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(10-08-2020, 09:44 AM)fredtoast Wrote: It always amazes me how some fans will bend over backwards to shit on a Bengal player.

No matter how well he is playing they will try to find one play to complain about and then define his his entire CAREER by that one play.

Bullock hit a game winning 44 yd FG against Tampa Bay in 2018 with no time left on the clock.

In 2018 he tied the game against the Steelers with a FG with 6 minutes left in the 4th quarter.

In 2018 he hit a go ahead FG against the Dolphins with 3 minutes left.

He hit a 51 yd FG to give us a 2 point lead over the Lions in 2017 with less than 5 minutes left in the game.

Last year he hit a 43 yard FG with less than five minutes left to give us the lead against the Bills.

Bullock has hit 28 of 32 FGs for the Bengals in the fourth quarter, but since he missed one he is "never clutch"


C'mon man.

He missed 2 (against the Texans in 2016), but I'm definitely on your side.

Again, people use the cramp as, "an excuse," (IE; he faked it) for his miss; sorry, no amount of fakeness would allow him to miss a kick THAT MUCH, in the manner it did.

That ball was not hit properly and it was because of a cramp, period.

I'm still not a fan of Fat Randy (never have been), but the numbers don't lie and he's consistently been hitting them better and better, as time goes on.

Since 2017 (when we drafted Elliot), he's 76/87, for a 87.4% FG percentage, with a long of 57.
Since 2017, Elliot is 81/96, for an 84.4% FG percentage with a long of 61. His longest other than the 61, was a 56 yarder.

Fat Randy missed his first-ever clutch kick with us, has made EVERY ONE since, aside from the Chargers game this year.
Elliott made his first-ever clutch kick and has missed a bunch since.

So why are people still clamoring that we made a mistake in keeping one over the other? Because of 1 kick for each?

This all being said, Cade York in 2 years, better be done.

EDIT* Fat Randy also leads the league in made FGs; if his % stays high and he leads the league by the end of the season, we could be looking at PB/AP for him, as bizarre as that sounds.