For all who wish we kept Brown over Nugent...

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(08-23-2016, 10:31 PM)Shake n Blake Wrote: It was fair to call him out, but really he was the only one who got called out. One guy got fired and none of the other disappointing players were even talked about.

Sure looks like Graham was a scapegoat to me. With a halfway decent passing game, maybe those 6 missed points wouldn't have hurt so much. Benson carried the offense by himself.

In the end, Palmer never got much grief for that (very Dalton-like) playoff game. It all went to the ginger.

Well, it's old hat by now but seeing the whole team crap the bed in the playoffs (particularly those tasked with putting points on the board) is nothing really new.  Graham was just astronomically bad, and Palmer and Benson managed to actually find the endzone, so there is that.

I tried to find the statistics on what % the average kicker in 2009 would succeed from 35 and 28 yards and a quick glance that I'm no saying is right makes it seem like both have a success rate in the 90% range (with most kickers in the league in 2009 hitting 100% from that range).  So if it is about a 1 in 10 chance that a guy misses either kick, then missing both is like a 1 in 100 chance.  That actually seems even worse than I thought, so I may very well be miscalculating that.  

Still, missing 2 FGs in that range is just SO bad that it goes above an beyond the incompetence we've come to see from a lot of Bengals players in the post-season.


https://www.teamrankings.com/nfl/player-stat/field-goal-percentage-20-to-29?season_id=7

https://www.teamrankings.com/nfl/player-stat/field-goal-percentage-30-to-39?season_id=7