Detroit Lions waive James Turner after signing Jake Bates

For those hoping the MoneyBadgerwould be leaving, he’s got almost as many lives as Andre Fluellen or Aveion Cason. :smirk: :wink:

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Money Badger has like 500k in guaranteed cash. He wasn’t going anywhere before training camp.

Good luck to Turner… Holmes thinks Bates is better obviously. Time will tell. 3 place kickers on the 90 man was a bit excessive.

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In the NFL if you are good to very good at 2 of these 3, you’re going to do well. Well, I think our O is a given. On D we threw the kitchen sink at the secondary and got a very hi quality DT in Reader, we should be good to very good. Then there’s special teams. Well, we had good coverage, a great punter but were missing the kicker we could rely on. The reality is that we have a chance to be good to great in all 3 phases now. All 3. It gives me a warm…fuzzy feeling, well that could be day drinking too.

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Just let Fox kick FGs too

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Signing Bates doesn’t really change our kicking strategy all that much in my opinion. We’re still going to go for it on any kick 55 yards or under. Having Bates just means that we can bring him in on kicks outside of that and obviously over 60 and the defense has to believe that we might actually kick it… and that’s the whole point.

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I think the issue with turner was his kickoffs not field goals.

All I need to know.

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I’m as bad as predicting good kickers as I am with predicting good QB’s. I thought he was beating out the money badger. Gotta stop listening to beat writers.

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It could be interesting to see how the end of the halves could go with that leg. Besides if his short game is less accurate, it will give DC even more reason to go for it on 4th and medium lol.

I don’t think that’s possible, because Fox’s balls are too big and heavy for anyone to hold. That’s why he plays a position where he holds his own balls to kick.

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Watch him figure out a way to hold for himself…then he’ll have an extra blocker too.

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Settle down Natty… ur new hair is sexy but no need to flaunt it. :joy:

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Get your mind off of my crotch, pal.

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Moneybadger vs. Moneybator. The incumbent better get ready for some stiff competition.

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James Turner Who?

Hopefully goalpost can take Jack under his wings. Nice to have such a skilled, veteran presence in that room.

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