ALAMEDA, Calif. -- Here's the thing about "Hard Knocks" -- it sucks the viewer in and gets them to root for an assortment of underdogs trying to make the team.
Those storylines rarely have happy endings.
Such was the case in Tuesday night's season finale with the Oakland Raiders, as first-round picks Clelin Ferrell and Johnathan Abram were fishing off a dock in San Francisco Bay in the aftermath of veteran linebacker Brandon Marshall being one of the first cuts.
"If you get cut," a somber Abram wondered aloud, "what you do next?