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re: Was Morten Andersen really that good?
Posted on 8/5/13 at 3:26 pm to Chad504boy
Posted on 8/5/13 at 3:26 pm to Chad504boy
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yeah trying to understand how kicking % has evolved over last 20 years. still a ball, a kicker, a field goal.
Not sure if your premise is correct, but I'd guess with more wide open offenses, there are more opportunities to get inside the 30 yard line to kick field goals.
I'd also imagine that players have perfected their techniques more. Soccor style was relitively new at that point. Now they have kicking academies, etc. Probably better kicking shoes and better footballs as well.
Not sure if Astroturf has anything to do with it. Are there more Domes now than the 80s/90s?
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Posted on 8/5/13 at 3:44 pm to Suntiger
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Not sure if your premise is correct, but I'd guess with more wide open offenses, there are more opportunities to get inside the 30 yard line to kick field goals.
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I submit the following link...all time NFL field goal percentage. The data is clear cut and ironclad...kickers hit their field goals at a higher percentage now than ever, and are getting better.
1. The 13 of the top 15 are active players. Recently retired Matt Stover was one of the inactive in the top 15. The other is the "Liquored Up Idiot Kicker."
2. You have to go to #41 before you find someone who retired in the last century.
3. You have to go down to #91 to find a player who didn't play after 1989.
4. Hartley sits 8th on the list. Morten is 42nd. Carney is #17. Doug Brien is #35.
5. Of Morten's contemporaries (kickers who kicked in the 1980s), Gary Anderson is first, followed by Nick Lowery, then Morten. Gary is at #36.
6. The Packers really need to replace Mason Crosby.
Posted on 8/5/13 at 4:22 pm to Suntiger
quote:About 20 years ago, the NFL also instituted the rule whereby a missed field goal was placed at the spot of the kick (not the line of scrimmage). This discouraged some of the longer, high risk, field goals because of the disparity in field position on misses. Notice Andersen's FG% increased in the late 90s. Could be a correlation as some of the longer FGs (many missed) were now turning into punts.
Not sure if your premise is correct, but I'd guess with more wide open offenses, there are more opportunities to get inside the 30 yard line to kick field goals. I'd also imagine that players have perfected their techniques more. Soccor style was relitively new at that point. Now they have kicking academies, etc. Probably better kicking shoes and better footballs as well. Not sure if Astroturf has anything to do with it. Are there more Domes now than the 80s/90s?
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