McPherson Perspective

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(10-14-2021, 08:04 AM)Rubekahn29 Wrote: I think I’d be more upset if the other kicker didn’t also miss 4 other kicks (3 fg, 1 xp). It was such a weird day for kicks. And some of Crosby misses were brutal looking.

(10-14-2021, 08:05 AM)Sled21 Wrote: The PBS winds were doing their thing that day for sure. GB's kicker is very reliable and has been kicking for a very long time. For them both to be missing, and mostly to the left, it shows the winds were affecting the kicks.

I'm all-in on Evan (and yes, both misses were the closest to fluke you can get), but the notion that Crosby is a good kicker, is a blatantly-false one.

Indeed, he has been kicking for a long time, but he has never been a top kicker in the league:

- He is only 4 spots above Nuge' and 17 spots below Fat Randy, for career FG% (he sits at 47, if you're wondering) and for active players, is 25th.
- He's not clutch in the slightest and, according to this list (2015 it was published), Nuge' and PELFREY were more clutch than Crosby: https://www.footballoutsiders.com/stat-analysis/2015/best-clutch-kicker-ever
- He kicks one of the ugliest balls I've ever seen and ugly balls typically don't make it through consistently, unless the kick is right down the middle.
- Most-egregious of all, he is ***74th*** in all-time XP%. That is deplorable. I know they moved back the XP line in 2015, but he has been consistently one of the worst XP kickers in the league.

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/C/CrosMa20.htm

It's one of the really confusing things in the whole league; he must be a great lockerroom guy or the GB brass really like him or something, because he's NEVER been one of the top kickers in any season; I think that can be attested as he's never made a PB or been AP, despite leading the league in points.