Mike Kaye, The Charlotte Observer: "The expectation is that PK Eddy Pineiro will head elsewhere"

[Bear Hands]

haven’t really been a fan of any of our kickers since Kasay. Would be nice to draft one and stick with him.

[OneBadCat]

Thank Christ. He had no distance, no clutch factor. He only made gimme kicks and cost us when the game was on the line multiple times. We need a true franchise kicker.

[VintagePanther]

I don’t think i ever heard of a kicker doing a hold out . Yeah you can bounce ego eddy . 

[Day1PanthersFan]

The only thing I will remember him for is missing 2 easy game winning kicks in overtime at Atlanta 

DJ Moore probably thought we had kicker who could kick further than 15 yards , or he wouldn't have taken his helmet off in celebration 

And that loss ultimately costed us the playoffs, maybe we get blown put by Dallas, but in the NFL you never know 

[Panthero]

Could have had harrison butker. 

[PanthersGTI]

Always tough. Could always use an upgrade there but it really hurts when the replacement doesn't pan out and your signing guys off the street mid-season hoping they work. That bring said, I am on board with grabbing a guy they believe in late in the draft/UDFA. 

[rayzor]

We'll keep Jensen till he retires. He's a presence we need on the team and in the locker room.

Hecker isn't bad. He gets the job done. He can stay. We need another placekicker, though. He's been a little high maintenance.

[MHS831]

I always found it interesting that a kicker would almost be an afterthought.  They determine the outcomes of games nearly as often as the QB.  Yet they are underpaid and asked to perform cold in the most high-pressure situations. Some teams have special team players who make tackles who are higher paid than the kicker.  For example, the Lions just signed Jalen Reeves-Mabin to a 2-year extension worth $8m.  Their kicker, Jake Bates, makes $800K.  Funny, but in college, our kicker practiced on a separate field, until we went to team when he would come up and kick for FG/XP and Kickoff.  Then back to the separate field.  We did not know him.  He did not hang out with us, and we made fun of his skinny body and funny shoes. Then one day, you are down by 2 with 3 seconds left and the ball is sitting on the 30.  The game is riding on this skinny dork with funny shoes.  I think, during my freshman year, he won 3 of our 9 wins.  We should compare the kicker to the closer in baseball, but we don't seem to value him like we should.  I mean, nobody calls a timeout to ice the left guard.

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[Candler Cat]

15 hours ago, Jon Snow said:

Guess we should look at kickers coming out.

NTTIAWWT

[X-Clown]

14 hours ago, Joe Bear said:

True, but his misses against TB this year were costly.

This, and the Cardinals game likely doesn't go into overtime if he doesn't miss an XP in that one.