KhanYouDigIt Posted April 30, 2018 Share Posted April 30, 2018 With the selection of Cooke, this was inevitable. 2.5M comes off the books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Speedyg Posted April 30, 2018 Share Posted April 30, 2018 Figured he was just competition, but outright letting go of Nortman? Joe D must have big time confidence in this guy. Nortman was far from perfect but he had some really really good games for us last season. Don't really know anything about Cooke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.Buzz Posted April 30, 2018 Share Posted April 30, 2018 35 minutes ago, Speedyg said: Figured he was just competition, but outright letting go of Nortman? Joe D must have big time confidence in this guy. Nortman was far from perfect but he had some really really good games for us last season. Don't really know anything about Cooke. 2.5M for a punter just isn't feasible. I thought they'd allow for a competition between them but... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrenaline_Flux Posted April 30, 2018 Share Posted April 30, 2018 58 minutes ago, .Buzz said: 2.5M for a punter just isn't feasible. I thought they'd allow for a competition between them but... Usually when a team drafts a punter (with a veteran punter on the roster), this is what happens. It is possible we bring in a cheap veteran or another rookie as competition though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LinderFournette Posted April 30, 2018 Share Posted April 30, 2018 1 hour ago, Adrenaline_Flux said: Usually when a team drafts a punter (with a veteran punter on the roster), this is what happens. It is possible we bring in a cheap veteran or another rookie as competition though. I dunno if hes been signed but the punter from Marshall would be nice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tugboat Posted April 30, 2018 Share Posted April 30, 2018 The idea of a "punting competition" is stupid anyway. Like what the heck are you gonna do? Have a "punt off"? It's like kicking. Tough position to have an actual "battle" at because it's such a percentage-based role. Unless one or the other of the guys is a totally useless bum, you're not really going to learn a lot in camp. Especially when it's such an asymmetrical competition where one guy is making like 5x more than the other. Hopefully this new guy isn't a total bum. They did also bring in an UDFA punter just in case though, right? And obviously they felt this Cooke character was good enough to draft. So that pretty much sealed Nortman's fate, in this organizations mad dash to cut every feasible $$$ corner they can...to roll more over for next year. As to @.Buzz's assertion that $2.5M for a punter "just isn't feasible", i kinda disagree. Not to dive back into that "Bryan Anger is totally more valuable than Russell Wilson in the draft" well, but for a team that wants to play the sort of grinding ball possession+stifling defense sort of close games, field position is absolutely critical. Our Punter hitting coffin corners and giving teams a long field when Bortles stalls out drives (and our kicker doesn't have the biggest leg), is a big part of this team's strategy. It's absolutely feasible imo, and we have the space for it right now. They've just chosen to go with a budget option, at the risk of a drop-off in performance. It's certainly on the rich side, and it's far from ideal...but it's still "feasible", if you make it a priority. This staff obviously do not place a priority on those kicking positions (which is weird, because they'd talked a crapload about the crucial role of ST and brought in specific ST aces for reasonable money). I just hope this isn't the punting version of the Jason Meyers saga. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaguarCrazy2832 Posted April 30, 2018 Share Posted April 30, 2018 7 hours ago, Speedyg said: Figured he was just competition, but outright letting go of Nortman? Joe D must have big time confidence in this guy. Nortman was far from perfect but he had some really really good games for us last season. Don't really know anything about Cooke. Yea i feel like unless it was time sensitive, making this decision seems rash Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LinderFournette Posted April 30, 2018 Share Posted April 30, 2018 39 minutes ago, JaguarCrazy2832 said: Yea i feel like unless it was time sensitive, making this decision seems rash think about this 2.5 million as an Advance rollover for next year. granted i still want some competition for the rookie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Speedyg Posted May 1, 2018 Share Posted May 1, 2018 I honestly didn't realize it, but apparently he was 30th in net last year. I certainly didn't think he was that bad, but perhaps there was something there. A rookie punter isn't just about the actual kicking, which inexperience can cause