I would also say as much as Sanchez has been great, you can also find good punters fairly easily, and they should be saving some money there as well. But i am not going to be complaining if we did resign him, he has consistently performed at a relatively high level, without outkicking his coverage teams. Having a big leg is not the way to measure how good a punter is, distance and hangtime are the crucial elements of a quality punter, along with directional punting ability. In my experience as a teenager (many years ago) messing around with friends (in the UK, there were very few opportunities to play anything remotely organised back then), punting was something i just couldn't do well, i could kick field goals from 40 yards etc. I could punt it 30 or 40 yards sometimes, but rarely with any real knowledge of where it was actually going to go, mostly off the side of my foot!
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