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Has anyone actually seen rhys kick a field goal?

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From his wiki:

"He was named the NFL Europa special teams player of the week in week 3 by tying the league record for the longest field goal in League history with a 56 yarder."

"Lloyd signed with the Baltimore Ravens again as a free agent in 2007 and made an impressive 55 yard field goal in the Ravens preseason finale against Atlanta"

Also, I remember during last year's training camp they were saying he practiced as backup FG kicker and was booting them through the uprights from 50+ yards out.

In the end, we really don't know, he hasn't been given a chance recently so, he could be amazing or he could be dismal.

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So you don't think the Panthers have ever bothered to try Rhys out @ kicking field goals.

I'm sure they have, but we have no way of knowing if he's good or not.

Basing a conclusion on whether or not he's a good FG kicker by the simple fact that the Panthers haven't used him in a game at that position would be doing him a disservice.

Plus, we know that the coaches have favored vet's over potentially talented younger players regardless of which player is actually better. I can think of at least one big example of that in recent years ... ;)

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ive seen him hit it at 55 yards during pre game warm ups as a panther but hes never kicked a field goal for us.. idk why he seems really good during warms up even tho in collage he sorta sucked

Seen him do that numerous times, think I saw him hit a 60-61 yarder once.

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Seen him do that numerous times, think I saw him hit a 60-61 yarder once.

This, and how he and Kasay parallel the Delhomme/Moore sage worry me.

He may be pricey at a $1mill tender but I feel as though we may be letting a very good all around kicker go...

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I'm sure they have, but we have no way of knowing if he's good or not.

Basing a conclusion on whether or not he's a good FG kicker by the simple fact that the Panthers haven't used him in a game at that position would be doing him a disservice.

Plus, we know that the coaches have favored vet's over potentially talented younger players regardless of which player is actually better. I can think of at least one big example of that in recent years ... ;)

I'm going to take a leap of faith and assume the Panthers willingness to lose him is a direct result of their evaluation as to his ability to kick FG's.

Kasay may be "Mr. Panther" but he's old enough that the bottom could drop out at any minute.

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I'm going to take a leap of faith and assume the Panthers willingness to lose him is a direct result of their evaluation as to his ability to kick FG's.

Kasay may be "Mr. Panther" but he's old enough that the bottom could drop out at any minute.

I'd like to believe this as well, but there could be other factors, money not the least of them.

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