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Plus a few random observations. ... Please feel free to add your own philosophical analysis to the following, all you professors out there ...
- THE CLETIS GORDON EFFECT - E.g.: Vets that have knocked around teams and practice squads for a few years but have had a good camp with you and people are thinking "this guy is coming into his own" are usually jettisoned at cutdown in favor of draft picks. You go with potential over a guy that has been dropped from four teams and is already 25-26 years old. If they had potential to be a real contributor, somebody would have seen it by that point and kept them around and they would have worked their way into playing time. You are what you are. This year's "Cletis Gordon" unfortunately is Kenwin Cummings. Cummings leads the team in preseason tackles but doesn't really have a strong role on a 53-man unless injuries decimate us. Lemon has a "dimension" as Parcells would say - real stout in short yardage situations and might have a role.
- YOU KEEP DRAFT PICKS OVER UDFAs. Corollary of the above principle. UDFAs more likely to pass waivers and make it back to your practice squad, at the very least.
- THE BIG DUDES STICK ON THE 53 - Easier to find a Andrew Sendejo on the street than a Sam Young or Jeremy Parnell, longer to develop too so you play them close to the vest. Though there's nothing wrong with Sendejo. Bias towards big bodies, always has been and always will.
- I WISH WE COULD HAVE SEEN TANNER AND RADWAY TAKE SOME SNAPS WITH THE FIRST TEAM IN GAMES - Otherwise they may turn out to be like ReShard Lee, who looked like a killer vs. the training camp spares in fourth quarters of preseason - but wound up looking pedestrian with the big boys who could run 4.4s and 4.3s. ... Radway had an "ooh aah' moment on a little quick screen against the Vikings - where he gained 10 yards before you could blink. I thought, "Man, we can't cut him ..." But yet again, this was against a second or third defense where you can't get much perspective.
- HOLLEY HAS NO SPECIAL TEAMS TACKLES THIS PRESEASON (per nfl.com) - He's not as good as Sam Hurd was on special teams, who was in on almost double the tackles Holley was last year. Unless I'm not noticing and Holley's a gunner? or good blocker on runbacks? - and not supposed to be making tackles I mean (Holley had 8 solo, three assisted tackles last year, pretty good no doubt). But he doesn't make the team purely as a receiver because of the "Cletis Gordon" syndrome. Great guy it seems. I'm just tired of people saying what a special teams stud he is - he's pretty good, but not worth keeping over a young fifth cornerback like Butler or something because he's just so great on STs.
- VESTED VETS ON ROSTER WEEK ONE get guaranteed money the whole season. (A guy can only do this only once in a career.) Complicates signing a veteran kicker. (Vested = 4 or more seasons in league.) I'm guessing this is in the new CBA (?) ... I had hoped a vet blocking TE could be brought in it but would need to be a youngish guy you can cut when Bennett improves. Same goes for a "name" WR that's cut and brought in that's better than Manny Johnson now, but might not be better than Radway in November.
- BUYER'S MARKET FOR TRADES. Players are worth least in trade at cutdown time of any time. You might get a sixth pick for Choice now, but he might bring a fourth when some contending team's No. 1 back goes down before trade deadline. Or maybe even a 1st, a 3rd and flip your 6th with their 7th (sorry Jerry!). So keep Choice around and exact a pound a flesh at trade deadline. Remember McQuistan was sent to Miami for nothing this time last year? Wow.
- SURPRISING GUYS ON PRACTICE SQUAD. AOA qualifies this season again, but a not a guy like Brandon Williams, who was on IR two years ago which counts toward an "accrued" season, best I can figure. As soon as I say this, I will be wrong and AdamJT will correct me. By the way, I think Adam is in the Cowboys front office, but I don't want to out him, because I don't want the Jones' to know that he fooling around on Cowboys' message boards when he should be working! I want him posting here with the real, true and ought.
- WAS BRUCE CARTER PLACED ON THE "PUP" LIST BEFORE TRAINING CAMP? If so, he doesn't count toward the 53, as long as he doesn't practice in the next few weeks, but can chill for six weeks of the reg season before coming back. Inquiring minds want to know ....
