Jon Brown

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(08-21-2018, 04:07 PM)Shake n Blake Wrote: All I care about is that "Fat" Randy has hit 88.5% of his FG's and 94.9% of his XP's as a Bengal.

I suppose many will never be happy with the guy for various reasons (he's not slim and good looking, he wasn't good in Houston, he's not Elliott, etc), but as long as he keeps plugging away, I'm a fan.

Marv has always been conservative with taking long FG's vs field position, so I'm not sure why people think a big-legged kicker would be some HUGE weapon. All this hand-wringing, and Elliott only hit 4 more FG's over 50 yards than Bullock. 16 more points. In an offense that was FAR more prolific than ours and obviously presented more FG opportunities overall. 

If you liked Elliott more, fine...but at least be fair and acknowledge those realities.

As for Brown, it seems people get caught up in big legs the same way they do with big-arm QB's. Leg don't mean squat without accuracy. I'll take the steady Eddie over the guy who kicks a pretty ball, but is scattershot on XP's. That guy is more likely to hurt us than to be an asset. If the coaches feel Brown beat out Bullock though, I'll roll with that and hope for the best.

Good points, all, Shake.  But I thought I remembered Duke Tobin talking about trying to find the next Justin Tucker.  There was a game where he was making 50-plus yard FGs against us (three, I think) and the Bengals couldn't counter with Nug.  That was only one game, but he was the reason the Ravens won.

I get it...he isn't proven, and distance without accuracy is like my golf drive. But the flight of his ball, and the ease at which he absolutely lauches the thing....Well, I have not seen it before.  

The Raiders used is 1st round pick on a scumbag of a human being in Janikowski because of his leg strength.  The Jets used their first pick (which was a 2nd rounder) on Nugent as he was making really long kicks at OSU.  

I just believe that this guy could evolve in to something special, and I would hate to see that be a team other than the one that gave him a shot.