A must see: Norwegian kicker (holy crap)

[PatsWickedPissah]

lmao at all the people in here sold by a youtube video.

GFY!

and Happy New Year!

you hater of Scandanavian peoples

 

[Off The Grid]

Best Kicker EVER!!

Sign The Beast!!

 

[lurker1965]

How many missed kicks were edited out? I can make a sixty yarder if the camera man holds my cane and I get 1,000,000 tries.

 

[Joker]

GFY!

and Happy New Year!

you hater of Scandanavian peoples

uh...I don't think anyone who shares an oar on a Viking long boat with the Sven Svincters of the Northern Triangle should be hatin' on the descendants of victims that were prey of the horn swoggling, blonde haired sackers and pillagers...just sayin'...

 

[lurker1965]

Sorry, when I said he was being worked out by Les Miserables I meant the Jets. He's for real. I hate to think of them getting him but maybe he won't make the transition so swell.

98% of that stuff is nice, but playing hackey sack with the ball before doing a spin kick over your head does not translate to the game.

According to broadcasters, every kicker was making 60 yarders BEFORE the game. I assume it is different when 300 pound guys are not trying to stop your kick.

 

[PatsWickedPissah]

uh...I don't think anyone who shares an oar on a Viking long boat with the Sven Svincters of the Northern Triangle should be hatin' on the descendants of victims that were prey of the horn swoggling, blonde haired sackers and pillagers...just sayin'...

as long as they did not force their conquests to consume sardines

 

[Joker]

as long as they did not force their conquests to consume sardines

yeah???..well, tell me THIS...who's the Viking that invented WASA crackers? dyam, that stuff is so dry it makes a dried up cracked mud hole in the Mojave in the middle of July look like a Hawaian waterfall....

YAY...thanks for the cardboard, Mom!!!...

 

[Tunescribe]

yeah???..well, tell me THIS...who's the Viking that invented WASA crackers? dyam, that stuff is so dry it makes a dried up cracked mud hole in the Mojave in the middle of July look like a Hawaian waterfall....

YAY...thanks for the cardboard, Mom!!!...

I don't think those things were meant to be eaten without ample embellishment ... Like, whatever that white blob is (cheese?) in the pictured serving suggestion. But yeah, I remember having those as a kid and it sucking all the moisture out of my body.

 

[kennyb]

How many missed kicks were edited out? I can make a sixty yarder if the camera man holds my cane and I get 1,000,000 tries.

No you couldn't. Have you ever tried? It's not as easy as it looks. And to another poster, no not every kicker is making 60 yarders before the game.

This guy could walk in and be better than Goskowski on day 1. Gost has a bit of choker in him, sorry to say. Defintely not worth the money.

 

[Silver Blue&Red]

No you couldn't. Have you ever tried? It's not as easy as it looks. And to another poster, no not every kicker is making 60 yarders before the game.

This guy could walk in and be better than Goskowski on day 1. Gost has a bit of choker in him, sorry to say. Defintely not worth the money.

........ Seriously, It's all fake.

 

[captain stone]

Here's the thing, though: there was absolutely no reason the Patriots needed to make Gostkowski the second-highest paid kicker in NFL history. . . . but they did. So why did BB et al. feel that was a good move to make?

Excellent question. Another one would be, why did Bill not want to guarantee Vinitraitor's contract
after the 2005 season? If memory serves, a guaranteed contract was basically all that kept him
from re-signing here. Instead, Bill uses a precious 4th-rounder on Gostkowski, who is a walking
cross-your-fingers every time he attempts a FG, and is the 2nd highest-paid PK in league history?!?

And don't even get me started on the precious 5th-rounder used for the modestly mediocre Mesko.

UDFA-caliber, league-minimum JAGs, the both of them.

 

[Sciz]

I think a lot of people are revising history about Gostkowski, or maybe kickers in general. The standards for kickers have gone up quite a bit in the past two years. After the 2009 season (that's when Gost got his contract), Gostkowski's 84.3% FG percentage ranked 6th all time. Right now, his 84.2% FG percentage is 14th all time. So his career average is one miss per 1000 kicks lower, yet he's fallen 8 places.

The biggest difference is the new wave of kicking talent that has entered the NFL over the past two years. The top five kickers in career FG percentage all fit this description, two rookies and three second year players. No other kicker in the NFL has a career FG percentage above 87, yet these five young kickers are converting on 89.5, 89.6, 91.4, 93.5, and 100% (on 17 attempts) of their kicks.

So while Gostkowski has plateaued after an awfully promising start, new kickers are coming into the NFL and having more and earlier success than ever before. Maybe it's just a good two classes, or maybe it's a trend. I don't know. Either way, the Pats paid for what they had in 2010 without being able to predict that quite a few better options would be available over the next two offseasons. Without knowing anything about college kickers other than that Cairo Santos is statistically a kicking god, I can't say anything about what the Pats should do, but it seems that there's more college talent than ever before and the Pats can save about $1M next season by cutting Gostkowski and paying his replacement, so there's definitely some merit to the idea of replacing him with someone younger. I just don't see how people act like the Pats should have planned for this three years ago.

