(09-01-2022, 08:59 AM)Mikey Wrote: First, 16 players per team is goofballs. NFL doing everything they can to dilute the talent pool available to the competing startup leagues.

Also, the Bungles put a punter on the PS. I don't understand that move, unless you need someone extra to hold during field goal practices.

It's still hard for me to get used to the eligibility for the PS. Buffalo put Tavon Austin on their PS, dude's a former first rounder in his tenth season. I mean, I'm glad the older vets have a way to get reimbursed for sticking around, staying in game shape, and helping the players on the team improve, but my thinkmeat just hasn't acclimated to the change in how the league operates.

And I just learned this bit from SBN:

Quote:First used by legendary coach Paul Brown with the Cleveland Browns in 1946, Brown subverted AAFC salary rules for a 33-man roster by stashing a group of players using fake jobs for Yellow Cab of Cleveland. Brown, who was friends with the owner of the cab company, made this arrangement and the team would pay the reserve group of players — who obviously never drove a cab. They were dubbed the “Taxi Squad,” and when word spread of Brown’s scheme, everyone started doing it.