I see where you are going with this but the reality is...I literally can go to the high school football field and hit a 40 yarder. A group of my buddies and me play a pick up touch game on Sundays before the games and while we warm up we kick FGs. So I don't get how these "pros" miss these things.
Folk has actually been really good this season, people who haven't payed attenion before he went 2-5 in Cleveland. Only if he has like 2-3 more games like that he'd be replaced, and I doubt that happens. Besides, Cleveland's a pretty windy city.
i think it might be a little different kicking a ball on your high school football field than it is trying to nail a 47yd game winner in ot at the dawgpound. I could be wrong about that, but I think there may be a bit of a difference.
I see what you did there, but its a fail. The Sanchez story was not in the same galaxy as what Ben does.
Did you have any body a few feet in front of you jumping straight up to tip your kick? When you line up to make the kick, you don't just aim between the uprights, you need to make sure that the ball is high enough to not be tipped/blocked before it even get to the line of scrimmage. If the snap/hold isn't right you normally don't have time to wait because there's someone rushing you & you've got to get off that kick ASAP also. This is why some kickers on really long FG will choose to line up even futher away from the center than normal. This gives allows them to angle their kick to redirect more of the force forward than upwards (compared to normal FG kicks). === Next time you kick your 40 yarder, have someone take a video so you can estimate the ball's height as it heads towards the goal posts. Kicking FG without worrying about the initial elevation & always having the perfect snap & hold is a lot different than what NFL kickers deal w/
folk is fine and BTW has better stats this season than Reed does all kickers have bad games check out graham and kaeding in the playoffs last year, not to mention chokin' Jay Feely in the AFC Championship game -inside with no weather or winds
You make a good points. I understand trajectory plays a large factor in the kick. Usually we have someone running at us when we kick but no one 6'7" with long arms, so you're right it would be a lot different.
I would go one step further and say any player can have a bad day. When its a QB or kicker though, it really makes a big impact. I'll give Folk a pass, he has done a good job so far. If they want to replace him, Reed is not my choice.
everyone's overrreacting to Folk's last game becasue of what happened with him last year. He's basically won 2 games for us this year and didn't cost us the last one. If he has another stinker this weekend and his misses become a trend, then I'll be worried. Right now he had one bad game on a shitty surface.
From Don Banks of SI.com http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/20...power-rankings-week-11-1/index.html?eref=sihp Now I can always say I was in the stadium for Jeff Reed's final game as the Steelers kicker, because Pittsburgh whacked the surly one after he shanked a 26-yarder against the Patriots, his seventh miss this season. It just goes to prove you can be a jerk as long as you make about 80-85 percent of your kicks. But being a jerk and converting in the 68 percent range is a very bad combination indeed.
Guess what? we play in a windy Stadium so if he cannot kick in wind what good will he be? I am not ready to dump Folk, he has been shaky the last month but overall he's been good. If he continues to struggle you have to explore all options and while Reed has stunk this year he has been a clutch K in the past and kicked on grass in a the elements all of his career so I would certainly take a look.
He hasn't won any games for us. Sanchez won us that game in detroit, he kicked 2 chip shot FGs and the tying won barely made it in. The Minny game I'll agree, he was huge that game in bad conditions. In 5 of our 9 games he has missed at least 1 kick, that's not good.
