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Kicker Market?

TylerDurden

By TylerDurden,
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Idk why he was short... looked like he was out kicking a chip shot instead of a 52 yarder. This guy's not a bad FG kicker, chill the hell out. The blocked FG was a missed block by Shockey.

I know why he was short. BC he sucks. Kasay still has the leg for that kick and he would have made it and the one earlier that Mare kicked right into the line.

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I refer to my thread started last week: http://www.carolinahuddle.com/forum/carolina-panthers/68908-why-did-we-let-go-of-kasay.html

Today only supported my arguement. We haven't been kicking those 50+ FGs because Mare doesn't have the leg. Kasay made 55 last year for us and 53 this year. He would've made this FG. But supposedly Mare has a stronger leg. The facts don't support that claim.

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Idk why he was short... looked like he was out kicking a chip shot instead of a 52 yarder. This guy's not a bad FG kicker, chill the hell out. The blocked FG was a missed block by Shockey.

Mare isn't a soccer-style kicker like Kasay. His kicks will always look like chip shots.

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Only reason to hate Mare is he isn't Kasey.

Dude has been fine.

I don't hate him, but I think this was our worst investment of the offseason. And no, it's not because of Kasay...

I probably hold the Superbowl kick out of bounds against Kasay just as much as anyone... I appreciate what he did while he was here, but I had been waiting for us to get a solid kicker out of college to take his place for probably the last 5 years.

I didn't think we would sign a guy 3 or 4 years younger than him just b/c he could kick it into the endzone.

We've passed up multiple opportunities to kick FGs that were in Kasay's range this year and then today he gets blocked for kicking it low on a 30+ yarder and kicks it too high on the next one and misses the crossbar.

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