BennyVW
I'm the Man in the Box
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/writers/don_banks/03/16/patriot.way/index.html
Basically its talking about why they let players go but he has a great piece here:
But you have to wonder, is $500,000 -- or less than half of one percent of the $102 million salary cap -- worth losing perhaps the greatest clutch kicker of all time, and the player whose right foot decided the first two of New England's three recent Super Bowl victories? And will anyone remember the front office's financial discipline next November, when Vinatieri's replacement (let's say, Paul Edinger) misses a last-second 46-yarder in freezing rain at Gillette Stadium, with the Pats losing by two points to the first-place Dolphins?
Basically its talking about why they let players go but he has a great piece here:
But you have to wonder, is $500,000 -- or less than half of one percent of the $102 million salary cap -- worth losing perhaps the greatest clutch kicker of all time, and the player whose right foot decided the first two of New England's three recent Super Bowl victories? And will anyone remember the front office's financial discipline next November, when Vinatieri's replacement (let's say, Paul Edinger) misses a last-second 46-yarder in freezing rain at Gillette Stadium, with the Pats losing by two points to the first-place Dolphins?