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stillers4me
03-12-2018, 04:36 PM
The Steelers have placed a second-round tender on place kicker Chris Boswell, a restricted free agent who can seek other offers from NFL teams.

The tender for $2.9 million will be his salary for the 2018 season if he cannot come to terms on a long-term deal. If Boswell receives a better offer from another team, the Steelers would receive a second-round pick as compensation if they don’t choose to match the offer.........

Read more @ http://www.post-gazette.com/sports/steelers/2018/03/12/Chris-Boswell-second-round-tender-restricted-free-agent-place-kicker-graham-gano/stories/201803120131?utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#link_time=1520887068

steelreserve
03-12-2018, 06:33 PM
Ah, I didn't know he was an RFA. So much for the $4M salary projections. Nobody's going to give up a second-round pick for a kicker. And if they do, then great for us, we just draft a kicker in like Round 6 and it'll be one of the best couple to play in college.

Moose
03-12-2018, 06:49 PM
Damn ! Hate seeing this right now. Helluva kicker ! We NEED the Boz !!!!

Lady Steel
03-12-2018, 11:01 PM
Damn ! Hate seeing this right now. Helluva kicker ! We NEED the Boz !!!!

Yes! I agree. We do need him. Desperately. I remember vividly those who came before him and don't want to experience that ever again.

steelreserve
03-13-2018, 01:17 AM
Damn ! Hate seeing this right now. Helluva kicker ! We NEED the Boz !!!!

What? He's a restricted free agent. He'll be on the team next year for less than we would've had to pay otherwise.

SteelerFanInStl
03-13-2018, 07:43 AM
What? He's a restricted free agent. He'll be on the team next year for less than we would've had to pay otherwise.

Yea, Boz isn't going anywhere. I'm sure that the Steelers will get a multi-year contract worked out for him.

AtlantaDan
03-13-2018, 09:16 AM
Yea, Boz isn't going anywhere. I'm sure that the Steelers will get a multi-year contract worked out for him.

Once they say goodbye to Bell after 2018 - the market values Boz too highly for that to happen this year with the $$ tied up in Bell

Last season, Boswell was 35 for 39 on field-goal attempts for a career-best 92.1 percent success rate. For his career, Boswell has made 89.5 percent of his kicks....

The Steelers would like to sign Boswell to a long-term contract, but that could be difficult considering the market for place kickers. Last week, Graham Gano, whose career percentage is 81.7 percent, signed a four-year deal worth $17 million, including $9 million guaranteed.

http://www.post-gazette.com/sports/steelers/2018/03/12/Chris-Boswell-second-round-tender-restricted-free-agent-place-kicker-graham-gano/stories/201803120131

Maybe the Steelers can tag Boz for 2019 :couch:

teegre
03-13-2018, 09:25 AM
Maybe the Steelers can tag Boz for 2019 :couch:

What??? I didn’t even know that Boz rapped...

Moose
03-13-2018, 10:01 AM
Yup....sure was nice when our Offense couldn't score shit to have Boz come in and blast 4,5,or 6 FG's to win 18 - 7 !! Or 12 - 3 !! Or....whatever.

EzraTank
03-13-2018, 12:35 PM
He'll be back and probably signed within the next year. It takes a unique guy to kick at Heinz but I think a lot of the Heinz "curse" was more on us have shitty kickers pre-Boz and other kickers not used to the stadium. I've noticed that a lot of kickers seem to do just fine at Heinz now that they have had years to get used to it.

steelreserve
03-13-2018, 01:15 PM
He'll be back and probably signed within the next year. It takes a unique guy to kick at Heinz but I think a lot of the Heinz "curse" was more on us have shitty kickers pre-Boz and other kickers not used to the stadium. I've noticed that a lot of kickers seem to do just fine at Heinz now that they have had years to get used to it.

No joke.

What it really boils down to is, about 50 percent of our kickers have been successful and about 50 percent have not. No different from any other team in any other stadium. The Heinz Field Curse is a bogeyman; the problem was that when you get a shitty kicker, it takes half a season or so to find out. I remember some of our worst, most game-losing botched FGs coming on the road - in Chicago a few years back, for example.

j-d-s
03-13-2018, 05:01 PM
Ah, I didn't know he was an RFA. So much for the $4M salary projections. Nobody's going to give up a second-round pick for a kicker. And if they do, then great for us, we just draft a kicker in like Round 6 and it'll be one of the best couple to play in college.
Didn't the Buccaneers trade up into the 2nd round to draft a kicker which they cut a year later?