Jon Brown

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(08-21-2018, 04:07 PM)Shake n Blake Wrote: All I care about is that "Fat" Randy has hit 88.5% of his FG's and 94.9% of his XP's as a Bengal.

I suppose many will never be happy with the guy for various reasons (he's not slim and good looking, he wasn't good in Houston, he's not Elliott, etc), but as long as he keeps plugging away, I'm a fan.

Marv has always been conservative with taking long FG's vs field position, so I'm not sure why people think a big-legged kicker would be some HUGE weapon. All this hand-wringing, and Elliott only hit 4 more FG's over 50 yards than Bullock. 16 more points. In an offense that was FAR more prolific than ours and obviously presented more FG opportunities overall. 

If you liked Elliott more, fine...but at least be fair and acknowledge those realities.

As for Brown, it seems people get caught up in big legs the same way they do with big-arm QB's. Leg don't mean squat without accuracy. I'll take the steady Eddie over the guy who kicks a pretty ball, but is scattershot on XP's. That guy is more likely to hurt us than to be an asset. If the coaches feel Brown beat out Bullock though, I'll roll with that and hope for the best.

What XP's has Brown missed?

Face it, Marvin is looking for a permanent kicker and not a stopgap, ala Randy.  He drafted one last year and this Brown endeavor is now into its second year.  My advice to the round one--rent, don't buy.  And, for God sake, man, you are a professional athlete, surrounded by physical specimens, you work in a building loaded with state of the art workout equipment.  Show a little pride and lose the gut.  It's disgusting.