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To Joey Slye - Farewell and Good Luck


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The Panthers can do better and they are. Smith was correct in the things he said but Slye is like 28th in average salary. He was always a young cheap temporary solution nothing more. Now we move on to the next alternative. That's the life of an nfl kicker.

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17 minutes ago, MasterAwesome said:

Is Slye eligible for the practice squad? Seems like he’d be a good candidate to keep around to see if he can work through the mental hurdles.

Nah he’s too good for the practice squad some team will snatch him immediately. Just like Butker. Slye isn’t a BAD kicker, he’s just not GOOD. He never made a game winning FG to my recollection. 

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5 minutes ago, aloysius snuffleupagus said:

He's still a young man, and I assume rich enough that he can take some time out away from the pressure.

I suspect we'll see him compete in someone else's Training Camp next year and get back in from there. He certainly has the leg strength and used to be far more accurate.

Eh....he's made roughly $1 mil in his NFL career, so after taxes he has enough to sit around for a while....but not forever. 

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8 hours ago, LinvilleGorge said:

I hope he'll fix his yips elsewhere but I'm glad we tired of waiting for that to happen here. All the leg in the world but he just can't stop slicing it. It's between his ears. As soon as he gets in a bad head space, that ball is sailing wide right.

Sometimes a change of venue is exactly what’s needed. 

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3 minutes ago, Harbingers said:

Sometimes a change of venue is exactly what’s needed. 

Well, it's also his second stop in which this was an issue, after four years at VT with the same problems.

Hopefully he gets it figured out but sometimes it just doesn't happen. Either way, it's not something the Carolina Panthers have to deal with anymore. That is what I am happy about.

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Almost makes you wonder if the mental therapy somehow made it worse for him once he started missing kicks in preseason. Possibly more in his head than before the therapy.. who knows but wish him luck. Seems like a good guy overall.
 

 

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7 hours ago, SizzleBuzz said:

No chance.

 

He's the exact opposite of Butker 🤣

If Slye goes on the practice squad, like Butker did, he will be on another team very quickly. Hell it might even be the Jets week 1 (which would be awesome because Slye wouldn’t have cured his yips that fast)

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