"They brought Dan McGwire into that training camp for he and I to compete, and at the end of camp I had a pretty good feeling," Pederson said. "All the players were coming up to me saying, 'You're on the team. You had a great preseason.' I felt everything was right. But when they went to 60 (players), they cut me. I was really frustrated ... even though I ended up going to Green Bay, which turned out to be the best thing."