If Kicker tryouts started tomorrow....

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Sadly there's no perfect kicker, and if there was he wouldn't be free for a tryout. Who's out there? And if you had your druthers would you opt for accuracy from 40 in or a less accurate guy but has a 50+ yard leg? Either one can be a game decider.
 
Give me the big leg. Accuracy is great, but an NFL kicker has to be a credible threat from 50+ Otherwise, defenses will have a strategic advantage if they know a kicker needs to be inside 50 to have a realistic chance.
Anybody know what Steve Cox is up to these days?
 
I agree with you, there has to be the threat of a "Hail Mary" style attempt, but it is also SO frustrating when an offensive drive stalls out inside the 20 and settling for a FG (or even an XP) still makes you hold your breath.
 
I would even say that times have definitely changed. In the '80s, a 50 yard FG was a big deal, and a 55 yarder was amazing. Dempsey's 63 yard record stood for about a hundred years, and everyone said it was because he kicked with a flat fronted shoe due to his foot issue and that no one would ever be able to hit from that range again.
Nowadays, it seems that an average-to-good NFL kicker has to have range to at last 58,59 (with a chance to hit from 60+ under favorable conditions) and 50 yarders are now routine. To not have that in the arsenal is a huge limitation that defenses would and do exploit.
 
Well, most kickers are pretty nomadic, even really good ones. Look at guys like Gano and Koo, just off the top of my head. Guys like Tucker and Butker are outliers.
 
36ST21 said:
Well, most kickers are pretty nomadic, even really good ones. Look at guys like Gano and Koo, just off the top of my head. Guys like Tucker and Butker are outliers.
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Tucker missed an extra point and 3 FG's today. He is having a bad day and year after having an incredible decade.
 
Yes, he is struggling for sure. But still the best career ever for a pure kicker, right?
 
Yeah, like I said, he had an incredible decade
 
Gonzalez is gonna be the guy rest of the season. He’d been perfect till today, and did hit all 6 XPs. Yeah he missed two, but neither was a chip shot, and he just missed both right, and had the distance. Minor tweak hopefully gets him right. He’s got two weeks to work on it.
 
He had a 62 harder in college and was good enough to get a McD's commercial and I think had several long kicks agai st Dallas in 91
 
Professor_Nutter_Butter said:
Get the best. Sebastian Janikowski. Dude's almost 50, but I bet he could still boot 'em.
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50 year-old, drunk-driving, date-rape drug connesiuer, briber of police Sebastian Janikowski?

...yeah, probably still take Seabass over Gonzalez 😆

But, we could have just stuck with McManus if we're ignoring bad behavior...I think all the charges on him were dropped.
 
I do not understand the hate for gonzalez and the love for seibert.

Coming into this game Gonzales had the longest active streak in the nfl of 20 in a row, he also was 6 of 8 on kicks yesterday, extra points aren't gimmes anymore and hitting 6 of them is not something that should be completely ignored.

But more importantly to me all of his kicks fly end over end and straight, the two he missed he simply pushed but the ball flight was very good, seibert has kicked curveballs and had multiple wounded ducks.

I'm not opposed to trying out kickers but I'm not ready to hate on Gonzales because he pushed a couple kicks just out to the right.
 
I'm kind of with heisenberg. Seibert did an admirable job even if it wasn't always pretty. But he does have a tendency to totally mishit some and I was never confident in anything over 50.
 
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