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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HardRightEdge" data-source="post: 487428">I reckon Rodgers/Matthews/Raji will cost about $20 mil per year over what they're getting now, and the cap hit is likely to be back loaded to some degree with signing bonuses. While I'm an unabashed fan of Shield's game, he's in the unenviable position of being a restricted free agent. They could hit him with a first round tender at a cost of $2.9 mil; a second round tender would be about $2 mil. A tender rather than a long term deal probably makes sense to see if he can put back-to-back all-around good seasons together before making a larger commitment. There's still room to bring in an impact player if we part ways will all of the high $ guys mentioned earlier. I think we should at least bring a kicker into camp for competition. Over the course his career, with the exception of an impressive streak spanning parts of two seasons, Crosby has been at best an average NFL kicker, and a case can be made that he's been weaker than average compared to the guys in the league today (most of whom populate the top of the all-time % leader list). Are we in some kind of freakish golden age of kicking (both PK and P), where a mass of great talent happened to be compressed in a few years? Or has the state of art advanced over the last decade? I'm inclined to think the latter.</blockquote>

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