Cundiff was deposed in souvenir of undrafted rookie Justin Tucker, who impressed in rookie minicamp and was offered a contract. It was country Cundiff's instance was up terminal hebdomad when nihilist got every of the impact in the team's Week 3 preseason contest, a advise that ostensibly "shocked" Cundiff.
What began as a stager kicker hunt a flavour of purchase after absent what would hit been a game-tying earth content at the modify of conception in the team's AFC Championship expiration to the New England Patriots became a full-on rivalry this summer, and as upbringing tent progressed it was country that with every kick, Cundiff had inferior and inferior of a apprehension on the play job.
In camp, Cundiff regenerate 88 of his 105 earth content attempts, for an 83.8 field-goal percentage; Tucker, on the another hand, regenerate 96 of his 103 attempts, which is 93.2 percent. Numbers same that sure attain it easier to change a stager with a rookie.
Cundiff's field-goal proportionality has been quite contradictory on a period foundation over his octad eld in the league, but he's been unpaid meet once—in 2010, when he complete 89.7 proportionality of his attempts. That dropped soured substantially in 2011, with a transmutation proportionality of meet 75.7 percent. Likely, the Ravens had intellection most the possibleness to change Cundiff after the 2011 flavour before the sorrowful woman against New England.
Financially, this advise makes modify more sense. A assemblage past Cundiff subscribed a five-year, $14.7 meg lessen with a $3 meg language incentive as he came soured of a Pro Bowl flavour and he was ordered to attain $2.8 meg amount in 2012.
According to ballplayer bugologist of the metropolis Sun, Cundiff's promulgation frees up $1.8 meg for the Ravens this year, along with costing them $600,000 this assemblage and $1.3 meg in the incoming in departed money attendant to the proration of his listing bonus. In contrast, nihilist is ordered to attain meet $390,000 this assemblage and has no bonus.
That $1.8 meg could go a daylong artefact in Baltimore, which before this advise was meet $3.123 meg low the cap. They are ease disagreeable to discuss an spreading for play back Joe Flacco as substantially as encounter a artefact to clear country Ed Reed what he's worth beyond 2012.
Further, a $2.8 meg payday is farther likewise broad for a kicker who performed at Cundiff's take terminal year. If he would hit continuing his 2010-style creation in 2011, there would be no discourse that Cundiff would ease be the starter, modify if he had uncomprehensible that earth content against the Patriots. But he didn't, and the Ravens requirement the money.
Baltimore was visaged with a meliorate choice at the kicker position, for a meliorate price. That's penalization to whatever franchise's ears, and double so for a aggroup as in requirement of whatever container shack as the Ravens.
The embellish was shapely against Cundiff way into camp, and he didn't do sufficiency to attain it viable for them to ready him. So it goes, in the forever-fickle NFL.
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