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Message: <blockquote data-quote="adambr2" data-source="post: 746168" data-attributes="member: 7277">I have no doubt.  I just can't justify $5.25M for an average to slightly below average kicker.  I just don't think people fully realize how incredibly replaceable kickers are.  Jake Elliot is a 5th round rookie this year and he's been awesome.  Harrison Butker was a 7th rounder this year and he's been awesome.  Zane Gonzalez has missed 5 kicks  (4 FG, 1 XP), but Crosby has missed 4 (2 FG, 2 XP).  Veteran kickers are capable of having bad years just as much as rookies.  That Tavechio dude that the Packers brought in to compete with Crosby a few years ago was just thrown in to replace Janikowski and has been great.  Kickers are better than they've ever been and the ones that aren't get weeded out and thrown back on the street very quickly.  I would have absolutely no problem if the Packers wanted to keep kickers solely for 4 years to serve out their rookie deal and then repeat the process and spend the money elsewhere on a position that actually has a correlation between price and production.</blockquote>

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