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gimmesix said:
I wonder if it has anything to do with the extra kicker we brought in for the rookie camp. I know it was a tryout but it seemed kind of strange to bring in a third kicker when you already have two young ones competing for a spot.
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gimmesix said:
I wonder if it has anything to do with the extra kicker we brought in for the rookie camp. I know it was a tryout but it seemed kind of strange to bring in a third kicker when you already have two young ones competing for a spot.
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When/Who was the third kicker ???
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This from Mickey Spagnola:

And … finally, after writing about him Wednesday in _Mick Shots_, met Mr. TrackMan, kicker Simon Mathiesen, the guy here on a tryout basis. Didn't get to watch him kick, the Cowboys did that indoors at Ford Center before coming outside for the minicamp practice. Says he hit the ball well, making 20 of his 21 kicks, warmups and 12 scripted kicks, saying one of his kicks would have been good from 60.

Remember, after kicking four seasons at Northwest Missouri State, the Division II school winning three national championships during his four years, he began working for TrackMan – a Danish company initially developing ball flight radar tracking in golf for TV broadcasts, having known the owner – the Danish-raised soccer player helping to develop and sell the football technology portion of the company four or five months after graduation.

So Mathiesen put his kicking career way back on the back burner. But he'd still dabble in kicking three or four times a week while helping to advance TrackMan into football and then testing out the system setups.

"And now I have a much better understanding of what I'm doing," he says from using the radar tracking system. "I know what I do when I hit the ball well, and when I don't hit the ball well, I know what I did."


Even though he had been a highly successful kicker at Northwest Missouri State, the NFL never came calling. Not even a tryout. But since he last kicked in the 2016 season national championship game, Friday was his first time to kick under the watchful eye of an NFL team.

As he termed it, this was his "first official tryout," pointing out though, "I'm older now and more prepared."

As luck would have it, Cowboys pro scout Henry Sroka hooked him up with the workout. And Mathiesen didn't just come for the tryout. He brought along his TrackMan equipment NBC has been using for _Sunday Night Football_ broadcasts and for the first time in this past season's Super Bowl in Los Angeles.

"I've known the Cowboys for a while. They've been interested and now they need a kicker," Mathiesen said.

Even displayed his iPad illustrating the TrackMan results from his kicks on Friday, with another round to come on Saturday.


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gimmesix said:
This from Mickey Spagnola:

And … finally, after writing about him Wednesday in _Mick Shots_, met Mr. TrackMan, kicker Simon Mathiesen, the guy here on a tryout basis. Didn't get to watch him kick, the Cowboys did that indoors at Ford Center before coming outside for the minicamp practice. Says he hit the ball well, making 20 of his 21 kicks, warmups and 12 scripted kicks, saying one of his kicks would have been good from 60.

Remember, after kicking four seasons at Northwest Missouri State, the Division II school winning three national championships during his four years, he began working for TrackMan – a Danish company initially developing ball flight radar tracking in golf for TV broadcasts, having known the owner – the Danish-raised soccer player helping to develop and sell the football technology portion of the company four or five months after graduation.

So Mathiesen put his kicking career way back on the back burner. But he'd still dabble in kicking three or four times a week while helping to advance TrackMan into football and then testing out the system setups.

"And now I have a much better understanding of what I'm doing," he says from using the radar tracking system. "I know what I do when I hit the ball well, and when I don't hit the ball well, I know what I did."


Even though he had been a highly successful kicker at Northwest Missouri State, the NFL never came calling. Not even a tryout. But since he last kicked in the 2016 season national championship game, Friday was his first time to kick under the watchful eye of an NFL team.

As he termed it, this was his "first official tryout," pointing out though, "I'm older now and more prepared."

As luck would have it, Cowboys pro scout Henry Sroka hooked him up with the workout. And Mathiesen didn't just come for the tryout. He brought along his TrackMan equipment NBC has been using for _Sunday Night Football_ broadcasts and for the first time in this past season's Super Bowl in Los Angeles.

"I've known the Cowboys for a while. They've been interested and now they need a kicker," Mathiesen said.

Even displayed his iPad illustrating the TrackMan results from his kicks on Friday, with another round to come on Saturday.


Hey, who knows?
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He must have really sucked not to make it to training camp to compete. Heard he was having some trouble with PATs that could be why.
 
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