They’re a never ending source of comedy gold.

Don’t need to. The team has already said they were negative.

For a sport that has a lot of injuries, their very restrictive in what a team can do with them

Its straight WRONG to stash players on IR. THATS What this is. Demps is NOT hurt thats the point. MRI negative. If he had a 4 week injury I wouldnt care. But what your talking about is why their is a PRACTICE SQUAD!

The Jets lost Terrance Ganneway to trying to stash him on the Practice Squad. What if they spoke to him and said fake an injury on this play, cause we need a timeout or something maybe idk. Then never got a full injury report and just stashed him. I am not saying PATS did that, but that could be assumed since DEMPS IS NOT HURT.

Lastly the kid played college football so its not like being a sprinter is all he can do. Its not like he is someone that never played the game, so it is definitely concerning! Breaking rules is breaking rules end of story. I rarely see a non injured player being stashed on IR. I continually see teams try to stash good players on IR to lose them!

Looks folks. This kid hasn’t played football in awhile. He needs time to learn and develop. IR is the best thing for his ling term career right now and he knows it.

Forcing him to be on waivers and have a team that isn’t going to look out for his long term interests like the Patriots are, is not in his best interest.

Demps is only on IR for the Patriots if he wants to be there. And it’s very clear that he does, so ease up on the kid… Give him a year to develop.

@footballchic777 if that is really how you think football works then you need to study the game a bit more. The Ballard move and Demps move are polar opposite situations. The Giants were greedy in thinking that they could sneak a solid young player like Ballard through waivers, just because he was due to miss the season. If they had simply waited until this week (and admittedly wasted a roster spot on him until this point) they could have shelved him for the year. They rolled the dice that no other team would be interested and they were wrong. Simple as that. No wrong doing on either side. A coach as intelligent as Coughlin should have foreseen the distinct possibility of losing Ballard and just carried him on the 90 and 75 man rosters.

1. Keep him on the roster. First day of camp PUP(like the Pats did)

2. PUP him till week 6, see if he can practice if not IR him.

3. Keep him on PUP till 75 roster cut down day then IR without waivers.

4. Keep him on PUP till 53 man roster then IR him.

5. Do the stupid thing and waive him mid offseason.

Now if you say the Giants needed the roster spot, well that is crap you carry 90 players for 90% of the time. He could have filled one spot without issue.

“Haters go bonkers’ – I like the sound of that phrase. I’ll use it a lot this season so I’ll just shorten it to “hgb’ to save space.

Try this one, haters – “The rich get richer because they’re SMARTER.”

“…keep one important thing in mind”? Really? Why don’t you keep this in mind: that if the Giants wanted no chance of losing Ballard to another team, then they should not have placed him on waivers. Instead, they should have placed him on IR.

If Ballard has a gripe, then it is with the Giants organization, which completely mishandled and miscalculated the entire situation. Here’s a little helpful hint to any team: If you want to keep a valuable player on your roster, then do not place him on waivers.

Now there’s something worthy of keeping in mind.

Reality is probably in the middle. The Pats didn’t break any “rules”.That much is true. What is questionable is, did they violate the spirit of fair play and the intent of IR? If you are a Pats fan and threw the Redskins and Cowboys to the wolves for reportedly violating the spirit of fair play but don’t hold the Pats similarly accountable, then you are a hypocrite and show your true colors.