In Hindsight, Still Think Keeping Gano over Butker was a Huge Mistake.

[raleigh-panther]

Gano also has age and injury not on his side

he was questionable this week

I still don't trust him under pressure. His history in DC proceeds here

but he is all we have and KC got a great young prospect who is producing for nothing 

[MasterAwesome]

1 hour ago, Castavar said:

How can you be clearly outplayed by someone if you don't even get a chance? There was no competition because the coaches already had their mind made up before training camp.

And no, this is not a "hindsight is 20/20" situation. Pretty much everybody wanted to keep Butker over Gano because, like you said, he was cheaper and younger. It was an easy decision then and it would still be an easy decision now if we had to do it again. Not to mention the dumbass decision to keep Palardy over Lee.

Clearly outplayed in Training Camp*, I thought that was implied. 

 

Cheaper and younger? Is that the only criteria that matters? You wanna roll the dice and cut your vet kicker in favor of a guy who was missing tons of kicks in practice? He was a big question mark so no it’s not an easy decision because he’s simply younger and cheaper.

[Castavar]

23 minutes ago, MasterAwesome said:

Clearly outplayed in Training Camp*, I thought that was implied. 

 

Cheaper and younger? Is that the only criteria that matters? You wanna roll the dice and cut your vet kicker in favor of a guy who was missing tons of kicks in practice? He was a big question mark so no it’s not an easy decision because he’s simply younger and cheaper.

It was not that hard of a decision. You either go with a top 3 overpaid kicker that chokes in big situations, or go with the rookie who could give you the same production for a fraction of the price while also being younger. Not to mention Gano is a FA after this season and will either be overpaid or let go. That alone should have been more than enough to keep Butker. And don't even get me started on that dumbass decision of Palardy over Lee.

[MasterAwesome]

52 minutes ago, Castavar said:

It was not that hard of a decision. You either go with a top 3 overpaid kicker that chokes in big situations, or go with the rookie who could give you the same production for a fraction of the price while also being younger. Not to mention Gano is a FA after this season and will either be overpaid or let go. That alone should have been more than enough to keep Butker. And don't even get me started on that dumbass decision of Palardy over Lee.

What if Butker turned out to be another Roberto Aguayo? Regardless of how bad Gano was last year, you can still have considerably worse.

And I’ve never mentioned anything about Palardy or Lee.

[csx]

I would have been fine with keeping Butker as a gamble for the future but every single person who covered camp said Gano had run a way with it and it wasn't close. There was no debate among those who saw them whatsoever.

[csx]

Palardy over Lee was the correct move using the same criteria of price vs performance. 

[DaveThePanther2008]

Maybe it is the fact that I wanted to keep him over Gano, not that I hate Gano but though Butker was as good and younger.

That said it appears to me the ball explodes off his foot.  Like I said it might be for those reasons but I like how he kicks.