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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pokerbrat2000" data-source="post: 822027" data-attributes="member: 7261">You can also get a dud for less/more money.  Crosby's current contract paid him an average of $4.025M/year.  At times he has earned it and other times he hasn't.  I think you could probably say that for most kickers.  If the Packers end up trying to replace Crosby with a rookie, it will boil down to the Packers being willing to save some money, with a guy they aren't fully sure of what they will get.Past years I have wanted to hang on to Crosby and his dead cap had something to do with that.  This season is the final one of his contract and the $1.25M hit isn't that bad, if they choose to cut him.  If they go that route, I hope they use a 6th or 7th rounder on a guy like Cole Tracy or Matt Gay.  But cautionary tale, the Vikings used a 5th rounder on Daniel Carlson last year, he was considered the best kicker in the draft.  Carlson went 1-4 in 2 games for the Vikings, missing 2 potential game winning kicks against the Packers and was cut.  The Dolphins were the only other team to draft a kicker last year, they chose Jason Sanders in the 7th round and he played really well (35/36 XP's and 18/20 FG's).Again, I understand people wanting to pay less for what might be a better kicker, but at least with Crosby, we have a pretty good idea of who we have.  A rookie could be a crap shoot.</blockquote>

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