Three Up, Three Down: Patriots Roster Cut Edition

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Felger and Mazz are joined by Greg Bedard of the Boston Sports Journal to get the latest on who is on the rise and descent ahead of Patriots' roster cuts.   Thumbnail photo courtesy of USA Today Sports.  #nfl #patriots #football

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00:00so we've got two of these to do we did one last week sort of kind of wrapping up training camp

00:05uh this one we have no game next week and we have to do one next week going into the season so how

00:11do we how do we frame this one and this is what we decided on tomorrow is cut down day so i asked

00:16greg and maz three trending up heading into tomorrow afternoon and three trending down

00:22that could mean guys rising onto the roster guys rising down from the roster or a guy who started

00:27as what you had as the 55th guy who's now the 35th guy you know what i mean roster risers and fallers

00:34three up go ahead who's number one so number one for me is elijah ponder number 91 edge guy uh he's

00:43undrafted free agent out of cal poly he's 6'3 um 260 i i've been really impressed with him this summer

00:51the his position coach like raved about him said like he's the best undrafted guy he's ever worked

00:57with or something like that but i i i wonder you know and i don't i don't know how much you guys

01:02have talked about it but like keon white has fallen behind not only he's he's fallen behind caleb on

01:09chase on at uh defensive end i wonder if he's also behind christ uh elijah ponder uh because keon

01:16white and and to vrabel's credit i saw him i think it was the practice before the giants preseason game

01:22uh i saw variable working one-on-one with keon white on his like pass rush moves i mean he just

01:28i will say he's he's more assignment sure this year there were some freelancing problems uh the past

01:33couple years um he's graded out well for me in the preseason games but he doesn't have any pass rush

01:39moves he's just a power guy where elijah ponder's got a lot more juice to him a lot more agility

01:46uh a variety of pass rush moves so uh to me he's definitely been ascending and i would be shocked

01:53if he's not on this team as an undrafted free agent efton chisholm i thought he was going to be a

01:58practice squad now i think he's on the roster number two greg uh cam riley linebacker number 42 i'm sorry

02:05i did this yep yeah yeah go ahead come on the people like this stuff obviously more than the coach calling

02:11his organization a bunch of rats so go ahead let's talk about life for riley what's this guy's name

02:16cam riley cam riley number 42 inside linebacker uh out of florida state another undrafted free agent

02:21this guy's like almost six foot five 228 pounds he can run now i have him on my final 53 um it could

02:30be wishful thinking but uh there's something there and i think this team like i did my column after the

02:36giants game just basically being like how many guys nfl players or their type of guys did they

02:42even have on this roster and i came up with 33 out of 49 wow and only one linebacker robert spillane

02:50that was the only guy now christian ellis is fine he's good you know he's he does some things but

02:56like why wouldn't you keep a guy like but they're slow they're not that athletic cam riley is athletic

03:03he's got a lot of potential he's a guy i would put on the 53 as sort of like a future bet uh dj james

03:10he's been like one of the real sort of you know uh what's i'm looking for breakout guys in camp

03:15and so he got an opportunity obviously because they've had openings at corner to me like he came

03:20out of nowhere but he's played well number three greg uh del pettis the safety number 24 now

03:27now he is also a guy that i had on my final 53 again it might be wishful thinking uh i will say

03:34that on my final 53 i put kendrick bourne and jelani tavai on in-season ir you can move two guys

03:40it used to be where you used to have to keep guys on the 53 and then move them to ir now you can move

03:45two guys there and not have to basically cut somebody for that um and del pettis is one of the

03:52guys that i kept there um for special teams and also you know he's really physical i think he's

03:57rabel's type of guy like more than uh one of the guys that i'm going to mention on my down list okay

04:03parker romo i thought coming into camp boragallis was going to be the guy they used to pick on him

04:08the other guys kick better i think he's going to make the team okay three trending down heading into

04:12tomorrow who's in trouble i did want to mention uh you're going to like this javari ritzy

04:19number 93 defensive tackle and david olajiga number 96 the international pathway player

04:24i think that those guys have i think they're nfl players they had good summers but i couldn't fit

04:29them what's international pathway so you get a free roster stop stop stop stop please just go

04:34three down who's in trouble number one cole strange i think it's over it's uh he they tried

04:40they gave him every opportunity left guard center right guard uh never worked he was not good in the

04:48giants game he was never over not for one day did he look like the right pick nope not one not for

04:54one second correct never not once first round pick never not one that one's good that's like the

05:00classic belichick move let me take a guy that nobody else would take it to the fourth round oh my god

05:05who's who do you got i remember dugger i can't at this stage with all the stuff that's been out there

05:09about him i can't imagine he's gonna make the team or they're gonna keep him he better he better make it

