Shipp Released

[bg7brd]

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[dreamcastrocks]

Woohoo!

 

[nashman]

Its about time! This guys hasn't been good for YEARS!!!

 

[Gambit]

Shipp Sails off into the Sunset; A class act whose actions on the field couldn't measure up to his all-around-good-guy-itude.

 

[bratwurst]

Pretty good run for an undrafted player. I wonder if they're letting him go a little early to help him catch with another club. JJ must be breathing a little easier.

 

[bg7brd]

He might have been cut to use his 1.75m towards Boldin???

 

[az jam]

Class guy, I wish him the best.

 

[Mulli]

Woohoo!

Hey Shipp. I'm your iceberg.

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[Mitch]

High character player who fought back through a very tough ankle injury. Ran hard and scraped for every inch. First class person. In my book, a winner.

It's good, though, the Cardinals are giving him time to catch on with another team. The Texans have always been interested in him, perhaps they will give him a chance.

 

[az jam]

Cards are now very thin at RB. Perhaps they will pick someone up.

 

[blindseyed]

High character player who fought back through a very tough ankle injury. Ran hard and scraped for every inch. First class person. In my book, a winner.

It's good, though, the Cardinals are giving him time to catch on with another team. The Texans have always been interested in him, perhaps they will give him a chance.

I was thinking that too. Good guy just couldn't break out after the injury. Maybe he'll make his way to Chicago ala Thomas Jones

 

[blindseyed]

Cards are now very thin at RB. Perhaps they will pick someone up.

Why? We have 3...well.....2 and JJ....

 

[RugbyMuffin]

Shipp Sails off into the Sunset; A class act whose actions on the field couldn't measure up to his all-around-good-guy-itude.

Agreed. He is (well was now) one of my favorite players on the team, and he is from Patterson, NJ. I have met his HS football coach many a time.

Shipp has always been a warrior for us, and always played hard. The one year he was going to have a chance and playing more he had that horrific injury and never recovered. And I do agree that he needed to go though. It is a good move by our club.

I wish him well, and hope he finds another team to hook up with.

 

[bratwurst]

He might have been cut to use his 1.75m towards Boldin???

I highly doubt that

 

[BigRedRage]

wow, farewell tugboat, good luck

 

[RugbyMuffin]

The Texans have always been interested in him, perhaps they will give him a chance.

Agreed. The Texans will probably take him.

 

[SeattleCard]

Adios, Shipppp

 

[green machine]

Class act all the way.

 

[moklerman]

Wow. Sad loss. Always hate seeing a guy like that leave a team but his price tag was just too high. I wonder if they offered to restructure his deal to try and keep him?

 

[Mitch]

The coaches like Steve Baylark...the younger UMass grad who is very Marcel Shipp-esque...and Baylark is eligible for another year on the practice squad.

 

[Pariah]

vBookie on when/if he gets picked up by someone?

 

[Alan]

Interesting timing. Why right now? Signing looming?

 

[bg7brd]

I highly doubt that

Why do you doubt that. Shipp was making a lot of money for essentially a special teams player. By cutting Shipp the team saves 1.75 million towards the cap. Sometimes these decisions come down to $$$. I'm sure they cut him early so he would have a chance to get on with another team. I hope he does.

 

[MadCardDisease]

Interesting timing. Why right now? Signing looming?

Exactly! Why cut him now? It wasn't like the Cards were in Cap trouble and needing to re-sign players. Could they be looking to sign help on the O-Line?

Shipp was a great guy and I hope he gets picked up by another team.

 

[Crazy Canuck]

Thought it would happen months ago... and now imagine that the coaches wanted a better sense of what Hightower could be before pulling the plug.

Never thought for a moment that JJ was the guy on the bubble. He has five things going for him, that Shipp doesn't: Speed; better catcher of the ball out of the backfield; can run back kicks; age - and is cheaper.