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Originally Posted by general counsel
This is EXACTLY what i was talking about when we "saved" 1.2 million by releasing timmerman. Why dont we pay up for a guy who clearly is a material upgrade from any of the crapola that we are going to get to replace him. How much can it possibly cost at the margain, an extra 1 million? This is a guy that we need, we cant replace it in the draft and "rounding up the usual suspects" of street free agent punters is not an answer.
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I agree wholeheartedly, this is exactly what I'm thinking - that we're not going to use the cap room created by Timmerman's release for anything other than lining ole' Georgia's pockets instead of having a proven backup for the O-line.
Get Turk signed. I don't care about an extra $1 million or whatever it takes, it's a punter so you know it can't be much, and it sounds like Turk has been very fair in his demands, so give him the two year deal already!
Edit: Thinking about it, I've seen this exact situation before, with Sean Landeta a couple of years back, we let him go and brought in a few young guys (Reggie Hodges eventually won the job) and our special teams suffered because of it. Hodges was awful (worst punter I can recall seeing, you'd tell him to boot it 50 yards and he'd give you a weak, low ~30 yarder, just giving away field position), let's not take the same chance on a punter who's flopped elsewhere in the league (Sanders). Pay Turk and we don't have to worry about that position for a year or two, does anyone seriously think there's a difference between being 37 and 38 when you're a punter? This is not the time for being a cheapskate IMO.