Some interesting cuts over the weekend, yes?  I think many were pulling for Lumpkin to make the team but did not expect him to rank above Morency and Herron.  But the moves that were the most confusing to me affected the very core of the team, twisting and bending one of the three sides of the football triangle, if you will.

If you recall the play-by-play of Favre’s first practice in his new uni, he had to run laps after dropping a snap from center.  During his time in Green Bay if Franky Bag-o-Doughnuts got injured, there would almost always be a mishandled snap between Favre and Winters’ replacement in the first few plays from scrimmage.  Practice breeds familiarity.

So why oh why would McCarthy and Thompson decide to bring in a new long snapper and cut our punter, one week before the start of the season?  Did I miss something?  Didn’t Ryan punt pretty well in preseason?  Ran the trick play pretty well, too, right?  So now the Packers have an injury replacement in Brett Goode for long snaps who has never done it professionally, and handling this long snapper’s balls will be a punting cast-off from the Redskins.

So for one of the three sides of the football triangle: offense, defense and special teams, we just made ourselves pretty shaky.

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