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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pokerbrat2000" data-source="post: 866867" data-attributes="member: 7261"><p>Actually, all I said/asked was "Some here adamantly expressed that he was in no way worth a 2nd round pick, if that was the case, why didn't the Saints just put a much cheaper 2nd round tender on him?"  I consider $1.5M "much cheaper."  Hell, Captain could get 3 kickers with THAT!  You are using the words "much higher" in regards to tender price.  We are debating semantics though.  I view the first round tender as the Saints thinking if they didn't, another team was going to make them match an amount equal to or higher than a first round tender and if they didn't they would lose him and only get a second round pick.  With the first round tender they are setting a higher starting salary bar, as well as a higher cost of a first round pick for another team to try and sign him.  Or another way to look at it.  Had the Saints only put a second round tender on him, my guess is they thought someone would have gone after him and that would have cost the Saints much more than the base salary of a first round tender cost.   Smart move on the Saints part IMO.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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