The forgotten elephant in the room

[RumHam]

Slye. Game wouldn't have been close. Better be a fluke. Its my fault for saying he gets more pussy than minshew

[Pimpdaddy]

wouldnt have been close if we converted on 4th and nothing to close the 3rd qtr...

[KillerKat]

Wouldn't have been close if Williams could block

[Castavar]

The blocking concerned me more than Slye did. First one was blocked. Second one was about to be blocked if Slye kicked it straight. XP was his only legit miss. That left side was getting blasted all game. Daryl Williams has no business being around ANYTHING that needs to be blocked. Then you have Calais Campbell tall big ass coming up the middle. I'll be worried if it continues next week, but the Bucs don't have a 6'8 MF coming up the middle to block FGs.

[LinvilleGorge]

Given his sporadic reliability in college I'm definitely concerned, but our FG blocking was trash. The first one got blocked and I think the pressure impacted the second one too. Had he not pulled it that one very well may have been blocked too.

[App Panther]

Door just opened for Gano.

[SBiii]

1 minute ago, App Panther said:

Door just opened for Gano.

He's not coming back.  Plant knee is shot.

[PleaseCutStewart]

When the left half of the o-line forgets how to block on both of his FG misses, I'm not sure any kicker would have nailed either of them

[GoPanthers123]

This OLine doesn’t even allow time to snap the ball for a kick.  I hope he is not streaky. 

[ForJimmy]

Slye is fine. We just gave to block and keep guys out of his kicking lane just like any other kicker in the league. 

[dave-o]

The 56 yarder doesnt bother me...  PAT is a different story....

[TheMaulClaw]

Not really worried. On the kick he missed...would have been blocked if he would have kicked straight. I think since the rush on all the field goals came from the left he had to keep forcing right. I think that messed with him on the PAT.  Another game or two and I'll be concerned.

[332nd]

50 minutes ago, Castavar said:

The blocking concerned me more than Slye did. First one was blocked. Second one was about to be blocked if Slye kicked it straight. XP was his only legit miss. That left side was getting blasted all game. Daryl Williams has no business being around ANYTHING that needs to be blocked. Then you have Calais Campbell tall big ass coming up the middle. I'll be worried if it continues next week, but the Bucs don't have a 6'8 MF coming up the middle to block FGs.

This. We've stumbled onto two young players that have shown a lot of promise, & we might not even be able to see where they end up, because the crappy pass & ST blocking is going to have them hearing footsteps in their sleep.

[MHS831]

Folks, when you have a strong legged kicker, you lose accuracy.  We get the 56 yard FGs, and at times, we will miss the 40 yard kicks.  We don't even need a kickoff team.  He is going to be a career 80-85% kicker.  To do that, you have to miss a few.

A long FG is blockable because you drive the bottom third of the ball.  On a shorter FG, you drive the bottom quarter.  Like the difference between a seven iron and a three iron.   Three irons are lower.