Cowboys add kicker Connor Hughes

[8FOR!3]

I agree that would be the best case having Buehler winning the job outright. It saves us a roster spot if he can not just on the 53 man roster but the 45 man game day roster.

It'd be the best case scenario for sure, but let's make sure he's ready. If we screw it up and it's too early for him to kick he'd pretty much be done most likely.

 

[Doomsday101]

It'd be the best case scenario for sure, but let's make sure he's ready. If we screw it up and it's too early for him to kick he'd pretty much be done most likely.

I'm all for bringing in other guys to compete with him in training camp. if we have to go 2 kickers then that is what we do but as Alexander points out the best case scenario is Buehler outright winning the job.

 

[Chuck 54]

Faulk's gone...I've forgotten him and don't care to see him back...he was healthy and he became one of the worst basket cases I've ever seen in the NFL regarding kicking. Guys go through bad streaks and lose jobs and get others, but I've never seen a kicker so quick to spin his head and look at the holder for either blame or pity...the last two he missed, he looked like he was going to cry.

I don't think he's tough enough mentally...moving on.

 

[Syko85]

Would be nice if Buehler could handle the field goal Kicking.. 2 Kickers on the roster is not really ideal...


I don´t know anything about Hughes

 

[birdwells1]

Guys, you need to get over the Folk dreams. The guy is history and they won't bring him back. How do overcome the image of him missing all those kicks if you're a team member?? You don't. There would never be any confidence in him from teammates and HE couldn't develop either. He had a terminal case of the yips and cutting him was just as good for him as it was for the team. He can now concentrate on catching on somewhere else, although it will be tough sledding with that many misses. Remember Vanderjagt was cut after 5 misses and a helluva lot better history than young folks had....think about it.

Absolutely correct. To many bad memories associated with the Cowboys for him recently.

 

[links18]

Don't understand the attachment disorder people have with Folk. Must be contagious from JJ and Wade to the fanbase. Folk is toast; completely done in Dallas. To bring him back would send the wrong message. Let him miss kicks somewhere else.

 

[jjktkk]

Earlier this month, I thought the Boys brought in a kicker from the CFL. Anyone hear about this? I thought they had signed this CFL kicker.

 

[big dog cowboy]

Guys, you need to get over the Folk dreams. The guy is history and they won't bring him back. How do overcome the image of him missing all those kicks if you're a team member?? You don't. There would never be any confidence in him from teammates and HE couldn't develop either. He had a terminal case of the yips and cutting him was just as good for him as it was for the team. He can now concentrate on catching on somewhere else, although it will be tough sledding with that many misses. Remember Vanderjagt was cut after 5 misses and a helluva lot better history than young folks had....think about it.

There isn't anything in that post I agree with at all. Folk was hurt. Did everyone suddenly forget that? There isn't anything similiar between Folk and Vanderjagt situations either.

 

[CoCo]

Why would Folk come back here and compete for a job when he can go elsewhere and be handed one after a 2 or 3 day try-out.

Problem is if we just hand him the job back we could be where we were last year.... Tough call imho.

If Dallas and Folk were both interested in putting that relationship back together I suspect it'd be done already. The fact that its not says something.

Maybe there is an unofficial agreement, but I doubt it. I wonder if Dallas isn't more open to going a totally different direction, which yeah, scares me.

Folk's reputation in this league has been clearly damaged. I absolutely think he'll get many more tryouts because as we learned with Suisham, the league is short on dependable kickers. But do I think he'll be handed a job without competition? Uh, no.

I'm also very skeptical about making Buehler our placekicker. Love it if it worked but word had it he was far worse than Folk when we asked to show his stuff late in the season. One offseason is going to change that dramatically?

Geez, I thought we were done with this after Folk's rookie year.

 

[Bob Sacamano]

The plan should be to give Folk every chance to win his job back.

pff

I want a real competition between him and Buehler

not the feaux competition from last year

 

[28 Joker]

Folk is history, in Dallas, imo.

