I believe it was the final cut before the 1985 season. If memory serves, Parcells made all the cuts but 1 the day before the deadline. Parcells then made "the toughest cut I've ever made" and announced Jennings was cut the day of the deadline. I think that's called respect.
Dave Jennings tops the list.
In the 80's I used to run into him frequently at the same corner store when getting a morning paper, coffee and roll on the way to work. He was always very pleasant.
That had to be pretty awesome. I couldn't imagine trying to catch a punt that went higher than I could see.
After a lengthy pause he added: ''I didn't want to put him in a group with those other guys, because he's not. We're talking about about one of the best guys who ever kicked.''
'Most Difficult Cut'
Parcells called the move ''the most difficult cut I've had to make as a head coach,'' and added, ''This is one of those days when you wish you were in another line of work.''
GIANTS DROP JENNINGS AS LANDETA WINS JOB - ( New Window )
Jennings was a favorite of mine as well. But if Ray Guy had never been born, Jennings still would never be in the HOF. Guy is the only pure punter in the HOF and he got there because of LITERAL fame, not because he was the best punter. Jennings was neither famous nor by any metric close to being the best punter of his era.
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(and his passes - he was a very good athlete) back in the day. He didn't take up organized football until quite late, I think senior year of HS. But back to the cut - yeah, painful. He was the one bright light for a few years there.
That had to be pretty awesome. I couldn't imagine trying to catch a punt that went higher than I could see.
This was in Garden City NY in the '60s. Dave's dad was a dean or something at Adelphi U. and Dave lived right next to the Adelphi campus, which then had a lot of open space. I lived a few blocks away. We had a regular sandlot two-hand touch game going there after school. Dave would punt by himself until we all got there - that's where it all really started with his punting - and, yeah, his punts were pretty amazing even as a teenager - although not like they were when he was fully grown. We were mid-teens at the time.