Cut Day A Nerve-Racking Process For All
Posted by on August 30, 2012 – 11:54 am
Whether veteran or rookie, “cut day” are two words you never want to hear.
That day is coming up quickly for the Washington Redskins — as in, by 9 p.m. Friday, the team must cut down its roster from 75 players to its final 53 men.
By noon on Saturday, an additional eight players are signed to the team’s practice squad.
Today is an off day for the Redskins players, who are fresh off their 30-3 preseason finale win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The coaching staff, however, is not taking the day off, and you can be sure that they’re meeting throughout the day today and tomorrow to make some difficult decisions.
And, as usual, several players went to Twitter in the past few hours to talk about cut day and their hopes for the rest of the week:
Quarterback Robert Griffin III:
Praying for all my brothers on this unfortunate cut day—
Robert Griffin III (@RGIII) August 30, 2012
Wide receiver Anthony Armstrong:
That was fun. Don't know what the cards hold, bit i sure do hope that wasn't my last time to walk off FedEx Field. #HTTR —
Anthony Armstrong (@MrArmstrong13) August 30, 2012
Wide receiver Dezmon Briscoe:
Morning twit fam! Blessed to have woken up this morning! Keep me in your prayers. Important day today!—
Dezmon Briscoe (@DezBriscoe89) August 30, 2012
Safety Jordan Bernstine:
The process is filled with so much stress but it's the progress that feels the best. #movingforward—
jordan bernstine (@JBernstine) August 30, 2012
Linebacker Markus White:
Lets see if the good out weights the bad #NoRegrets—
MarKus White (@Em_Whyte55) August 30, 2012
Cornerback David Jones:
Played my heart out for you tonight "Esco" no matter what happens this season is dedicated to you. R.I.P.—
David Jones (@_djones20) August 30, 2012
Offensive lineman Adam Gettis:
Cornerback Brandyn Thompson:
In gods hands—
Brandyn Thompson (@BThompson_BT) August 30, 2012
I also talked to a couple guys in the locker room last night whose spots on the final 53-man roster or the practice squad are still up in the air.
Defensive lineman Darrion Scott, for example, certainly helped his cause against the Buccaneers with four tackles — two for a loss — a sack and two quarterback hits.
Though he played well Wednesday, Scott still doesn’t know what the immediate future holds for him.
“I feel like, with the opportunities I had, I did my job, and that’s pretty much all I can do,” he said. “I’m confident and not down about it, but at the end of the day, a decision has to be made. I have no clue what’s going to happen.”
Scott — like several of his teammates — can only have a “wait-and-see” attitude at this point.
“Hopefully the decision that they make will keep me here — and I’d love to be here — but I don’t think I did anything to hurt myself [Wednesday],” Scott said. “So, you know, you just have to wait and see what happens.”
Nose tackle Marlon Favorite knows that feeling well. He’s been off and on 10 NFL rosters — not to mention two other professional football teams — in four years since leaving LSU.
Favorite also played well in Wednesday’s game, sacking Tampa Bay quarterback Brett Ratliff on the first play of the game, but said he remains level-headed whenever cut day comes around.
“In this world, especially in this business, all you can do is control what you can control, which is your work ethic in practice and in the game when given opportunities,” Favorite said. “So I just try my hardest to execute that to the fullest, and I leave the rest up to the man upstairs.”
Tags: 2012 preseason, cut day, roster cuts, washington redskins
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By DR_DEATH420 on Aug 30, 2012 | Reply
This is a tough cut down for the skins as they finally have alot of depth on this roster. There are a bunch of guys that if we cut will be picked up quick. Like Banks & Armstrong who I feel it would be a bad cut as speed kills. Anyway can’t wait for next sunday HTTR….
