Patriots cut WR night before Super Bowl

Does it ever.

Choke on it, Belichick, you fucking lowlife.

 

Comment makes no sense.
Had the Pats released him Friday, the Giants could have claimed and signed him leading into the SB.
The move means one of two things happened: 1) NE was planning on doing this earlier in the week, but didn't want to risk Underwood signing with NYG; or 2) Underwood decided to go Ray Buchanan Saturday night.

 

There's also the story of Brian Kinchen, who also wrote a book about the experience. He was teaching school because he had last been cut by an NFL team three years earlier when the Patriots called him up late in the '03 season because all of their other long-snappers got hurt. He played a couple of regular season games, then was with them through their Super Bowl run.

 

There have been zero reports Underwood did anything wrong. The fact the Pats have said he will be with the team next season supports that.

 

I'm a little late to this party, but I have absolutely no issue with this at all.

This is not Little League.

These guys are pros.

The goal is to win the football game, and if the Patriots thought a last-minute roster tweak would get them closer to that goal, then too bad, so sad.

 

This is standard operating procedure with the Pats - Underwood's part of their shadow roster, a bunch of guys who are cut one week and brought back the next, depending on injuries and depth needs. Look at how often DB Ray Ventrone has been cut and re-signed the past two years.

 

Exactly.

There is an art to roster management. Props to the Patriots for utilizing it. Sentimentality has no place in the game. Or very little.

 

I'd also place a wager the Pats aren't the only team to do this. It happens all the time, all over the league, during the regular season.

 

The reason it becomes a cause now is because a nation full of moron non-sports fans tune in for the week and don't understand the stakes for the people involved. They think this is like a vacation reward for everyone involved.

 

Key four words " ... during the regular season."

As far as I've seen, this is the first time it's happened the night before the Super Bowl.

 

If you're willing to cut someone before a regular-season game, you damn well better be willing to do it before the most important game of the season.

The Super Bowl is not a reward. It's the league championship game.

 

If you are willing to do it before a regular season game, why wouldn't you do it before the super bowl?