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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.Interestingly enough, the league FG rate through the first 3 weeks (I haven't seen the stats for this week yet) is almost exactly the same as last year; both are 84–85%.
I wonder how people would respond if ghost missed a couple, half of the fans wanted to cut him after he missed the easy game winner a few years ago against arizona
Yep, and I don't even know his name, but damn him to hell forever for those misses, the gutless puke.I watched the JAX/IND game. JAX could have won the game 3 times with a kick!
Clearly we should have gone with Robbie gouldThey did. The most ridiculous thing I've ever seen. These are the same people who boo Vinatieri when he comes here - but Gostkowski misses one kick, and they're all "HE'S NO VINATIERI" - like Vinatieri never missed a kick.
Even before Vinatieri we had Matt Bahr, who was solid-to-good in his career.
I still remember the days of Teddy Garcia and Scott Sisson and Jason Staurovsky. We've been lucky for a while, and the last two were/are the best in the league.
I've always been curious about the general ineptitude of NFL kickers.
Is it really that hard a skill to master that only a handful of the world population can do it?
Without any training and just screwing around with my buddies, I recall that I could consistently hit 35-40 yard FG's when I was in my prime. I guess I really blew a big opportunity to become a professional athlete.
Since 2002, there have been 402 field goal attempts from exactly 38 yards, with 86.6% of them being kicked successfully. So theoretically the average team with the average kicker will gain an average of 0.866 points per attempt on these new extra point kicks.
Meanwhile, for all 2 point conversion attempts since 2002, there have been 728 league wide with 49.9% of them being converted successfully. Theoretically the average team with the average conversion offense vs an average conversion defense will gain an average of 0.998 points per attempt on 2 point conversions (49.9% x 2 points).