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Tuesday, February 17, 2009

How to build a great NFL Franchise...

The Cincinnati Bengals have produced yet another head-scratcher when they decided to franchise tag their.... you guessed it, place kicker, Shayne Graham.  The only possible, remotely defensive reasoning behind this was to save some cap room, but when you have some of the dopes the Bengals do in their drafting and scouting department it doesn't really matter.  Can't wait til #84 and #85 are making great plays for other teams next year, while Carson gets to keep throwing it to the likes of Baltimore and Pittsburgh DB's.  
If you were looking for other teams that felt the need to franchise their kicker it would make sense to start at the bottom of the league.  It should be no surprise that the 0-16 Detroit Lions thought about franchising their kicker Jason Hanson as well.  Luckily, someone knocked some sense into that organization and felt the need to not follow in the Bungals footsteps.  I don't care what your salary cap looks like or if your kicker can consistently make 60 yard field goals.  YOU DON'T FRANCHISE TAG A PLACE KICKER!!!!!!

-THE TURK

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