Our options at Kicker....

[Mark VI]

Either way, there would be plenty of yelling, screaming, crying, and complaining.

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In other words, the daily norm.

[stinky finger]

I wanted Nugent here if he fell to us. The pisser? How many close games will he decide whenever we play the Jets? It appears both teams (Bills, Jets) will be competing at the same level. One team not that much better than the other. Nugent will certainly boom some game winners. Hopefully not at our expense.

[ch19079]

Why not Doug Brien?

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kicking is mostly a head game. once you loose it, you loose it. and its had to get it back.

 

but the colts might cut their kicker.... the "idiot kicker". I WANT HIM!!!!

 

i just want a kicker who can make a 45 yard field goal most of the time, so we dont have to PUNT!!!

[ch19079]

ADMIT IT LINDELL WAS OUTSTANDING AT THIS FACET OF THE GAME LAST YEAR.

think he is our best and there is even a reasonable chance he will become the kicker we want.

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i stoped reading after i saw this.

 

1 of 3 from 40+ yards.

 

that fact alone should get us a new kicker.

 

i HATE punting from the 33 yard line.

[Albany,n.y.]

If Lindell is released after June 1st makes a marginal difference than if he is released before June 1st.  475k becones deadspace allocated to the Bills 2005 salary cao whether he is released or not.  He has already been paid a bonus which was prorated over the full length of his contract which ends this year.

 

Add this amount to the vet minimum contract of his replacement and that is how much we are allocating to the kicker position this year

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My last Clumpy printout has Lindell with 2 years left, here are the #s:

Salary: $825,000. Amortized Bonuses:$287,500 Other Bonuses: $200,000

Cap hit: $1,312,500. Cap savings before 6/1 $507,000.

2005 dead cap < 6/1 $575,000 2005 dead cap > 6/1 $287,500.

Based on these #s if we cut Lindell post 6/1 he costs us $287,500 on this year's cap & we don't have to pay the bum another $825,000.

We save a total of $1,025,000 on the 2005 cap. If we keep Rheem & Pochman Rheem costs $230,000, Pochman costs $380,000 for a total of $610,000. That saves $415,000 in cap #.

[Alaska Darin]

once you loose it, you loose it.

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LOSE. LOSE. Not "loose."

 

Sorry. Pet peeve.

[Fake-Fat Sunny]

My last Clumpy printout has Lindell with 2 years left, here are the #s:

Salary: $825,000.  Amortized Bonuses:$287,500  Other Bonuses: $200,000

Cap hit: $1,312,500.  Cap savings before 6/1 $507,000. 

2005 dead cap < 6/1 $575,000  2005 dead cap > 6/1 $287,500. 

Based on these #s if we cut Lindell post 6/1 he costs us $287,500 on this year's cap & we don't have to pay the bum another $825,000. 

We save a total of $1,025,000 on the 2005 cap.  If we keep Rheem & Pochman Rheem costs $230,000, Pochman costs $380,000 for a total of $610,000. That saves $415,000 in cap #.

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My apologies as i read the original post as focusing on what the difference in deadspace was if he is cut before or after June 1st.

 

There is a cap savings for the younger kicker because of lower base salary, but I read the Clumpy numbers as posted below.

 

 

Ryan Lindell K $825,000 $825,000 $287,500 $200,000 $1,312,500 $232,500 $575,000 $487,500

 

 

The last two numbers are the difference in deadspace if he is cut before June 1st and after.

 

There will be a cap savings of 200K and the significance of this number will be determined by how much space the Bills decide to keep this year in case of injuries. I think for GM assessment purposes, the deadspace number will be the one which will be looked at to judge TD's success or not.

 

As far as a simple look at deadspace, there will be less than 100K difference if Lindell is cut early or late. Either way it will be an admission by TD that he screwed up signing Lindell and when he said good kickers are a dime-a-dozen.

 

I hope he is football man enough to admit it when he has made an error, but I doubt he will do this when he has invested a lot of verbiage in this mistake and I doubt he will take this risk and placing his faith in the foot of a rookie like Rheem.

 

We'll see.