Sad how fickle people are. Guy plays very well for us for the last couple years, comes into camp with a small injury and misses a few in the preseason and we want to cut him for some guy who probably can't kick. We probably won't get a better kicker. He was cut from Miami after being voted for the pro bowl in a previous year because of a little inconsistency and came to us and did great.
Kickers are funny people usually. They go through small bad stretches, but you don't kick him to the curb unless you have to if they have shown to be pretty good and not in decline. He kicked something like 6 over 50 yard field goals last year, he is not in decline. I wanted Rian Lindell gone shortly after he got here, but the Bills stuck with him and he turned into a very good kicker. That was two years after letting Christie go.
He doesn't even complain about coming in injured, he says he has to be better. Isn't that what people want? A guy who takes responsibility and says the right things? I've been through some pretty miserable kickers in my years as a Bills fan, I don't want to go through another stretch of Jake Airiens, Shayne Graham, Tom Demsey, and a list of names people have barely ever heard of.
Kickers are funny people usually. They go through small bad stretches, but you don't kick him to the curb unless you have to if they have shown to be pretty good and not in decline. He kicked something like 6 over 50 yard field goals last year, he is not in decline. I wanted Rian Lindell gone shortly after he got here, but the Bills stuck with him and he turned into a very good kicker. That was two years after letting Christie go.
He doesn't even complain about coming in injured, he says he has to be better. Isn't that what people want? A guy who takes responsibility and says the right things? I've been through some pretty miserable kickers in my years as a Bills fan, I don't want to go through another stretch of Jake Airiens, Shayne Graham, Tom Demsey, and a list of names people have barely ever heard of.
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