News: PFT: Mike McCarthy: Kickers have to start making kicks more consistently

[Doomsday101]

I think if both continue to struggle they will look outside. Most kickers are UDFA. Kickers are a strange breed, Dan Bailey was one of the most accurate kickers, then suffered an injury and has never returned to form and was cut by the Vikings. By the same token Nick Folk who struggle has found success just signed new deal in NE

 

[Avery]

Maybe Jerry should invest some money into the position?
Both were undrafted free agents...........
Sometimes you find a diamond in the rough and sometimes you get what you paid for.

To be fair, investing money is how Greg Z. got here - and there's not a lot of Justin Tuckers hanging around.

I would expect that if things don't look up for these two soon that you'll see some more bodies come into camp.

 

[JohnsKey19]

I expect McCarthy to be wildly aggressive on 4th downs anyway. We still need the kicker to make the extra points...

 

[sunalsorises]

They need a Kathy Ireland type kicker

 

[ghst187]

80% of this board couldn't wait to get rid of Zuerlein. He was bad last year dont get me wrong, but be careful what you ask for. It took him about 15 minutes to find a new job for a reason. Very few reliable kickers around.

yeah we ran Folk and Bailey out of town the second they stopped being automatic and they ended up kicked for a while for other teams while we were scraping the UFA barrels…

 

[JayFord]

Good...

thats how you get the message across....dont say "we're not worried and everythings ok"

no tell them to get it together before yall have to find new jawbs

 

[irishline]

Maybe Jerry should invest some money into the position?
Both were undrafted free agents...........
Sometimes you find a diamond in the rough and sometimes you get what you paid for.

We invested money in Greg the Leg. Similar results. Throwing money at it just to throw money at it isn't always the solution. Then again doing nothing about anything is clearly not the solution.

 

[john van brocklin]

To be fair, investing money is how Greg Z. got here - and there's not a lot of Justin Tuckers hanging around.

I would expect that if things don't look up for these two soon that you'll see some more bodies come into camp.

True, not a lot out there to pick from at this point...

 

[john van brocklin]

We invested money in Greg the Leg. Similar results. Throwing money at it just to throw money at it isn't always the solution. Then again doing nothing about anything is clearly not the solution.

True, but hopefully there will be a worthwhile kicker out there to be found.

 

[Doomsday101]

yeah we ran Folk and Bailey out of town the second they stopped being automatic and they ended up kicked for a while for other teams while we were scraping the UFA barrels…

Bailey continued to miss and finally got cut last season by the Vikes.

 

[John813]

Well to be fair Hajrullahu is 32, has played in the NFL just last year and spent years in the CFL. He could be considered vet competition.

True, just wish the competition for Garibay was a kicker like Forbath. Journeyman NFLer who at least has a decent NFL kick %

 

[ghst187]

Bailey continued to miss and finally got cut last season by the Vikes.

= Zuerline….

 

[Alexander]

Well I guess Garibay did not hear the message since he went fifty percent again today.

 

[Alexander]

Sad.

 

[Ring6]

stay calm, NCAA history leading kicker graduated in 2022 (100 FG's made beating Zane Gonzalez record of 96 at Arizona State; and 525 career points, both NCAA records among any division), is still available.

 

[Big_D]

Just trade for Justin Tucker and get it over with!

 

[VaqueroTD]

I had hopes for Garibay. He was a decent college prospect and our only real hope for having a decent K this year. Hajrullahu isn't going to be any solution

Shame on whomever posted that college highlights video of his. I really thought he was going to be something after watching that and reading his scouting reports.

 

[Haimerej]

Well I guess Garibay did not hear the message since he went fifty percent again today.

Kickers need better PR people. Someone should call out Fassell for not putting him in a position to make field goals.

 

[ElGatoGrande]

It's like the kicker isn't important to them despite the fact that this offense struggles in the red zone. If they don't aggressively fix this then I'm thinking they're just not serious about this year,,, plenty of other indications that this is true.

 

[MapleLeaf]

Sad.

If Lirim, can be automatic from 50 and below I go with him. If you are going to tolerate Garibay's misses below 49 then we might as well have kept Greg, and any moves towards Jonathan is much more of a salary cap decision than a performance decision.