Elliot struggled again today in the scrimmage

[BonnieBengal]

(08-18-2017, 10:55 AM)BoBengal Wrote: I'll answer for them:  Elliot is a "weak" kicker for two reasons to most on this board:

1)  ESPN.com shows that Elliot only made 77% of his field goals... that's pretty bad.  In grade school... that would be a 'C'.  The college goal posts are also several feet wider than the NFL, and it's significantly less pressure.  Heck, Nugent made more kicks than that each year.  The PAT stat is also meaningless for the NFL beyond 2015-2016, because we are comparing the collegiate PAT spot that is equivalent to that of ~17 yard field goal to the new NFL spot of ~33 yard field goal.  

2)  Elliot is missing kicks in games and practices that he should make.  We probably would have been better off bringing in a 2nd NFL-proven kicker to compete with Bullock (or drafting Zane Gonzalez, the guy that was clearly the best kicker in the draft)

Now that we are several weeks into it and Week 1 is quickly approaching, the numbers are telling a clear story... but emotions and an unwillingness to admit that all teams make mistakes in the draft may cloud the results of the competition.

You really cherry pick those numbers.  Bullock's overall COLLEGE stats were 78.8%.  Elliott's were 78%. overall.  Gonzalez's were 82%.  None of those numbers are stellar.  Elliott had a bad season his sophomore year 65% which brought down his overall numbers or they would have been higher than Bullock's instead of almost the same. I'm not a college football follower so I don't know why the kicker stats are low for ALL OF THEM, but I'm sure someone will know. Stephen Gostkowski is a great kicker. His overall college stats were lower than Elliott's. They were 76.1% And to be clear, the stat you quoted was for field goal kicks only.