Quote:Anger does a fine job punting. He's never been cited as a reason for losses, and complaints against him amount to nitpicking. He may not be a pro bowl punter, but he's darn consistent, and I've seen teams like the Packers struggle for years looking for a good punter.

He's mediocre. Not awful, just not very good. He struggles with control on his punts. Like I alluded to earlier, I can't even begin to count how many times this season I've seen a punt of his sail ten yards past the gunners--usually with good hangtime, sometimes not--into the arms of a returner more than happy to rip off a nice return. It seems that when he does try to take a little off his swing and float the ball instead of driving it, he comes up short. That's not to say that every punt is awful or that he's the worst punter ever, because he's not. A lot of that just comes from residual Gene hate. In a lot of ways, at least on this board, there's more, ahem, anger about Anger than there is about Gabbert when it comes to Gene's tenure.

 

I think he could be pretty easily replaced by a rookie, drafted or otherwise, or by a street guy that's been to a camp or two, maybe done a week on a roster here and there as an injury sub. That's not to say there's no circumstance in which I'd want Anger back, but I do think that he can be upgraded without much effort to a guy that's got more consistency to his game and is a better directional punter.

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