Is Kicker Top Priority?

[cpayne5]

Originally Posted by j_j__l

I agree with you about the 90s and 00s, but that was also the same time that Hall was in his prime...Now that we have him in the MID 00s, he's hurt to much for his salary and doesn't kick the ball deep anough on kickoffs for his salary...

If you notice, I never made a connection between our kicking situation in the 90s/00s and John Hall's concurrent successes. I referred to then and the *current* JH.

It's not like we're talking $5million/yr here. His salary for 2006 & 2007 is $1.5mill. That's chump change. What would we save by cutting him? After signing another kicker, only about $.5mill. So it boils down to, would you rather save a half million and get a young kicker, or risk a half million on a known kicker who has had some injury issues? I'll take John Hall any day of the week on that one.