Graham Gano is becoming a problem

[yasuhara2241]

First of all, the extra point last week was a bad hold. He explained that to Jordan Gross after the game. Heard it on the radio. 2nd of all, he made a clutch kick in overtime and then a 52 yrd game winner. 

Today he missed one where you see his plant foot slip but nailed the other ones. 

But to negative people these are excuses and for positive people these are valid reasons. Which side are you on? 

[ItsNotGonnaBeAlright]

Yeah, those 9 points he scored were a pain in the ass.

Good thing we won by 8.

[KSpan]

Let's pretend that the FO agrees - what do you do about it at this point? It's fair to criticize if you have a suggestion/thought on the remedy to go with it.

[Sam Mills Fan]

2 minutes ago, JakeR6 said:

Did you not watch the Indy game? Gano is fine. He makes the big ones.

If games are so stupid. We would've scored 50+ if Cam didn't make all those terrible passes. He missed 2 wide open TDs.

Cam is out there for dozens of snaps. Gano gets like 2 or 3 field goal tries a game and 3 or 4 XP attempts. His mistakes are amplified, especially when they're so tied to points every time he trots out there.

 

A 43 yard field goal try being whiffed THAT badly.......that was just a terrible kick. Wasn't raining that hard today, but I didn't see the field conditions in his particular spot on the field where he was kicking.

[tondi]

He hasn't been great but the league has a serious dearth of competent kickers right now.  Not sure what we can be expected to do about it at this point.

[Hammerin'Cameron34]

Olindo Mare was a problem

[philit99]

Gano is not a problem, Nortman however I am starting to worry about.

[Randolph Panther]

At times he pisses me off, but id stick with him.  Deserves a ton of credit for hitting that game winner from plus 50 the other day.

[Sam Mills Fan]

3 minutes ago, chknwing said:

Gano is one of the best kickers in the league. And if you havnt notice, all NFL kickers are struggling with the new PAT.  You are trying to make something out of nothing.  Gano is a big factor on why carolina is 8-0.  quit looking for non existent issues and just enjoy being 8-0. again this thread is dumb.

No, sorry, not all kickers are struggling with the PAT.

 

It's becoming a trend where we're having to dig in deeper and hold on for dear life because Gano can't do something like hit an extra point or a 43 yard field goal.

[Datawire]

3 minutes ago, Sam Mills Fan said:

No, sorry, not all kickers are struggling with the PAT.

 

It's becoming a trend where we're having to dig in deeper and hold on for dear life because Gano can't do something like hit an extra point or a 43 yard field goal.

I think you are getting ahead of yourself bro.

This is all you should be concerned with.

[Captain Obvious]

When we play in San Fancisco in the rain in Feb, we will all be happy he has so much practice kicking in the rain.

[SamMills4Life]

Nobody hits every fieldgoal. At least he hit the important one last week. Don't forget that was 50+ yards.

Nortman is the guy that doing a lot more damage to the team, though he was a little better today.

[CarolinaNCSU]

He's no John Kasay...but he's also not Olindo Mare.

[cbarrier90]

Gano is an average kicker. Also you're forgetting his tremendous touch back ability which is really valuable with this unit.

Nortman is a concern, but based on that final punt he had today I'm not so sure DeHaven isn't instructing him to shorten his kicks to compensate for the coverage issues of the past.