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Chief Cut and Promote to Make Room for QB Ingle Martin

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What did we do before BobGretz.com? I'll tell you what I did - obsessively watch the online Kansas City Chiefs roster in order to figure out who was gone, promoted or added when there was a roster shake up like yesterdays.

The also elevated to the 53-man roster from their own practice squad WR Marques Hagans, a former college quarterback at the University of Virginia.

To make room for Martin and Hagans, the Chiefs released RB Jackie Battle and WR Maurice Price with plans of adding them to the practice squad in time for Wednesday’s workout.

I'd imagine Jackie Battle and Maurice Price pass through waivers and end up on the Kansas City Chiefs practice squad. I think we get a bit of tunnel vision (all fans do) about these more unknown guys and think they're worth more than they really are.

I will tell you this and I know I sound like a broken record. B.J. Sams or Dantrell Savage needed to be cut yesterday in favor or Battle or Price. You can't carry two kick returners and if I had my choice, Sams would be #1 on my cut list and probably everyone else's as well. Keep this in mind though - just promoted WR Marques Hagans has experience returning kicks so he could prove to be the backup that the Chiefs are using Sams for right now.

As for Ingle Martin's tenure, I'd imagine it lasts until Brodie Croyle gets back and then he's let go. Then we'll go through a similar process of drops, promotions and pick ups on the Chiefs roster. Margues Hagans did play some quarterback in college, which I bet makes him the Chiefs emergency QB.

Here is the top of my cut list right now: KR B.J. Sams and QB Tyler Thigpen. Both are poor enough that I think almost any replacement will improve the Chiefs. Keep in mind you can't quickly make up for knowing an offense scheme intimately, which Thigpen does more so than any recent addition to the roster. I bet that's one reason he's still around.

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Do you agree with the Chiefs trying to put Battle and Price on the practice squad?
Had to be someone, might as well be them
108 votes
Huge mistake!
35 votes
I'm not worked up about it but it should have been two other guys
54 votes
We should have kept the Battleship and let Price go through waivers to the PS
34 votes
We should have kept Price and let Battle go though waivers to the PS
107 votes

338 votes | Poll has closed

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Still lots of voting to take place

And a lot of you already think we should have kept Price on the active roster?

What do you see in him that I don’t/can’t?

by Chris on Sep 10, 2008 7:52 AM CDT   0 recs

Mainly

That Price seems to have upside at receiver while B.J. Sams is nothing special at kick returner.

Supporting the lesser of two evils is still supporting something evil.

by UCrawford on Sep 10, 2008 8:02 AM CDT to parent up   0 recs

I suppose

The guy was undrafted free agent. He’s lucky to still be in the NFL.

by Chris on Sep 10, 2008 8:04 AM CDT to parent up   0 recs

Battle

I think dropping battle was a mistake, but really had to be done as we are stacked at rb. I just hope that no one picks him up from our practice squad. Living in Texas, I have heard rumers that the Texans were really interested in him and were disappointed when he actually made the team. I wouldn’t be suprised if they ended up picking him up.

by Prospero15 on Sep 10, 2008 9:27 PM CDT   0 recs

Oh Well

He wasn’t doing much being the 5th running back on our team and frankly there’s plenty of running back talent coming into the league every year so even if we lose Battle he’s not going to be difficult to replace.

Supporting the lesser of two evils is still supporting something evil.

by UCrawford on Sep 10, 2008 11:41 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

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