re: Saints tried out a bunch of kickers today

Out of all the weeks to do this they chose this week?

Seriously? Grupe has had bad weeks and weeks where I wouldn't have questioned this move at all but to do so in a game where the offense was 0/5 in the RZ, where the QB threw a pick 6 and wanted to get the guy who did its snap chat in the middle of the game...

Carmichaels offense has been criticized by fans and experts alike, Grupe has missed much easier kicks where he wasn't perfect heading into the kick...this wasn't a game winner...we were still losing

Is Allen betting on spreads?

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meanwhile, lou hedley living and smashing the dream IG also, saw this. hilarious. real life screen grab.

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Can his babe kick? Throw a pass ?

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He doesn't just miss 50 yarders though.

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He's missed 6 kicks so far this year:

- one kick less than 40, which is unacceptable.
- 2 between 40 and 50, yet he made 7. Not good, but not terrible either. Looking through stats there are quite a few that have missed 2 in this league currently.
- 3 over 50 yards. He's made 5 though. This is not something to get mad over. To hold kickers to a 100% kick rate of 50+ yards is completely unreasonable. This is not the meter of judgement.


Take away his very bad Texans game and he sits directly in the middle of the pack of NFL kickers. He's a rookie; he's going to have bad games.


Do I think he's going to be an elite kicker? I have no idea, but it does not appear so. How many are there in the NFL currently? 4? 5? That's why they are considered elite; there just aren't many of them. Is he bad? Possibly, but so far he hasn't shown that. He's shown that he can make some challenging kicks, but he's also shown he can crack under pressure.

Again, he's a rookie. Rookies crack under pressure. That's just the reality of being human.


I can neither attack nor defend him, but lashing out at this dude after he just went 5/6 in a game is a bit drastic. If the Saints kept him over Lutz, then they obviously saw something in him that they liked. They saw his potential. If that's the case and you stick with a rookie, then you have to accept the bad when it happens. If the bad happens too often, then that's a different scenario. When you're 100% on XPs and 3 of your 6 missed kicks were over 50, then you're not doing so bad. Ride this dude out and see what he brings next year. If he's inconsistent and unreliable then, well it's time to pull the plug.




This team has way more problems than a rookie kicker.

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Including Mason Crosby. The week after Grupe was our only offense. I don't know why but I find that very amusing

Underhill

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Too bad they don't hold their QB to the same standard when it comes to scoring actual Touchdowns when in the Redzone...

In fact, what does it say that you feel the need to explore other kickers after your teams redzone performance Sunday..

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but lashing out at this dude after he just went 5/6 in a game is a bit drastic

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I wouldn't call it "lashing out." I call it acknowledgment that he's shown you twice now he cannot handle the pressure of making a kick when the team absolutely has to have it to extend a game.

Yes this team has many problems, but Carr can't be replaced as easily as an objectively bad kicker. It is what it is.

Little late for that, needed to be after week 3, not 11

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Saints tried out a bunch of kickers today

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we have joe bidens twin brother for our HC, clueless and without any means of reflection

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Sure, but when we absolutely needed him to deliver to extend the game, he didn't. That's at least twice now. Like a bunch of other things with this team, that's unacceptable.

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Yea, I don’t get it. Dude misses every important kick.

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ETA These downvotes are a bit perplexing. Anyone want to explain them?

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I just did it because it seemed everyone else is…lol

He’s the worst punter in the league, yet nobody in their right mind would want to frick with this guy.