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Cut-N-Go is Fantasy Football FanHouse's daily gathering of links from around the web, covering the goings-on in NFL Training Camp which have an impact on fantasy value.

Brett Favre obviously dominated the news today, and the injury to Chaz Schilens is also fantasy-worthy. I wouldn't touch Favre in any but the deepest of fantasy leagues, and I'd definitely suggest keeping Schilens in the back of our minds for the stretch run. You can read extended fantasy analysis on both moves further down the fantasy page.

What else is happening around the league? Read on.

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Yesterday I posted the moving pictures proof of Cowboys rookie cornerback Michael Jenkins pretending to be a statue while Giants running back Derrick Ward blew past him on his way to the end zone. To be fair, the game was already out of hand and perhaps in the spirit of self-preservation, Jenkins decided against risking injury.

Or maybe he just doesn't like contact. (Also acceptable: disoriented, hungover, narcoleptic, fatalistic).

"I was just waiting on the safety to make a play," Jenkins said. "It just looked different. I really can't explain it. ... I wasn't the only one there ... Everybody's pointing it out like it was me, but there was a safety back there, too."

Just to cover all the excuses, Jenkins also added that he thought he might knock down linebacker Kevin Burnett if he tried to tackle Ward so he opted against it. You know, in the spirit of togetherness and whatnot.

Regarding that "safety back there," that would be Courtney Brown who, as the Dallas Morning News' Tim MacMahon writes, "...has made a grand total of two tackles all season despite getting significant playing time. A wait on Brown to make a play could last more than a month."

So what you're saying, Tim, is that if Courtney Brown played quarterback we'd call him Brad Johnson.

This is pretty cool. Blogging the Boys' Dave Halprin is in Oxnard, CA at Cowboys training camp and in addition to covering every on-the-field detail, he's also got some behind-the-scenes stuff from the parking lot of players' hotel.

Specifically, to get this Cowboys-decaled Hummer signed by as many Cowboys as possible. As of this writing, Kevin Burnett, Roy Williams, Adam Jones and Zach Thomas all signed, but it's Halprin's conversation with Thomas that makes the story.

We told Zach that we were bloggers; he turned kind of semi-serious on us and said the blogs always hate on him because he's short. I told him we were hyped to have him in Dallas and we are calling him the tackling machine. He liked that.

Well, credit to Thomas for knowing what a blog is (Braylon Edwards, you've been put on notice ... or something), but I can't remember once reading anybody taking shots at him for being short. In fact, it seems like Thomas is pretty popular because of his height (in addition to, you know, also being a very good football player).

Now, if Thomas had said blogs always hate on him because he can't dance, then, yeah, he's got an argument there.

Kevin Burnett is really getting into this whole blogging thing. Recently he posted about what it means to be a professional athlete, and the off-field responsibilities that come with it; namely: not getting cuffed and stuffed. Apparently, it's a lot easier than some people make it seem.

From serious encounters with the law to players homes getting broken into. I understand and see the root of some incident but others I am in the dark. How any player can be arrested numerous times still to this day makes me wonder. Is it something the player is doing or is it someone he is hanging around or is it just wrong place at the wrong time. I really believe it's a combination of all things. Every player must do his part to ensure safety and well being at all times.

Well, in the case of your teammate, Dig Dug Jones, I'd say most of it was his doing. To Burnett's credit, he asks fans what players can do to make sure they don't even sniff trouble (other than, you know, not breaking the law). He admits that "you have to do your part to get arrested more than twice for the same thing," but wonders if players "out trying to have a good time" are "leaving themselves in a position to easily become a statistic."

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Like kickboxing, pro-athlete-blogging is the sport of the future. Cowboys linebacker Kevin Burnett recently started a blog and he's covered all sorts of interesting topics, from the nuances of the Cover-2 to explaining why Roy Williams isn't as bad as he looks.

Yesterday, he wondered if high school athletes should be allowed to enter the NFL draft, what with kids "getting bigger, stronger, and faster and constantly raising the bar of performance."

Do you think the high school football players should have to wait three years before entering into the NFL draft? Yes I do believe that high school kids are not ready for the NFL although I do think some freshmen would have been better off leaving.

That's not a completely insane argument, although, unfortunately, Burnett ends up straddling the fence on the issue.

Personally there are very few teenage bodies that can handle the NFL. On top of the physical try someone like Bill for your first coach. To me that would just be too much to handle for most but I do believe it can be done. With that being said I am not for or against the rule I just believe the option should be there.

My two cents: I'd say the gentleman in the video above is probably ready for the NFL draft. And the fellow in the after-the-jump footage, well, he's not even close, although I'd love to see him in a preseason game.

(By the way, I applaud Burnett for making his blog HATER PROOF. FanHouse could definitely use some of that.)

Since Mr. Irrelevant officially kicked off the NFL's dead season, fans have had to find ways to occupy their time until training camp starts in late July. For Cowboys followers, Roy Williams has served that purpose nicely. The former first-round pick and frequent Pro Bowler has come under scrutiny for his coverage skills.

He has defenders too, although "lukewarm" might be the best way to describe their support.

Luckily, Cowboys linebacker Kevin Burnett has joined the blogging revolution, and one of his first posts is in defense of Williams and his suspect pass-defense skills.

First and foremost for everyone saying Roy gets beat in coverage a lot that's not true. Roy is asked to do very little from a man to man stand point which means the times you think Roy gets beat is a combination of things. One of which being the type of coverage, and another being the weakness of the defense.

The entire post is worth a read. Burnett explains how every coverage is vulnerable, and that it's seldom one person's fault when the defense gives up a big play. Fair enough, but the laws of probability suggest that Williams bears some of the responsibility. But yeah, it's probably not as bad as it seems.*

* Cowboys fans may disagree