The special teams coach last year really fucked this kid up, but to be an NFL kicker you got to be mentally tough. Maybe he doesn't have that.
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The special teams coach last year really fucked this kid up, but to be an NFL kicker you got to be mentally tough. Maybe he doesn't have that.
Really had high hopes for the kid. Mom being a Rams fan and all.
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Guys, he's not dead. Former Rams Cairo Santos and Lucas Havrisik are still kicking in the League. Sucking and getting cut, multiple times, isn't necessarily the end for a kicker. If Karty just keeps working through whatever he needs to work through and if he can shake the suck, the dream is not over.
Of course, having a f'ing Stanford degree to fall back on might affect his decision on his future.
The guy has made a few million dollars kicking a ball so don't feel too bad for the guy. But I did think we had found our kicker for a decade in him. Just don't understand what happened that caused his pre-kick process to progressively keep slowing down. Was weird. He'll probably bounce around a few practice squads for a few more years if he wants to keep trying.
oh yeah... painful reminders of his kicks getting blocked.
and our post-season rankings getting lower & lower with every ST-driven loss.
if we haven't fixed our ST unit, it doesn't matter if AD comes out of retirement or not. It will always bite us in the rear end until it is.
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They're talking about that now. #16 highest paid QB. "They're not close". He's under contract for 2026 and promises the SB is the what's important. They'll probably franchise him if they don't extend him. So he'd probably then be available in 2028.
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In the Baker discussion on 1stThings1st, they seem to believe the Bucs are right to wait. "Baker didn't play well the second half of the season". Absolutely true.
First 8 games (6-2) 172-269 (63.9%) 1919 yds (7.1 y/a) 13 TD 2 Int 98.1 Rating
Last 9 games (2-7) 171-274 (62.4%) 1774 yds (6.5 y/a) 13 TD 9 Int 83.2 Rating
Some context.
Evans missed 9 games (wks 4-6; wks 8-14)
Bucky Irving missed 7 games (wks 5-12)
Godwin missed 8 games (wks 1-3; 6-11)
McMillan missed 13 games (wks 1-14)
Wirfs missed 5 games, Bredeson missed 6 games, Goedeke missed 6 games .... the only OL to play 17 games was 2nd yr C, Barton.
The only catagory with an obvious difference between the first half and second half was the picks. But that's Baker. He's gonna throw the ball. Completions were identical (a difference of 1), attempts a difference of 5, Yards down about 150, TDs the same.
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Combined in the regular and postseason 18/19 FGs, 48/48 XPs.
If it ain't broke...
I concur very odd with Karty and IMO, Chase Blackburn did not do him any favors. Apparently his kicking off, which was very effective with the knuckle type ball also effected his field goals. There was a report somewhere that communicated Blackburn had instructed Karty to wait to ensure Evans had the ball before he started his attempt, now if that was the case, Blackburn should never advise on kicking operations again, but who knows?
Mental makeup seemed to be there for Karty IMO. PFF rated him the best kicking prospect that had every scouted, so I was very happy when the Rams picked him and thought he would be better then Will Reichard, who was drafted just before Karty and Cam Little who was drafted just after him, but obviously that is not the case.
When the Cardinals signed Karty, I also felt, new opportunity and the Cardinals kicker Chad Ryland was not a Morten Anderson, so I thought Karty had a good chance of winning that battle, but he must have not impressed for them to make the move so early.
All in all, it appears the Rams have found their guy in Harrison Mevis, who performed pretty damn good although the one kick he missed was crucial, but he did not miss another one after the 48 yarder in Seattle and was clutch in the playoffs.
It's anologous to a hitting slump in baseball. Sometimes mental sometimes mechanical and often both
The Golf comparison I feel is also a good one. I have gone months to years where everything is fine, especially fairway woods and then boom, something happens and I am always grabbing my irons.