According to this a scout said that Ford was the 4th most impressive CB during Training Camp..

http://twitter.com/packer_update 

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It should be known that the other three were Blackman, Lee, and Bush 😛

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I'm kind of interested in Bell. He seems like a quality player that was ushered out because of a new regime and an ill-timed injury. We may have actually gotten a steal in signing him.

Yeah I don't know who the others were but from what I've seen i could never figure out how Ford made it to the last cut... when ever I notice him he was in big trouble... I mean seriously Swain looked better at CB than Ford did...



Yeah I was thinking that as well... but a Broncos fan I know said he wasn't nothing special... we'll see...

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Great point..lol

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Okay, someone explain why, _if_ they're planning to bring up someone (or multiple someones) from the practice squad, why are they delaying to put Kampman and Harris on IR? Why not do it right away?

Now, if they're trying to work out a deal with someone not on the PS, I understand; but if they're just calling up Ford or whoever, why the effin delay? Frankly it sounds like the kind of thing a penny-pinching nickle-and-dime negotiator would do.

On the other hand....oh, never mind, I said I'd never bring up the Moss thing again.

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IMO.. I think it speaks directly to the fact that they are probably talking to some player on the market and really evaluating the overall value of players not only at the position that folks are going on IR.. but also searching out players in sort of a Best Player Available scenario.. since once they pull a player up from the PS they just can't send them back down.. they have to be waived in order to place them back.

I think it is an overall process.. I also think they wait for the doctors to report back on time frames.. in case the damage wasn't as bad as expected.

Going through the MRI process now going on 4 months.. had three now and the reading of the MRI's seems to vary from one doctor to the next.

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Yep, and there's no need to put a player on IR until you've decided who's going to take his roster spot. I think this is pretty routine.

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you miss my point. If they're picking someone up outside of the PS, sure.

But if all they're going to do is bring someone up from their own PS, then why the delay? The only reason I could think for doing so is that PS players have smaller salaries.

I mean, come on....does anyone really believe that either Kampman or Harris are going to come back from a torn ACL this year?

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