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Fifth round pick at a Clemson was drafted by the Rivera-era Marty party, but had a strong camp. When I was out there, I was always impressed. And in the preseason, he was pretty constantly being cold. His name was being mentioned a lot. He had a sack. Now there was nothing impressive about it in that he came free. It was a blown assignment by New England. He was unblocked, but he was the one that hit Jacoby Brissette when he got up grabbing at his shoulder and left the game with an injury in the preseason finale against the Patriots the other night. A little bit surprised by this. Probably really good news for Givente Jean Baptiste at a Notre Dame who was a seventh round pick by this group. Obviously good news for Jamie Davis in terms of the holdovers from the Rivera era as well. But I think you're going to see this in a lot of the bubble decisions. Who brought you here? Yeah, one in doubt. That's where you lean. Were you the last group sky or you are a guy? And that's how it probably should be. They're building something in their image. I do think Henry will stick around if he doesn't get claimed. Look, how often do we talk about this, Danny? Every single year, I feel like we do the same exercise. You can't afford to cut that guy. And he's going to end up on somebody's roster and then almost nobody ever gets signed. Anybody's roster. I would say he's right at the top of the list of players with a chance to be. But I always just kind of assume you'll be able to sneak whoever you want onto the practice squad for a team like this that isn't that good where there's plenty of roster battles, frankly, where like, whether the guy ends up on the P squad or the active roster doesn't really make a lot of sense. They're interchangeable. This is not one of those positions. Now, defensive tackle is one where I go, whomever they move on from. And by the way, I saw a report that John Ridgeway might be available via trade that maybe they let some teams know that. But because if you move on from Ridgeway, you move on from Badarian Mathis, who I know hasn't shown a ton has been injured a bunch, but still second round pick has got some talent. A lot of those guys would be signed would make an active roster. That defensive end spot respectfully is not that that's a they make a lot of KJ Henry there's there's seven or eight of that guy right now that's on the way for someone. I don't mean to be disrespectful. It's another failed player. I just think he plays with a lot of effort. I like him. He's got a motor and he's got some traits like athletic tools. You're not a four star. I think you might have even been a five star at one point. Yeah, it was super highly talented guy. I think that doesn't happen out of high school in the college. If you don't have some legitimate tools in the belt, so to speak, I just think when he gets a chance, he plays well. I thought in the second half of last year was pretty good. Actually, didn't you? I did. Yeah, I certainly looks the part, but I guess my point is that this is that it's not like they just let some double digit sack guy walk. It's not like they let somebody that was going to step up and play huge here. He's how much worse are you with with Dante Fowler getting reps or Cleveland Farrell or Davis on a position conversion? It's probably six and one half dozen of the other. What is a double digit sack guy? I'm not familiar with it. So this is a great question because you haven't seen it in a long time. What happens is let's say that NFL season occurs. Okay. So there's how many games? You know this 17 games a guy will oftentimes do what's called rush the passer. So the guy drops back. He's the guy that runs after the quarterback. Yeah. So someone instead of handing it off, which is the running back the quarterback will drive back. He wants to throw the ball. Yeah. One of your guys, now this is the team that you like, will tackle him behind the line of scrimmage. Oh, like Ryan Kerrigan used to do. He used to do that. And and if you get so like a Dexter Manley, Charles, in that vein, yeah, and you get a guy that does that semi frequently, maybe every 1.1 games on average, you can get like nine, even 10 double digits sacks. Well, one guy, one guy can. I just don't know if I believe that. Dude, I'm telling you, I've seen it. Do players do that in one year in the league? Pretty routinely, I would say. Yeah. Especially in this passing era. Guys, you're doing that all the time. That is pretty amazing. Not here though. You know what I mean? No, not here. A Martavis Bryant, wide receiver. Some thought that maybe he was going to be the sixth guy in. He has been released today. It was reported. And this is a tell generally that it came from the agent that if he gets through waivers, he will be on the practice squad, which makes a ton of sense. And you can tell they like him. Yes. He caught a touchdown late with a couple of minutes left against the Patriots. And Adam Peters is running over to hug him and a bunch of his teammates are greeting him out on the field, hopping around, going crazy. That's how you know a guy is popular in the dressing room and that players are rooting for him that the staff is rooting for him. It's been 10 years since he was really good. It's been almost seven years since he caught a pass in the league. So it'd be an amazing story if he could get back on the field. I actually thought he might make the team. I did to actually just because of the lack of size in the room. But I will say, Danny, that if you look around the NFL, they're wide receivers all over the place getting cut today, who have performed adequate adequately at the national football league