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LOL apologies I mispoke, my predictive spreadsheet said $6M so I guess not a crazy steal as I thought.
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Apparently that is the figure given to Schefter straight from McManus' agents (Drew/Jason Rosenhaus)
Thanks Suds. I appreciate the info.
Based on his performance last season (and what happens when a kicker is inconsistent), I'd say he earned this contract. I think he only missed one or maybe two FGs and was perfect on XPs. We all notice when the kicking game causes losses. The opposite should be true as well. McManus is a welcome, long-term addition to the team.
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Nope not presently - which if you notice I corrected what I said to $6M.
Three kickers currently are at the $6M a year and there are currently 9 kickers that make more than McManus's new contract. I figured with the way contracts go though that McManus would reset the top.
Well McManus is getting paid as much, or close to as much as the top kickers in the NFL. Based on his performance in GB, he certainly earned the new contract. And we all realized how a bad or inconsistent kicking game can ruin a season. Nice job by Gluten for being on top of his situation and signing his as soon as the NFL's inquiry was over.
Happy he signed and I feel the contract was deserving. Now they need to get our stud Punter a multi year deal and sure up the kicking game moving forward. Wondering what your thoughts are on a contract in $'s & yrs are for Whelan.
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We'd be dumb to sign a multi-year deal on Whelan - not from a "his play sucks" perspective but because he is an ERFA. Cheap one more year for us and then next off season is when we will need to sign him.
He will cost us roughly $1.2M this next season.
If he continues to do well, market says he'll get around $3M/yr IMO if we want to keep him.
Interesting point. I think he's worth $3 mil/year now. The Packers don't have to pay that. Just wondering if Whelan sees that as a diss and decides to try FA next year. You mention ERFA and I don't know what that means. I'm guessing it means the Packers don't have a reason to worry about losing him. Yes or no?
I don't know what the top punters earn, but Whelan is the best punter GB has had for many years. Pay the man and lock down the kicking game. I like that.
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ERFA - A player not under contract, but who has less than 3 accrued seasons. The team must tender the player with an Exclusive Rights Free Agent (ERFA) tender offer (usually the applicable minimum salary based on service time) in order to retain its rights over the player.
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Just coincidence that the Packers sign McManus to a 3 year deal and Mason Crosby officially retires (as a Packer) today?
Somewhere Captain is crying (about McManus contract) and dancing (about Crosby retiring).
Somewhere Captain is crying (about McManus contract) and dancing (about Crosby retiring).
So there's no risk of losing Whelan as long as the Packers want him, right? In that case, then yeah, pay him $1.8 mil this year and man a fair offer next year.
everyone involved knows what the rules are. In this case, everything seems to break to the Packers benefit. They have a great punter on a sweet deal. And with other, more pressing needs, every dollar of cap space is needed.
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Not good, Folks! No kicker today. Need about 7 6 pointers and 3 2 pointers.
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Hard to believe. That guy from somewhere else never looked good to me. But surely they have somebody to kick a 38 yard field goal.
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Lucas Havrisik was signed a day or 2 ago & is available today. Hopefully Love/Jacobs will score 6 times from the red zone so Lucas just needs to hit XP's.
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Is he the same guy we have had from another country?
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No, that would be Mark McNamee still parked on PS.
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Glad to hear that. Maybe this guy will surprise enough to keep him on the PS
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he pulled his quad? gotta be painful.
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Hav in 2023 was perfect 40 and in. His only five misses were over 40 and two of those were over 50.
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If he surprises the Pack, what are the odds he wouldn't be poached from the next team to have a kicker problem?
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Who knows? You still would put him there if he was ok in a pinch imho
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Stunned! I kept praying that it would not come down to our kicker you win it. It did and he delivered.
The question is this - is Havrisik good enough to replace the kicker currently on the PS?
I don't know the answer, but he certainly put the question in play after yesterday.
Do you have any intel on the international guy currently on the PS?
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McNamee is the PS guy but as you indicated he has the international player exempt status, so there would be no reason to think we would not sign Havrisik if/when McManus can come back. Right now Hav is on the active roster, so there is a world where we continue to hold both on the active until then...could be a week, two or might be released this year.
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