Another game, another miss for Gano

[Boxhead85]

But it's amusing to tweet #OhNoGano

[OneBadCat]

That miss in Denver is still hanging over his head. Time to get over it.

[Anybodyhome]

Need to look at more than FGs when evaluating kickers:

5th in touchbacks

6th in TB percentage

6th in return yards

Tied 1st FGM% from 20-40 yds; 21st from 40-49 yds and 12th from 50+ yards.

Overall, he's better than most of the league. So you say he sucks from 40-49 yds. (career 76.7%), Kasay was 74.5%. 

Hate to break the news, but John Kasay's KO numbers aren't even in the same league as Gano; as far as FGs, Kasay's career FGM number is only 2% higher than Gano.

Admittedly, Gano has issues between 40-49 yards, but thinking the guy should be out of the league when not considering everything is simply ignoring facts.

 

[pantherclaw]

8 minutes ago, Anybodyhome said:

Need to look at more than FGs when evaluating kickers:

5th in touchbacks

6th in TB percentage

6th in return yards

Tied 1st FGM% from 20-40 yds; 21st from 40-49 yds and 12th from 50+ yards.

Overall, he's better than most of the league. So you say he sucks from 40-49 yds. (career 76.7%), Kasay was 74.5%. 

Hate to break the news, but John Kasay's KO numbers aren't even in the same league as Gano; as far as FGs, Kasay's career FGM number is only 2% higher than Gano.

Admittedly, Gano has issues between 40-49 yards, but thinking the guy should be out of the league when not considering everything is simply ignoring facts.

 

/end thread

[Khyber53]

1 hour ago, TheRed said:

Me, and my ilk, lol. How dare I expect our kicker to actually make some kicks that should really be gimmes, especially ones he's missed on our home field.

You're more than willing to sit on here, and critique Cam Newton in a press conference of all meaningless things. But discussing our kicker continually missing crucial kicks is just a bridge too far?

You hear that? That was your credibility flying out the window.

You're embarrassing yourself here chief. Let it go.

Sure, I have given some criticism toward our QB. Never said bench him or fire him for his mistakes. Always tried to figure out the why something was happening. The guy's an excellent QB and if he can keep going and keep improving, he can go down as one of the greatest to have ever played the game. But, he is human and he's had a rough start this year. But I haven't screamed for him to be fired or even benched. 

Because that would be stupid. And childish. And foolish.

But you, you can just flail about at any player or coach and scream for their head to roll? Because of a missed kick (and if you watch kickers long enough, you learn that they go through these rough stretches now and then, and they have to work through them... even the greats), or a missed block or maybe they called a play down that wasn't executed properly, or they let their man get by them in coverage. Everyone except for Cam. And should anyone ever even lightly criticize his performance (or even his sartorial excesses), you emerge from behind his nutsack wielding your everlovin' keyboard like his samurai bodyguard to claim only mindless evildoers would do anything but worship your Precioussssss.

Look, I am a Panthers fan. Have been since they began and will be until I croak. I cheered when Jake Delhomme rose up out of nowhere and played like a kid living out his dream, and then cried with the rest when that dream came to a terrible end. I was sad when Smitty, Moose and Pep went on to new homes. I just about cried when they had to take Hoover out behind the barn and put him down like Ol' Yeller. And I have been thrilled to watch Cam play and cheered as he developed from an athlete to a darned fine QB, mobile or not.

Credibility? What would you know about that? You're just a broken record playing the same bad song, over and over again.

[fieryprophet]

I'm not happy with Gano either, but some of you forget the Olindo Mare/Justin Medlock years. Until we find an obvious upgrade Gano is fine.

[TheRed]

2 minutes ago, Khyber53 said:

Sure, I have given some criticism toward our QB. Never said bench him or fire him for his mistakes. Always tried to figure out the why something was happening. The guy's an excellent QB and if he can keep going and keep improving, he can go down as one of the greatest to have ever played the game. But, he is human and he's had a rough start this year. But I haven't screamed for him to be fired or even benched. 

Because that would be stupid. And childish. And foolish.

But you, you can just flail about at any player or coach and scream for their head to roll? Because of a missed kick (and if you watch kickers long enough, you learn that they go through these rough stretches now and then, and they have to work through them... even the greats), or a missed block or maybe they called a play down that wasn't executed properly, or they let their man get by them in coverage. Everyone except for Cam. And should anyone ever even lightly criticize his performance (or even his sartorial excesses), you emerge from behind his nutsack wielding your everlovin' keyboard like his samurai bodyguard to claim only mindless evildoers would do anything but worship your Precioussssss.

Look, I am a Panthers fan. Have been since they began and will be until I croak. I cheered when Jake Delhomme rose up out of nowhere and played like a kid living out his dream, and then cried with the rest when that dream came to a terrible end. I was sad when Smitty, Moose and Pep went on to new homes. I just about cried when they had to take Hoover out behind the barn and put him down like Ol' Yeller. And I have been thrilled to watch Cam play and cheered as he developed from an athlete to a darned fine QB, mobile or not.

Credibility? What would you know about that? You're just a broken record playing the same bad song, over and over again.

I've never said cut Gano. Explore options, and perhaps add competition does not = "he sucks cut him now!!"

So if that's what you're upset about, you just wasted a whole lot of words, and posts.

Listen here. There has never been, and never will be a press conference by any NFL player that directly affects the outcome of a game. It does not matter.  Missing crucial kicks however..yeah, that's kind of important. Especially when it ends up directly losing us games. Like in our season opener. 

[csx]

It would be amusing to see these guys screaming for everyone's head if they were in a soundproof glass room. unfortunately we all have to hear it over and over and over. 

[Mvp2014]

11 minutes ago, TheRed said:

I've never said cut Gano. Explore options, and perhaps add competition does not = "he sucks cut him now!!"

So if that's what you're upset about, you just wasted a whole lot of words, and posts.

Listen here. There has never been, and never will be a press conference by any NFL player that directly affects the outcome of a game. It does not matter.  Missing crucial kicks however..yeah, that's kind of important. Especially when it ends up directly losing us games. Like in our season opener. 

I was calling for him to get fired yesterday in the moment but at the end of the day we are trying to get better. Bringing in competition is nothing but drama and shows the coaches lack of confidence.  Sure bring up Bene but the fact is Bene was dumb and unprofessional.  Oh yeah and he was slow af and out of shape

[Anybodyhome]

30 minutes ago, TheRed said:

Missing crucial kicks however..yeah, that's kind of important. Especially when it ends up directly losing us games. Like in our season opener. 

Plenty of individual player and coaching mistakes cost this team games since the season opener, why single out the kicker?

[TheRed]

1 minute ago, Anybodyhome said:

Plenty of individual player and coaching mistakes cost this team games since the season opener, why single out the kicker?

Trust me, I'm not singling out Gano.

Frankly I'm more concerned about our atrocious OL situation we've willfully stumbled our way into.

[Khyber53]

2 hours ago, Anybodyhome said:

Plenty of individual player and coaching mistakes cost this team games since the season opener, why single out the kicker?

Because he's always got someone to point a finger at. It's his thing. 

[TheRed]

6 minutes ago, Khyber53 said:

Because he's always got someone to point a finger at. It's his thing. 

Says the guy worried about press conferences.

[Servant of Cthululelei]

18 hours ago, teeray said:

Accuracy is down across the league this year.  He is a good kicker not having a great season.  I still have faith in him though

This is the part you'll never get most Huddlers (or NFL fans in general) to understand.  Anyone who is playing poorly in the present is poo and has always been poo and will always be poo and literally anyone else would be better.