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Cutdown day: how's that feel?(NFL)
Last weekend, the league's 32 teams positioned themselves for the start of the season by trimming rosters to the 53-man limit. Come inside the Titans' practice facility for a first-person account of that painful but necessary process from three who know how it feels--the head coach, a player and, of course, the Turk.
Steve Watterson
The Turk
I'm the notifier. That's what I'd like to be called. It's a little more professional than the names the players call me, like the Turk--the traditional name for the guy who does my job--the Terminator or the Grim Reaper.
Im the guy who notifies players to go see Jeff Fisher when they've been cut. ...
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