Andre Brown placed on IR/Designated to return

was a similar situation, but his injury is still lingering around over a year later.

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Brown is worth the roster spot mac attack : 3:15 pm He had an unfortunate injury an an inopportune time. He will be able to play by Week 6 so that gives him 2 extra weeks to rehab. The Giants don't cut guys loose because of an injury that can heal. They are classier than that.

The CBA prevents any team from cutting a player who's injured unless they reach a mutually agreeable settlement. It has nothing to do with the Giants having class. Besides, Brown can help them later in the year - why would they cut him?

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Ballard mac attack : 3:15 pm was a similar situation, but his injury is still lingering around over a year later.

Huh? Ballard had a serious, long-term injury and was placed on wiavers so that, if he cleared waivers, he could be put on season-ending IR and the Giants could retain his rights. Brown is not being placed on season-ending IR because the Giants may be able to use him later this year. These two cases are not even remotely similar.

Brown has had a number of unfortunate injuries at inopportune times.

If he stays on the roster, stay tuned because he is bound to have more.

Fortunately, they don't have anyone on the PS for a 3rd year.

If Brown comes back healthy and has a great 2nd half & perhaps playoffs, some team may overpay for him in FA and we may get a decent comp pick.

Tom Rock ‏@TomRock_Newsday 1m

I'm told the Giants are not putting Andre Brown on short-term IR today (with an emphasis on the last word).

It makes no sense to place him on the temp IR until after game 1.

Tom Rock ‏@TomRock_Newsday 3m

They can make the move on Andre Brown at any time before Week 2 game and he'll miss the same amount of time.

All the what if's about later on don't make sense. Are you going to bite the bullet now so maybe you don't have to bite it later. If someone more important gets hurt later on you will want them back ASAP not in 8 weeks. Its easier to use up a roster spot for JPP or Prince or Eli than it is for Brown. Last year alot of teams tried to save it for a more important player and it did not get used. Its an option that is worthless if you don't use it.

because the Giants have a bye in week 9, they essentially don't have to make this decision until after week 1, so why make it before then with a single use designation.

still sounds like temporary IR for Brown, but won't happen until after week 1.

to use their short-term IR designation, then I feel a lot better about the move. After Week 1 a bunch of guys will be dinged, somebody will get a ding bad enough to miss some time. Then they can see who they want to put on the shelf for a while.

The only price they pay is they wouldn't have the extra roster spot for Week 1, and unless they brought back a recent cut, it doesn't appear they could fill that spot in time to have a player practiced and ready to dress Sunday night anyway.

Brown is on temp. I.R. and will be eligible to return week 10 after the off week.

does anyone know about Ronnie Wingo, a RB from Arkansas on the Bills PS?

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but part of a professional athletes value to a team is his ability to stay on the field. For whatever reason some guys don't get hurt much, and some do, and I don't think it is complete luck. Perhaps its build, the way they play, their ability to play through pain (not an issue in Brown's case),etc. Even if you are the greatest player in the world, if you are exercise bike all day it doesn't help the team. I think Brown is entering this category.

And that Brown has been bad at it?

How did you manage to pick two of, perhaps, the only things that BBI universally agrees on to suggest as things BBI doesn't want to hear?

This was the most blatantly obvious move ever. How could anyone have a problem with this?

I haven't read the whole thread but I hope the OP was being sarcastic.

I don't see how this could possibly be a bad move. There are 4 options:

1) Cut him
2) IR him
3) Keep him on the roster
4) Do what they did

They don't want to cut him or IR him because they think he can contribute later in the year. So we're down to #3 or #4. The idea of "saving" the designated IR spot makes no sense. We freed up a roster spot by putting Brown on the temp IR. If somebody else gets a medium-term injury, we'll keep him on the roster. The net for roster spots is the same.

The only objections I could see is if you think he's going to be back much earlier than the temp IR spot allows for. Otherwise, this strikes me as wildly unobjectionable.

who do the Giants sign in place of Brown? Brown would be inactive on gameday if kept on the 53, no? Is the guy they sign going to be active and if so in place of who(m)?

If they sign Dwyer (for instance) and make Scott inactive, just cut Scott and save the temp IR spot.

AB comes back in the same time frame, and a vet at any position can be signed without having to guarantee the contract for the full year, (assuming I read and understood all of Optimus' cap info correctly).

It's one less week of practice that be could get under his belt.

It's also one extra week of healing.