Patriots Release Shawn Crable?
by Greg Knopping on Nov 17, 2010 12:17 AM EST
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PrintToday, in a surprising move, the New England Patriots have announced the release of outside linebacker Shawn Crable. The 6-5, 250 pound outside linebacker was a third round pick of the Patriots in 2008. He spent the majority of his first two seasons in the league on injured reserve, before ultimately being released at the start of training camp this July after he couldn't pass his physical.
After working hard to get back in shape and get healthy, Crable was re-signed to the team's practice squad in early September. By months end, and several practice player of the week awards, Crable was promoted to the active roster. But this is where it gets weird. Crable has played six games for the Patriots since being activated. His best game? Two days ago against the Steelers when he picked up his first half sack in his most extensive playing time of his young career. While Crable hasn't looked especially gifted out there, he certainly has looked capable enough. The fact that he's been active for five straight games and has had an increased role makes this news even stranger.
While some could speculate that the Patriots plan on bringing Crable back via an extension a la Tully Banta-Cain and Eric Alexander last year, I don't see the Patriots going in that direction. For one, Crable must now pass through waivers. If Crable was a player the Patriots didn't want to risk losing. Secondly, Crable was already signed through 2011. So again, there would be no need to cut him.
Therefore, the Shawn Crable era appears to be coming to another end. Unless of course, he passes through waivers and lands on the practice squad.
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I wonder if they did it with a pretty fair idea that nobody would touch him, given his injury history
Token southern hemisphere guy - 14,688km from Foxboro. That's 9128 miles, for you heathens.
But...why do it in the first place?
Your new picture’s really been throwing me for a loop, by the way.
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What one man's life could be worth--oh, I wonder what would happen to this world.
by LegendaryTadpole on Nov 17, 2010 1:05 AM EST up reply actions
Might be an injury elsewhere that they have to cover (hopefully not)
Or they’ve given up on Butler and want to promote the practice squad guy who’s been shining at practice (and winning the practice awards), Tony Carter.
They also released Tyrone McKenzie to sign another rookie UFA CB in Thad Turner, so it’s obviously an area they want beefing up in, if they’re willing to part with a 3rd round draft pick to do so.
My picture’s of a kiwi – my national bird. A kiwi with an eating disorder, it seems… Blame Ninja, it was his suggestion and he found the pic, haha.
Token southern hemisphere guy - 14,688km from Foxboro. That's 9128 miles, for you heathens.
by Comedic.Sans on Nov 17, 2010 1:23 AM EST up reply actions
i didn't find the pic...satunda did i think...but i did tell u to use it as your profile pic
the red commie star (just for you Doc One) was kinda annoying to look at.
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It is cute. Much cuter than this guy:
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by SlotMachinePlayer on Nov 17, 2010 10:52 AM EST up reply actions
Ye gods.
Token southern hemisphere guy - 14,688km from Foxboro. That's 9128 miles, for you heathens.
by Comedic.Sans on Nov 17, 2010 4:48 PM EST up reply actions
Subtle sliding of Welker in there too. Nice.
Token southern hemisphere guy - 14,688km from Foxboro. That's 9128 miles, for you heathens.
by Comedic.Sans on Nov 17, 2010 4:49 PM EST up reply actions
Oh, is that whose jersey that is?
I hadn’t noticed….
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by SlotMachinePlayer on Nov 17, 2010 6:54 PM EST up reply actions
no idea why they cut him....he did so well against the steelers.....
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We'll know if/when they re-sign him.
They might offer him a bigger deal or something. It’s odd.
Token southern hemisphere guy - 14,688km from Foxboro. That's 9128 miles, for you heathens.
by Comedic.Sans on Nov 17, 2010 1:24 AM EST up reply actions
This still doesn't make sense
Why release Crable when you have players like Quinn Ojinaka who really have no purpose on the active roster?
And based on the two reasons I highlighted above, it’s unlikely that he’s coming back on a bigger contract. It’s not like he’s played to a level where you’re like: “wow, the team really needs to make sure they have this guy locked up.” And if he was playing at that type of level, he would be grabbed on waivers.
The only way I see him coming back is on the practice squad, or maybe in a week or two when other roster situations sort themselves out.
Yep, hide him on the practice squad and bulk up an area of immediate need...
Safety? CB? Kicker?
Token southern hemisphere guy - 14,688km from Foxboro. That's 9128 miles, for you heathens.
by Comedic.Sans on Nov 17, 2010 1:40 AM EST up reply actions
Agreed.
This is crazy. The Patriots are going against the Colts with only Ninkovich, Cunningham and TBC at OLB. Ninkovich is the only one with the ability to drop into coverage, and even then he’d still be a liability in run defense. My thought is the Patriots are going to start using Dane Fletcher in an OLB role, with the sole purpose of being a coverage linebacker. He’ll spy the RB, he’ll watch the TE and he’ll watch the QB. He won’t rush the QB and won’t really have a set zone line an ILB. Fletcher will be used on the suspected checkdown player. That might work.
Still don’t know why they cut Crable. It must be to promote Carter or to sign a player. Looking at recent transactions doesn’t show any player the Patriots might be interested in, so it must be an internal promotion, like Carter.
Has Butler really fallen this far? The Patriots need help at CB (although McCourty/Arrington/Wilhite have been above average as a squad) as they’re facing Peyton and Carter may be especially adept at run defense- which is crucial as Peyton loves checking down to his running backs.
by Richard Hill on Nov 17, 2010 2:12 AM EST up reply actions
good pt
The Patriots are going against the Colts with only Ninkovich, Cunningham and TBC at OLB.
