Arizona Cardinals Cut Roster to 53
by cgolden on Aug 30, 2008 3:33 PM MDT
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The Arizona Cardinals cut their roster down to 53 today and a couple of the cuts were somewhat surprising, especially at inside linebacker. The list of guys who got the bad news today includes:
On Defense: Brandon Moore, Matt Stewart, Joe Tafoya, Micheal Adams, DeMario Minter, Dennis Keyes, Tavarous Bains, Jason Banks, Keilen Dykes and Chris Harrington
On Offense: Steve Blayark, Chris Vincent, Patt Ross, Kelly Butler, Carlton Medder, Peter Clifford, Jasper Harvey, Jamaica Rector, Lance Long, Brent Miller, Alex Shor and Anthony Morelli.
What do you guys think? I was right on Elliot Vallejo making the squad but I missed on Sean Morey and Oliver Celestin. They did end up going with two fullbacks and it should be interesting to see how they utilize both guys. Anyone care to take a guess at which guys end up on the practice squad? Here's mine:
Dennis Keyes, Keilen Dykes, Chris Harrington, Chris Vincent, Pat Ross, Carlton Medder, Lance Long and Morelli.
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Vincent and Ross may have too much accrued time
To be eligible for the Practice Squad, you need to: 1) have no prior Accrued Seasons in the NFL; 2) have one prior Accrued Season in which he was on the 45-man active roster for no more than 8 games; 3) have been on the PS with the particular team no more than 2 prior seasons.
I think #2 is where Vincent and Ross are DQd…Vincent was on the Seahawks and Ross on the Pathers. I think. I’m pretty sure on the Ross front.
My PS guess: Long, Morelli, Harrington, Keyes, Dykes, Banks, Clifford, Miller, and our International player.
We all leave footprints in the sands of time, just watch out for the discarded fish hooks!
by Hawkwind on Aug 30, 2008 4:05 PM MDT reply actions 0 recs
Lastly, don't forget the Cards have picked 2-3 PS players from other teams for the last few seasons.
So I’m guessing based solely off our own summer roster.
We all leave footprints in the sands of time, just watch out for the discarded fish hooks!
by Hawkwind on Aug 30, 2008 4:07 PM MDT up reply actions 0 recs
Vincent and Ross
You’re right, after going back and looking at Urban’s 53 (in which he listed everyone who was p-squad eligible), Ross and Vincent can’t get in. I’ll replace Vincent with Baylark and Ross with Tavarous Bain.
by cgolden on Aug 30, 2008 6:20 PM MDT up reply actions 0 recs
Hawk the Rules Lawyer
Baylark has been on the Cards’ PS for two years, and thus isn’t eligible for the Cards’ anymore. :( That fact has me thinking they will be watching the cuts closely to add a RB to the PS to help run the scout team each week.
We all leave footprints in the sands of time, just watch out for the discarded fish hooks!
by Hawkwind on Aug 30, 2008 7:20 PM MDT reply actions 0 recs
wow -- anyone catch your eye
I saw Ryan Moats was cut but he was the only name that jumped out at me so far.
by cgolden on Aug 31, 2008 7:47 AM MDT up reply actions 0 recs
Diggin' Deep for a PS RB
There were a few RB vets cut that aren’t eligible, so they’re not in the mix (Artose Pinner, Adimchinobi Echemandu, Rudi Johnson, Ryan Moats, Kenton Keith, Ciatrick Fason):
Kenneth Darby who was with the Bucs last year…he dressed for them last season, so I’m not positiive he’s eligible. Quick guys with some good receiver skills too.
BenJarvis Green-Ellis who aside from have the sing-song name, has great size and good potential but I suspect the Patriots will try to get this guy on their PS except they’re last in the waiver order.
Keon Lattimore who was cut by the Cowboys; great size and potential.
James Johnson who was in camp with the Bengals.
Marcel Reece who played with Oakland this preseason. Big guy, could morph into a FB if need be. Louis Rankin also showed some ability in Oakland. I have to figure one of these guys will not be kept by the Raiders for their own PS.
Albert Young had a nice preseason with the Vikings.
Eldra Buckley had a sweet one-handed TD catch to beat the Niners Friday but was still cut by the Chargers. He could warrant a PS slot.
Lynell Hamilton showed some potential with the Saints this preseason and has good size to play FB too.
Thomas Clayton will be on someone’s PS this year, having had a great preseason for the Niners. The Cards could use a Niner-spy considering Brandon Moore was cut.
There’s some decent talent that’s been cut this year. Take the “all-stars” from the cuts and put together a team and I’m pretty sure they could have beaten Miami last year…which I guess isn’t really saying much. :P
Finally, on my continuously thumped upon soap box, the Cards need to dump Dirk and sign Sam Paulescu off of waivers. The Broncos cut this guy and he was making Lance Long look like an idiot on punt returns with hang time and punt placement giving the coverage guys the opportunity to get position to down punts or force Lance to fair catch. He’s young and has a brighter future than ’ol Dirk.
We all leave footprints in the sands of time, just watch out for the discarded fish hooks!
by Hawkwind on Aug 31, 2008 9:45 AM MDT up reply actions 0 recs
there were quite a few interesting cuts
I was thinking that the Cards might take a look at Willie Anderson but Urban shot that down in his latest blog.
Any of those backs above have great speed. It seems like we’ve got plenty of ‘thumpers.’
I agree on Dirk but for whatever reason, Whiz’s spirit of competition doesn’t seem to extend to special teams.
by cgolden on Aug 31, 2008 3:23 PM MDT up reply actions 0 recs
now that we have the 53
can you give us your projected depth chart cg?
by hevchv on Aug 30, 2008 10:09 PM MDT reply actions 0 recs
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