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Old 11-06-2006, 11:09 AM   #1
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Re: Novak Is Not The Answer!

Hall is on IR so I think he's done. I think he could return in the postseason but that's obviously still a pipe dream at this point.
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Old 11-06-2006, 11:14 AM   #2
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Re: Novak Is Not The Answer!

We need to solve our kicking woes in the draft or something. We need someone reliable!
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Old 11-06-2006, 11:45 AM   #3
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Novak needs to line up like I do for a golf shot. I know I am gonna hit it 10 yards right, so I turn and hit it ten yards left.
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Old 11-06-2006, 11:46 AM   #4
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Re: Novak Is Not The Answer!

I'm very glad that he got a 'do over' kick at the end of the game and made the most of it. I really had my doubts that he could pull it off.

I'm sticking with my nickname for him ...
Nick 'the reason he was available' Novak.
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Old 11-06-2006, 12:11 PM   #5
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Wasn't there a known issue with him hooking it one way so Danny Smith says to Gibbs get the ball to the Bleah (left or right hash mark) I cannot remember but when Portis got stuffed not only did it add 3 yards it put it on the wrong hash.
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Old 11-06-2006, 12:14 PM   #6
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Re: Novak Is Not The Answer!

Novak had issues when he was a freshman at Maryland, and was able to correct them and becomes an All ACC kicker.

With that said, he's not the answer, but a temporary solution to a problem that should be solved in the offseason with an acquisition that isn't Hall or Novak.
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Old 11-06-2006, 01:37 PM   #7
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Re: Novak Is Not The Answer!

He missed the kick with 30 seconds left and I walked out into the garage, where I had been working on something. I came back in maybe 2 or 3 minutes later expecting to watch overtime and my wife yelled to me, THE REDSKINS WON!

I said "HOW?!?!?! NO THEY DIDN'T! I JUST SAW THEM BLOW IT!"

She told me they kicked a field goal. I said, "yeah and they missed it!". She reenacted it for me with the pole in the middle of our family room/former basement where the big screen is. I said "are you SURE it wasn't the Cowboys?"

Then the commercials ended and I saw the crazy replays. I missed a lot in that 2 minutes!




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So anyways...Novak IS better than Hall distance-wise. He's an upgrade but not completely an answer. I'll still take a guy who can hit a 47-yarder with no time left on the clock over a guy who can't make a 35-yarder to save his own life.
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Old 11-06-2006, 02:06 PM   #8
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She reenacted it for me with the pole in the middle of our family room/former basement where the big screen is.
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dude, exactly what did she re enact?
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Old 11-06-2006, 02:09 PM   #9
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dude, exactly what did she re enact?
She's a 'keeper'.
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dude, exactly what did she re enact?
The football hooking just inside the goalpost.

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Old 11-06-2006, 03:57 PM   #11
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Re: Novak Is Not The Answer!

hes got until the end of the season id think to win this job, otherwise he is gone. he definitely has to get more consistent, but he is a very young kicker and it would be nice if he could develop into a dependable guy. we have yet to see that though
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Re: Novak Is Not The Answer!

Im up for using a relatively decent draft pick on one.

If we had it, Id go 3rd/4th round if there was a very solid prospect. Otherwise, go after an UFA.
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Old 11-06-2006, 11:30 PM   #13
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Im up for using a relatively decent draft pick on one.

If we had it, Id go 3rd/4th round if there was a very solid prospect. Otherwise, go after an UFA.
Don't count on it, we would rather give big money to a so so kicker with NFL experience than draft one with a lot of potential, to bad to because there are some pretty good kickers and punters I have seen this year in college.

This should have been addressed in the off season anyhow, Hall isn't that good it's not like he wasen't missing easy fieldgoals before he was hurt, and he's alway's injured. How bout letting this kid get confortable perhaps all he needs is game experience, he has to get used to the pressure which kickers have a ton of.

David Ackers anyone?
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Ok he did finally get a kick through the up rights but he is alot worse than Hall. He missed the game winner and then really got lucky to get a second chance and all of this had to happen for that second chance. Stop Dal. from scoring a TD, then block almost a give me kick, then have ST pick up the ball (I think only ST could have made that play), then get a face mask of 15yards and not 5 (it could have gone either way) and then he got his chance. Is Hall done for the year or can he come back at some point I just do not think Novak is that good and we just can't rely on them for kicking FG>
That thought makes me want to vomit...John Hall lost the conference championship for us...He lost the Minnesota game for us...He sucks balls! Novak has done way more for us than any kicker since Chip Lohmiller
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That thought makes me want to vomit...John Hall lost the conference championship for us...He lost the Minnesota game for us...He sucks balls! Novak has done way more for us than any kicker since Chip Lohmiller
Are we really comparing the merits of John Hall and Nick Novak?

If the front office had any brains this would have been dealt with over the off-season.

Adam Archuletta or Vinatieri.... Let's take the undersized linebacker with no cover skills and we will pay him more money than any safety in the history of the league!
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