bears jumped on that opportunity and Hillenmeyer started for them for a few years. He wasn’t close to being a pro bowler but the Packers could have certainly used him and it was one of many mistakes Sherman would make as GM. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">The other story involves Matt Hasselbeck and is one of my favorite off-the-field Packers/Bears stories. Ron Wolf drafted him in the 6th round of the 1998 draft. Hasselbeck wasn’t invited to the combine so his agent, Andrew Brandt, invited every NFL GM to a private workout. Unbelievably only one team sent someone: Andy Reid looked Matt over for the Packers. Anyway, Hasselbeck made the team but when the Bears cut Rick Mirer, Holmgren wanted him as a backup, so they waived Matt and put him on the practice squad. Later in the season the Bears starter Erik Kramer got hurt and they wanted to sign Hasselbeck. Any team can offer a practice squad player from another team a contract but that player has to join the offering team’s active roster. What some fans don’t realize is the player doesn’t have to accept the offer and the team can do what Ron Wolf did at that time: Offer him more money to stay on the PS. Of course that’s what happened and the Bears were denied a competent QB. Here’s Hasselbeck’s reasoning at the time: </span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">"I was in a system with Ron Wolf, who had picked all these quarterbacks," Hasselbeck was quoted as saying in the Seattle Times. "Mike Holmgren was the head coach, Andy Reid coached the quarterbacks, Brett Favre was the quarterback. That's better than going to Harvard Business School."</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Well we all know it worked out well for Matt and the Packers, until they exercised the draft pick they received from Seattle in the Hasselbeck trade. Even more important: The Bears were denied a QB that would have been a pain in the Packers backside for years. </span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TJV, post: 378800, member: 4300"] [FONT=Verdana]Yes, trades for "past considerations" aren't allowed anymore and they can’t hide anyone on the PUP list this year. A player like West would have to agree to go on IR if he didn’t really have [I]that[/I] serious an injury and any team playing that game could get sanctioned by the league. One other thing, players have to clear waivers for something like 24 or 48 hours before they can be signed to the practice squad. After being waived, players aren’t required to accept another team’s offer so the Packers could suggest to a player like West that he stick around on the PS another season (I think he’s eligible) and let him know he’ll have a real shot to make the team next season (with Nelson or Driver gone, for example). But from West’s point of view, he would probably want to join a team that will allow him to get his NFL career under way since he may end up in the same position next year if he's still a Packer. [/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]Here are a couple of Packers/Bears anecdotes regarding the PS: Remember the name Hunter Hillenmeyer? He was a LB Sherman drafted in 2003 in the 5th round. Sherman tried to hide him on the PS and of course had to waive him and hope he made it through waivers. Unfortunately the Bears jumped on that opportunity and Hillenmeyer started for them for a few years. He wasn’t close to being a pro bowler but the Packers could have certainly used him and it was one of many mistakes Sherman would make as GM. [/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]The other story involves Matt Hasselbeck and is one of my favorite off-the-field Packers/Bears stories. Ron Wolf drafted him in the 6th round of the 1998 draft. Hasselbeck wasn’t invited to the combine so his agent, Andrew Brandt, invited every NFL GM to a private workout. Unbelievably only one team sent someone: Andy Reid looked Matt over for the Packers. Anyway, Hasselbeck made the team but when the Bears cut Rick Mirer, Holmgren wanted him as a backup, so they waived Matt and put him on the practice squad. Later in the season the Bears starter Erik Kramer got hurt and they wanted to sign Hasselbeck. Any team can offer a practice squad player from another team a contract but that player has to join the offering team’s active roster. What some fans don’t realize is the player doesn’t have to accept the offer and the team can do what Ron Wolf did at that time: Offer him more money to stay on the PS. Of course that’s what happened and the Bears were denied a competent QB. Here’s Hasselbeck’s reasoning at the time: [/FONT][FONT=Verdana]"I was in a system with Ron Wolf, who had picked all these quarterbacks," Hasselbeck was quoted as saying in the Seattle Times. "Mike Holmgren was the head coach, Andy Reid coached the quarterbacks, Brett Favre was the quarterback. That's better than going to Harvard Business School."[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]Well we all know it worked out well for Matt and the Packers, until they exercised the draft pick they received from Seattle in the Hasselbeck trade. Even more important: The Bears were denied a QB that would have been a pain in the Packers backside for years. [/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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