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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HardRightEdge" data-source="post: 664960">[QUOTE="adambr2, post: 664956, member: 7277It's still not worth paying $4M for a job that you can get accomplished nearly the same exact way for $500,000.  Especially with a hard cap.</blockquote>I am no Crosby apologist, not be a long shot.  I wanted the Packers to sign Dan Carpenter in 2013 FA, which would have been the right move, his 6 missed EPs last season notwithstanding.But if it were as easy and cheap as you say, every team with an average-or-worse kicker (or punter) would follow your prescription.A fairly small handful of rookie kickers/punters make opening day rosters and then perform well enough to make a career of it.  It's a case of the devil you know is better than the devil you don't.The Thompson/Ball habit of late is to overpay.  Depending on how much the cap increases in the next few year, Crosby might be back in the middle of the kicker pack salary-wise by year 3 or 4.  Small consolation I suppose.[/QUOTE]

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