Gotta Practice Squad Question

[DaveThePanther2008]

For all you know it all's. 

It seems to me there is a rule about when a team comes and gets a player off your practice squad.  The team that has him on the practice squad has the opportunity to avoid losing him by adding him to their 53 man roster.   Is that correct?

That said and if it is correct.  We should have brought Butker to the 53 man roster and traded him to the highest bidder.  KC and now Tampa would have given a decent draft choice for him.  TB we could have squeezed them for a higher pick because their kicking game is a disaster.

Instead we wasted a pick for nothing.

[Jimmy]

Hindsight is 20/20...there were no offers at the time...if there were we would have pulled the trigger. No way of knowing the Bucs kicker would poo the bed that bad, or any teams kicker for that matter.

It may work out well for us in next year's draft if Butker has a great year. Could get an extra pick in the middle rounds of the draft. So in essence that 7th round pick coukd end up being a 3rd, 4th, or 5th. 

[csx]

Nobody would trade for him and hed be hampering our ability to deal with injuries elsewhere 

[tiger7_88]

If we had done that, then Butker would still be on our 53 because nobody was going to give up a draft choice for one of our kickers as long as other kickers are still available on the FA market.

[rayzor]

we kept two kickers on the 53 man roster longer than we should have.

[csx]

15 minutes ago, Jimmy said:

Hindsight is 20/20...there were no offers at the time...if there were we would have pulled the trigger. No way of knowing the Bucs kicker would poo the bed that bad, or any teams kicker for that matter.

It may work out well for us in next year's draft if Butker has a great year. Could get an extra pick in the middle rounds of the draft. So in essence that 7th round pick coukd end up being a 3rd, 4th, or 5th. 

How would we get a pick? He wasn't a free agent loss

[DaveThePanther2008]

 

15 minutes ago, Jimmy said:

Hindsight is 20/20...there were no offers at the time...if there were we would have pulled the trigger. No way of knowing the Bucs kicker would poo the bed that bad, or any teams kicker for that matter.

It may work out well for us in next year's draft if Butker has a great year. Could get an extra pick in the middle rounds of the draft. So in essence that 7th round pick coukd end up being a 3rd, 4th, or 5th. 

Of course it is.  My thinking was we kept him on week 1 roster until Gano showed he was capable of doing what we are paying him to do.   Had we added him back he would have been inactive and we have 3 or 4 guys that will probably be inactive every week.  I would have rather we stiffed KC and put him back to see if we could get something for him.

5 minutes ago, csx said:

How would we get a pick? He wasn't a free agent loss

This is what I thought too?  We get nothing because they took him off the practice squad.   Then again, I am not too savvy on the rules of what happens when someone is claimed. 

[vorbis]

yeah, definitely no draft pick coming for Butker, ever. he wasn't a free agent loss, and he's not going to garner a contract that would amount to a draft pick in the compensation pick formula. he's gone. close the book on it.

[Bartin]

I don’t believe you can just match and prevent the player from leaving. You can offer to match but it’s up to the player to decide and in a situation like Butker’s he would almost certainly leave so he could play.

[iamhubby1]

    Yada, yada, yada. Rabble, rabble, rabble. We lost a 7th round pick. Oh the horror. The kid did what he was drafted to do. Give Gano a push. Or be there if Gano imploded, which did not happen. 

 

    Think of it this way. If you are a Gman fan. You can say he hit on a 7th rounder. If you are not a fan of Gman. You can say he wasted a 7th round pick. In the grand scheme of things. Losing Buttkicker is nothing. 

 

    

[saX man]

I think in the grand scheme, people were just excited for the opportunity of a new kicker after Gano's 2016.

Unfortunately, it didn't come to fruition but Gano is at least showing well this season....so far...

[Kevin Greene]

We've carried 2 kickers before when Kasay couldn't kickoff. Too bad we didn't have 2 for our first Super Bowl run. MIght have a Lombardi.

[csx]

Gano and Kasey difference in career FG % is 1.3%.

Think about that

[Ricky Spanish]

I get what you're saying OP, but it would have been a gamble at that point, especially considering we had already been carrying two kickers on the 53 for a number of weeks and hurn dog couldn't put a trade together in that timeframe.