Mike Kaye, The Charlotte Observer: "The expectation is that PK Eddy Pineiro will head elsewhere"

[Bear Hands]

haven’t really been a fan of any of our kickers since Kasay. Would be nice to draft one and stick with him.

[OneBadCat]

Thank Christ. He had no distance, no clutch factor. He only made gimme kicks and cost us when the game was on the line multiple times. We need a true franchise kicker.

[VintagePanther]

I don’t think i ever heard of a kicker doing a hold out . Yeah you can bounce ego eddy . 

[Day1PanthersFan]

The only thing I will remember him for is missing 2 easy game winning kicks in overtime at Atlanta 

DJ Moore probably thought we had kicker who could kick further than 15 yards , or he wouldn't have taken his helmet off in celebration 

And that loss ultimately costed us the playoffs, maybe we get blown put by Dallas, but in the NFL you never know 

[Panthero]

Could have had harrison butker. 

[PanthersGTI]

Always tough. Could always use an upgrade there but it really hurts when the replacement doesn't pan out and your signing guys off the street mid-season hoping they work. That bring said, I am on board with grabbing a guy they believe in late in the draft/UDFA. 

[rayzor]

We'll keep Jensen till he retires. He's a presence we need on the team and in the locker room.

Hecker isn't bad. He gets the job done. He can stay. We need another placekicker, though. He's been a little high maintenance.

[MHS831]

I always found it interesting that a kicker would almost be an afterthought.  They determine the outcomes of games nearly as often as the QB.  Yet they are underpaid and asked to perform cold in the most high-pressure situations. Some teams have special team players who make tackles who are higher paid than the kicker.  For example, the Lions just signed Jalen Reeves-Mabin to a 2-year extension worth $8m.  Their kicker, Jake Bates, makes $800K.  Funny, but in college, our kicker practiced on a separate field, until we went to team when he would come up and kick for FG/XP and Kickoff.  Then back to the separate field.  We did not know him.  He did not hang out with us, and we made fun of his skinny body and funny shoes. Then one day, you are down by 2 with 3 seconds left and the ball is sitting on the 30.  The game is riding on this skinny dork with funny shoes.  I think, during my freshman year, he won 3 of our 9 wins.  We should compare the kicker to the closer in baseball, but we don't seem to value him like we should.  I mean, nobody calls a timeout to ice the left guard.

Edited January 23, 2025 by MHS831

[Candler Cat]

15 hours ago, Jon Snow said:

Guess we should look at kickers coming out.

NTTIAWWT

[X-Clown]

14 hours ago, Joe Bear said:

True, but his misses against TB this year were costly.

This, and the Cardinals game likely doesn't go into overtime if he doesn't miss an XP in that one. 

[Ricky Spanish]

12 hours ago, Basbear said:

If no Eddie, then it's a total rebuild, clean house. 

 

*But don't spend a draft pick, UDFA and the FA market is full of decent player that would take much less than any of the big 4 STers.

 

 

You leave JJJ out of your bloodlust.

He is eternal.

[PizzaTheHutt]

[Basbear]

18 hours ago, Camp Fodder said:

I have no issues using a 7th on PK as anyone selected in the 7th has a good chance of being  cut within 2 years

 

You could twist my arm on using that 7th rounder for ST, I just always had a rule about draft picks and not using them on STers.

I will say JJJ was worth one 6th rounder and at that time I called it Marty's worst trade in his career. 

I still prefer using picks even with 7th round odds (like 2%?) for football players. IOL and DB have like a 7% success rate at that point. 

For me it feels like half the kickers and punters were UDFAs. Plus Panthers have holes and depth nearly everywhere(minus OT, OG). 

 

[Basbear]

7 hours ago, Ricky Spanish said:

You leave JJJ out of your bloodlust.

He is eternal.

 

 

Im trying to what's right for Panthers!!

(his flopping made me do this...)