Quote:But 31 teams are better than us in that area.

 

Add in the fact that the kicks 24-of-38 misses are the gimmes. He's also failed under pressure several times. Since Scobee's name was brought into this, yes, he took his lumps as a rookie, but he improved as the season went on. I also can't find record of him missing more than 1 PAT in an entire season, let alone in a single game.

 

Sadly, 24-of-38 probably won't be replaced even if he hits Seth Marler levels of suck because this team has nothing left to play for. He's shown no signs of being a reliable kicker, and instead looks like a streaky guy who might be the hero or might cost you the game. It's worth noting that Randy Bullock, one of the guys we looked at as a replacement for 24-of-38, is 6-for-6 in New York right now. It's not that there aren't better kickers out there. It's that Caldwell and Bradley are refusing to give up on the leg of the week--a leg that looks weaker by the week as 24-of-38's kickoffs get worse and worse. The kid's not an NFL kicker. He's not an AFL kicker. He was terrible in college. If this was a team making a serious run at a playoff spot, he would have been gone after the Colts game.

 

OK, I know that you have a pea sized brain (and I mean that affectionately) so I'll address your rant.

 

First of all, no kick in the NFL is a "gimme" although the extra point rule prior to the 2015 season was pretty much that.

 

I don't remember Scobee ever missing an extra point (blocked extra points not included), but that doesn't matter because when Scobee was here the extra point rule was different.

 

That is precisely why the NFL enacted the new rule.  The extra point is no longer "automatic".  It's changed to a field goal.

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