I said this right after the 4th and 2 game last yr @ PP….TBC and Ninko provided constant pressure in 3 quarters and that once TBC and Ninko went out early in the 4th qtr…Manning craved up the defense w. 2 quick 80 yard td drives to bring the score 34-28..and then came the infamous 4th and 2 play. Useless AT didn’t do anything in those 3 series in the 4th qtr.
We need all the pass rushers we can have against Manning…esp since the colts run a no huddle and they need to have 2 rushers constantly on the field and sub in another team
Ninko was a nobody ( i’m sure most pple here didn’t know who the heck he was- except for myself since he wears my fav player’s jersey number and prob CS) till we all saw him getting in the face of Manning.
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funny thing about adalius
sunday we were talking about him shocking how not 1 team has signed him yet ? jets kicked the tires in training camp but other then that he is out of the league i guess BB was right the guy lost it.
Mike Reiss
Seemed to think that even though he played a lot of snaps against the Steelers the coaches just might have been unimpressed with his performance.
IMO, Butler must have fallen “that” far. He was a healthy scratch…that doesn’t happen to good players, or even ones who practice well and put in the effort to improve. Not a good sign I don’t think. Carter was my first thought as well, seeing as we only apparently felt as though we had 3 game-worthy CBs on Sunday.
Deep in enemy territory
looks like he will be fired from the citgo....
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Pat McAfee -Colts punter-"@StampedeBlue I hope your website gets exposed for a complete joke. There’s no reason for you to do that, and its completely ridiculous."
It might come down to BB wanting a more complete player taking up a roster spot...
So far, Crable has been a pure sub-rusher. According to Mike Reiss, Crable had started to play a bit more on special teams also. But, with special teams performance dropping off in reent weeks, perhaps Crable was one of the culprits lacking in his ST assignments. Average performance in a sub-rush role + possible poor special teams play is the fastest way off a BB roster for a fringe player. Obviously I am only speculating here, but it seems as plausible an explanation as any. I think we could see another player brought in with more special teams expertise, similar to the Tracy White pickup. Not sure who the free agents are who could perform that role, but Belichick will not be liking the fact that opposing teams have been getting better starting field position by the week.
I'm pretty sure Belichick
knows plenty we don’t regarding this decision. I don’t know what’s going on “under the hood,” so to speak, and Crable is an underdog for whom I was rooting, but I’m not too concerned; remember that other guy they let go six weeks ago? Without whom we’ve gone 4 – 1?
:)
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’roids anyone?
He might have found out and dumped him. You never know.
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by SlotMachinePlayer on Nov 17, 2010 10:55 AM EST up reply actions
I love how this works - a sub rusher on the edge gets cut and we all start piping up
BB has got something else up his sleeve, this is a diversion I tells ya!
I expect that the PATS try something new this week.
I think the Colts have won severla straight against the PATS. It is time to try something new on defense against Manning. I loved the agrressive rush against the Steelers. I vote that the PATS use 4 d-lineman and RUSH with abandon. I much rather deal with YAC by RB’s than allow Manning to fire down field with time in the pocket.
Manning is immobile. He is an easy target to go after. The dump downs are the risk, but knocking Manning to the ground a dozen times over a game is well worth the YAC from dump downs. Rattle Manning with a bull rush mindset, and see if the PATS can end the losing streak against the Colts.
RUSH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Its interesting that no teams have tried to copy the Saints SB defensive gameplan against Manning...
They basically had three pass rushers and dropped everyone into coverage, with odd blitzes put in to keep Manning guessing. To me that game plan was perfect because as good as Manning is and as good a leader he is, in big games especially he WANTS to be the reason the colts win. The way the saints went about it, they basically allowed Addai to run on them and waited for Manning to get fed up with waiting to put his mark on the game. Colts scored 17 points. Manning threw a game sealing pick-6.
I wouldn’t mind seeing a three man rush of Wright-Wilfork-Warren, with Ninkovich, Mayo and Guyton as the LBs, allowing them to change into a 4 man line if they need to, drop 8 into a mix of zone and man, and disguise blitzes the way they did against the Steelers.
I think we tried the no front seven approach before haven't we?
Baltimore playoffs last year?
Didn’t go so well best I can remember…
LOL @ the idea of the Colts running all over an opponent on the ground.
Token southern hemisphere guy - 14,688km from Foxboro. That's 9128 miles, for you heathens.
by Comedic.Sans on Nov 17, 2010 4:51 PM EST up reply actions
They usually do well on SNF on the ground inexplicably. But they won't get much
on us.
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by PatNation85 on Nov 18, 2010 12:18 PM EST up reply actions
2 straight win against the pats...one w. Matt Cassel as the qb
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Damn that sucks.
I was excited of the potential of having a 6"5" 250 lb Crable lined up on the opposite side of 6’3" 266 Cunningham.
looks like they cut crable to
bring back pierre woods
All guesses, of course ...
but I think Manning is best when allowed to sit in the pocket and survey the field.
I would rather go after him with four DL rushing aggressively, add an occasional blitz, hit him as often as possible, absorb the underneath YAC reality, and hope that 4 qtrs of that type of physical abuse [like Rothlesberger was dealt] will create a key TO and lead to a win.
Maybe...
although 4 D-line doesn’t add the confusion element than having 3 D-line and rushing one linebacker does. If Manning sees 4 D-lineman, he knows who’s coming at him.
Token southern hemisphere guy - 14,688km from Foxboro. That's 9128 miles, for you heathens.
by Comedic.Sans on Nov 19, 2010 10:16 PM EST up reply actions
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