Originally Posted by DJ's left nut (Post 18055940)

That's probably about right, yeah. But it was all baked into their cap over the next 3 seasons anyway. This just accelerates it.

None of his base salary was guaranteed anyway. So his cap# goes from about $7 million to be there this year or $7.5 million to NOT be there. And in the process they clean the hits off it over the next couple of seasons.

Dead money only really matters if you're cutting guaranteed base salary. That's money actually 'lost'. As it stands, all they're doing in accelerating some hits they couldn't have avoided over the coming years anyway and in so doing actually clearing some base off the books.

Originally Posted by Rain Man (Post 18055939)

There's no way that Vinatieri won't go in. He's got the most points in NFL history, even with the caveat that some of those are for the cheating patriots.

Tucker's not in the top ten and it looks like he's washed up, so no way on him.

I'm a little surprised that Gary Anderson's not in. He was a Temu Morten Andersen, but he's third all time.

Butker is currently 71st in career points. We need about 13 more years at this pace for him to be a lock, but that's just a minor hurdle for someone like Butker.

Originally Posted by ChiliConCarnage (Post 18055953)

I'm not huge on rewarding people just for playing a lot. I agree that Vinatieri will be a HoFer but he didn't kick deep much and was far less accurate than Tucker.

edit: particularly at kicker. You can play a long time and aren't as likely to play through injury a lot

Originally Posted by ThaVirus (Post 18055873)

Even with the sexual assault allegations, I’m a little shocked by this.

Originally Posted by Why Not? (Post 18056025)

This Tucker live next to you?

Originally Posted by big nasty kcnut (Post 18056144)

So you can kill someone allegedly and still be on the team but if having sexual pleasure in your sex cave your fired?