Quote:Wasn't Redfern the P and K combo guy? I say we bring him in, IR Lee and put the pressure on Myers and Banger. Punts haven't been going any better than kicks really.

I don't know that Redfern was ever a serious prospect. He was around last year simply to take some of Scobee's workload away, even late in the preseason, but was never a serious challenger for the job. This year, he lost the punting battle (if there even was one) to Anger by the first round of cuts. He's probably not the guy, although if the personnel guys like him, might as well let him take a few tryout kicks.

 

Quote:Anger is a cyst from the Gene Smith era that just needs to be cut out of the organization. I find it hard to believe we cant find someone equivalent in the off-season to replace him.

Anger has all the talent in the world. That's what kills me. He has all the natural talent of Ray Guy imo. The problem is that he either creams it 10 yards past his gunners or floats it 35 yards. There's no such thing as a 45-yard punt with 4 seconds of hangtime from him. It's either long and low or short and high. Some of that is on the coaching, no doubt, especially because Anger didn't have those problems in college. A lot of it falls on Anger, though. Ultimately, it's on the punter to control his punt.

 

Quote:I don't sense a move to replace Myers just yet. I feel like they want to give Myers every chance to improve and be the guy, but just in case he doesn't they have to know who's out there and what their options are. You can't worry about what Myers might think if they're trying out other kickers. If anything, he should use it as motivation.

Myers was 24-of-38 in college. He couldn't stick in the Arena League. Yeah, guys improve, but clearly he has not. Every field goal, PAT and kickoff with Myers is an adventure. That's a huge problem. It shouldn't be that way with your kicker. The fact that it is would seem to strongly indicate that the Jason Myers playing with the Jacksonville Jaguars is no better than the Jason Myers who hit 63% of his field goals in college and couldn't hold a job in the Arena League. Dump him. Put him on the practice squad if you think he can get better. The Broncos did that with Brandon McManus last year, and now he's their starting placekicker and having a pretty good season last I saw. But if you know a kicker is going to continue to miss easy kicks, put kickoffs out of bounds, pop onside kicks ten yards ahead of the hands team and continue to cost you games, why would you continue wasting time and money on him?

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