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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thirteen Below" data-source="post: 1055648" data-attributes="member: 18006">Yes, and that has to be considered as well. It's likely that he may never match 95.2 again in his career, that this will be the highwater mark for him. And I'm sure that will be a factor in the contract negotiations.But even at that, his career average is still a full point higher than Crosby's, and most of us were pretty happy with him for quite a number of years. If McManus regresses to his mean, he's still a solid kicker, and I think we'll all be happy to have him here. Just for the sake of discussion, in his career he's 48 for 85 at 50+ - 56%. 75 for 88 between 40 and 50 (85%), and 95% between 30-40 (79 for 84).So he doesn't have the consistently huge leg that you get wth guys like Fairbairn, Aubrey, Butker, Folk, etc., but it wasn't that many years ago that we'd have been thrilled with that 56%. In the 90s, 50-yarders were rare - 35-40%. This year, the league average was something like 68%. Kickers are being coached very differently right now, right from high school. Teams are starting to take kicking much more seriously, and it's becoming a more important part of the game.</blockquote>

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