McPherson...

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(10-20-2024, 07:06 PM)WeezyBengal Wrote: Sooo we going to talk about it?

Bottom 5 in the league in FG%. You could argue the missed XP, and missed field goal has cost us two games. Missed another one today.

Not great when you have a coach who regularly takes the ball out of Burrows hand to lean on the kicker...

The only people who are arguing the missed XP cost us a game did not watch that game. After the Bengals missed the XP, the Chiefs attempted a 2 point conversion to go up 25 to 22, but failed, keeping the score at 23 to 22. If the Bengals had made the extra point, it would have been 23 to 23 and the Chiefs would have kicked the extra point, so they'd exit that score 1 point up, just as they did in the real game. It had no impact on the game's result.

And the other miss that cost us a game was due to a bad hold, not Evan.

As for the missed field goals, we're still operating in a very small sample size. One of his misses was due to a bad hold, so that's not Evan's fault. The other two were on the longer side.

Would we prefer he never miss a kick? Yes. Is a kicker guaranteed to hit every single kick they attempt? Obviously not.

If it continues and/or gets worse, then it would begin to become a topic, but we're talking about 2 missed kicks at this point. One from 48 and one from 50. He's also made 51, 53 and 56 yard kicks this season.  

He has a track record of success, so we should give him grace to miss a few kicks here and there. It just so happens two occurred relatively close to each other.