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What's up, everybody? Welcome to The season with Peter Shreger. This is the calm before the storm.

This is the week after preseason, before the regular season, everyone kind of catches their breath.

No, it used to not be this way.

You'd make final cuts on Labor Day and then week one was like in four days later

now. They moved from four preseason games to three preseason games. They finished the final

preseason game. Make your cuts by Tuesday. You have a full weekend, and then you have a full

week to prepare for your week one opponent. Some surprises on

cut day. Look, I'm as plugged in with the Rams as anybody. I was a little surprised. They traded

24-year-old linebacker Ernest Jones to Tennessee Titans, but nothing, you know, with all the

contracts that they have to pay eventually. Nothing surprised me with the Rams. I'm sure they have a

reason behind that move.

C.D. Lamb got his deal. If anything else, I was surprised, it took so long. It seems like he missed

all of training camp. They had this long, you know, drawn-out process with it hovering, and then he

got his money anyway. And Jerry seemed to be beaten his chest a little bit afterwards, but it's like, I could have done that when Jefferson got his and you could have had CD at camp all summer. I curious to see how he comes out, week one, having not played with the rest of the team all summer. All right, so the question I'm getting the most, the last few weeks is what's up with Hassan Redick and the Jets? And I could tell you it's the same answer I had a couple of weeks ago. Nothing's up with Hassan Reddick and the Jets. Right now it is at a stalemate and the Jets, they're not shaken about it. Let me explain. The Jets made a trade and whether it was ill-advised to trade for Hassan Reddick without a contract being done or not. They brought them in, passed his physical, did a press conference. They haven't seen him in the building since. The players, they're not connected to Hassan Reddick. They might know he's a good pass rusher, but they're not living and breathing with him every day. Meanwhile, the Jets have one of the best defensive lines in all of football. And it was showcased this summer in

practice and in training camp, but also in the preseason game where they were so loaded that they

ended up keeping three different undrafted players from this rookie class on the final 53. I'm talking

about Leonard Taylor out of Miami. I'm talking about Braden McGregor out of Michigan.. I'm talking about Leonard Taylor out of Miami. I'm talking about

Braden McGregor at a Michigan, and I'm talking about Eric Watts at a Yukon. So now you take

those three players. You add in the veteran Tack McKinley. You've got Solomon Thomas. You

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