Mevis is a band-aid fix. The infection is Blackburn. Till he is cauterized, no kicker will be given a chance to truly succeed.
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All kickers lose it at some point. They get in their own heads.
I had hopes that a kicker from Stanford would have a mind that would hold out longer than most. Nope... that fakkah got the yips. Stanford my ass.
When you really look at it... the drunken kickers are able to block their brain farts out the longest. I submit Janikowski and Prader as examples.
We need to find a kicker who has had a lobotomy if we ever want one who won't lose it at some point. Hey Les!!! Until you find one, start scouting dive bars for our next pretend football player.
Until then, I will hate all kickers. Too many of you need to see the light. Hell, one of you can't decide if you blame the Stanford yipper or not from minute to minute. Sounds too much like a kicker's brain to me.
They're not even real people. Let's stop these feeble attempts to apply reason or logic when talking about fucking kickers ffs.
I had hopes that a kicker from Stanford would have a mind that would hold out longer than most. Nope... that fakkah got the yips. Stanford my ass.
When you really look at it... the drunken kickers are able to block their brain farts out the longest. I submit Janikowski and Prader as examples.
We need to find a kicker who has had a lobotomy if we ever want one who won't lose it at some point. Hey Les!!! Until you find one, start scouting dive bars for our next pretend football player.
Until then, I will hate all kickers. Too many of you need to see the light. Hell, one of you can't decide if you blame the Stanford yipper or not from minute to minute. Sounds too much like a kicker's brain to me.
They're not even real people. Let's stop these feeble attempts to apply reason or logic when talking about fucking kickers ffs.
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No, your expectations are quite modest.
I would add they are not just for the kicker, but the kicking unit as a whole.
New kicker. New long snapper. Here we go.
I’m still not sure about this one. I don’t like changing kickers mid season. This entire issue should have been sorted out well before now.
I see a lot of speculation/criticism in regards to Blackburn but do we have any evidence that he is the issue? Admittedly teams haven’t been world class during his tenure but has he had sufficient talent with which to to work? I mean, if you give Bobby Flay a pork chop and ask him to prepare you a steak your going to be disappointed.
The blocking for FGs has been ass. Is that on Blackburn or the “talent”? It would also seem apparent that McVay was unhappy with the LS. Was he the heart of the problem?
I think Karty, Blackburn, Ward and perhaps Evans have all contributed. But as we sit today, with a new kicker and LS we still don’t know if the problem has been corrected.
It would be a travesty for this season to be derailed by a problem with the kicking game.
I see a lot of speculation/criticism in regards to Blackburn but do we have any evidence that he is the issue? Admittedly teams haven’t been world class during his tenure but has he had sufficient talent with which to to work? I mean, if you give Bobby Flay a pork chop and ask him to prepare you a steak your going to be disappointed.
The blocking for FGs has been ass. Is that on Blackburn or the “talent”? It would also seem apparent that McVay was unhappy with the LS. Was he the heart of the problem?
I think Karty, Blackburn, Ward and perhaps Evans have all contributed. But as we sit today, with a new kicker and LS we still don’t know if the problem has been corrected.
It would be a travesty for this season to be derailed by a problem with the kicking game.
I for one am glad to see the Rams make a move to address a position of weakness before it cost them anymore games, standing pat was just not an option. We will all see how this plays out but changes needed to be made because what they had just wasn't good enough to be a championship team. I love that the Rams are willing to make the big moves to be a winning organization.
Yeah, it's been mentioned before, when you change 2 of 3 parts of the equation, how do you know which one was the problem? But I'm sure they evaluated everything this week in practice. We'll see.
SteezyEndo
The Immaculate Exception
That is the obvious, however, I don't blame the Rams for making these changes. McQuaide is a former all pro and should improve the blocking plus improve the protection calls too. Mevis should be far more confident than Karty as he made 20/21 FG's in the UFL only missing from 63 yards and just beat out Rodrigo Blankenship, another top UFL kicker & Karty in a competition.
Look I was all for drafting Karty, but you cannot miss 39 yard FG's that is unacceptable. Do I believe Blackburn needs to be replaced? Yes, but it is not because of Blackburn that Karty badly missed an extra point and the 39 yarder against the Saints.
Seems to me that if the new kicker does well on Sunday, both Karty and Ward will be gone on Monday.
DeaconJones
Rookie
A good scenario for this game: Rams win 30-7, Mevis kicks 3 FGs from 45-55, Rams score 3 red zone TDs with 3 XPs. All kicks SDTM (straight down the middle - a borrowed term from pinball).
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Yes, it is the coaches fault in that, because of the overall FG unit letting defenders in to block kicks so frequently that it fucks with the mind of the kicker. I also find it disturbing that thru the FG kicking process's failures that Karty couldn't keep his shit together. If he is doing everything correct and it is on the people around him, then he should just keep doing what he is doing without it causing him to loose his confidence. So in a way you are correct. Karty is a head case, but what started it all was the coaches fault.
I agree Blackburn needs to go, but this is what we have.
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Mevis looks more like a curveball kicker in his highlights. Nothing really straight about 'em. But I'll take them bouncing over as long as he makes them!
