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<blockquote data-quote="TOPHAT" data-source="post: 161299" data-attributes="member: 781"><p><a href="http://www.packersnews.com/includes/newspaper/blogs/insider/index.shtml" target="_blank">http://www.packersnews.com/includes/newspaper/blogs/insider/index.shtml</a></p><p></p><p><strong>Packers cut kicker Rayner</strong></p><p></p><p><strong>The Green Bay Packers have decided to go with rookie Mason Crosby as their kicker and have released incumbent Dave Rayner</strong>. Rayner told the Press-Gazette this afternoon that he had been released after the team made several attempts to trade him. <strong> “They said it was the hardest decision they had to make at any position,”</strong> Rayner said when reached on his cell phone. “It was one of those things where I don’t think I could have done any more. I was fighting an uphill battle the whole way after the draft.”</p><p></p><p>Rayner won the kicking job last summer over veteran Billy Cundiff and made 26 of 35 field goals during the regular season, but General Manager Ted Thompson shook up the special teams when he drafted Crosby out of Colorado in the sixth round of April’s draft.</p><p></p><p>“Who knows, maybe I’ll be back here someday,” Rayner said. “You never know if he’s the guy long-term or a quick fix.”</p><p></p><p>The Packers are expected to announce their cuts in a few hours. The NFL deadline for reducing rosters to 53 players is 5 p.m., Central time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TOPHAT, post: 161299, member: 781"] [url]http://www.packersnews.com/includes/newspaper/blogs/insider/index.shtml[/url] [b]Packers cut kicker Rayner[/b] [b]The Green Bay Packers have decided to go with rookie Mason Crosby as their kicker and have released incumbent Dave Rayner[/b]. Rayner told the Press-Gazette this afternoon that he had been released after the team made several attempts to trade him. [b] “They said it was the hardest decision they had to make at any position,”[/b] Rayner said when reached on his cell phone. “It was one of those things where I don’t think I could have done any more. I was fighting an uphill battle the whole way after the draft.” Rayner won the kicking job last summer over veteran Billy Cundiff and made 26 of 35 field goals during the regular season, but General Manager Ted Thompson shook up the special teams when he drafted Crosby out of Colorado in the sixth round of April’s draft. “Who knows, maybe I’ll be back here someday,” Rayner said. “You never know if he’s the guy long-term or a quick fix.” The Packers are expected to announce their cuts in a few hours. The NFL deadline for reducing rosters to 53 players is 5 p.m., Central time. [/QUOTE]
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