Plus, starting on December 15 we have three games in a 10 day stretch, including four days between the Texans at home and the Steelers on the road.

Yeah, the league's definitely in our corner this year. :whackit:

It is. Sportsscience or NextGen Stats did a piece on the physics of kicking years ago, so I don't remember the exact amount of force they cited, but the energy translated through the plant leg to the ground is several hundred pounds (some multiple of body weight) due to the steep downward angle taken. Also, a significant part of the energy is dissipated as torque during the follow-through.

I wondered why he was dropping like that last season, but didn't think it was due to pain from a torn meniscus.

Jets tried to keep Shrader- offered him a spot on the roster- opted to go to KC instead.

His average the last 2 years of college was below 70%. Wow

I put my faith in TEAM!

That was a long time ago. He's now 25 and has never missed an NFL kick. If the trend continues he'll be headed to Canton one day.

No telling how long it takes him to get his confidence/firm back after being off , that ankle injury 2 years took him a while to get back to himself , we are well aware how losing because of a kicker feels like.

Well this isn't great. I wonder if the guy they are bringing in is worth a damn?

Going from one HOF kicker to another HOF kicker. :thumb:

Harrison Butker was a 71% FG kicker in college for 4 years at Georgia Tech. :shrug:

Just sayin . . . . .

They have one short week, longer than if they played a TNG game them a long 9 day break. Chill out.

I wish they'd given Harrison Mevis a call.

Come on fellas, the "we should go for it on 4th and 3 from the 30" are now going to see if that is wise...

We finally got rid of 'because Chiefs' after all these years.

Do we really want to tempt the gods of football by bringing in 'because Mizzou' as well?

Love my Tigers, but think it's best to let sleeping dogs lie here . . . . .

Yup.

Red Zone decisions might get a little more interesting now as well. As in, if we know we may need a longer FG later, with Butker you take the automatic 3 here and assume the likely automatic 3 later.

With this dude it may change the calculus a little and make the Chiefs more apt to go for 7 on 4 downs when they get inside the 20, unlike the situation with Denver last week where we settled for the 3 FG's in the red zone.

I wouldn't have mentioned his name if he sucked. The guy did a great job.

Probably should see less of the gadgety stuff and the vanilla plays. Andy might have to break out the platinum (plutonium?)-grade RZ plays for the next month. And, hopefully, less trying to force plays to Justyn Ross/JWat/whoever, more to Travis and Nuk. In fact, I 100% expect DHop to be featured a ton more in the RZ now.

Woof. Well at least he'll be back. Hopefully it doesn't need with his confidence

He did make some HUGE kicks for Mizzou, but he was just a 79% FG kicker his last 2 years there, so not exactly automatic.

Not gonne lie, part of me wanted this because the Bills worked out Mevis earlier this year when Bass was struggling, but passed on signing him. Imagine if the Chiefs signed him, brought him in and he beat them on a GW FG. Holy Shit! The meltdown in Buffalo would be epic! ROFL

Between 'punt god' and the 'thicker kicker', you would be able to hear the knashing of teeth all the way from Buffalo . . . . .

Now we will find out how valuable Butker is. I have always thought he has been underappreciated and after Mahomes and Jones is our most valuable player.

If Mahomes can start hitting worthy when he is wide-open, which is often at least several times a game it won’t be so important

Hopefully another well kept secret that Veach somehow got wise to, just like Butker in Carolina

I'm not going to minimize Butker's contributions but we are going 4-0 in that stretch he's out

WEll this truly sucks. Gonna be more nail bitey now.

Hulk sad.

I find that interesting. Wouldn't a physical evaluation caught that, assuming they would have done a full body scan and tests in 2023 and 2024 training camps? :shrug:

Sure hope Butker can be healthy for the Playoffs.

Is Kareem Hunt now our backup kicker?

I’M FLACCID!!!!

I remember the last time that our kicker got injured. I think that was Santos. Veach went out and signed some kicker off of another teams practice squad. That kicker was Harrison Butker. Let's hope that they can pull that off again.

Just makes the playoff wins and the 3peat that much sweeter! Not worried in the least!

