(12-31-2018, 07:48 PM)JagsorDie Wrote:

(12-31-2018, 07:22 PM)navyjagfan Wrote: A high-end kicker is making $4M plus.  We have no cap space, so you'd have to cut somebody to create the cap room to re-sign Lambo. 

Not sure that spending $4M plus a year on a kicker when the team is already over the cap is the wisest course of action, especially when we realistically are in rebuild mode and have needs at QB, WR, TE, and OL.

1.6 is the league average and 3.6 is the highest paid. I highly doubt he will ask to be the highest paid kicker and I doubt he will have a ton of luck getting better than the average if he tested the market so I fairly certain we could walk away signing him to something in the ball park of the league average. Curious, where did you get 4 mil from?

Spotrac lists the cap hit for kickers and it's a little different way of looking at the true cost of re-signing Lambo:

https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/rankings/cap-hit/kicker/

Still comes out to about $4M per year for one of the high-end kickers.  Looking quickly at the stats for kickers, Lambo is in the top quarter of all kickers overall so I don't think he'll sign for the league average when he's clearly above average and lots of teams have cap space to burn.

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(12-31-2018, 08:19 PM)JagsorDie Wrote:

(12-31-2018, 08:10 PM)navyjagfan Wrote:  There are 6 kickers making $4M plus a year - Gostkowski, Gano, Boswell, Tucker, Succup, and Crosby.  Straight from overthecap.com. 


https://overthecap.com/position/kicker/

And here is an article from Big Cat Country (yes - I know - just a blog and not the best source) about what it would cost to re-sign Lambo. 
https://www.bigcatcountry.com/2018/11/7/...-offseason


In close games, a good kicker can make the difference between a win and a loss.  When you look at statistics, Lambo is as good as most of the kickers making $4M plus a year.  The only thing that might hurt him is his late-season injury.  Otherwise, he's set to be one of the top kickers available in free agency and with 30 of 32 teams under the cap, the competition to sign Lambo could be a lot more than most people think.

nice that is actually what I was looking for. idk. I just don't know if I would put him over those guy so I would offer between 2.5-3.5 and that would be about it. but this me being a armchair GM. Personally I think that we are going to have make at least one big cut to save the cap but I don't see a 2-3mil shift in a kicker being something that will shift the scale enough to actually cut the guy. I wouldn't give him a 6 mil contract like some of those others but a midrange wouldn't hurt.

Lambo actually has better stats than most of the highest-paid kickers.  

It's a tough call. He's a free agent so we don't have to cut him or anything - the Jags have to create some cap space to sign him regardless because right now, there isn't any cap space.  

Too many big contracts last year to Moncrief, Norwell, Blake, D.J. Hayden, etc.  We're in a bind.

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