Ask any NFL coach the worst part of their job and the overwhelming response will be cutting players.

More than 1,100 players will be released when teams have to trim down their rosters to 53 by 4 p.m. EDT Tuesday, a process that has already started. It’s a difficult task for coaching staffs. Nobody enjoys telling players to turn in their playbooks because they didn’t make the team.

“It rips at my heart. It does because if they were my son, I see them through that lens because my kids are getting older now and you see how hard they work and what they put into it and they’ve done everything that we’ve asked,” Buffalo Bills coach Sean McDermott said. “These guys are so grateful, they’re so appreciative and full of class. Again, it’s hard from a football standpoint but even harder from a, ‘H

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