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Matthias

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Should we send Devin Funchess to the practice squad?  Right now, it's painstaking to watch his non productivity.  The main reason of course being, we literally have zero receiving production for most of the game.  Of course that's not to say Ted Ginn and Bersin made no contribution because they obviously have.  However, when you draft a guy in the second round (someone correct me if I'm wrong but I believe we traded up for him), you expect him to make some contribution, even this early in the season.  Here we are, dying for a receiver to step up, with the position practically begging for anybody to be the starter, yet Funchess is doing absolutely nothing for all intents and purposes.

 

All I'm saying is if he's not ready to the point of playing at least 20% of offensive snaps, with a squad where anybody could be our starter, then maybe he needs to be on the practice squad to give another guy a chance who might be more prepared to play.  By my count, we only looked his way two times yesterday.  One pass was batted away, and he dropped a semi-difficult pass in the endzone.

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Putting a rookie second round draft pick on the practice squad would be the same as just cutting him, that's not at all in play.

Oh yeah, I forgot teams could pick guys up off your practice squad I believe. (Though I wonder if they have to give us compensation if that were to happen.)

 

In that case, he needs to be inactive for a while or something.

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Cut him for who exactly?   You guys need to face facts and that is nobody is going to come in and be the number one wide out this week or for that matter this season.   We ain't rolling like that.  It's going to be by committee this year until KB gets back and the Don gets time to beef up the group.   Let it go.

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