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What makes Mason fairly irreplaceable IMO and also giving him the upper hand is where he kicks in the months of December and if GB is playing meaningful football, also include january. 

Ryan Wood did a pretty good piece a year ago on what a difficult stadium Lambeau is for reasons well beyond cold temps. That stadium also has ridiculous cross winds and other factors that Longwell, Crosby, jacke, etc all nodded to as unique problems for kickers. It's gotten much more so with the stadium expansion which changes wind direction at certain areas of the field that wasn't there in the 90's and 2000's before Lambeau remodeled.. And unless you are well versed in what those are, a new kicker could easily shit the bed not knowing any of this.

Wood also made a good point about, "well, then just draft a "cold weather" kicker from college". College teams that play in northern parts of the US we might think of as a "cold" environment, really doesn't apply because none of these kickers are playing in that environment past November. By the time you get to a Bowl game, those games are being played either indoors or in warm temps. So in the vast majority of cases, you really aren't taking an experienced cold/winter weather kicker even if they come from "cold" states.

Couple all that with GB knowingly full well how a new kicker can royally screw you in a season (see double doink Bears, Tampa, NE, Queens), I just highly doubt Gutey is going to risk that even if that means he overpays a bit for Crosby. There are just some things you don't wanna risk or fuck with. And this IMO is one of them.  Especially playing critical games in December that could mean winning the division vs WC vs being bounced out of the playoffs vs higher playoff seeding.  

           

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