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you hater of Scandanavian peoples
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GFY!
and Happy New Year!
you hater of Scandanavian peoples
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.
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
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!!!...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.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.
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!!!...
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.