Sunday, September 5, 2010

Waiver wire watch

Ex-Rams now back on the market:

Anthony Becht - cut by Arizona
Brett Romberg - cut by Atlanta
Travis Fisher - cut by Baltimore. Didn't even notice him last Thursday if he played.
Rob Petitti - cut by Carolina
Quinton Culberson - cut by Carolina
Richard Angulo - cut by Chicago
Orien Harris - cut by Cincinnati. At least, I think he was very briefly a Ram last year.
Dre Bly - cut by Detroit
David Roach - waived injured by Detroit
Danny Gorrer - cut by Indianapolis
Damione Lewis - cut by New England
Nick Leckey - cut by New Orleans
Brooks Foster - cut by the Jets
Ruvell Martin - cut by Seattle
Cord Parks - cut by Seattle
Jon Alston - IR'ed by Tampa Bay
Donovan Raiola - cut by Tampa Bay
Samkon Gado - cut by Tennessee
Tye Hill - cut by Tennessee

Chris Ogbonnaya was signed Sunday to Houston's practice squad.
Hall Davis was added to Tennessee's. Still trying to replace "The Freak" over there.

Top 5 RBs cut Saturday:
Ladell Betts, New Orleans
Justin Fargas, Denver
Derrick Ward, Tampa Bay
Julius Jones, Seattle (cut Sunday)
Willie Parker, Washington

Also probable improvements over Kenneth Darby:
Chad Simpson, Buffalo; Ryan Torain, Washington; Martell Mallett, Philadelphia

Top 5 WRs cut Saturday:
T.J. Houshmandzadeh, Seattle
Sam Aiken, New England
Laveranues Coles, Jets
Demetrius Williams, Baltimore
Bobby Engram, Cleveland

Other interesting cuts, besides the obvious ones already well hashed-over:
Baltimore - Troy Smith. 1, I would have cut him too, after watching him play against the Rams Thursday night. 2, didn't Ron Jaworski say he was going to beat out Marc Bulger?
Cleveland - Brett Ratliff. Yes, the guy I once called the next Kurt Warner.
Detroit - Tim Toone. With Mr. Irrelevant waived, Josh Hull becomes the last player drafted to make a team.
Minnesota - Garrett Mills and Logan Payne, even though the Rams couldn't remotely cover either one three weeks ago. Baltimore also cut Demetrius Williams and Justin Harper, the two big WRs that gave the Rams DBs fits Thursday night.
Giants - Jay Alford, who made some key plays for Steve Spagnuolo's defense in Super Bowl XLII. I'm just saying.
Tennessee - Myron Rolle, the one player cut this weekend we can all be pretty sure won't have a lot of trouble finding a job outside of football.

Sincere best wishes to all the cut players. I'd hate to lose sight that we're talking about people's careers here.

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