Bengals brilliant in taking Kicker Elliot over Gonzalez

[BonnieBengal]

(04-29-2017, 11:10 PM)PDub80 Wrote: I watched the press conference the Bengals had after they selected the kicker.

Simmons explained that all 3 kickers he worked out were about the same and that it came down to one or two things as a tiebreaker and he explains why he chose Elliot over the others. It makes sense to me. Simmons has done a great job coaching. I'm not going to second guess him on this. He doesn't deserve it and has earned the right to have the players he wants. I think that, in general, the Bengals ST units have been pretty darned good over the years.

I saw it too.  He said Elliott was much better on kickoffs and Gonzalez had mainly kicked in the Arizona climate, which is quite different from ours.  

I can't remember what school Elliott went to, but he broke all or almost all of Stephen Gostkowski's records there, and Gostkowski is a great kicker. That's a good sign.