Josh Scobee wakes up
Kickers have such a rough life in some ways. Kicking seems like a very streaky job. The differences between the best kickers and the worst are minimal and hard to see, and Scobee has made plenty of good clutch kicks in his career. Lots of misses go unnoticed due to the team scoring plenty of points anyway or losing by tons to begin with. Then every once in a while, you get a game where the field goals are the difference makers, and if you happen to have a bad day on that moment, you’re the villain for the week and everyone hates you.
in 2006 Jay Feely missed 3 straight field goals for the Giants and allowed the Seahawks to force overtime and win. John Carney shanked the extra point after the incredible lateral play by the Saints. If Scobee had made a kick in overtime, everyone would be fine and happy because he “redeemed” himself, the way Lawrence Tynes did in the 2007 championship game.
It’s one of those jobs that gets you very little recognition unless you win an important game or lose a game directly because you missed. “YOU HAD ONE JOB” people yell, ignoring the fact that kicking field goals is goddamn hard as hell (plus still dependent on good snaps, good blocking, and good holds) and very few people in the world can do it well enough at that level. So I feel pretty bad for Scobee. He could make every single kick from here out and unless some of those were important game winners, nobody would even notice. Hell, as a kicker you can even have a bad year and come back fine after that. Remember in 2012 when Mason Crosby was having a terrible season and Packer fans were calling for his head? Yeah his next season was one of his best. Kickers get a lot of hate for games that they directly lose but it’s disproportionate. The rest of the team put the kicker in that position to face that pressure, it’s unfair to lump it all on him, even if he does deserve a large portion of the blame.
Josh Scobee has been pretty bad this year. I believe that he has now missed three field goals and one extra point in only three games so far. And the ones he did make on Thursday just barely squeaked through. As much as I hate to give Steelers fans even the slightest credit, it’s perfectly reasonable to want Scobee gone at this point.
He’s missed four so far.
We’ve played four games and he’s missed four field, not 3 in 3.
Worth mentioning that, unlike some other kickers, the Steelers haven’t attempted a field goal from past the 50 yard line (unlike the Bucs who are 2-4 at the 50). All four of his missed ones have been within the 40-50 range; no other kicker has missed more than one from that range.
Is that 9/11 joke an actual thing you saw or did you just make it up?
I’ve heard people make that joke about numerous kickers and other positions.
does this joke make any sense?
His job is to kick the ball between the uprights, not hit them. So he would just have piloted the plane between the towers and yelled IT’S GOOD?
Are you me? This was my first thought.
I think the he meant Josh couldn’t hit anything he was aiming at. Please take this in the humorous way I meant it in, but you guys are really over-analyzing a cartoon here.
>you guys are really over-analyzing a cartoon here
No they weren’t. Cartoons have a purpose and when the author exaggerates something ridiculous on the spot they lose purpose and leave bad “tastes” in brains.
Bad “tastes” in brains? You know what else serves a purpose? English books.
Well, I guess it could have been worse and you could have posted a meme.
I was kinda disappointed and feel bad for him because he was once with the jags. He never missed fields goals this bad. He was always a consistent kicker with the jags and made clutch fields goals as well ex: 59 game winning field goal. I wish him the best and hope that he doesn’t get raided by steeler fans.
Next time we see Beardy Dolphins Guy, he needs a shirt saying I MISS STOYANOVICH.
Glad we’ve gotten rid of Caleb Sturgis. Andy Franks can only be better. Sending Carp to Buffalo was one of the worst moves the Ireland-Sparano regime made – at one point he scored the equivalent of TWO TDS PER GAME against us.
Now we’ve done the same, only with Charles clay instead
5-11 here the 2015 Miami Dolphins come
I miss Olindo Mare (when he was in Miami)
While he was with Seattle, Mare got thrown under the bus by head coach Jim Mora after a six-point loss in a game to Chicago where Mare had missed two FGs (but made four). Those wound up being the only ones Mare missed all season and he was named a Pro Bowl alternate. Mora, OTOH….
It’s not just because of this game, he was already pretty bad before this game, he had 2 misses and a Extra Point miss, none of wich was far from the 40-49 range. You can’t have a kicker you can’t trust, it really hurts to have a panic attack everytime your team is kicker THE EXTRA POINT. It’s not healthy, you see?
I would’ve killed to see Scobee get totally trashed in the locker room after that game, then steal the mic at Tomlin’s postgame presser and go on a drunken racist tirade.
he low key my favorite kicker in the nfl
Well.. they fired him for it.. heh. He’s probably out of the NFL for good now.
To put in in perspective, Shaun Suisham was 30/30 under the 50 yard line since the start of the 2013 season. Scobee is 6/10 ON THE YEAR and with a missed field goal.
Jaguars fans still love ya, Josh
I actually bet on that game..thank god it wasn’t real money. Fuck you Josh Scobee. I’m not even a Pittsburgh fan and his horrible ability still affected me negatively.
as a steeler fan, i have to admit, id have probably been in that crowd lol
LACES OUT, DAN!
But seriously, while I usually side with the kicker, this time the blame falls squarely on Scobee’s shoulders. In the current NFL, if a kick is under 45 yards you’re expected to make it, and Scobee missed two of those. He got a third tipped that I’m convinced would have gone out if not for the tip. He could have won them the game TWICE, not counting the one in OT.
And it’s not like Scobee has been money every other game this season. He’s been so bad that while Big Ben was healthy, the Steelers stopped kicking extra points altogether because they felt that they had a better chance going for 2 every time.
How many long field goals have you made in a crosswind, Mr. Field Goal Expert?
I always hate this “If you can’t do it then don’t talk” argument. I would never be able to throw an accurate spiral in the face of an NFL pass rush, but that doesn’t mean that my criticisms of Matt Stafford’s mechanics and decision-making are invalid or wrong. I’d probably get dropped for a five-yard loss even behind the Great Wall of Dallas, but that doesn’t mean that I couldn’t watch tape and see the massive holes that Trent Richardson ignored. My feet and hips suck, but that doesn’t mean I can’t identify the problems in a bad offensive lineman’s footwork and hip movement.
The right to criticize someone doesn’t require the ability to do the thing you’re criticizing them over better than they can.
Can someone explain to me why the Steelers felt they needed to replace Suisham? He wasn’t a stud, but he never really screwed up that I remember.
He tore his ACL in the Hall of Fame Game.
It probably had something to do with him tearing his ACL while trying to make a tackle during the preseason this year. After which, they signed Garret Hartley, who promptly injured his hamstring, causing to them acquire Scobee. And now that Scobee’s gone, Chris Boswell is the fourth Steelers kicker of the year.
And adding onto that last comment, the Steelers will be paying their stable of kickers $6,000,000 this year.
Huh. Damn, I didn’t realize Suisham went down, I assumed they moved on for some reason.
Moral of the story: Kickers are more important than we all give them credit for.
The real blame lies with Tomlin parking the bus when they only had a mrginal lead and tanking the offense for nearly the entire second half, as he is prone to do. Seems garbage time comes early in Pittsburgh
It seems like this has just been a really bad year for kickers in general; lots of misses that you’d think would be easy kicks. Glad my Broncos have McManus.
Looking forward to your take on the Lions getting screwed
Again
Just like they always do
Someone please kill me
And, yes, you’re right, Dave…about Vick, I mean.