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http://www.pro-football-reference.com/leaders/fg_perc_career.htm
Mason Crosby's career FG % ranks 3oth. among kickers active last season.
Even if you throw out last season, with his career average jumping from 76.8 now to 79.4 after 2011, he'd still be 28th. among active kickers.
Relative to FG kickers in this golden age, Crosby is poor, to say the least.
An odd thing about his one good year (spanning 2010 - 2011) is that he was among the worst in the league in touchback % in 2010 before they moved up the kick line.
It's not that simple. Look at the numbers a little closer and you will find that few kickers attempt more 50+ yarders than Crosby does. Most of the guys at the top of the list only attempt 2-4 per year on average. Crosby average 6.5 per year at that distance...the most in the league by a good margin. A miss will hurt your average more than a make will help it. There are only a few guys who attempt anywhere close to as many 50+ kicks and the highest average among them is around 81-82%. Take 50+ attempts out of the equation and I bet you'd find Crosby somewhere in the middle of the pack. I don't know exact numbers, but I'd also bet out of his 33 attempts beyond 50 yards that at least 7 or 8 of those were 55 or longer. BTW, he attempted a whopping 9 from long range last year.
Take away the really long ones that he's not very good at and his percentage is 81.8% and that includes his slump last year. Looks to me like MM needs to punt a little more and cut back on the 53+ yarders.
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