Preseason complete - Cut time

Let's get one thing out of the way - the preseason is finally over.

Now the real games begin. When the Redskins play the Giants next Sunday, the games will count, and every score will matter.

There's only one thing - the Redskins can't keep all the players they've had throughout the preseason. Friday night, the team had 75 players on the roster. By Saturday night, the team had just 53. Check out the full list of players who were cut right here.

Some quick notes on the surprise cuts:

Quarterback situation: The team had to make a decision on Chase Daniel and Colt Brennan, and it seems that the Redskins have picked Brennan. Daniel was cut seemingly because he was too short - at about 6 feet - to play QB. Sunday, Daniel was signed to the Saints roster. It's a great place for Daniel, and I think he has the potential to contribute in a season or two of sitting behind Drew Brees, who at about 6-feet, has been an All-Pro QB for New Orleans.

Running back situation: The team kept four running backs - Clinton Portis, Ladell Betts, Rock Cartwright and Marcus Mason. The team let Anthony Alridge and Dominique Dorsey go. I don't much like this move. Mason adds nothing to the team that Portis, Betts and Cartwright don't already have. Alridge and Dorsey have speed and different running styles than any of the Redskins current backs.

Others: I liked defensive tackle Antonio Dixon, a rookie free agent from Miami. The Philadelphia Eagles quickly scooped him up. Good move by them, and congrats to Dixon. ... I'm a little surprised that offensive lineman Jeremy Bridges was cut since he was signed with a little hoopla and had starting experience with Carolina. But, according to training camp reports, he didn't perform well here at all. ... The Redskins kept just five wide receivers. None of the cuts were surprising. Keith Eloi, Trent Shelton and D.J. Hackett had done nothing to separate themselves in the preseason.

Here are five players who signed to the Redskins practice squad Sunday:

• Safety Lendy Holmes
• Fullback Eddie Williams
  
• Wide receiver Trent Shelton
• Defensive end Rob Jackson
  
• Defensive end J.D. Skolnitsky

Not exactly sure what the Redskins saw in any of these players, but maybe that's why they pay the Redskins for these things, and not me.

UPDATE: The team apparently has signed former Giants QB Andre Woodson to the practice squad. Another player where I'm not sure what the Redskins see in him other than "Oh, hey, you know the Giants offense inside and out" type of thing. He completed less than 40 percent of his passes this preseason with zero TDs and 2 INTs. Pretty piss-poor. But, hey, he is 6-4.

But hey, the preseason is finally over. Time for the real games.