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Eisen: Nortman to Jax


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19 minutes ago, Happy Panther said:

Is punter the most replaceable position in football?

I'd say long snapper is the most replaceable but it's pretty close. But long snappers (even the best ones) generally only make league minimum, so there's not a lot of incentive to replace them.

We should be able to find a new punter in the 6th/7th or UDFA pretty easily. Over 4 years he'll make around 2 million, while Nortman makes 8.8. We'll save a good chunk of money for a guy that'll most likely be just as good if not better.

The only time I'd be on board with shelling out money for a punter if he was on an elite level and consistently flipped field position and Nortman isn't even in that discussion.

Good move by DG IMO and the Jaguars, well this is the team that drafted their last punter in the 3rd round (passing on Russell Wilson) so they're not what anyone would classify as "smart"

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4 hours ago, rainwater said:

Yards per punt is hardly helpful when discussing a punter.  Nortman was good a booming the ball 2 years ago.  But the Panthers gave up way too many big plays because he always out kicked his coverage.  The reason Nortman was shanking some the last few years is because the Panthers tried to get him to use hangtime instead of going for distance.

That would make sense if true because it seemed like he wasn't kicking as far the last two year

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I think those of you saying Brad was just average are being a bit too generous. 

 

Punting was something we could definitely look to improve and it's something that won't take too much to be better than last year. Nortman just isn't consistent and regressed during his time here. 

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