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.
Monday, August 30, 2010
Cross Country Competes
Saturday the cross country team traveled to Wendell to take part in the Wendell Invitational where 15 teams (13) 4-A schools ran in this event. Rocky Mount and Nash Central were the only 3-A teams in the event. Rocky Mount's boys finished 6th in the boys race while the girls finished 7th.
Sophomore James Bond lead the Gryphon boys finishing 12th with a time 17:23. Just behind him in 14th position was another sophomore Mason Holt with a 17.30 time. Both of these sophomores are right now running times that by conference championship time could get them all conference honors if they can make the top ten at the conference championships. The mid 17 minute mark most years will get you all conference. Keep it up guys. Junior Daniel Hannon with a time of 18:57 finished in 22nd position.
The girls were lead by freshman Kaitlyn Jacob who finished 16th at 21:56. Sophomore Nefertiti Thigpen came home 20th in a time of 22:25 and Senior ZiKeena Parker was 22nd running the 3.1 miles in 22.31.
August 31st is the first cut day in the NFL. All teams have to be down to 75 players Tuesday and to 53 by Saturday night. Saw the second half of the Dallas game Saturday night after coming home from the football game and never saw Terrell Hudgins on the field.
Preseason football is no indication at all of how the season will go but Dallas's first team looks awful. Brett Farve looks old for Minnesota.
College football kicks off this weekend and for Carolina fans what seemed like a season of hope of and outside chance to get into a BCS bowl game has turned to a question of who will be on the field against LSU. Six defensive starters have been relegated to the scout squad pending the outcome of their eligibility. If the NCAA proceeds like they normally do then there will be no decision on their status this week which it looks like Carolina will sit the players in question until a verdict.
There has been no decision handed down in the ECU scandal that I have heard of that happened last spring , so why should Carolina fans think the NCAA will do something for them this week?
Sophomore James Bond lead the Gryphon boys finishing 12th with a time 17:23. Just behind him in 14th position was another sophomore Mason Holt with a 17.30 time. Both of these sophomores are right now running times that by conference championship time could get them all conference honors if they can make the top ten at the conference championships. The mid 17 minute mark most years will get you all conference. Keep it up guys. Junior Daniel Hannon with a time of 18:57 finished in 22nd position.
The girls were lead by freshman Kaitlyn Jacob who finished 16th at 21:56. Sophomore Nefertiti Thigpen came home 20th in a time of 22:25 and Senior ZiKeena Parker was 22nd running the 3.1 miles in 22.31.
August 31st is the first cut day in the NFL. All teams have to be down to 75 players Tuesday and to 53 by Saturday night. Saw the second half of the Dallas game Saturday night after coming home from the football game and never saw Terrell Hudgins on the field.
Preseason football is no indication at all of how the season will go but Dallas's first team looks awful. Brett Farve looks old for Minnesota.
College football kicks off this weekend and for Carolina fans what seemed like a season of hope of and outside chance to get into a BCS bowl game has turned to a question of who will be on the field against LSU. Six defensive starters have been relegated to the scout squad pending the outcome of their eligibility. If the NCAA proceeds like they normally do then there will be no decision on their status this week which it looks like Carolina will sit the players in question until a verdict.
There has been no decision handed down in the ECU scandal that I have heard of that happened last spring , so why should Carolina fans think the NCAA will do something for them this week?
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