To my knowledge, he hasn’t been signed by any other team.

we got Radovich back and what do we know about this guy from Denver?

in practice is often not revealed in detail and varies by team and by each weekly situation, but essentially, the practice squad players, along with other players from the 53-man roster will play their normal positions and try to simulate what is known from film of the playbook of the next opposing team for that game. Perhaps J. D. Booty is given certain plays expected from the Browns and gets to do his impression of Brady Quinn. If the third string QB were one of the eight 53 regular roster players picked not to dress this particular Sunday, he might get to play the part of Derek Anderson. Or Booty could play both QB parts. If the Vikings played a team with a dominant defensive end, the part could even be played at times by Jared Allen for added realism. Usually, a player plays his normal position. What actually happens is whatever the head coach feels best prepares his team as a whole for the next opponent.

The practice squad players can be called up to the active roster of any NFL team without compensation to their signed team, so they have a kind of quasi-free-agent status, but since they learn their team’s playbook and were chosen by that team’s coaches, it is more likely they get called up by their own team should a regular player be lost due to injury. For that reason, teams try to have potential backups on the practice team to cover a variety of positions, as well as to form a complete scout team to practice against.

So, even though Ian Johnson or Booty are on the Vikings practice squad, they could still get called up by the Packers or any other NFL team if placed on that teams regular roster and the Vikings are on their own to replace them with someone else. This may seem a little weird or even unfair, but it prevents teams from stockpiling ringers on their practice squad to perpetuate a dynasty, and it gives the practice squad player (who makes considerably less money) more movitation to play well and get a shot to move up to the big stage.

I still think Sage makes too many mistakes for a guy that doesn’t make a lot of big plays downfield. He is going into his eighth season and has not ever been named a starter for a reason.
Booty has been said to have a weak arm but when I watch the tape on him he seems to have zip on the ball and can get it downfield. I’m not sure about him though.

I know you don’t like T.Jack but he knows the offense better than Sage and made a lot less mistakes in the preseason. Like I have stated before enter Sage as our starter last year and we still don’t get the win against Philly. But to each his own. Neither would probably lead us to the Superbowl. I do see potential in T.Jack, but admittedly could be blinded by his athletisism rather than lack of decision making.

I agree Ian Johnson is good but how did he clear waivers?

“…a player under contract to a club as a Practice Squad player is completely free to sign a contract with another NFL club during the season in order to be on the second club’s Active/Inactive list. A practice squad player may not sign an NFL Player Contract with his Club’s next opponent later than 4:00 P.M., New York time, on the sixth day preceding the game (except in bye weeks, when the prohibition commences on the tenth day preceding the game). If another club signs a Practice Squad player to its 53-man roster, it does not have to provide any sort of compensation to the player’s former club, but it generally must keep the player on the 53-man roster for at least 3 weeks, thereby mandating that he earns the minimum first year salary for said 3-week period…”

“…a team can add and release players from the practice squad as often as it desires and the eight (8) man limit does not have to be maintained. A player may be on the practice squad for two seasons; three weeks on the practice squad count as a season. An otherwise eligible player may be a practice squad player for a third season only if the Club by which he is employed that season has at least 53 players on its Active/Inactive List during the entire period of his employment. "

As far as I know, a practice player made an offer by another team could go to his home club and ask for a better deal. The catch is, that would mean someone else would need to be cut from the 53-man roster of his home club. The man cut would have to clear waivers to reach the practice squad, and no doubt would be rather peaved. Even though this stuff is in the NFL rules. that doesn’t mean some scenario similar to what happened with acquiring Hutch from the Seahawks wouldn’t play out, somewhat like Hatfields and McCoys. The NFL may be strictly business, but no one ever said its owners do not get emotional.

is probably what the UFL is counting on to make their venture fly. Probably they are wrong, since there’s a recession going on. Heck, in the Bay Area, people are not flocking to see the Niners or the Raiders. Who thinks they will wander over to see Denny Green and a team of rejects in green shirts called the Redwoods? The UFL must be very confused. Denny is not Paul Brown coaching a team called the Browns.

I’m amazed that he would want to stay with Minnesota. We obv have the best RB in the league and the best backup in the league. He won’t get a shot this year because of ineffectiveness. The same can’t be said for a bunch of other NFL teams. I can’t believe that MN is the only team that offered him a practice squad spot…