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Are NFL kickers becoming too good?
Akers kicks a 63 yearder.....Kaeding went 5 for 5....
Why are the Chiefs still stuck with a guy who struggles with 41 yarders? http://www.slate.com/articles/sports...ld_goals_.html in Week 1 kickers made 67 of 72 field-goal attempts, or 93 percent. Oh, and the 49ers’ David Akers became the fourth kicker—after Tom Dempsey in 1970, Jason Elam in 1998, and Sebastian Janikowski last year—to kick a 63-yarder. He also became the fifth active NFL kicker to make one from beyond 60. I’ve written before that the improvement in NFL kicking since the 1970s is one of the greatest non-equipment-aided performance leaps in any sport. Today’s kickers are bigger, stronger, physically and mentally better conditioned, and, most important, more technically sophisticated than their counterparts in the early days of the “sidewinder” or “soccer-style” kicker. This guy, for one, wouldn’t sniff the field today. Kickers are so good now—more precisely, the distance from which they can score three points and their accuracy from all distances has increased to such a degree—that NFL coaches use them more than ever. NFL teams attempted a record 1,011 field goals in 2011, which works out to about four attempts per game. In 1984, the figure was 3.5 FG/G. In 1974, it was 3.0. As kickers have improved, the NFL has tried to make their job harder: in 1974, moving the goalposts to the rear of the end zone; in 1995, placing the ball at the spot of the kick instead of the line of scrimmage after a missed FG; in 1999, making them boot new, hard K balls. |
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09-14-2012, 09:02 AM | #2 |
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Ours isn't...
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09-14-2012, 09:07 AM | #3 |
FINALLY! The wait is over.
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For what he is, Succop is a great kicker. He generally misses one at the beginning of the year, then lights fire the rest of the way. I'm not even remotely worried about Ryan ****ing Succop.
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09-14-2012, 09:12 AM | #4 |
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We have to draft a new kicker guys..... like pronto!
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09-14-2012, 09:30 AM | #5 |
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Akers's face after he made that field goal was priceless - and the kick itself was thrilling to watch.
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09-14-2012, 09:32 AM | #6 |
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Except at the end of the year with a potential trip to the playoffs on the line against the Raiders.
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Originally Posted by Cassel's Reckoning: Matt once made a very nice play in Seattle where he spun away from a pass rusher and hit Bowe off his back foot for a first down. One of the best plays Matt has ever made. |
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09-14-2012, 10:05 AM | #10 |
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Or maybe not angle it all of 12 inches above the line's heads.
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Hey remember that time we drafted Justin Medlock in the 5th round?
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09-14-2012, 10:18 AM | #13 |
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Hes back in the NFL for the Panthers. He was 1 for 1 on Sunday
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09-14-2012, 10:20 AM | #14 |
'Tis my eye!
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