His meltdown only adds to an already high pressure job.

Draft a kicker, too.

I'd give Folk a chance.

AND

Draft a kicker if I saw a good one.

 

[Gzus]

It'd be nice to have Folk back if he could get his head right and kick like he used to. Preferably though I'd rather have Buehler hone his kicking skills to the point that he's a clutch guy to combine with his amazing kick off skills, that'd be preferable b/c it'd save us a roster space.

 

[Gzus]

Draft a kicker if I saw a good one.

There isn't many good kickers in the draft this time around. The two top prospects are Swenson and Tiffin but they both have sub 85% collegiate career averages when it comes to converting FGs, in addition to the occasional missed extra point. I think we're best off signing a kicker, brining back Folk for another shot, or letting Buehler take it.

 

[FuzzyLumpkins]

The plan should be to give Folk every chance to win his job back.

No way Jose. Folks got the yips and he got them bad. You just cannot trust him. He cannot kickoff worth a flip.

Beuhler becoming a consistent kicker is the best case scenario as he will be able to handle both duties. DeCammillis seems of the same mind.

 

[Spectre]

Hughes was born and raised right here in my hometown.
Don't know much about him except he did graduate high school in my girlfriend's class.
Same high school as Lawrence Taylor and Shawn Springs.

 

[dcfanatic]

The plan should be to give Folk every chance to win his job back.

The plan should be the turn Buehler into a legit FG kicker.

Having two spots for the kicking position is ridiculous.

 

[Beast_from_East]

There isn't anything in that post I agree with at all. Folk was hurt. Did everyone suddenly forget that? There isn't anything similiar between Folk and Vanderjagt situations either.

How do you know???

Folk said he recovered 100% from his hip surgery and the Cowboys said over and over again that there was nothing physically wrong with Folk. If he was hurt, why was he never listed on the injury report late in the season??? If he was hurt, why was he not recieving any treatment for his hip late in the season??? If he was hurt, why didnt Dallas just put him on IR???

Dallas could not have placed Folk on IR because they could not justifiy it to the league. Folk was not having any treatments, Folk was not on any injury reports, and both Folk and the Cowboys said repeatedly that there was nothing physically wrong with Folk.

So I will ask you again, how do you know that his misses were due to injury when there is not one single piece of evidence that points to the fact he was still hurt??? And hypothetically, if Folk was indeed hurt, why did Folk and the Cowboys deny it, why was Folk never on the injury report, and why was Folk not put on IR if he was indeed hurt to the extent that his performance was affected???

 

[UnoDallas]

COLLEGE: Was one of the nation's best kickers throughout his career…set several UVA and ACC records…holds school records for points (332), field goals made (66) and attempted (79), extra points made (134) and attempted (138)…made 83.5 percent of his field goals to rank second in UVA history…broke UVA's 90-year old record for career scoring…third in ACC history in points and tied for fourth in field goals made…kicked five of the 12 50-yard field goals in Virginia history…is the only kicker with more than two…is one of only seven players in Virginia history to start in four bowl games in his career…competed in the kicking portion of the College Football All-Star Challenge on ESPN in February 2006.

 

[Hostile]

The plan should be the turn Buehler into a legit FG kicker.

Having two spots for the kicking position is ridiculous.

^Yes^

 

[Jimz31]

How many chances should the guy get? The guy missed like NICE FG's this year. Talk about hanging with a kicker to the detriment of the team. IMO, the team waited TOO long to let him go.

Sure, give him the off-season and TC to get it figured out, but the excuses went out the window when he continued to miss after changing holders etc....there are only so many excuses to go around when it is actually that the guy has no confidence...and who is to say that he will have that confidence back when it comes crunch time? Will the coaches? At one time, we trusted him to kick 52 yard FG's.....we don't have that trust in him anymore and worse yet, is that fact that he HIMSELF doesn't have that confidence.