re: Free Agent Shopping

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I don't dig paying kickers and punters 3 to 4 million per year. frick that. Give me Talib mother fricker. You saying we can't afford talib but want to pay top kicker dollar. frick that.

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I have to agree with Chad here. While kickers are important, almost every single one can be very streaky year to year, game to game.

I did hate the kicker carousel we went through before settling on Hartley, but looking at his contract it was a bad one(to pay any kicker that much).

I'd much rather spend $3-4 mil a year on a player that's going to play a majority of the snaps(or at least around half) that will make a much bigger impact than a kicker that may kick about 25 times in 16 games.

If you average out the cost effectiveness of an average player and an average kicker I'm sure you'd find a player will help you score/keep your opponent from scoring more points than a kicker will get you in the course of a season. Kicker is just more obvious to see because the result is instant.