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Chiefs sign former Bills Punter Matt Araiza
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02-22-2024, 02:57 PM | #106 | |
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Not someone I want to pay. Sometimes he looks incredible, but he’s shanked plenty in his career. Can’t have that inconsistency. |
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02-22-2024, 02:59 PM | #108 | |
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02-22-2024, 03:00 PM | #109 | |
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02-22-2024, 03:00 PM | #110 |
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Butker has one more year left. Everyone okay with paying him big money? Because I sure as hell am
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02-22-2024, 03:01 PM | #111 | |
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Now there may still be a call to make between Araiza and some fungible UDFA or SFA competition - sure. And when it gets made, that's fine too. Because all we've lost is a league average punter with consistency issues who was mis-hitting the shit out of about half his punts in the post-season. Credit to him for getting a tough snap down but there are bad snaps every single week and most holders get them down. You know what Matt Ariaza will be doing for the 40 hours/wk his teammates are out there in pads? Learning how to hold. WTF else does he have to do? That's why punters are almost always the holders now. Practice time limitations mean that you need your QB2 out there running scout team against your defense instead of hanging out with the STs bozos. But your punter? He's just hanging out. So you send him out there with the long-snapper and teach him how to {checks notes} catch a snap. It'll be fine. |
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02-22-2024, 03:03 PM | #113 |
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02-22-2024, 03:03 PM | #114 |
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02-22-2024, 03:05 PM | #115 |
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02-22-2024, 03:05 PM | #116 | |
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02-22-2024, 03:06 PM | #117 |
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02-22-2024, 03:08 PM | #118 | |
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I've said this before but I've never understood the "Don't pay a kicker" or "Don't draft a kicker" thing. Those guys generate points. They're not punters - they friggen matter out there. And Butker has saved us innumerable times over the last several years. He's completely unflappable and I think if we needed a 65 yarder to win/tie in the post-season over the next 4-6 years, he'd hit it. That's worth a fair chunk. I'd be just fine adding 5 years to the back of his present deal to take him through his age 34 season. 5/35 with, say, $15 million in guarantees? Yeah - done. I'm in. |
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02-22-2024, 03:08 PM | #119 | |
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