Jets are on the phone...

[panthers55]

From a benefit cost point of view. Paying a kicker who is good is a no brainer. They account for sometimes 30% of your points in a season for under 5 million. One third of your points for 1/30 the of your cap.. That is a huge deal and well worth the money. I laugh every time someone here talks about overpaying Gano. He is still very good and makes the same money as a good backup who sits the bench most times. You keep your reliable guy, you don't gamble with an unprovem guy to save a measly 3 million. What a ridiculous idea. Just ask Chicago about that.

[TN05]

1 hour ago, Davidson Deac II said:

That's not really true.  There were some games Gano contributed to losing, but over the last couple of years he has been one of the most accurate kickets in the NFL.  He has had two chances at kicking game winning fg's in the last two seasons, and made both of them.  

Yep, and one of those was a 63-yarder. 

I feel like everyone just hates him since that opener of 2016, but that was three years ago in a bad year for everyone.

[Amos Moses]

1 hour ago, stbugs said:

Honestly, if Gano’s nursing a knee injury then the last thing we should do is trade our current backup.

I hear you and agree with you. I'm only saying the referenced article doesn't mention that talks with the jets for slye or gano are actually happening. But the idea of getting draft capital of any kind for a camp leg is a sweet thought. 

[07579394]

8 hours ago, Captain Morgan said:

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Joey Slye watch here in Carolina...and maybe Chicago...

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Trade: Ravens are sending kicker Kaare Vedvik to Minnesota in exchange for a 2020 5th-round draft pick, per league source. Vikings could wind up using Vedvik as their kicker and punter.

 

This.

Slye at least costs a 5th round pick.

[Devil Doc]

Maybe we should just keep Slye in the dark, so when Gano goes out in game 5, we can bring Slye in. 

[Khyber53]

Slye is getting a great opportunity to audition and we're keeping Gano who is demonstrably a good and reliable kicker. That 65-yarder last season won a game for us.

I believe we will trade Slye for a 6th or 7th rounder before all is said and done and both he and we will come out pretty good in the deal.

[mc52beast]

Are we talking about the same Gano who kicked a 63 yarder to beat the Giants and everyone here was saying how great he is?

[Santee_Panther]

Cutting or trading Gano would cost us $5.6mil in dead cap money in ‘19. Keeping him only costs $3.6mil. 

Gano will be our kicker this year. 

[jtm]

We lost some games last year because of kicking and I'd keep two on the roster if it was me.  Plus, Gano isn't healthy at the moment.  I think this is a wise use of a roster spot and let the young buck handle kick offs to save Gano. 

 

 

[trueblade]

Just now, jtm said:

We lost some games last year because of kicking and I'd keep two on the roster if it was me.  Plus, Gano isn't healthy at the moment.  I think this is a wise use of a roster spot and let the young buck handle kick offs to save Gano. 

 

 

I don't think we have the space to keep two kickers on the roster. We already have some really tough decisions and that's with keeping only one.

[jtm]

41 minutes ago, mc52beast said:

Are we talking about the same Gano who kicked a 63 yarder to beat the Giants and everyone here was saying how great he is?

As good as that kick was, Gano had some misses that were equally as bad that cost the Panthers at least two games. 

[archer4364]

On 8/11/2019 at 1:41 PM, PhillyB said:

the rancor directed at gano on these boards is utterly at odds with the quantitative data and qualitative observation of his performance

uhhh. 27th most accurate kicker on XPs? He was 24th in 2017, 25th in 2016, and 17th in 2015. 

FG% is a little better (13th last year, 1st in 2017, 25th in 2016, 20th in 2015). 

The stats aren't that great. Gano is pretty average besides that one great year in 2017 (minus the missed kick in New Orleans). NYG game winner last season was pretty badass though. 

He's definitely not trash, he's just making a lot of money. Slye would almost certainly be a downgrade, but he's not making very much at all (less than half a million IIRC). The question is if that downgrade is worth 4-5 million dollars in cap.

Gano is the safe option and I'd be shocked if we dumped him... 

On 8/11/2019 at 1:44 PM, The Huddler said:

im a hokie fan. watched nearly ever kick of Slye

 

HES A CHOKE

AND HES A KNUCKLE HEAD

Also this... We know what Gano is, but Slye is completely unproven. Going to take a hell of a lot more pre-season FG's before I'd be cool giving him the starting job, esp. if he was bad in college.