Justin Reid, iirc

To fill the vacancy, the Chiefs are signing Spencer Shrader off the Jets practice squad to their 53-man roster.

In a pinch, the Chiefs have used safety Justin Reid as an emergency kicker. The length of Butker's injury appears to have forced the team to bring in a specialist.

I was coming here to make the same post.

This is a problem.

Okay. We're good now.

Anyone know an antidote to hemlock?

Psychologically, I’d imagine the recovery of a ligament tear in your plant leg would be worse than your kicking leg.

But I’m not gonna worry about this. Time to get super aggressive over this next month and score TDs.

WTF. He didn't tear any damn ligaments.

Time to open up the vault of red zone plays.

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Chiefs won't miss a beat.

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Time for the TD machine to fire up again.

****ing injuries dude holy hell.

Not exactly the birthday gift I was expecting. Get better quick, butkicker!!

I can’t comprend this. Must be my autism flaring up.

https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb...shrader-1.html


Uhhhhhhhhhhhhh.............

still God's #1 special teams

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GcYnu85W...pg&name=medium

That ****ing sucks for this to show up out of the blue during practice

On the other hand it couldn't have happened at a better time. We've got games coming up where we can win without him. Clinch homefield so we don't need to rush him back. Hopefully get him a game or 2 so he doesn't show up to the playoffs like a ball of rust (I don't want to repeat last year where he lost his confidence kicking at 80%)

and a child shall lead them

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Not ideal but not a big deal either. Would love to have him this week but if we need a great kicker to beat the Panthers and Raiders, meh anyway.

Practice squad guy must have mixed feelings about playing for KC.

GDt, warn a guy or put that shit under a NSFW/SPOILER next time. Didn't need to see that shit.

So he’s flying in tonight and will practice tomorrow. Man gets 2 days of practice before the biggest game of his life.

Ariza is gonna be practicing holding the ball for this guy 48 hours straight LMAO

Step 1: Kick the ball out of the back of the end zone on kickoffs.
Step 2: Make your XPs
Step 3 ??????????
Step 4: Collect a Super Bowl ring at the end of the season.

Just remember how we GOT Butker and now looks like a repeat.

Maybe same great result? :shrug:

Looks like he's pretty good at XPs.

WBF

Maybe dude kicks the game winner? Or misses it?

Maybe we just score TDs and screw FGs

I can’t imagine he will be back sooner than 6 weeks with that.

I like this PS signing way better than the slapdicks from the last Buttkicker injury.

Agreed, but in which game this year has that happened? It hasn’t. Buffalo has a good D line so I’d expect point to come tough this week.

I would not sign anything Jets. Ever.

The OT TD SB recipient says GFY.

You need a hemkey for hemlock.

Jets fans are mad.

This guy is going to be a stud.

Toub and Veach know.

The Formula.

Ok, this sucks, BUT, this means that this team needs to SCORE in the red zone each and every single time! Time to grow up and move away from field goals and ****ING score! :thumb:

People acting like this guy is going to shank 35 yard field goals LMAO.

Bet he makes every ****ing kick.

I remember when we signed Butker off of Carolinas PS. We have pretty good record in that regard with stealing kickers.

Like Matt Gay? Careful now…

Yep, off of the Panthers ps.

You think up until now they’ve preferred field goals?

Antifreeze

This is no bueno. Heal quickly Buttkicker.

If someone was to post karma for hating gays and women it might break the record for down votes

I still have nightmares of the barefoot kickoff specialist, Jon Baker.

This will be one of the greatest stories out of our threepeat season.

Shrader will go 6 for 7 with one GW field goal on SNF against the Chargers.

Any word on when/how he got injured? A specific play or a lingering issue?

First time he got injured was on that shitty Arizona turf that the Eagles still won't stop bitching about.

Then he has a weird OOB kickoff to end the last game.

Chip Chipperson has nothing on you.

Would totally suck if Butker can’t get off on IR, horrific to be stuck at home

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Sorry bro. I'm just saying that the dude was ridiculous inconsistent in college.

let us vow to not use a place kicker until he returns

only go for it on 4th

only go for 2 point conversions

drop kicks when possible


I'm raging inside

heal me