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Not terribly surprised between his massage antics and declining performance. Probably an easier decision than the Ravens are making it out to be.

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The Ravens are a generally smart organization. If they had cut Tucker between February and the draft, there’s a good chance everyone would know they were interested in drafting a kicker the way it worked out, a kicker they like was still on the board of the sixth round. They brought him in into camp to make sure he could actually kick last week, then cut Tucker today. 

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23 minutes ago, Tex Long said:

 Is there a buyout involved here?

No. He got about half his contract’s total value early on via signing bonus and a restructure bonus. His annual base salaries for ‘25 ($4.2m), ‘26 ($4.2m), and ‘27 ($5.15m) were not guaranteed. Ravens take a dead cap hit for the remaining prorated amount of his signing bonus ($7.5m, or about $3.75m for the next two years). Net savings by removing his $4.2m base and paying rookie kicker almost nothing. 

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1 hour ago, WineGuy69 said:

dont fucking say shit, there were people live marvin harison and ray lewis in the NFL. Its not about rape it was just a way to cut him for performance.

Sliced either direction it’s smart

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1 hour ago, WineGuy69 said:

dont fucking say shit, there were people live marvin harison and ray lewis in the NFL. It’s not about rape it was just a way to cut him for performance.

Do you seriously think they would have used a draft pick on a fucking kicker and then cut him if it their concerns were purely about performance?

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2 hours ago, WineGuy69 said:

dont fucking say shit, there were people live marvin harison and ray lewis in the NFL. Its not about rape it was just a way to cut him for performance.

 

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24 minutes ago, irishtexan said:

This has to tank his chances at making the Hall of Fame. Feels like it was a sure thing before all the pervy bullshit came to light. What a fucking idiot. 

Don't read this as a defense of Justin Tucker's misdeeds, more of an observation about how we've progressed for the better:

I wouldn't be shocked to learn that many HOFers got away with similar stuff and it was swept under the rug or never taken seriously. Locker room talk, you know.

https://www.espn.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/14826436/documents-reveal-peyton-manning-accuser-called-sexual-assault-crisis-center-report-1996-incident

https://www.espn.com/pdf/2016/0222/espn_otl_knoxvillecrisiscenter.pdf

As others have pointed out, he might still have had a happy ending if his on-field performance hadn't tanked.

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2 hours ago, irishtexan said:

This has to tank his chances at making the Hall of Fame. Feels like it was a sure thing before all the pervy bullshit came to light. What a fucking idiot. 

Football video games literally had to change their programs to adjust for his kicking; now, he's a late night talk show punchline.

Yeah, I think he's gone from being a definite in to a definite out.

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dont fucking say shit, there were people live marvin harison and ray lewis in the NFL. Its not about rape it was just a way to cut him for performance.

What did Marvin Harrison do?
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4 hours ago, irishtexan said:

This has to tank his chances at making the Hall of Fame. Feels like it was a sure thing before all the pervy bullshit came to light. What a fucking idiot. 

He’s probably an idiot, but it’s not like he went out and tanked his HoF chances. All of the allegations were from a decade or more ago, long before he would have been sniffing the HoF. 
 

Given the timing, it’s certainly possible that the Ravens were aware previously and waited until he was losing his skills to allow it to leak out. 

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Technically the voters for HOF are only supposed to consider the on field performance. This came up before with Lawrence Taylor and Terrell Owens. Technically is highly variable

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