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Itinerant Kicker Picks Up and Moves Again

Jose Cortez is working the grift again, it seems. After conning opportunities and missing field goals in previous years with San Francisco and Minnesota, and apparently, for a cup of coffee with the Redskins as well, Cortez has been on 3 different NFL rosters this year.

He started the season with Dallas and lasted until a missed extra point against San Francisco and another missed field goal in the loss to Seattle. (Bill Parcells reportedly called him “terrible”.) He moved on to the Eagles when their kicker David Akers pulled an ovary or whatever it is that kickers get injured enough to miss games. After Akers returned from his spa trip, he moved on again. Somehow 49ers coach Mike Nolan had missed out on the company-wide e-mail that Cortez was poison to his team’s chances of winning. Though I’m sure if he had merely mentioned the guy’s name to any San Francisco fan within shouting distance, he’d have heard enough not to sign him on as even a kick-off specialist. He lasted 11 days in his second stint in the City by the Bay.

Well, you can’t keep a good grifter down, and so Cortez has managed to con another team into paying him $33,750 this week. (Based on Cortez being in his 6th year and the league minimum for a veteran of his tenure.) (There’s nothing wrong with using Wikipedia as a source, right? It’s never wrong, right?)

In any event, well played, Jose, well played.

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