Amazing what having a good kicker can do for a team

[TN05]

Is there any doubt Joey Slye was perhaps the worst kicker in the league his entire tenure here? Insane it took as long as it did to ditch him.

[SizzleBuzz]

No.

[OneBadCat]

Bullsht call

[4Corners]

You better hope it doesn’t come down to a kick for us because you just jinxed this F out of him 

[frankw]

It's been over a month. Don't let Joey Slye live rent free in your head.

[jbland]

5 minutes ago, 4Corners said:

You better hope it doesn’t come down to a kick for us because you just jinxed this F out of him 

Hahah looks like he jinxed Atlanta. 

[mc52beast]

Yeh, you need a good kicker when your offense can’t find the end zone. 

[CPantherKing]

Gonzalez and Slye are both 80% kickers. What is the point? Your current kicker always seems better until he misses and goes back to who he has always been.

[KillerKat]

Zane is the answer to our kicking trouble. Glad to have finally figured that out. Going to need him this season.

[SizzleBuzz]

4 hours ago, CPantherKing said:

Gonzalez and Slye are both 80% kickers...

Both are better than Gano, right?

[LinvilleGorge]

Yeah, the people wanting to spike the football over Darnold's very pedestrian game are missing the real story here. Gonzalez kicked his ass off. He was a difference maker today. 13 of our 19 points. Two 50+ yarders. He had a day today.

[Scott12345]

That’s what kickers do..

we just haven’t had one in a while…in years

[PantherPhann89]

I'm glad the coaching staff found a competent kicker. I'm impressed with that 57 yarder...

[BrianS]

ZG has been in the league since 2017.  Before this year, he's made greater than 80% of his FG's exactly once - a year when 2/3 of his kicks were under 40 yards.

We need to see an entire year of this.  It's possible the guy has figured something out.  If so, I'm excited to have him here.  Kickers should be largely judged on their consistency over a long term.