Big News 3.0... Joey Slye Extended

[1of10Charnatives]

4 minutes ago, TheSpecialJuan said:

I feel like I've seen this man playing a jug in a bluegrass band before, but I could be mistaken without a straw hat on him to be sure.

[TheSpecialJuan]

[1of10Charnatives]

1 hour ago, SmokinwithWilly said:

How many misses were because DW couldn't block grandma in her power chair? I can think of 2 off the top of my head.

You know your OL vet is having a bad season when people can remember multiple instances of his ST breakdowns.

[TheSpecialJuan]

[Jared Patterson]

We need the money from Gano. Hurney gave him a massive kicker contract and he and Sly are about the same

[ncstatekwi]

7 hours ago, Cracka McNasty said:

Still bitter about butker

Me too....I remember seeing him in the pre-season and thinking...keep him keep him...but who am I to give advice to the Panthers!!

[ncstatekwi]

7 hours ago, Mr. Scot said:

Didn't necessarily see that coming given his struggles as the season went on.

Kind of hoping we draft that kicker from Georgia with a late rounder.

Yeah, that GA kicker is good!!

[ncstatekwi]

6 hours ago, Tepper's Chest Hair said:

Almost any kicker in the NFL would have struggled if they were on the Panthers last year.  I really need to save his kicking stats, vs Gano and the NFL average so I don't have to type it up again every few weeks when someone brings up Slye.  Sly has 22 kicks from 40+.  went 8-11 at 40-49 and 8-11 at 50+.  He was 9/10 for all others.

When compared to the Huddle golden kicker, Butker.  Slye had nearly twice his kicks at 50+ while Butker was 3-6.  

Our horrible offense was the number 1 reason Slye missed as many kicks as he did.

The last few times a kicker had 11+ 50+ attempts?

Prater (DET) 2017 : 7-11

Myers (JAX) 2016 : 7-12

Zuerlein (STL) 2012 : 7-13

Janikowskie (OAK) 2007 : 6-11

And thats it.  Since 2000.  Slye had the best year for a NFL kicker at the 50+ range in the last 20 years.  But we want to kick him to the curb because our offense was horrible and we put him in a low-success position.  Constantly.

Cheers for the numbers!  Thanks for taking the time to post those!  I assume Gano will be a CUT!  I am definitely a SLYE fan!!

[RenoCarolina]

Has the trend to get the big leg kicker and guarantee a touchback on every kickoff reached it's end?

 

Interesting to see how often the two SB teams seemed to purposely kick to inside the 5 and force drives to start well short of the 25

 

[1of10Charnatives]

2 minutes ago, RenoCarolina said:

Has the trend to get the big leg kicker and guarantee a touchback on every kickoff reached it's end?

 

Interesting to see how often the two SB teams seemed to purposely kick to inside the 5 and force drives to start well short of the 25

 

They were able to do that because both teams have excellent coverage units. Note that nobody got any kind of impressive return off during the SB, and iirc nobody even made it past the 25.  I think the big leg kicker TB thing took a hit when the league moved TB out to the 25. 

[TheSpecialJuan]

JOEY SLYEK, CAROLINA PANTHERS

Panthers re-signed K Joey Slye to a one-year contract.

Big-legged Slye had a league-low 4.6% of his kickoffs returned this past season and went 25-of-32 on field goals. He went 16-of-22 from 40-plus yards. Slye had some hiccups, however, as the Panthers flirted with a change during the year. Slye eventually rebounded and will head into the offseason as the No. 1 kicker.

[GoPanthers123]

Slye is so streaky, one blocked FG and his confidence went to poo.  I think he can be solid with more experience.

[Jon Snow]

1 year huh.   If I'm not mistaken a couple of other guys signed a 1 year contract, but I simply don't care enough to look it up.

[TheSpecialJuan]

PREDICTION: Kyle Allen will re-sign tomorrow morning.