Sorry if a few above were obvious. Thanks everyone ...
- THE CLETIS GORDON EFFECT - E.g.: Vets that have knocked around teams and practice squads for a few years but have had a good camp with you and people are thinking "this guy is coming into his own" are usually jettisoned at cutdown in favor of draft picks. You go with potential over a guy that has been dropped from four teams and is already 25-26 years old. If they had potential to be a real contributor, somebody would have seen it by that point and kept them around and they would have worked their way into playing time. You are what you are. This year's "Cletis Gordon" unfortunately is Kenwin Cummings. Cummings leads the team in preseason tackles but doesn't really have a strong role on a 53-man unless injuries decimate us. Lemon has a "dimension" as Parcells would say - real stout in short yardage situations and might have a role.
- YOU KEEP DRAFT PICKS OVER UDFAs. Corollary of the above principle. UDFAs more likely to pass waivers and make it back to your practice squad, at the very least.
- THE BIG DUDES STICK ON THE 53 - Easier to find a Andrew Sendejo on the street than a Sam Young or Jeremy Parnell, longer to develop too so you play them close to the vest. Though there's nothing wrong with Sendejo. Bias towards big bodies, always has been and always will.
- I WISH WE COULD HAVE SEEN TANNER AND RADWAY TAKE SOME SNAPS WITH THE FIRST TEAM IN GAMES - Otherwise they may turn out to be like ReShard Lee, who looked like a killer vs. the training camp spares in fourth quarters of preseason - but wound up looking pedestrian with the big boys who could run 4.4s and 4.3s. ... Radway had an "ooh aah' moment on a little quick screen against the Vikings - where he gained 10 yards before you could blink. I thought, "Man, we can't cut him ..." But yet again, this was against a second or third defense where you can't get much perspective.
- HOLLEY HAS NO SPECIAL TEAMS TACKLES THIS PRESEASON (per nfl.com) - He's not as good as Sam Hurd was on special teams, who was in on almost double the tackles Holley was last year. Unless I'm not noticing and Holley's a gunner? or good blocker on runbacks? - and not supposed to be making tackles I mean (Holley had 8 solo, three assisted tackles last year, pretty good no doubt). But he doesn't make the team purely as a receiver because of the "Cletis Gordon" syndrome. Great guy it seems. I'm just tired of people saying what a special teams stud he is - he's pretty good, but not worth keeping over a young fifth cornerback like Butler or something because he's just so great on STs.
- VESTED VETS ON ROSTER WEEK ONE get guaranteed money the whole season. (A guy can only do this only once in a career.) Complicates signing a veteran kicker. (Vested = 4 or more seasons in league.) I'm guessing this is in the new CBA (?) ... I had hoped a vet blocking TE could be brought in it but would need to be a youngish guy you can cut when Bennett improves. Same goes for a "name" WR that's cut and brought in that's better than Manny Johnson now, but might not be better than Radway in November.
- BUYER'S MARKET FOR TRADES. Players are worth least in trade at cutdown time of any time. You might get a sixth pick for Choice now, but he might bring a fourth when some contending team's No. 1 back goes down before trade deadline. Or maybe even a 1st, a 3rd and flip your 6th with their 7th (sorry Jerry!). So keep Choice around and exact a pound a flesh at trade deadline. Remember McQuistan was sent to Miami for nothing this time last year? Wow.
- SURPRISING GUYS ON PRACTICE SQUAD. AOA qualifies this season again, but a not a guy like Brandon Williams, who was on IR two years ago which counts toward an "accrued" season, best I can figure. As soon as I say this, I will be wrong and AdamJT will correct me. By the way, I think Adam is in the Cowboys front office, but I don't want to out him, because I don't want the Jones' to know that he fooling around on Cowboys' message boards when he should be working! I want him posting here with the real, true and ought.
- WAS BRUCE CARTER PLACED ON THE "PUP" LIST BEFORE TRAINING CAMP? If so, he doesn't count toward the 53, as long as he doesn't practice in the next few weeks, but can chill for six weeks of the reg season before coming back. Inquiring minds want to know ....
Sorry if a few above were obvious. Thanks everyone ...