05:16yeah yeah yeah i see the logic if there's only 33 viable guys and doug was an nfl player if they

05:24released him he'd get picked up somewhere you know he would so you only got 33 guys and you're gonna

05:30let him go because what he makes too much money or you're busting his balls because of his contractor

05:34unhappy with him how he looks after the contractor you're the one that signed him so uh he better be on

05:40the team so i did have dugger i moved dugger he's been a trade bait for me the whole time and off my

05:47roster i did move him onto the roster because for two reasons i did think he finally started to look

05:52like his old self in the giants game he showed up as opposed to some other people like keon white in

05:57that game he looked like an nfl starter against backups uh also i don't think anybody's going to

06:02take on that contract and considering where they are roster wise like you talked about um i don't

06:09care about the money for this year i mean you keep him for one year keep him around then you let him

06:12go the future money's off your books but keep him around for this year maybe you maybe he plays maybe

06:19you do trade him at the trade deadline i don't know but for now i think that this roster is too poor to

06:25move kyle bugger off the roster exactly uh number two faller so i have jack gibbons the linebacker

06:33number 51 he was never was he in was he in a place where yes he was he was a guy that they signed

06:41um you know decently early in in um in free agency he has background he was with rabel in tennessee

06:47it looked like he might be the starter next to robert spillane but then it was christian ellis

06:54and i would keep two guys um the uh uh cam riley who i mentioned and also martin mapu over jack

07:02gibbons he looks so slow against the giants like i i just don't see it i had two guys in the second

07:08spot because i can't imagine that they're both going to be on this team and that's vidarian low

07:13and demontre jacobs someone's gotta go yes i have to believe that they're going to be in the market for

07:21a backup tackle of some sort and one of those two clowns is up the door right i mean i can't

07:28imagine they stay did you see somebody had a report yesterday that the patriots were were uh made are

07:35making vidarian low and demontre jacobs available for trade i almost i mean i'm sure they're playing

07:40hard to get with those guys too i mean the highest of is that a joke only the highest level offer is

07:46nothing less than the third all right uh third uh roster faller please mention someone i i know

07:54i've heard of uh no promises uh marcus epps the safety god i this is the last time we do this

08:00exercise go ahead the listeners like this stuff no no marcus epps is a guy he was a starter in philly

08:07josh mcdaniel signed him as a free agent with the raiders i've heard the name started in this league

08:12i've heard the name i just can't tell you what he does but yes but he's coming off acl surgery

08:16he played i think the most snaps in the preseason on defense and i don't remember one of them other

08:21than him getting beat for a touchdown in this last game like i i know he's coming back from acl he's out

08:27he he's got to be out and that's another reason why i have del pettis over over markets ups if um

08:34uh parker romo is on then aurora borigales is off

08:40bye-bye i i that guy's had a crappy can be can't kick see you later bye-bye so there there's a

08:50segment right there that just might as well have been in mandarin chinese because you out there

08:54couldn't understand when what i mean by that is you haven't heard of 80 of the names and the words

09:00that were just you people tell tell felger send them emails i want to hear it later this is the

09:05last time you do the bottom of the roster fallers and uh elijah ponder what who am riley who cam

09:11riley never heard of that person i don't know who that guy is who is the ritsy guy huh who the

09:15ritsy ritsy who ritz cracker pettis that's unbelievable connor mcdermott the last time that's

09:24it no more jameel douglas did dan skipper he's a journeyman he ended up being a pretty good player

09:31seriously still in the league and by the way uh old school halte froholt remember he was one of

09:37their draft picks i liked him they cut him he's he's been starting at center for the cardinals for

09:44like multiple years okay no one cares yes people do but not you you know you're not a person you know

09:49what people might care about i got an email on someone who's actually david olajiga oh god

09:54no yes i'm gonna see david olajiga who's that david olajiga number 96 the international pathway

10:02oh god no we're not doing the international pathway and i think we're gonna see david olajiga okay the

10:06uh taekwon thornton is like on the chiefs getting looks getting targets in the mix he had a big catch

10:14in the last game like not even a roster i just according to an emailer he might be totally wrong

10:18he might be cut today no he was balling out in that preseason game against chicago did his wrists

10:22grow or what this is an emailer who said he's firmly in the mix in kansas city taekwon thornton

10:27wouldn't that be a whack across the face with a wet sasage if that guy turns into a player for patrick

10:33mahomes wouldn't that be something as opposed to uh elijah ponder who

10:37oh open side i can't imagine you want to talk about any of that but any patriots item you do want

10:43to talk about there's a cam riley open lines at 617-779-0985 david olajiga number 96 the

10:51international pathway player and i think we're going to see david olajiga

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