Could Sparano be hiding Pat White?

[Doc-phin]

I have been thinking this for a while, but decided to throw it out there a little before the actual decisions on who to keep get made.

I was wondering if anyone else thought they may have not played Pat White in preseason because he was the only backup QB with practice squad eligibility and they wanted to avoid having him pulled by another team.

Reports out of camp were not all bad for White and if Pennington is due to leave soon it would make sense to try to keep a young QB that you have been trying to develop and only drafted a year ago.  Therefore, I was thinking that perhaps Sparano & Co. think they can sneak him through waivers if they don't show film on him throwing the ball.

On the other hand I gotta think that someone out there really wanted White a year ago in the draft and would snatch him up based on their year old draft grades.

Speak bad of him if you want, but White was electric in college and from the two passes I saw of him this preseason his accuracy and comfort level are improving.  If he could truly get it together he could add a dimension to the offense that would keep opposing D-coordinators up all night.

Maybe this should be a poll, but I don't know how to set it up.

Pat White gets released and goes elsewhere
Pat White ends up on the practice squad
Pat White makes the team but stays inactive
Pat White makes the team and is active but doesn't play
Pat White makes the team and gets on the field

[fyo]

I was wondering if anyone else thought they may have not played Pat White in preseason because he was the only backup QB with practice squad eligibility and they wanted to avoid having him pulled by another team.

Is White even eligible? One of the requirements is that you cannot have an accrued season, which I believe White has, since he was on the active gameday roster every game until his injury.

[Pappy13]

Several problems with your scenario.

1.  I don't think he has practice squad eligibility.
2.  Pennington isn't going anywhere.  He's more valuable as a backup here than as a potential starter elsewhere and that's the only way he's traded.

White is gonna be cut.  Whether or not he ends up on another's roster is another question.

[Philly Fin Fan]

White can't go on the practice squad.

No one will trade a pick for him, because most teams will assume he is going to get cut anyway.
And no dice on practice squad:
Practice Squad Eligibility
According to league policy, only certain types of players are allowed to sign to the practice squad. Players cannot have played more than nine regular season games or been on the active roster for an entire year, nor can players be allowed to spend more than two seasons on the same team's squad unless that team's active roster never dips below 53 players.
 

[fyo]

White can't go on the practice squad.

That quote is a very mangled version of the actual rule. Basically, the 9 games and active roster thing is for free agents. For White, it's the accrued year that's relevant (which isn't even mentioned in the version you quote).

[Brian Fein]

Question is this -

If you're the "emergency QB" are you truly "active"?

I believe that the "emergency QB" is dressed but technically inactive, thus the "if you come in before the 4th quarter" rule...

[badger6]

I think if the goofball would take a reciever role he would actually make some sort of impact..........









maybe to the head again !!!

[Brian Fein]

He said in the press that he's rather try to play baseball than play WR.

But, then the next day, after he got a bunch of flack for it, he retracted that statement and said "I'll do whatever Coach wants me to do"

[fyo]

Question is this -

If you're the "emergency QB" are you truly "active"?

I believe that the "emergency QB" is dressed but technically inactive, thus the "if you come in before the 4th quarter" rule...

No, the emergency QB is not active, but White wasn't the emergency quarterback. He was the #2 and dressed so he could run a Wild Cat every now and then.

[Spider-Dan]

Correct, fyo.  When White was drafted, the announced plan was to have Henne as 3rd string emergency QB so that White could pop in and out for pseudo-Wildcat packages.

Of course, that plan lasted for all of three games.