Come back to us Tom Pestock; Get the hell outta here Corey Hilliard!

by Brad Wells on Aug 19, 2009 12:43 PM EDT in Colts News

With Roy Hall clearing waivers and getting placed on IR... again... for the third year in a row, the Colts decided to bring back OT Tom Pestock, says Mike Chappell of the Indy Star. Pestock was waived last week prior to the Minnesota Vikings pre-season game. In re-signing Pestock, the Colts decided to take the opportunity to jettison everyone's favorite whipping boy the last five days: reserve RT Corey Hilliard.

In all seriousness, Hilliard is lucky he wasn't fired at halftime of last week's pre-season game. Hilliard was given a chance to start at RT for the Colts (a pretty big deal!) and Corey responded with not one, not two, but three sacks allowed on Peyton Manning in just five plays.

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We wish Corey all the best, and hopefully next time he gets a big assignment he will not screw it up as royally as he did with the Colts.

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GOOD.

Putting Dallas Clark at RT would result in fewer sacks than in allowing Hilliard to play..

by hahasound on Aug 19, 2009 1:16 PM EDT reply actions

Hall on IR

Actually, this isn’t the third year in a row he has been on IR since he never went on the IR list last year. He should have been – and it is certainly the thrid year in a row he’s had long-term injuries. Yeah – it’s a technical point….

Anyone know what happened this time? Anyone know why he is still around?

by the_iowa_hawkeye on Aug 19, 2009 1:20 PM EDT reply actions

I don't think it was a season ending type injury

or he would have gone straight to IR instead of injured/waived. He just got hurt again and they didn’t think he was worth an 80 man roster spot while hurt (and big change from last year when they used a 53 man roster spot on an injured Hall).

It's shocking what you can miss sometimes. The amazing color changing card trick.

by shake n bake on Aug 19, 2009 2:20 PM EDT up reply actions

The question remains

Why is he on IR and not simply released?

by the_iowa_hawkeye on Aug 19, 2009 2:37 PM EDT up reply actions

There are rules about when you can release players with injuries

or else marginal guys that got hurt would end up injured with no money to show for it.

It's shocking what you can miss sometimes. The amazing color changing card trick.

by shake n bake on Aug 19, 2009 2:51 PM EDT up reply actions

not true

you can cut an injured guy at any time, but you have to reach a monetary settlement. They could easily have just cut him and paid him some amount of money (somewhere below 50%). This happens all the time.

by willyduer on Aug 19, 2009 4:20 PM EDT up reply actions

I mean getting totally out from under their contract

like at the end of the year players that fail physicals can be dropped, but during the season they have to get money for the team to get out of their contract.

Do you know if there’s some kind of deadline for Hall to get/have gotten a settlement or if he’ll just sit on IR until they cut him at the end of the year or bring him to camp for his contract year?

It's shocking what you can miss sometimes. The amazing color changing card trick.

by shake n bake on Aug 19, 2009 4:32 PM EDT up reply actions

I thought there was also a slightly different rule

for when players are in camp (versus during the regular season)?

How can you not love a team that does this?

by LovinBlue on Aug 19, 2009 4:48 PM EDT up reply actions

oops

should have read willyduer’s post just below this – nvm

How can you not love a team that does this?

by LovinBlue on Aug 19, 2009 4:49 PM EDT up reply actions

strange rules

I believe there is some strange rule regarding IR early in the preseason, in that he can’t go straight there, and had to be waived first. A similar thing happened with that draft pick that the new Jags GM stole, which kicked off some big ethical controversy. Apparently there’s an unwritten rule that you let teams pass their injured guys through waivers during this period, and he broke it.

I don’t know the exact details but I can ask around.

by willyduer on Aug 19, 2009 4:19 PM EDT up reply actions