level way more recently than Martavis Bryant, who have size who are also getting cut. Guys like Noah Brown in Houston with the Texans, former cowboy was there when Dan Quinn was there, who's made over 70 catches the last couple of years at 500 yards last year. He's big, he's six to 215 pounds. He'd look good as far as I'm concerned in Burgundy and gold. I saw that Terrace Marshall, former second round pick, he's only 24 years old, has been a huge disappointment, but maybe a change of scenery could help him. He's a guy at six foot two that the Panthers cut today that hit the wire. So it's easy to say Martavis Bryant comes back on the practice squad, but there are probably not six wide outs on this team that are better than some of the guys being cut by good teams. Mitchell Tinsley is an example of a guy he didn't dress most of last year was on the team, but never caught a ball or was targeted. He got cut today. You could bring him back on your P squad or you could probably just try to grab somebody with second in the waiver wire. Remember, only the Panthers. That's the only team gets to pick and choose between the players getting cut before Washington does. So my guess is they bring in a wide receiver from outside the building. You would think so. And I think everyone, a lot of people around the league are probably watching what Houston does. They got a pretty deep receiver room over there, right, where they've got the added Stefan digs to Negro Collins and Tank Dell, you know, drafted a couple guys over the last couple of years to that could probably help them. So it's like a Robert Woods, for example, who, you know, as a veteran who they might say, let's do right by her. Maybe let's float something up the flagpole. Maybe give us a conditional late round pick form or something like that. A guy with some pelts on the wall, who's probably not as not, not probably isn't as explosive as he was a couple of years ago. That's an intriguing name to sort of monitor and watch. Denzel Mims, a former hydraulic pick with size, just got cut by the Jaguars. The point is to, to, as you said, there are going to be opportunities, probably to slightly improve that room. I don't think the major move is coming. You and I both theorize that don't want to speak for you, but I don't think that big trade, that home run, that T Higgins, that brand that I look is coming, but that marginal improvement, that fifth guy out of six that's cut by someone else with a better room that might be happening. Today is a no news is good news day. There are players that'll just sit by the phone. They'll try to stay busy and put something on their schedule, go see a movie or go to lunch with a loved one or something. But you're just waiting for your phone you don't get a call generally to tell you you made the team very, very rare, but occasionally does that happen when it's a cool enough story that maybe the team wants to record it or do something fun with it. Most of the time you just keep hoping no one calls you and you have to show up at the building for practice this afternoon, which they're going to have much later than they normally do. Doors take us to summers away or winter adventures and afternoon getaways. Your dedicated Fidelity advisor can help you open those doors by working with you on a comprehensive plan to help you reach your wealth's full potential, because doors were meant to be opened. Visit fidelity.com/wealth. Investment minimums apply Fidelity Brokerage Services LLC member NYSE SIPC. This episode is brought to you by Progressive Insurance. Whether you love true crime or comedy, celebrity interviews or news, you call the shots on what's in your podcast queue. And guess what? 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Any other surprises before we move on to the other news of the day for Washington, as far as cuts so far that have been publicized, I wouldn't say surprise, but interesting to me, a couple of notes. One another name for another couple names from the 2023 draft, which didn't go particularly well. The guys at the top forbs and quan Martin are going to be here. Martin looks like he might be able to stick, but there are a couple other candidates that be they Brayden Daniels, maybe Ricky Stromberg, who might also be candidates kid you Henry now gone. There was a report today. They're trying to trade Stromberg, which then I would say good luck. And they're also apparently dangling cold Turner in trade conversations. And they should like, if you're a good front office, if you're an executive who knows what you're doing and Adam Peters qualifies before you release a player, you should make 25 phone calls. Why not? Hey, what are you looking for? Where are you at on the waiver wire? Your 19th, you need a guard. I got a guy. I got Ricky Stromberg. So they'll see if they can get any of these guys traded. I often hear people say, Danny, well, why would I trade for someone if I know you're cutting them? And it's because if you're low down the waiver order, you don't have a chance to get them potentially. So if you really want someone or you like someone, you've probably put out a feeler to Adam Peters already saying, Hey, that guy's not going to make your team give me a call. And that's kind of how that starts. But I don't know that they have a whole lot of talent in the way of players that other clubs are lining up for to acquire via trade. Yeah, just again, to that end view, the 20th, 20th draft Chris Rodriguez, they let go. What didn't they like about him? I mean, he my goodness, he was practicing as like the last running back through drills. It was Robinson Echler, McNichols, Wily supplanted him pretty quickly. They started using Kaz Allen in these