Reviewing and critiquing Episode 4 of HBO's "Hard Knocks: Training Camp with the New York Jets." Undrafted rookie receiver Jerome Kapp gets cut and exits the facility.
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00:00 Um, they go into Cap getting cut.
00:05 And I feel like, so it left a little bit of a cliffhanger,
00:09 but I felt like that could have just waited
00:12 until next week, next episode.
00:15 - Yeah.
00:18 - All of the cuts, like kind of go through
00:20 like all of the cuts.
00:22 Just to have singled him out, I don't know,
00:24 like that, that kind of, I don't know, it hurt me.
00:28 - Yeah, it was a little sad there,
00:31 melancholy with him walking down the hall, like, you know.
00:35 - Saying goodbye to everybody.
00:37 - No, I thought it would have been appropriate
00:41 if they played like semi-sonic, like closing time there
00:45 or something instead of the New York, New York,
00:47 which the New York, New York, yeah,
00:49 they play that at the end of the Yankee game
00:51 or when the event's over.
00:54 But to me that has more of like a triumphant,
00:58 a flavor to it, you know, like I said,
01:02 like closing time would have been much more suitable
01:05 if they really wanted to go there.
01:07 But the one thing that annoyed me was
01:12 what was that version of New York, New York?
01:15 Like, was this a Macy Gray impersonator?
01:18 Like, what was that?
01:20 Like, can we get some Frankie or at least like Tony Bennett,
01:24 you know, the late Tony Bennett?
01:27 Like, you're giving us some, like I said,
01:29 I don't even know who that was.
01:31 What a terrible cover.
01:33 - Do you think that like maybe they just couldn't
01:36 get the rights like to use it?
01:38 Like, I don't know why you would choose that version.
01:43 - I mean, the NFL doesn't have enough money
01:46 to spend on the rights to this music.
01:48 I mean, come on, I don't know.
01:50 Like, but yeah, I mean.
01:52 - Maybe in New York because the Yankees use it,
01:55 like another team can't within this, I don't know.
01:57 Like, who knows?
01:58 - Yeah, but well, to tie it into the first song,
02:02 no bueno, the opening song, no bueno.
02:06 The New York, New York knockoff, no bueno.
02:09 Like I said, I would have voted for something else.
02:12 You know what, maybe the Green Day song.
02:15 What is it there?
02:16 Time of Your Life there, you know?
02:19 You know, that would have been good
02:21 to see Cap going down there, you know that.
02:23 But no, that was it.
02:27 That was episode four.
02:28 And that looks like it was it for Jerome Cap too,
02:32 unless he winds up on the practice squad.
02:35 He's obviously subjected to waivers as a non-vested veteran.
02:40 He's a rookie, of course.
02:42 So he can be claimed by another team.
02:45 I don't think another team, I don't think he's done enough
02:48 other than the Eminem rapping,
02:51 that another team is going to claim him.
02:54 Because if you claim him,
02:56 he has to go right onto your 53-man roster.
03:00 So I don't see another team claiming him,
03:03 which probably means that he will hope
03:06 for a practice squad invitation from the Jets,
03:09 or maybe from another team.
03:11 But you know, maybe we haven't quite seen
03:14 the last of Jerome Cap,
03:16 but he's not making the 53.