Raise your hand if you knew exactly how this we would play out.......
Ill wait . .but calling bullshit on first one to chime in with hand raised
Ill wait . .but calling bullshit on first one to chime in with hand raised
Hekker / trade block / Renegotiated
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Lol. I was going to give you a high five and then realized it would look like I was raising my hand....
But we already knew that, so not a snag or anything suggesting the renegotiation was at risk of being nullified.
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I'll tell you what happened. I posted a thread on how Bojo's bombastic punting last Saturday was a DIRECT result of kicking in the thin air of Denver.
I also included info on how there's much more to punting than gross yards. One must consider things like ball placement and hang time.
Ain't a doubt in my mind that McSnead studied my thread/post intensely and immediately decided to keep Hekk and trade Bojo.
Y'all can thank me later.
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LOL. We kept that contract. So the only team that matters clearly didn't feel like Hekker, with his contract, is a net negative.
LOL. We kept that contract. So the only team that matters clearly didn't feel like Hekker, with his contract, is a net negative.
I mean, we forced him to renegotiate it.
Used Corey as leverage to force him to do it - and it sounds like if he would have said no, we would have moved on. No Rams sources confirmed that, but Jourdan is pretty in the know.
We'll see what the details are, but unless he took an absolutely massive pay cut, the Rams could have saved a lot more money by keeping Bojorquez.
Now that’s the wonderful thing about turning a negative into a positive isn’t it?
I think we wouldnt have saved much at all by cutting him - keeping Bojorquez would have resulted in paying the punter spot the same regardless of who we kept this year.
Since no one wanted to trade for him, the only way we save any money toward the P spot was if Hekker took a pay cut - so even if he just took a little off, saved us more money for this year than any other alternative.
Wasn't the renegotiation labelled a "restructuring?" If so then that would involve reshuffling the money, but Johnny should not have lost anything over the life of the contract.
He already restructured once before thus incurring a dead cap hit of near 1.2 mill this season, 700k next season, 400k the season after. If they convert a large portion of his 3.75 mill to a bonus they can lower his 2021 number, but create a bigger issue next year and thereafter when his salaries hit 4 mill +
His salary number isnt guaranteed so they can basically tear up his contract and sign a new one that pays him his money now and keeps cap in line
Like a new 6 year 20 mill deal with only 5-6 mill guaranteed
2-3 mill signing bonus guaranteed
2022 + 2023 roster bonus guaranteed 500k
Base salary of 1.75 mill only guaranteed for 2021/2022
So he gets his money for this year and next but the CAP hit is much more in line
We would have saved $3.75M this year by cutting him. And we weren't paying Bojorquez anywhere close to $3.75M.
I feel Bojo should have been the Punter. I love Hekket but to me Bojo was better and way less expensive.
So i guess this will be the first time in rams history that we will follow another team's punter so we can argue about whether it was a mistake to let that punter go.
Yeah, can't wait for the game time thread when we play Green Bay... "Bojrquez had 1.2 more yard average per punt!!!! F&@# YOU SNEAD!!!!!!!!!"
You know hekker will have this as the only circled game in 10 years. If the announcers are good they will play this up
I don't have time to look it up, but I thought someone countered my argument to cut him with the fact that we wouldn't actually save that much this season. But admittedly I didn't check.
Will be interesting to see what he lowered the number too since the Rams seemed to agree he was overpaid
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