10-04-2021, 05:30 PM
(10-03-2021, 05:51 PM)Housh Wrote: How does this guy keep getting jobs
A: Because he is 19th among active kickers in FG accuracy.
https://www.pro-football-reference.com/leaders/fg_perc_career.htm
He was even better for us, hitting on 84.9%...which would be good for 12th among active kickers.
He's also been rock solid on XPs and is capable of hitting from 50+, as he went 7/14 for us from that distance.
People on here confuse "not Justin Tucker" with "trash kicker". Look, McPherson was a great pick and the type of kicker who can be an actual weapon. That doesn't = Bullock was trash. The stats bear that out. He was a solid/average kicker. Not an asset, but not a liability. We could've done a heck of a lot worse.
As someone who watched a lot of Lions games before they got Matt Prater, I know what bad kicking actually looks like. We've actually been very fortunate in that area for a long time. We've had some guys miss some clutch kicks, but that happens to almost everyone.
The training, nutrition, medicine, fitness, playbooks and rules evolve. The athlete does not.
