Who Gets Into The Cool Kickers Club This Week?
This was a big week for kickers! Graham Gano ripped my heart out with a 63 yard game winner, one of only 4 60+ yard game winning field goals in the final seconds ever. Of course, another one of those 4 happened against the Giants just last year when the Eagles did it. That’s some shit.
Gano’s kick would have been good from 70 yards, dude kicked the hell out of that ball. Cairo Santos also kicked a big game winner against Seattle to help the Rams pull off a surprisingly tough game. The Hawks came to play and honestly looked like themselves for a while, but it wasn’t enough to stop the Rams.
Greg Joseph won the battle of the kickers between Cleveland and Baltimore. He missed one earlier so the knuckleball in overtime was redemption. Boy it sure was a knuckleball though, possibly the worst game winning kick I have ever watched. I thought it got blocked but then the Browns started to party and then I saw the replay of the ball actually flop its way over the crossbar like a salmon that died mid-leap. Doesn’t matter, still counts!
Then there’s Mason Crosby.
C-c-c-combo breaker! Mason missed 5 kicks, 4 field goals and one extra point. He completed the rare feat of managing to doink a ball off both uprights in the same game. By miss 3 I don’t even know why the Packers even bothered sending him out there. It’s not like they were playing a close game, they probably could have used more risky plays at that point since the Lions were stomping them. But hey, Mason kicked a field goal at the end of the game, when they were down by 11. That should help.
I was actually at the game, drove down from Toronto. Finally got to see my Packers, and the shit show that was Mason Crosby’s week. Tore my heart out. Although, it was very funny to watch him get isolated on the sidelines by the rest of the team. A solid 10-15 yards between him and the next player.
FTP
Since being disappointed/pissed off is my default emotion at the end of a Browns game, I actually thought he missed it and was ready to lose my teeth to excessive grinding. It took me about fifteen seconds to realize all the fans were cheering, and only realized they won when I saw them celebrating.
Half the people at the game, including me (and apparently the refs) forgot that it was sudden death and assumed they still had to kick off to Baltimore.
wait does cleveland have a 500 record
what year is it
they’re above .500 because ties.
Cleveland has a “winning” record.
2-2-1 is .500, ties count as half a win in NFL standings.
a careful inspection of the op will reveal a dearth of usage of the term “above” and suggest the original intent to be “exactly” instead
which is evidently incorrect by virtue of said half-win
nevertheless the original line of inquiry WHAT YEAR IS IT still stands
hell yeah some love for our boy Cairo! greetings from Brazil!
even though i know he won’t be with the rams for long, it’s nice to see him back, hope he gets picked up by another team before the season is over
You know all this kicker talk made me curious and i did some research. That’s how I found out about Mark Moseley, kicker for the Redskins in the 80’s and the 1982 NFL MVP. Yeah, seriously look it up. A kicker actually won MVP. I honestly don’t know how to process this information.
That wasn’t news, many known this already. What was surprising was that he missed more extra points than field goals. Plus it was a strike shortened season where it got cut down to 9 games so it can get pretty weird.
You forgot second most accurate kicker in the league coming to the Vikings and then having him miss two FG as well. What was up with all this misses this weekend?
Minnesota’s special teams coaches being massive idiots. At least for the Vikings, not sure about the other teams.
It seems like the Chargers finally found their guy. Strugis isn’t great but he’s about average which will cut if for the Chargers. If we potentially had Roberto Aguayo as our kicker, you know its bad.
The moment we finally get good our stadium gets flooded with opposing fans. At least they’re selling out now.
I put together some stats and posted it in reddit after all the misses Sunday. https://www.reddit.com/r/nfl/comments/9mgczr/its_not_your_imagination_kickers_have_been_much/
Kickers have been seriously under-performing on kicks over 40 yards, especially in the 45-49 yard range. I dunno if it’s just random and they’ll revert to the mean in the rest of the season or what, but it is definitely weird.
Maybe ball change? Perhaps Brady is deflating the entire leagues balls?
Shhh…Goodell might get the idea to suspend Brady again just to make people think he was actually competent when it was the opposite, like before.
What? No love for the Bills and Stephen Hausch-money?
Yeh, that Jake Elliott kick last year ensured that he can have a full on Mason Crosby anytime in his career, but he will never have to buy another drink in Philly for the rest of his life.
Kicking has been weird this year. Kickers have either been nailing 60 yarder or they’ve missed four or five chip shots. I blame global warming.
p a safe bet since its not an el nino year
I doubt anyone will see this, but would it have been in poor taste for Crosby to claim he was Rob Bironas?