By e1ghty8 on Aug 31, 2012 | Reply
In my opinion, from the four games, training camp and practice reports, WR corps will be Garcon, Moss, Morgan, Hankerson, Banks & Briscoe. Armstrong, Austin & others are cut. Armstrong & Austin makes practice squad. RB corps will be Helu Jr., Morris & Hightower. Royster goes to practice squad. LB corps will be Fletcher, Orakpo, Kerrigan, Riley, Alexander, Markus White, Chris Wilson, Rob Jackson & Bryan Kehl. Keenan Robinson to practice squad. DB corps will be Hall, Wilson, Griffin, Brandon Meriweather, Tanard Jackson, Crawford & Gomes. David Jones to practice squad. OL corps will be T. Williams, Eric Cook, Chris Chester, Willie Smith, Will Montgomery, Tyler Polumbus & Gettis OR Lichtensteiger. DL corps will be Carriker, Goldston, Jenkins, Bowen, Cofield & Chris Baker.
By e1ghty8 on Aug 31, 2012 | Reply
I forgot Maurice Hurt should fit in on the O-Line as well. He’s been playing well.
By James W D on Aug 31, 2012 | Reply
My Projected 53 man Roster. I had to leave some of my favorites out 8(
Alexander, Lorenzo
Baker, Chris
Bernstine, Jordan
Black, Jordan
Bowen, Stephen
Briscoe, Dezmon
Carriker, Adam
Chester, Chris
Cofield, Barry
Cousins, Kirk
Crawford, Richard
Cundiff, Billy
Davis, Fred
Fletcher, London
Garcon, Pierre
Golston, Kedric
Gomes, DeJon
Griffin III, Robert
Griffin, Cedric
Grossman, Rex
Hall, DeAngelo
Hankerson, Leonard
Helu, Jr., Roy
Hightower, Tim
Hurt, Maurice
Jackson, Rob
Jackson, Tanard
Jenkins, Jarvis
Jones, David
Kehl, Bryan
Kerrigan, Ryan
LeRibeus, Josh
Lichtensteiger, Kory
Meriweather, Brandon
Montgomery, Will
Morgan, Josh
Morris, Alfred
Moss, Santana
Orakpo, Brian
Paul, Niles
Paulsen, Logan
Polumbus, Tyler
Riley, Perry
Robinson, Keenan
Rocca, Sav
Royster, Evan
Smith, Willie
Sundberg, Nick
Williams, Madieu
Williams, Trent
Wilson, Chris
Wilson, Josh
Young, Darrel
By 20HTTR12 on Aug 31, 2012 | Reply
e1ghty8 I agree with your list. I would like to add The TE’s should be Niles Paul and Fred Davis.
By ALLinSKINS on Aug 31, 2012 | Reply
Its a reason why on a few bubble up to the top to play football at the highest level. As a fan I respect you all as ball players and wish you nothing but success rather you are on the final 53 for the skins, practice squad or chasing endeavors as where. Hats off to you guys and GOD BLESS. HTTR!!!!
By ALLinSKINS on Aug 31, 2012 | Reply
looks like Hightower is still not there yet after the leg injury. I wonder does that mean another vet is coming to town.
By BraveStarrEric on Aug 31, 2012 | Reply
The Starting receivers that showed the most benefits to the skins are garcon, moss, briscoe, Armstrong, banks and Robinson. hankerson and Austin to the practice squad because their presence on the offenses wasn’t as powerful; will it be in the regular season? probably not. If the redskins give up on talent like banks , Armstrong , Robinson that we all have seen will quickly get snatched up, then we would have to face them later on. Not good. Hankerson & Austin I’m sure our defense would rather deal with. But bank’s and armstrong’s fly route and bank’s kick return ability are valuable.I like morgan but I think i would go with briscoe’s speed and route running consistency plus he is a big target.
By herman on Aug 31, 2012 | Reply
cut the whole team. Redskins suck..welcome to the bottom of the NFC EAST. The will be lucky to win 5 games.
By ALLinSKINS on Aug 31, 2012 | Reply
The fact you took time as a cowgirl fan to come post a comment on a REDSKINS blog says alot about you and your spare time chief. Now go back to moms basement and finish your leftover meatloaf. HTTR!!!!!