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<blockquote data-quote="Thirteen Below" data-source="post: 1037978" data-attributes="member: 18006"><p>That's the big takeaway from Saturday's kicking trials, I think. Or certainly one of the two.</p><p></p><p>One of Carlson's two kicks flew straight and true just inside the left upright, and the other one was swinging well wide to the right before it hooked just inside the right upright. They each came within a foot or so of missing.</p><p></p><p>The width of the uprights is 18'6". If the width was 16', Carlson would have been 0 for 2.</p><p></p><p>If the width of the uprights was 5', Joseph would have still been 1 for 1.</p><p></p><p>Too many of his kicks just barely make it inside the uprights. Yeah, I know, they still count for the same number of points, but how many of those kicks are going to be good in the wind at Lambeau, Soldier Field, or Levis Stadium come November, December, and January?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And that's the really frustrating thing - there's no consistency even with his misses.</p><p></p><p>Some kickers have a pattern; they tend to miss to the right or the left.... they usually hook, or slice....he just misses all over the place. When you consistently miss to one side or the other, there's often a technical flaw or some error in your fundamentals that can be corrected with a good coach. But his technical flaw is that he just misses all over the place.</p><p></p><p>It's not like a coach can sit him down and say, "here, if you just change this thing or that thing about the way you swing your foot or the way you're hitting the ball, your kicks will fly straight". He's just inaccurate; he just can't hit that 18.5 foot target.</p><p></p><p>If the uprights were 22' feet apart, he'd be an all-pro. But in a league where then uprights are 18 and a half feet apart, the guy is just unreliable.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Thirteen Below, post: 1037978, member: 18006"] That's the big takeaway from Saturday's kicking trials, I think. Or certainly one of the two. One of Carlson's two kicks flew straight and true just inside the left upright, and the other one was swinging well wide to the right before it hooked just inside the right upright. They each came within a foot or so of missing. The width of the uprights is 18'6". If the width was 16', Carlson would have been 0 for 2. If the width of the uprights was 5', Joseph would have still been 1 for 1. Too many of his kicks just barely make it inside the uprights. Yeah, I know, they still count for the same number of points, but how many of those kicks are going to be good in the wind at Lambeau, Soldier Field, or Levis Stadium come November, December, and January? And that's the really frustrating thing - there's no consistency even with his misses. Some kickers have a pattern; they tend to miss to the right or the left.... they usually hook, or slice....he just misses all over the place. When you consistently miss to one side or the other, there's often a technical flaw or some error in your fundamentals that can be corrected with a good coach. But his technical flaw is that he just misses all over the place. It's not like a coach can sit him down and say, "here, if you just change this thing or that thing about the way you swing your foot or the way you're hitting the ball, your kicks will fly straight". He's just inaccurate; he just can't hit that 18.5 foot target. If the uprights were 22' feet apart, he'd be an all-pro. But in a league where then uprights are 18 and a half feet apart, the guy is just unreliable. [/QUOTE]
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