Cuts are never easy in the NFL. These coaches and front office employees know some of these players better than anyone, but that doesn’t mean they always get it right. There’s a lot of emotions and inexact analysis mixed in over the past couple months, that by the time a team trims their roster from 80 to 53 players—like the all NFL teams had to do this week—it’s a confluence of decision making that is enough to make your head spin.
That’s whe Detroit Lions general manager Brad Holmes took a couple minutes at the top of his press conference this week to express just how complicaticated and tough of a process that was this year.