A Bad Week For NFL Kickers
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Twas a bad week for kickers, my goodness. Something like 19 total kicks (field goals and extra points) were missed. The Browns maybe lost a game because of it. The Vikings and Packers ended up tied because of it. Vikings kicker Daniel Carlson took the worst of it all, missing two game winners that would have put them over the top in Lambeau. Then he got fired for missing those kicks and the Vikings signed Dan Carpenter BAILEY (Too many Dan kickers I say) immediately. The Browns also cut Zane Gonzalez, who may very well be the reason the Browns are 0-1-1.
All I smell right now is a Roberto Aguayo comeback setup.
Let’s do it. Bring the man back. Let his redemption reign over us all.
Pretty sure the Vikings signed Dan Bailey, not Carpenter. In retrospect, they probably should have done that the instant the Cowboys released him.
Funny how it took a month for one of the best kickers of all-time to get signed.
I’m guessing the rest of the NFL will never take kickers for granted, again, so if Justin Tucker is ever released by the Ravens, expect to see him signed later that same day.
The Vikes signed Dan Bailey, not Dan Carpenter
Carlson missed three FGs against Green Bay, only one true game-winner. (One on the first possession of OT is not really a “game-winner” – it would’ve changed how GB played their possession if it had gone through, especially in regards to going for it on 4th down.) Also, who’s Dan Carpenter?
The Kicker Dan Bailey wishes he was.
This is why Vinatieri and Sea-Bass are still in the league
He missed three times 🙁
Also they signed Dan Bailey, not Dan Carpenter
Oh well, at least he missed wide right rather than usual Vikings FG misses. Nice change of pace.
ha, the Browns “maybe” lost a game because of the kicker… “maybe”… your powers of sarcasm are at their peak, you’re in postseason form and it’s only week 3
I have never missed Phil “The Automatic” Dawson more than while watching that Browns/Saints game.
See Dave, I feel like this week disproves what you were saying during the Aguayo affair that the difference between a good and a bad kicker are minimal. I don’t think the difference between a good and bad is total prrcentage completed, but being able to make the clutch kicks that can effect outcomes, at least in the organization’s eyes.
You are taking that argument a little out of context. My argument against Aguayo was mostly against his draft position. The difference between a good kicker and a bad kicker is relatively small compared to other positions, which makes drafting one above the 4th round kind of a waste of a pick.
I mean look at it from this perspective: The Vikings used a 5th rounder on a bad kicker and they got a much better one just by looking at kickers without jobs. There’s no reason to draft kickers in the 2nd round when you can always find decent to passable kickers just floating around.
In retrospect they not only drafted Aguayo in the second rd pick 59 but they traded up to get him. Trading up in a draft for any kicker in any round is ridiculous
He wasn’t really bad in college. But they had a kicker who was pretty good. So why draft one? They used a draft pick that basically led to a tie. Which could have huge implications later in the season. That said, I feel bad for that Zane kid from Cleveland. I mean, he could’ve been the guy who helped them win. But I don’t think people need to go around blaming him for the loss. THEY’RE THE FREAKING CLEVELAND BROWNS. THEY LOST. THEY ARE WHO WE THOUGHT THEY WERE! Sorry, couldn’t help myself.
Raiders essentially lost to the Broncos by a missed Extra Point.
Alternatively, the Broncos won by being the only team to actually make that clutch late game field goal.
<3 McManus.
In Mike Nugent’s defense, the kick was blocked, because the right side of his O-line decided to just fall over instead of blocking their assignments.
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