Shawnsta3
Cheesehead
Well technically Nate Kaeding would have the worst this year at 58%. Crosby has 60%. 2 are tied at 70%.Crosby far and away owns the worst FG percentage in the NFL this year. I'm in favor of sticking it out with him and hoping he comes around, but I hardly think talk of replacing a kicker who is over 10 percentage points behind the next worst kicker in the league is a stupid argument. At least bringing in someone to challenge such a kicker certainly isn't unprecedented.
I'm not sure he's had a bad season as you say, or just a bad 5-6 weeks. All kickers go through slumps. We'll see how those stats look at the end of the year. He looked better today.
Yes, you would be firing the Packer with the worst (active) field goal % as you point out. But you'd also be firing all that goes along with him. The NFL record for most points in the first 5 years (649) Packers record 58 yard made kick, breaking his own record of 56 twice. Packers franchise record of 23 consecutive field goals made coming into this year. 34th ranked NFL career field goal % at 80.0%.
What I'm trying to say is given all these above stats and looking over the course of his career and his age I'm led to believe he is just in a slump and will bounce back relatively soon, if he hasn't already today. You are not going to find a kicker better than him on the open market today temporarily (next week) much less long term. SO i still think it'd be foolish, stupid and extremely immature to fire or release a kicker of Crosby's caliber at this point in time.
http://www.nfl.com/stats/categoryst...rience=null&tabSeq=1&qualified=true&Submit=Go
http://www.packerforum.com/threads/studs-vs-duds-2nd-half-collapse-edition.39763/page-2#post-467962