Slye's 63-yarder was a team record

[Tunescribe]

I thought this deserves special mention.

Game Notes: Joey Slye Sets Team Record with 63-Yard Field Goal

Game notes and stats from the Patriots game against the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday, September 29, 2024.

www.patriots.com

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[signbabybrady]

Just because:

 

[VJCPatriot]

Nice. Slye was a good pickup in the offseason. He has been a lot more useful than the 4th round pick we wasted on Ryland.

 

[chasa]

the kick had 4 or 5 more yards too, coulda been a league record.

 

[BUSTAMOVE]

Was thinking of him today
Only bright spot of that game
Then followed it up with a 55 yarder

 

[festy1986]

Nice. Slye was a good pickup in the offseason. He has been a lot more useful than the 4th round pick we wasted on Ryland.

Bill wasted a pick on a kid who never even made the team just a couple years ago

I can't even believe it

 

[TinhWoodhead]

I thought this deserves special mention.

Game Notes: Joey Slye Sets Team Record with 63-Yard Field Goal

Game notes and stats from the Patriots game against the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday, September 29, 2024.

www.patriots.com

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Fritzmagic?

 

[kmac14]

Fritzmagic?

Too much magic, in a good way!

 

[PatsFan2]

And many here wanted to give that screw up fairy Chad Wide-Left another chance to screw up. Gotta admit to that's one thing Mayo did right.

 

[AQPE]

Never never never waste a draft pick on a special team only player.

 

[ErniesPinkStripes]

That kick was incredible, with room to spare. Slye might be the best pickup of the offseason

 

[State]

Bill wasted a pick on a kid who never even made the team just a couple years ago

I can't even believe it

He panicked. The 49ers took his projected guy in kicker Jake Moody. So he just couldn’t control himself.

Final say in drafting should have been taken from Belichick after the 2015 draft. Jordan Richards in the second round with his obvious lack of athleticism?

I saw it in the Rose Bowl where he had no chance in stopping Jeremy Langford, a fourth round RB pick out of MSU, who easily outran Richards to the pylon even though Richards initially had outside contain down at the goal line.

At the time I showed video evidence of Richards’s lack of athleticism, but most yahoos here were dismissive, saying In Bill I Trust

 

[State]

Never never never waste a draft pick on a special team only player.

Captain Stone’s advice, too.

 

[borg]

Congrats to our guy!

Looking at the recent quantum leap in long distance FG success throughout the NFL, what has changed?

Wasn't it Al Michaels who said after Week 1 when every kicker and their mother were nailing 50+ yarders with supreme ease that air needed to be removed from balls to add some difficulty? Was he implying the balls have been PSI juiced?

Watching Dallas' kicker recently, he looks like he takes half swings and the ball just explodes off his foot.
(if only he didn't choke in the 4th QTR last week costing me serious fake coins)

Truthfully, I love this sudden long distance explosion in the kicking game. It is called FOOTBALL after all.

Maybe the "kickers union" negotiated in "juiced FG balls" after being marginalized in the kickoff game.

 

[Clonamery]

Never never never waste a draft pick on a special team only player.

It's more about his inner being/resolve than being a draft pick or not.

We're his 7th team. Can you ****ing appreciate the metal it takes.

 

[TinhWoodhead]

75yd fg at mile high?

 

[turkeyneck]

It's more about his inner being/resolve than being a draft pick or not.

We're his 7th team. Can you ****ing appreciate the metal it takes.

Mettle? Or are you suggesting he's got a bionic prosthesis?

 

[Clonamery]

Mettle? Or are you suggesting he's got a bionic prosthesis?

This. Has to be. He was barely making 45 yard FG's in Training Camp.