just trying to put him on the practice squad, right?

Every NFL team cuts a fringe player, or a player that will otherwise be inactive, in order to activate a player for a position in need for an upcoming game. Given the questionable status of Crocker, and even Hebert, I think they needed to go DB heavy for this game, making the inactive Smith expendable. He could be bak as soon as Monday. with Murray back to the PS or someone else cut. We’ve done that twice this year with Scott Kooistra and a few years ago with Kenny Watson. ANd there’s always the chance that Smith just pissed everyone off on the team in a few short days lol…

The Pats do it all the time. The odds of someone else signing Smith are remote.They need the DB for this week. And they will probably have a need for another DT after this week. Unless SS did something stupid and I would think we would have heard about it by now it really doesn’t make much sense to bring him in for a try out, sign him and then cut him 3 days later. But stranger things have happened.

The gleeful chortling in this post is just wierd. And probably premature. At ML’s wednesday presser he clearly seemed doubtful about activating Shaun Smith for the Vikings game. It seems likely that he was cut as part of a roster shuffle to add a DB. But I didn’t know that Rico Murray was a Safety-he has always been listed as a CB. If he has been practicing as a FS, that must explain why they added Mickens and Antonio Smith to the practice squad and released Brannon Condren. Anyway, the Bengals have been very thin at Safety since Roy Williams went down, carrying only 3 on the 53 man roster (does Kyries H. really count as a position player?). Gee, I really hope Crocker can go against the Vikes. If not, the Bengals will have to go with 2 undrafted free agent rookies at FS! That would be interesting,to say the least.