Suisham released, Gano new kicker

[drew54]

Suisham was a cool guy it appears from all the videos/ interviews we saw/heard in training camp.

Sadly his kick off skills were lacking too and that had to be figured into his getting cut.

[GTripp0012]

Suisham has had bad kick off years in the past, but this year, his kickoffs were one of the only bright spots on our special teams. Of course, if Gano can boot it (and if he can, I'm not sure why he wasn't in the league already), that might continue.

[KLHJ2]

I am starting to wonder is Gano does shitty down the line are we going to nickname him Guano?

[MTK]

18 of 21 on the year is pretty damn good, however the 3 misses were killer, I understand that. The timing is just odd. The team is going nowhere, why not cut him after the season? Maybe this Gano kid is a find... but I have a feeling we can add kicker to the offseason wish list. It just feels like a scapegoat kind of move is all.

[mlmdub130]

Originally Posted by Mattyk72

18 of 21 on the year is pretty damn good, however the 3 misses were killer, I understand that. The timing is just odd. The team is going nowhere, why not cut him after the season? Maybe this Gano kid is a find... but I have a feeling we can add kicker to the offseason wish list. It just feels like a scapegoat kind of move is all.

exactly we have had problems with shushi for a while always have competitions in the offseason he wins, but then during games his kickoffs are dreadful and he misses clutch kick

i think getting a new guy in there to see what he can do in real games lis a good move, theres nothing saying this guy will be the answer but give him a shot and see what he has. we really have nothing to lose

[sportscurmudgeon]

While everyone here is bashing Suisham and glorifying Gano, might I take just a moment to point out that another perennial whipping boy for folks around here had this one right before anyone here saw it coming.


ProFootball Talk had Gano coming in for a workout and some folks did the typical kneejerk to that report and scoffed that PFT would ever get anything right.


OK, back to the Suisham bashing and the canonization of St Graham of Gano ...

[skins89moss]

Originally Posted by Mattyk72

18 of 21 on the year is pretty damn good, however the 3 misses were killer, I understand that. The timing is just odd. The team is going nowhere, why not cut him after the season? Maybe this Gano kid is a find... but I have a feeling we can add kicker to the offseason wish list. It just feels like a scapegoat kind of move is all.

When all you do is get paid to make a kick during a football game then you better well make them. Defense and Offense players battle all game and sometimes it comes down to a game winning kick to decide after both teams played their butts off while the kicker gets to watch them. If he can't make the pressure kicks than he has to go now. Next season we can not continue to have a kicker that chokes under pressure and short kickoffs. He blew 2 kicks against Dallas and 1 against the Saints which would have been enough to win the game.

[Bucket]

Kickoffs were beautiful. Inside the 2-goaline/endzone and inside the leftside numbers. Left no room for the returner to run.

[Monkeydad]

Graham Gano


Looks like an upgrade to me.

[TIFOSOdeiREDSKINS]

it had to be done. kinda like the end of old yeller. except in our case we've been wanting to shoot the fucking dog for 3 weeks and will be celebrating at the local watering hole after the deed is done.

[rbanerjee23]

Ahahaha, I know I shouldn't laugh but its amazing he made it to tuesday

[53Fan]

Interesting...Suisham actually has the highest percentage of FG's in Redskins history with a minimum of 100 kicks at 80%. 2nd? Chip Lohmiller at 71.4%.

[Monkeydad]

Originally Posted by 53Fan

Interesting...Suisham actually has the highest percentage of FG's in Redskins history with a minimum of 100 kicks at 80%. 2nd? Chip Lohmiller at 71.4%.

Look at his accuracy on longer kicks and how many game-losing chokes he's had...not to forget about kickoffs out of bounds.

I was also shocked to hear this, but with the way the offense has been taking it inside the red zone to settle for FGs, it's no surprise that he is making so many, they're all chip shots.

Look at this year:

8/9 from 0-29 yards
5/6 from 30-39
5/5 from 40-49
0/1 from 50+

Last year:

7/7 from 0-29 yards
7/9 from 30-39
11/16 from 40-49
1/4 from 50+


^That's a lot of misses and 1/5 on long FGs in the last 2 years. There were a lot of instances where we knew he couldn't hit a long FG so we gave up all points and punted.

[wilsowilso]

Well deserved Suisham! You earned it buddy.

[Bigreds77]

Maybe Hall should of been released at Carolina when he could not stopped a slow QB from making a first down. Or the other DBs that get burnt by fifty yards.