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A minimum wage rookie K would cost $840K. Is Myers $4M+ better? I'm not saying Myers should be cut, but there's a value-for-money discussion to be had.$5m is what? 2% of the cap.![]()
A minimum wage rookie K would cost $840K. Is Myers $4M+ better? I'm not saying Myers should be cut, but there's a value-for-money discussion to be had.$5m is what? 2% of the cap.![]()
He's bad in odd years -weird thing but true.Dude had been nothing but solid for us, not sure why we were pearl clutching here
It is a valuable discussion to be had, but I think I'd look at it in a slightly different way: Is what you buy with a more reliable kicker worth that cost vs. what else you are spending that cap on?A minimum wage rookie K would cost $840K. Is Myers $4M+ better? I'm not saying Myers should be cut, but there's a value-for-money discussion to be had.
There's $1.875M of dead money being accounted for in 2025 and another $1.875M scheduled for 2026. All of it has to be accounted for. Wanting to account for the 2nd $1.875M in 2026 rather than 2025 isn't a good enough reason to keep a player if he isn't worth his salary. If cap space was going to be that critical the Seahawks would have converted the maximum possible amount of Smith's 2024 salary into a signing bonus. Instead they left his 2024 salary at $12.7M when they converted his 2024 roster bonus into a signing bonus.It is a valuable discussion to be had, but I think I'd look at it in a slightly different way: Is what you buy with a more reliable kicker worth that cost vs. what else you are spending that cap on?
Is being able to adjust your gameplan because you know you have a particular distance FG as an insurance worth an extra $2-3M (we still have Myers dead cap hit even if he's not here, so we won't actually save $4M+)? Is that amount of yardage you can subtract from what you need to get in a game winning drive worth that much?
And, importantly, what are you getting for that $2-3M that is actually more valuable than those things?
I think it's easy to get into a situation of being penny wise, but pound foolish if you get too myopic in just Kicker A vs. Kicker B instead of what you are actually paying for.
Not that this means Myers should be considered untouchable, rather I don't think there is many places where you can get a better ROI than solid kicking play and I personally would only be on board replacing Myers with a better/more reliable kicker, rather than a cheaper one.
I get how his salary works (I did ignore a potential post-June 1st designation in terms of cap savings this year, so my bad there), but my overarching point was that I don't think comparing his contract to a different kicker is even the right way to frame the discussion.There's $1.875M of dead money being accounted for in 2025 and another $1.875M scheduled for 2026. All of it has to be accounted for. Wanting to account for the 2nd $1.875M in 2026 rather than 2025 isn't a good enough reason to keep a player if he isn't worth his salary. If cap space was going to be that critical the Seahawks would have converted the maximum possible amount of Smith's 2024 salary into a signing bonus. Instead they left his 2024 salary at $12.7M when they converted his 2024 roster bonus into a signing bonus.
Again, i'm not saying he is, or isn't, a good use of salary cap cash.
Yup and he wasn't afraid to lay the wood. All incoming NFL kickers should watch this video. If peopleThanks for posting that Hawaii.
Glory days.
7/11 onside kicks in 2 years.
Howard Cosell narration hilarious.
Efren Herrera was a stud and never got enough credit for what he did on the field. One of a kind.