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08-28-2012, 10:31 AM
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Re: Redskins Sign K Billy Cundiff, Release Gano
Rackers has really fallen far, fast. A few years ago, he was one of the best in the league with Arizona.
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08-28-2012, 10:34 AM
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Re: Redskins Sign K Billy Cundiff, Release Gano
I don't get the "I don't like this move" sentiment. I mean I can see that this is a head-scratcher in some ways but it's not like we cut a pro-bowl kicker for a scrub. At worst this was a lateral move.
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08-28-2012, 10:34 AM
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Re: Redskins Sign K Billy Cundiff, Release Gano
Should have just kept Gano. At least he was young and possibly could have turned things around (which I honestly felt he was doing). Now we have an old, washed up kicker, who is no better.
Typical Redskins move if you ask me.
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08-28-2012, 10:39 AM
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08-28-2012, 10:41 AM
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Re: Redskins Sign K Billy Cundiff, Release Gano
shocked by the Gano love, but when we let Carlos walk, people rejoiced. strange.
undrafted, statistically poor kicker > probowl corner, for a team in desperate need of secondary help
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08-28-2012, 11:12 AM
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Hall is the opposite. But in any case Carlos was whiffing on plays a lot and relying on Safety help. Better he go to a team that could utilize his skills better. Plus I don't think it was so much all the Redskins choice. Carlos had a big decision in it also and if I remember correctly he thought of leaving once before but stayed. All teams have to budget, look at the Jags and their RB. Carlos's problem was he felt he was not being respected by the team whether that was through money or coaching or playing I'm not sure. |
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08-28-2012, 10:44 AM
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Re: Redskins Sign K Billy Cundiff, Release Gano
I'm not sure you could call this a "typical Redskins move"
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08-28-2012, 10:47 AM
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08-28-2012, 10:57 AM
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08-28-2012, 10:46 AM
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Re: Redskins Sign K Billy Cundiff, Release Gano
The thing with graham gano is that you could never sit back and say "Oh, he's got this one" because he would be streaky. He did improve though last year, but he still wasn't in the top tier of Kickers. Cundiff was, until that playoff miss. We shouldn't worry about him missing playoff field goals for us anytime soon, but we should also treat him like a more experienced Gano. But the one thing I always say about kickers "If you have to rely on them winning the game for you, then you're really not that good of an offense if you can't get TDs"
Now I know that quote is going to get criticized and draw uproar, but the fact of the matter is if your team has been not converting on 3rd and 4th and shorts and has been fumbling, throwing picks and allowing big plays on defense, yet your team is somehow in the game, where a field goal will either tie it or win it, and the kicker misses it, all the blame goes to the kicker instead of the rest of the teams players who missed up earlier big time in the game.
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08-28-2012, 10:49 AM
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What Graziano fails to understand or to point out that both kickers were not asked to do the same thing on kickoffs. Cundiff was allowed to boot it out the back as were the Skins wanted Gano to directional kick it with air so that the coverage team could pin inside the 20. THAT is why there is a difference in the touch backs.
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08-28-2012, 10:52 AM
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Re: Redskins Sign K Billy Cundiff, Release Gano
Definitely can. This is like Dallas getting rid of Flozell Adams for Alex Barron. You get rid of a guy, and replace him with someone who is no better. I'd rather have the younger kicker who looks like he's on the rise.
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08-28-2012, 10:53 AM
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