Largent80 wrote:River Dog can kick better than him and do it with a bad leg.
burrrton wrote:I honestly think we should consider doing the old "go for every 4th down and every 2-pt conversion" thing.
Well, except that 3/4 of our running plays go for negative yardage, and our QB has become an INT-throwing machine... tough decision.
burrrton wrote:I honestly think we should consider doing the old "go for every 4th down and every 2-pt conversion" thing.
Well, except that 3/4 of our running plays go for negative yardage, and our QB has become an INT-throwing machine... tough decision.
He's the one that cut Hauschka loose over mere peanuts.
burrrton wrote:Yeah, Hausch and Gresham were two releases I never understood, although Hausch was going to get a pretty significant raise, wasn't he?
It looks like it would have been money well spent now whatever it was, of course...
RiverDog wrote:
But I have little sympathy for Pete. He's the one that cut Hauschka loose over mere peanuts. He made his own bed, now he has to sleep in it.
mykc14 wrote:Mere peanuts... The Hawks saved 2.4 million on the cap by going with Walsh. I don't like the outcome but 2.4 million on a championship team isn't mere peanuts. Housch has had a great year, don't get me wrong, but he had a bad year last year and became the 2nd highest paid kicker in terms of cash paid out. I can see why the Hawks were a bit hesitant to give him that much.
RiverDog wrote:
OK, I'll agree that "peanuts" is a little over the top, but no more so than your characterization of our 2016 squad that won a 4 team division where the other 3 teams had sub .500 records as a "championship" team.
mykc14 wrote:Although that sounds like something that I would say I do not remember saying that the 2016 Seahawks were a 'championship' team. Do you recall the context that I said that? Maybe I said they had the potential to be a championship team? I don't usually call a team a championship team unless they are champions of something (maybe division champions?). I would defensively say they could win the championship or something like that, but I can't remember what I said. You might be older than me but your memory is probably a bit sharper than mine.
NorthHawk wrote:Our Cap room is something like $850,000 at the moment, so there would have to have been either cuts or more contract fiddling to get the players we have now on the roster.
When people say Championship team, I always infer they are talking about a team with legitimate championship aspirations as we had at the beginning of the year.
RiverDog wrote:
From your previous post:
"Mere peanuts... The Hawks saved 2.4 million on the cap by going with Walsh. I don't like the outcome but 2.4 million on a championship team isn't mere peanuts. Housch has had a great year, don't get me wrong, but he had a bad year last year and became the 2nd highest paid kicker in terms of cash paid out. I can see why the Hawks were a bit hesitant to give him that much."
By that I inferred that you considered us a 'championship' team as in defending champions. That's usually what people are referring to when speaking in the present tense as we were. Or were you predicting a championship for us this season?
mykc14 wrote:I see what you are saying. What I was saying was in terms of this season, as in "saving $2.4 million for a championship team (as in we need that money so we can spend it elsewhere so that we can win the whole dang thing) isn't mere peanuts." We didn't save 2.4 million last year so I wasn't saying that last year's team was a championship team, I was talking about this year's team (which might not even make the playoffs, but still can be a championship team). At any rate I can see the confusion and perhaps a more clear way to say it would have been "2.4 million on a potential championship team isn't mere peanuts..."
RiverDog wrote:
It's no big deal. We're essentially arguing over semantics. I'll grant you that the re-signing of Hauschka would have been more expensive than I had indicated when I called the money we would have had to spent to resign him "peanuts." Sometimes I throw those terms out there for effect and don't expect to get called on them.
RiverDog wrote:
It's no big deal. We're essentially arguing over semantics. I'll grant you that the re-signing of Hauschka would have been more expensive than I had indicated when I called the money we would have had to spent to resign him "peanuts." Sometimes I throw those terms out there for effect and don't expect to get called on them.
mykc14 wrote:
I hear you. I also agree that right now it looks like that 2.4 million would have been well spent on Hauschka. The fact that it worried many of us when it went down last spring doesn't help either. I can't remember a time when I have been more nervous about a kicker kicking a field goal than I am right now with Walsh. It's not a good feeling.
So today, if an NFL fan says "we are the champions", which fan has the legitimacy to make that statement?
Answer: Patriot fans, because they are the defending champs.
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