(I'm using a minimum of 15 FG attempts, which is roughly half a season worth of FG's for Gost)

 

[ctpatsfan77]

Excellent question. Another one would be, why did Bill not want to guarantee Vinitraitor's contract
after the 2005 season? If memory serves, a guaranteed contract was basically all that kept him
from re-signing here.

Well, that and the fact that even in a dome he no longer has the leg for kickoffs. . . .

 

[ctpatsfan77]

I think a lot of people are revising history about Gostkowski, or maybe kickers in general. The standards for kickers have gone up quite a bit in the past two years. After the 2009 season (that's when Gost got his contract), Gostkowski's 84.3% FG percentage ranked 6th all time. Right now, his 84.2% FG percentage is 14th all time. So his career average is one miss per 1000 kicks lower, yet he's fallen 8 places.

The biggest difference is the new wave of kicking talent that has entered the NFL over the past two years. The top five kickers in career FG percentage all fit this description, two rookies and three second year players. No other kicker in the NFL has a career FG percentage above 87, yet these five young kickers are converting on 89.5, 89.6, 91.4, 93.5, and 100% (on 17 attempts) of their kicks.

A couple of interesting facts:
(1) From 1960 to 2011, 61 kickers had made at least 20 FG attempts and converted at least 90%.
(1a) Entering Week 17, 8 kickers are on pace to do that this year.
(2) The median age for that feat? 32. When Gostkowski did it in 2008, he was, at the time, the second youngest kicker to do it.

 

[ctpatsfan77]

Excellent question. Another one would be, why did Bill not want to guarantee Vinitraitor's contract
after the 2005 season? If memory serves, a guaranteed contract was basically all that kept him
from re-signing here. Instead, Bill uses a precious 4th-rounder on Gostkowski, who is a walking
cross-your-fingers every time he attempts a FG, and is the 2nd highest-paid PK in league history?!?

And don't even get me started on the precious 5th-rounder used for the modestly mediocre Mesko.

UDFA-caliber, league-minimum JAGs, the both of them.

"Precious" 4th rounder? "Precious" 5th rounder?

 

[Sciz]

A couple of interesting facts:
(1) From 1960 to 2011, 61 kickers had made at least 20 FG attempts and converted at least 90%.
(1a) Entering Week 17, 8 kickers are on pace to do that this year.
(2) The median age for that feat? 32. When Gostkowski did it in 2008, he was, at the time, the second youngest kicker to do it.

Exactly. Of those 8 this year, four of them are 25 years old or younger. It'd be 5/9 if Kai Forbath attempts 3 FGs and makes at least one, given his 17/17 so far this year.

 

[nekromantique]

could see this guy as more of a punter.

didnt watch the whole video but the snap/hold dynamic is really just as crucial as the kicker...and weve had some bad times in that department just as much as bad kicks.

 

[SwedishPat]

yeah???..well, tell me THIS...who's the Viking that invented WASA crackers? dyam, that stuff is so dry it makes a dried up cracked mud hole in the Mojave in the middle of July look like a Hawaian waterfall....

YAY...thanks for the cardboard, Mom!!!...

That is not a cracker. That is a bread. Put some butter and then cheese or ham on it and it will be good. In scandinavia a lot of people eat this which we call "knäckebröd".


I would guess that this video is part trick filming, and part kick very many times.

 

[livinginthe past]

Excellent video - I see no reason to doubt what we are seeing - with undoubted talent and quite a few attempts its doable.

Unfortunately, placekicking in the NFL really would not take advantage of this guys circus talents - when is he going to be asked to catch the ball and then kick it into a moving train?

When will all the soccer skills he displays going to be used?

In the NFL, never.

 

[Michigan Dave]

98% of that stuff is nice, but playing hackey sack with the ball before doing a spin kick over your head does not translate to the game.

According to broadcasters, every kicker was making 60 yarders BEFORE the game. I assume it is different when 300 pound guys are not trying to stop your kick.

Making kicks before the game is much different, you're right. The issue is trajectory. We had a kicker with a huge leg at Michigan. He could routinely pop it through the uprights on kickoffs, and made 75 yarders in practice to close it out. Of course, put a line in there and there's no way those 75 yarders go through, because you have to get the ball up. That's where kicking is an art form. Long kicks that can clear the line are pretty amazing feats unto themselves.

I've seen so many YouTube or highlight reel kicks from kickers who think they're hot **** because they march off a 63 yarder, nail it, and proclaim that they just matched the NFL's record. No, no you did't, brah.