Buttermaker
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Hopefully the Patterson and Bush experiments will lead to Okoro being moved to safety next year.
Or nickel back.
Hopefully the Patterson and Bush experiments will lead to Okoro being moved to safety next year.
Or nickel back.
Jimmy can knock home meaningless 35 yarders with the best of em. It's the important kicks that he chokes on.
Or nickel back.
Meaningless stat that doesn't factor in distance. Who cares how accurate a kicker is if his range effective ends at 35 yards?
If you call it Nickelback, I hope they never see the field again.
If a guy can kick it 70 yards ever field goal but can only make 25% of all kicks how is he better than a guy that can make basically everything under 40 yards? The answer is he's not. Jimmy is a really good college kicker.
Was Sammy Watkins really worth 17 more votes for WR than Givens?
Givens had 200 more yards and 1 less TD.
Was Sammy Watkins really worth 17 more votes for WR than Givens?
Givens had 200 more yards and 1 less TD.
If the coach trusted Newman to kick past the 25, Newman would kick more, miss a lot more, and his reliability stat would go back to normal, proving how mediocre he has been.If a guy can kick it 70 yards ever field goal but can only make 25% of all kicks how is he better than a guy that can make basically everything under 40 yards? The answer is he's not. Jimmy is a really good college kicker.
On what planet is Jimmy Newman a good kicker? Didn't he cost us two games this year?
Kickers fairly frequently lose games.
He isn't good, but he is average.[/QUOTE]
I think that's pretty much it, he's average to this point. In fact I think he was better last year, than this year. He's better than a lot of college kickers, I was watching Miami-OH last week and they had only attempted 5 FG's all year because their kickers were so bad. Newman's okay, but he can be a lot better and he'd probably for the first guy to tell you that.
We're spoiled by Swank. College kickers are turrible. Newman is solid.
He shat the bed against Syracuse, but he still made kicks of 37, 38 and 40 in the game.
We're spoiled by Swank. College kickers are turrible. Newman is solid.
He shat the bed against Syracuse, but he still made kicks of 37, 38 and 40 in the game.
You guys are crazy. The facts don't back you up at all. In the past two seasons he's 28/33 on FG's, 12/14 from 30-39 yards, and 5/8 from over 40 with season longs of 48 and 46. The guy doesn't have a cannon for a leg like Swank but he's a lot better than an average college kicker. He missed an untimely kick this season and you guys are letting it cloud your judgement on him.
I'd have to look it up but I'm pretty sure that my HS had kicker's with better range than that.
Newman is an average college kicker, that is all. Regardless he's a senior next year, so it can't hurt to give Hedland some long distance FGs attempts if he has the range. We know Jimmy can't make them.