preseason games. A wide receiver who hasn't been able to make it at that position before they were giving Chris Rodriguez touches. Yeah, it's just not their guy. They did not seem to be a fan for every reason. And to me, like he's not the style that I would go after, but he's got a little bit of the things that I like. But I want a lot of the things that I like. Here's what I know about Chris Rodriguez on the field. When he played, he had some success. It was pretty decent. He led the team in yards per attempt last year. And in the preseason last year, he was excellent. Now, it wasn't quite as good this season. A couple of his best runs, I think were called back for penalties as a matter of fact, a couple passes in the third preseason game. He did look decent. Yeah, wasn't their guy. And that's going to be a reoccurring theme. McNichols, they brought in, may make the team. I think Wily, who they did release today, the undrafted free agent from Arizona is someone to monitor on the P squad. He's got game. I like him. Yeah, there's a first there for them. Yeah. Rodriguez. I wonder for Rodriguez about PassPro, just in lining up and shotgun pretty much every time, which it seems like that's what they're going to be doing. He's huge. I mean, if he can't do that, he's a more showing's drew kind of low to the ground bowling ball kind of guy. He needs to get better at that. If that is a problem and I don't know that today, I speculate, I have no idea. Yeah, I'm just saying though, he's way too big for that not to be a strength. Like you're already going to have some issues with some of the teams that want the shifty guy who has wiggle. When you're that frame of a running back, you should be able to pick up linebackers. But regardless, he's out defensively. I don't think there have been any real surprises outside of KJ Henry. The one story that caught my attention today was you and I were discussing the detackle position where Alan and pain are their starters. They drafted Johnny Newton in the second round and they've got some other down-the-depth chart veterans who have played really well, like Benning Poto. The question was who who's going to make the team between Fidarian Mathis and John Ridgeway? And I'm sure you saw that several of the beat reporters today were saying that John Ridgeway is on the trade block. I don't know that that means that he's the guy getting caught, but it stands to reason that if they're not saying Fidarian Mathis is on the trade block and they're keeping one of those guys, maybe it'll be Mathis. So if you go for just a make again, I'm making this up. Sick of argument. You go one guy is six, the other guy is half a dozen. There might be more interest for Ridgeway than for Mathis who hasn't been healthy and hasn't really played. But if they go, you know what, we'll get the same production and we might get something for Ridgeway, then we'll pull that trigger. I bet you if they don't get a Ridgeway offer that is acceptable to them, then maybe they try to put Mathis on the P squad or something to that effect and roll with Ridgeway. But if you've got them graded pretty evenly, think they'll help you the same amount, then it becomes, you know, sort of a luxury, an extra thing and you could, you could spend that into an asset. Couple of names I'm interested in finding out the fate of are Derek Forrest, who two years ago, the safety from Cincinnati, was a starter. Yes. And in fact, it was making place, generating takeaways, huge thumping hits in the secondary. I flew around the field a little bit. Yeah, I got to a point with him where I thought as a mid-round pick, this is a guy who's going to be around here for a while. So when, yeah, he is now squarely on the bubble. And I think has a real chance not to make it, depending on how many safeties they keep. Jeremy Reeves, who was an all pro a couple seasons ago, as another guy who's been fighting for a roster spot. It seems like that's his whole career as a special team's ace. But I would think you would keep him before Forrest. But those are two guys to keep track of today at corner. One veteran who is out, reportedly is James Pierre, who they signed, who played for the Steelers last year in the secondary and on special teams. They also cut to wreak Castro fields, who they got on waivers season before last from San Francisco, who's been in and out of the building over the last couple of years. So a couple of the veterans have already found out their fate. And I like that they do that earlier in the process with some of those older guys with some pelts on the wall, because maybe it can get your agent to start making some phone calls and seeing what's what. So the way that I've done, I mean, I can pull my, but if I'd done my right when I did my 53, I thought Castro fields would make it. So that I thought he would be in. So that kind of is probably good news for maybe one extra safety or somebody that might, you know, it might not have been a headliner right there. I thought fields would make the 53. So I don't want to say there was a surprise, but that was one of those one of my last guys in. This episode is brought to you by Progressive Insurance. Whether you love true crime or comedy, celebrity interviews or news, you call the shots on what's in your podcast queue. And guess what? Now you can call them on your auto insurance too, with the name your price tool from Progressive. It works just the way it sounds. You tell Progressive how much you want to pay for car insurance, and they'll show you coverage options that fit your budget. Get your quote today at Progressive.com to join the over 28 million drivers who trust Progressive. 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