re: Ex Saints This Week

The professional resume of Glenn Pakulak is all over the place: teacher, bartender, waiter, steel worker. Oh, and NFL punter.
As the team's new practice squad punter, Pakulak made an appearance in the Redskins' locker room on Wednesday, just another NFL locker room to scratch off the checklist. Prior to joining the Redskins, he had stints with the Steelers, Falcons, Titans, Bears, Raiders (twice), Jets, Seahawks and Saints. In the past months, he's visited and had tryouts with at least four teams.
"It's the NFL story that nobody hears about it," Pakulak said, "nine, 10 different teams, I've lived in 13 different states, I went to Europe twice."
And he could be starting for Redskins on Sunday in Carolina. If punter Hunter Smith, who injured his groin against the Bucs, isn't healthy enough to go, Pakulak likely will be added to the 53-man roster later this week.
As for Pakulak, punting has always been his favorite job. No. 2 on the list, he said, was bartending on Bourbon Street in New Orleans. He hasn't needed a non-football job since before the 2008 season, though, thanks to his stint with the Saints last year. Pakulak appeared in eight games for the Saints - 24 punts, 47.7-yard average, 37.8-yard net.
"I made a little bit of money last year where I didn't have to hurry up and grab a waiter job or work construction," Pakulak said. "I actually had some money to live off of now. I was just working out and training."
He was waived in training camp by the Saints in August and signed by the Jets, who then released Pakulak six days later. Since then, Pakulak, who kicks with his left foot, has spent his time hopping from NFL city to NFL city, working out for coaches in Tennessee, Minnesota and twice in Baltimore. Several teams simply want to peek a Pakulak to help prepare for a left-footed punter on gameday.
"They don't even have to pay you anything," he said. "They just call it a workout: 'We want to take a look at this guy.' But what they end up doing is utilizing you because of your left foot. They have a return man out there catching your punts. They can just fly me across the country, punt to their return men and send me home."
He arrived in Ashburn with just a suitcase, much of his life still in storage back in Austin, Texas. He doesn't know how long he'll stay in town, and he doesn't know whether this will be his final opportunity. But Pakulak, 29, does that know that punting beats construction most days.
"It's when you know you're capable of doing something, it's hard to walk away from it," he said.

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