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Broncos cut punters pay

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Denver announced this week that they have cut the base pay of punter Brian Colquitt from $3 mil to 1.6 mil for the 2015 season.

I guess the other option was to release him...so he agreed...I would have. If I was a punter, I would be very happy with 1.6 mil.

He was a tad overpaid.

But I think Denver has signed all their players at this point. This is something they could have done before free agency and the draft. 

Why would an NFL team do this at this time of the season?

 

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That's a pretty drastic drop from $3,000,000 to roughly $1,000,000. Is Brian Colquitt that horrible? Also, when most guys are asked to take a pay cut, it might involve hundreds of thousands of dollars not a couple of million typically. Plus, your standard of living in a said location matters. Denver is an expensive place to live just like NY & CA as opposed to say the Midwest. 

 

Did Elway just drop this revelation this season on Brian with no warning? It's kind of abrupt with no hint in previous seasons this pay cut will be happening especially if you grow used to that base salary & then boom the other shoe drops. 

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Denver announced this week that they have cut the base pay of punter Brian Colquitt from $3 mil to 1.6 mil for the 2015 season.

I guess the other option was to release him...so he agreed...I would have. If I was a punter, I would be very happy with 1.6 mil.

He was a tad overpaid.

But I think Denver has signed all their players at this point. This is something they could have done before free agency and the draft. 

Why would an NFL team do this at this time of the season?

 

Any thoughts.

Exactly OUM, this action makes no sense at this time of year in August. You don't do this now with the season just around the corner. Not good for morale. You've gotta do this say like 2-3 weeks after the season is over & Brian's contract has expired not on the brink of the season in a few weeks. It would be interesting to see the base salary of the top 5 punters around the league right now to see if the Broncos are downplaying Brian's role on the team impact wise. 

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Based on average punt yardage and net yardage, he was one of the lowest ranked punters in the league last year. Evidently they were ready to release him, and instead he agreed to a reduction in pay. There's nothing that says when this happened, so we don't know that it was done recently. 

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