Terrell Hudgins Cut By The Cowboys

Tuesday morning when NFL football teams release the list of players that they have cut the name of Terrell Hudgins will appear on the Dallas List. I was on the Dallas Site tonight and his name is no longer listed on the roster.

We all knew that going to Dallas a team full of high priced wide receivers was a gamble. Even if he showed the Boys coaches that he was better than most they could not afford to cut a player that they would still have to pay if they cut him. Terrell as a free agent had no such deal. Officially as of Tuesday he will be looking for any one who needs a wide receiver or will he?

There is speculation by those official bloggers listed on the Dallas website that Terrell has made an impression with Dallas for next year when two of their high priced receivers are gone. Knowing they can't keep him this year with all the high priced receivers they have, they have hidden him the last two weeks so other team won't notice him and grab him starting Tuesday.

If Terrell Signs to be on the taxi squad he will be one of the players that practices with the team during the week running the plays of next weeks opponent. According to the 2010 collective bargaining agreement as a taxi squad player he would make $5,200 a week. If someone got injured he could be moved to the roster to replace that player while he is injured. Here is the real kicker of being on any teams taxi squad. Any NFL team can sign you and take you away from the team that you are on the taxi squad. If they do that they have to put you on their active roster making the NFL minimum salary $430,000.

Any NFL team is in a pickle if they have a player they like but don't have room for him this year. If you cut him any team can go after him and even if you put him on the taxi squad they can steal him. Bottom line as of Tuesday Dallas will cut Terrell Hudgins.

I think this is rather interesting. What is the taxi squad and how did it come about? It all started back in the 40's when Paul Brown was coach of the Cleveland Browns. When ever he had a player that he liked but could not keep him on the roster he would go to the owner of the Browns who at that time was Art McBride. He owned a taxi cab service in Cleveland. He would tell MCBride that he had a player that he didn't want George Halas of the Chicago Bears to get so McBride would hire that player to drive a cab at the same price he would have gotten if he was on the Brown's team. When ever a player got injured Brown would would call McBride and say send me a player from the taxi squad.

You know Terrell and his agent are calling any and everybody looking a job. By weeks end Terrell could be out of work, hooked on with another team or on any body's taxi squad.