In all my life, I've never seen such bitching and complaining about a kicker who, ultimately, kicked the game winner. Facebook is gushing over with Cundiff hate. Ditto other Redskins sites. Forget that Cundiff was, short a beyond stupid 62 yard call, perfect heading into today. Oh - and nevermind the fact that he's an automatic touchback on kickoffs.
He had a bad day - and still managed to kick the game winner. I hope all of our worst days are that good.
Guys a Redskin, and when push came to shove, won us a game today and gets zero support.
Fans suck.
OK its time to weigh in my .02 (i know i know that's all its worth). Yes by the time we got to the two minute warning, I had fired three coaches and cut the kicker. But what do you expect when the playcalling, in my opinion, sucked in the second half and we get no points, miss three FG's and the defense caves on big plays. We've seen this act before, but this time we get to witness the beating of our #1.
In all honesty Cundiff got the boot from Ravens due to costing them the AFC playoffs. To top if off, we sign him without competition. Why? Because the coaches can't bear to live with Gano missing from the 30-35 anymore. So what do we get? A missed 31 yarder, that one did it.
Now I won't go into the coaching, but there was simply no reason to march Cundiff back out there after three straight misses, after his third miss I said bench him lets go for it on fourth downs.
So we end up with no choice but to roll him out there for the final play. A couple more yards back and that thing will veer left another foot and miss. We were very fortunate.
Cundiff saves his own job, but a smart coach will make plans for the next kicker as insurance. If that is Gano so be it. But Cundiff, in all likelihood, is on a short leash. Certainly he is not what is on this team that is killing us. He can win some, and lose some, but here is what really really sticks in my craw. The Tampa kicker has made what? 26 consecutive FG's? Can you say Mark Moseley? I can hardly give Cundiff some leeway when we see a guy on the other side that is money. Just like a franchise QB, the kicker must be money. As fans, we simply can't live by watching FG tries with our hands over our eyes.
Against Atlanta, we need four field goals. Our kicker on this team, is a vital scoring cog, and he must be money. We can't live without those made FG's, we aren't that good. So like it should be in the NFL, he lives from week to week, just like the fans, if the fans suck, so does Cundiff. He gets another week, I'll be there to cheer him on.
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