inconsistencies and more bad kicks than you'd like. Could also have cases where a rookie mishandles a punt and it leads to a touchdown by other team. How much are we spending on guys like McCray, carey, and Davis? I know McCray is making 4M per iirc. And you're going to tell me that 2.5 is too much for a guy who is going to be relied upon to flip field positions? I think there's some performance there that Joe D didn't like about Nortman. Also, been trying to look up more info about Cooke (not a lot of info on him), but apparently he has a pretty good leg and handled kickoffs. That may have been a consideration since Lambo doesn't get great depth on kickoffs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LinderFournette Posted May 1, 2018 Share Posted May 1, 2018 21 minutes ago, Speedyg said: I honestly didn't realize it, but apparently he was 30th in net last year. I certainly didn't think he was that bad, but perhaps there was something there. A rookie punter isn't just about the actual kicking, which inexperience can cause inconsistencies and more bad kicks than you'd like. Could also have cases where a rookie mishandles a punt and it leads to a touchdown by other team. How much are we spending on guys like McCray, carey, and Davis? I know McCray is making 4M per iirc. And you're going to tell me that 2.5 is too much for a guy who is going to be relied upon to flip field positions? I think there's some performance there that Joe D didn't like about Nortman. Also, been trying to look up more info about Cooke (not a lot of info on him), but apparently he has a pretty good leg and handled kickoffs. That may have been a consideration since Lambo doesn't get great depth on kickoffs think Carey and Davis and like 2 million or so each. i only expect 1 of them to make the roster and im thinking its cody davis cuz he might be a potential FS for us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tugboat Posted May 1, 2018 Share Posted May 1, 2018 3 hours ago, Speedyg said: I honestly didn't realize it, but apparently he was 30th in net last year. I certainly didn't think he was that bad, but perhaps there was something there. A rookie punter isn't just about the actual kicking, which inexperience can cause inconsistencies and more bad kicks than you'd like. Could also have cases where a rookie mishandles a punt and it leads to a touchdown by other team. How much are we spending on guys like McCray, carey, and Davis? I know McCray is making 4M per iirc. And you're going to tell me that 2.5 is too much for a guy who is going to be relied upon to flip field positions? I think there's some performance there that Joe D didn't like about Nortman. Also, been trying to look up more info about Cooke (not a lot of info on him), but apparently he has a pretty good leg and handled kickoffs. That may have been a consideration since Lambo doesn't get great depth on kickoffs I think part of the "net punt" yardage figure is that this team had a kicker that they straight up didn't trust for part of the year, and then a guy who doesn't have a big leg to hit those long ones for the rest of the year. Along with a defense we trusted a lot (obviously). Combined with an offense that actually got some yardage and didn't start every drive from the shadow of their own goalposts...you get a lot less open field for a guy to punt to. Like in the Anger days, our team was mostly horrendous...so you've got all sorts of room to boot it a hundred yards down field and pile up that punt yardage. The thing Nortman seemed to have a feel for, was putting in smaller areas on a shorter field that hemmed the opponents into their own danger zone, letting our defense pin its ears back and intimidate. Which is fine if the new guy can do just as well for cheaper. But it's still an important part of the game. And they obviously recognize that with what we're spending on those other STers. It just seems to be part of this staff's philosophy to devalue the kicking positions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Speedyg Posted May 1, 2018 Share Posted May 1, 2018 That's a good point about net. I can recall quite a few times that we were just at 40/50 and we punt. On the other hand, I do remember Nortman over kicking those to the end zone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DuvalsKing Posted May 1, 2018 Share Posted May 1, 2018 I don't think the cap savings is 2.5 I think its along the lines of actually 1.9 million Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LinderFournette Posted May 1, 2018 Share Posted May 1, 2018 2 hours ago, DuvalsKing said: I don't think the cap savings is 2.5 I think its along the lines of actually 1.9 million thats still added money for the rollover. still gotta clear a good 20 million just to be under the cap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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