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Originally Posted by robot monster
Of course you could also say that he's got 2 playoff wins in 5 years.
And you could go even further and say that he got one of the wins because Marty refused to win last year's wild card game. Then he singlehandedly elminated his team from the playoffs with the Doug Brien fiasco.
NO thanks.
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I've said this before, but I really don't think that was a "fiasco". That was not a typical "Marty" situation... like in 95 where he put it in the hands of a kicker who had totally floundered down the stretch... or last year where he put it in the hands of a rookie kicker, on wet grass.
This was way different. Herm had a veteran kicker... Doug Brien was a solid veteran kicker, he's kicked for a Super Bowl winner, he'd made a game winning kick just the week before. And more importantly, if you look it up, over the last two seasons, he had been 17-19 from the 40-49 yard range on FG's. That is excellent, outstanding. You'd be hard pressed to find someone with better success from that long of a distance. If you've got a kicker like that, there's nothing wrong with putting the game in his hands. Nobody would question it if Bill Belichick did it with his kicker, and Vinatieri wasn't as good from that range as Brien was... but Herm coached under Marty for a few years when he first came into the league, so he's all of a sudden Marty Jr.