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podcast today's episode of lockeddown Jets is brought to you by Game Time. Download the GameTime app, create an account, and use code Lockdown NFL for $20 off your first purchase. Terms apply. Well, on the day after a cut-down day, the Jets made a number of roster moves, they made a waiver wire claim. They lost a player to the waiver wire, and they signed their practice squad, a very eventful day after cut down day. That's why one of the reasons we always say cut down day is just the beginning. And as I mentioned yesterday, that initial 53-man Jets roster was unlikely to be the roster they took into the week one game against San Francisco, and we already have our first change.

The Jets put in a waiver claim, and they acquired tight end Brendan Bates off waivers from the

Chicago Bears. Bates was an undrafted rookie out of Kentucky. And if you're not familiar with how the

waiver process works, when players are cut at the end of training camp, if they have less than

four years of experience,

the 31 other teams all have a chance to claim the player.

And if you claim a player, you get them.

And you get the same contract he had with the old team.

If more than one team claims a player, then he goes to whatever team claimed him that had the highest draft pick in the first round of the NFL draft in the spring. And we talked about this yesterday. And I mentioned it that, you know what, the Jets were not going to carry two tight ends into that game against San Francisco week one. That was a guarantee because in the initial 53-man roster, they only had Tyler, Conclet, and Jeremy Ruckert. And Kenny Yaboa was on injured reserve, which means, you know, Yaboa probably will be back at some point this year, but he won't be ready for week

one.

And if you want to run jumbo packages, you want to run, you know, on the goal line with three tight ends, but you have to have a third tight ends. If somebody gets hurt, then you can't run two tight end sets if you only keep two tight ends on your roster. So the Jets had to add a third tight add.

And as I mentioned yesterday, it felt like

that initial roster was kind of, they just kind of, it was kind of like a placeholder where

maybe they had their eye on somebody who was going to be waived. And as it turns out,

it's Brendan Bates, the tight end for the Chicago Bears who was just waived who, you know,

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