Keep Joey Slye?

[ForMac]

What do you think Carolina Huddle? Have we seen enough from a rookie kicker with a huge leg to commit for another season? 

He definitely had a string of chokes and bad kicks earlier in the season. He seems to have stabled out later in the year, but when there's no real pressure, does that matter? 

Graham Gano even if he returns to form is expensive. We also just brought in kicking competition. How highly do you value touchbacks and 50/50ish on game winners? 

My personal opinion is we do another kicking competition. Cut Gano (cap hit/age), even if healthy. Then develope Joey Slye whom is already a touchback expert, and hope he can become as accurate as Gano. At a fraction of the salary and age for a few seasons. 

 

[janderson20vt]

Can going back in time and keeping Butker be and option?

[Tepper's Chest Hair]

They signed a kicker today to a futures contract, meaning he will be at the 90 person camp.  Elliot Fry.  He's probably the polar opposite of Slye.  He is considered having a "weaker" leg (while still kicking touchbacks and 48 yarders), but being accurate.  He was in the Bears "Kicking Competition", where they started with 10 kickers, and he made it down to 2 remaining.

[LinvilleGorge]

Bring him to camp but I think there's 100% chance of a legit kicking competition in camp next year. 

[Untouchable]

Right now yes.  Gano cut and Slye definitely in camp next season.

[Ncpantherfan71]

I do not understand some of you.  Y'all say Ganope, but want to keep the kicker who missed more kicks than Gano in his worst year?  

I would like a better kicker, but Sly is not the answer, unless the plan is to suck for a few years and get better draft picks.

[blackcat]

Does it matter?  I mean, Tre Boston is going to form a Super Team to compete for championships.

[PantherPhann89]

Hmm, he was 25 of 32, but we are in rebuild. 

[Tepper's Chest Hair]

Something to remember, Slye was asked to kick nearly twice as many 50+ yarders than Gano was ever asked in a single year.  Most 50+ attempts Gano had was 6.  Syle went 8-11.

Slye has 22 kicks from 40+.  Going 16-22.  One single time Gano kicked as many from 40+.  He went 17-23.  With 17 of those in the 40-49 range.

I am not advocating for keeping Slye over Gano.  Only showing that just looking at his total misses isn't the full picture.  This year we put Slye in a horrible position as a kicker.  He was going to miss more than normal just because of the fact as soon as we hit mid field we were apparently in field goal range.  Combined with an offense that regularly sputtered out..it wasn't going to be pretty.

[MurkN]

14 minutes ago, Ncpantherfan71 said:

I do not understand some of you.  Y'all say Ganope, but want to keep the kicker who missed more kicks than Gano in his worst year?  

I would like a better kicker, but Sly is not the answer, unless the plan is to suck for a few years and get better draft picks.

Gano's first full 16 game season as a kicker he went 24-35 (68.6%) and missed all 3 of his 50+ yard attempts.

[thefuzz]

Cut Gano tomorrow morning, don't really care who the kicker is moving forward, so long as he's cheap.

[Ivan The Awesome]

Yup. He helped get that #7. Also younger, cheaper. Just keep the kid. Gano has missed plenty of important kicks for the panthers as well. Slye can hit 50 yarders though, and get touchbacks. 

[GoobyPls]

Slye leads the league in fg over 50 yards, he like a poors man Seabass where’s he’s better from far than close 

[Ncpantherfan71]

2 minutes ago, MurkN said:

Gano's first full 16 game season as a kicker he went 24-35 (68.6%) and missed all 3 of his 50+ yard attempts.

Ok, you got me, I did not look up to make sure.

My point is still the same, Sly is not the answer.  We are not going to have a good team the next several years, a consistent kicker will be very important.