NFC Wild Card Round Discussion Thread

[adriano]

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Wow…I have never seen a kicker miss four XPs.


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We cut that guy a few years ago because he could not consistently
kick from 30 yards in. The year we cut him he hit a couple 60 yard
kicks.

Just looking at his face last night, you can tell he can't handle the
pressure. He kicked fine all year. I thought his problems were gone.
Terrible time to find out your kicker sucks..

[adriano]

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Brady will play one more year. I don't think he plays in Tampa though.

Vegas? Miami?

[slickdtc]

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Rodgers to the Bucs and Brady the Packers, lol.

I don’t think he’ll be back in TB but I do think he’ll be back. If TEN adds anyone at WR (not sure what FA class looks like), I thought that would be a decent landing spot. Raiders make a lot of sense too. Hard to say what Brady will be prioritizing and let’s not forget him signing somewhere probably informs the rest of the offseason moves for that team. So if he wants to go to the best place, he may have to decide on that sooner then later so he and the team can get to assembling players around him. Unless he goes somewhere already loaded, but there’s not many if any teams that fit that bill. Brady to the Jets, somehow, may be the most talented group he could land on. Please no!

[Blzer]

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I know perhaps Tom and Gisele simply fell out of love and that's fine, but I can't imagine that he would have afforded divorcing her for just one more year of football.

I'll do you all one better: not only does Tom return, but wherever he goes, Gronk goes. Gronk is fine to play once his body heals (it's the toll it takes that makes him take time off), and he'll only play with Tom wherever he floats. Gronk has had a year off and should be good to play again.

I know Vegas is pursuing Brady, there are wild rumors of the Pats going back to him, and the dream come true would be him to go to San Francisco but they seem set without him. He'll need to go somewhere that will protect him, though. I for one do not want him back on Tampa, and even though it'll be a sour departure he still brought them a Super Bowl. They have to figure things out from the top (Bowles) and find things from there, but with that lack of protection and running game they'll need a QB that can be more mobile, and Brady clearly isn't that.

[Caulfield]

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...Just looking at his face last night, you can tell he can't handle the
pressure. He kicked fine all year. I thought his problems were gone.
Terrible time to find out your kicker sucks..

IMO it was a great time to find that out.
he could have went 0-5 on xp's and Dallas was ok.
now McCarthy has a whole week to prepare going for 2 every time this weekend lol,
just pray they dont 3 pointers instead of just 2 pointers

[Hooe]

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We cut that guy a few years ago because he could not consistently
kick from 30 yards in. The year we cut him he hit a couple 60 yard
kicks.

Just looking at his face last night, you can tell he can't handle the
pressure. He kicked fine all year. I thought his problems were gone.
Terrible time to find out your kicker sucks..

We need to get out of this mindset where literally one bad game (as bad as it was) erases the previous seventeen good ones.

Separate from that thought - Mike McCarthy has a history of sticking with his kickers through rough stretches. He adamantly stuck with Mason Crosby when Crosby nearly kicked his way off the Packers’ roster twice. Mason Crosby worked through it and has now scored more points than any player who has played for the Green Bay Packers, a team with over 100 years of history.

To that end, I think we will see McCarthy stick by his guy and work with Maher to get him back on his horse. I anticipate Maher will be kicking for the Cowboys against the 49ers this weekend.

[SmashMan]

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We cut that guy a few years ago because he could not consistently
kick from 30 yards in. The year we cut him he hit a couple 60 yard
kicks.

Just looking at his face last night, you can tell he can't handle the
pressure. He kicked fine all year. I thought his problems were gone.
Terrible time to find out your kicker sucks..

I knew nothing about this dude before seeing him last night, but he's never missed a FG within 30 yards and only missed one PAT in his first stint in Dallas.

https://www.pro-football-reference.c...tm#all_kicking

It actually just looks like he didn't have a great 2019 - seems pretty solid otherwise, especially the last two seasons.

[adriano]

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We need to get out of this mindset where literally one bad game (as bad as it was) erases the previous seventeen good ones.

Kicking is all mental. I hope you are right.

He was good this year. So was Nate Kaeding for San Diego. Great regular
season kicker. Terrible in the post season. I could see one or two but four
XP's. I do not have confidence in him at all..

I saw this today..

https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/embarrassing_detail_on_brett_mahers_brutal_night_emerges/s1_127_38364375

I did not know you could run out of K Balls. Maybe he missed the net too..lol