Who are possible replacements for Cundiff? (My vote: Kai Forbath) Edit: Kai signs with team!

[skinsfan07]

At this point they should just make the job a give away. First 100 fans to the stadium get a tryout, best one wins the job. Would have to be better than Cundiff.

Where do I sign up?!?

[Gibbs Hog Heaven]

This. Gano had his chance here and he wasn't very good either. Not as bad as Cundiff, but I still don't think we should bring him back. Let's have Rackers, Kasay and Forbath come in and try out.

Pretty much.

Either take a flyer on a young guy to develop, and stick with him. Or bring in a proven vet. to compliment RGIII and look again in the off-season for the long term.

Retreading the Gano path is utterly pointless. To say he's better than Cundiff isn't saying very much.

Hail.

[Mad Mike]

All I know is that when I saw him smiling as Dany Smith was talking to him after the play (apparently asking what went wrong), I wanted to beat him down and shove a football down his throat. Between that and his comment after the game that his missed kick didn't matter to the outcome because they lost by 4, this looser cant be shown the door fast enough.

[Lombardi's_kid_brother]

Kai Forbath sounds like a name George Lucas would have come up with.

[TheDane]

I nominate

Max Zendejas of the Kicking Zendejases
or
Ali Haji Sheikh

[Skinz4Life12]

What's Cooley doing?

its sad that you are probably serious

[BRAVEONTHEWARPATH93]

I literally seen people mention Cooley as a replacement for every injury/cut we've had...

you guys need help

[mudhog]

its sad that you are probably serious

Oh, come on... Cooley could of made that kick. Plus, if he misses...Hey, it's Cooley. We still love him.

[santana_4_prez]

Ocho Cinco has a pretty good leg, and we could have some sweet swinging gate plays. And celebrations would be a +1.

[Hunter_R]

I'm hoping this somehow catches the attention of the front office. (Hey, it happened with the Memphis Grizzlies signing of Gilbert Arenas, so why not?)

Kai Forbath - 2009 Lou Groza award winner.

9-13 from 50+ yards in his career at UCLA.

He spent the entire 2011 year on IR in Dallas.

In the 2012 preseason, he was 5-5 including 2 from 40-49 and 2 from 50+. Ultimately, it was always Connor Barth's job, so he didn't have a chance to make the team.

Who are some young, available free agents we could bring in to replace Cundiff?

Forbath was also a pretty good punter from what we saw in the preseason game against the Bucs.

[Skins4SB]

Ocho Cinco has a pretty good leg, and we could have some sweet swinging gate plays. And celebrations would be a +1.

Ochocinco wouldn't kick the ball though. He'd perform a diving headbutt.

[goskinsgo2007]

I vote for Kathy Ireland to be our new kicker

[The Robert Griffin Experience]

ABC or G.

ANYBODY but Cundiff or Gano.

Hail.

Do we have to rehash this **** again?

Graham Gano is a good NFL kicker with one of the strongest legs in the NFL, who was hamstrung by Danny Smith's awful directional kicking strategy and his inability to field a decent blocking unit.


I guess I'll have to repost this again.

Very, very few kickers can make a kick when their blockers get pushed 5 yards into their face off the snap.



Look where the LoS is.



Look where Red Bryant is when the FG gets blocked.

The whole hatred of Gano was never actually based in actual facts, just emotion and frustration. The facts say Gano is a good kicker who was nearly perfect from 48 in, barely missed one from 49 and the rest of his misses were from 50+. And the fact that he's still working hard and staying in shape gives me a lot of confidence about his mental state and toughness. My only concern is the back issue, but if he's healthy, I am for him until he proves he can't play.

Bring Gano back now.

[UKskins]

Great post RG Exp. That's exactly what I've been saying.

[RandyHolt]

This is how I feel sometimes. Our kickers are never automatic, and everybody else just seems to be that way. It's very frustrating.

Adding on that, their punters just seem to crush balls. No real complaints with our punter, just ours get blocked, and we dont ever go for the block. We set up the return, which doesn't seem to work out either.

Sometimes, the grass is just always greener. Or when you get green grass, it burns out and needs reseeding.

I think we should bring back Rackers or Gano, but someone would have to take the I was wrong pill.

I wonder how well Danny Smith handles kickers. In their ear all game, proper drill work; something is not right.

Has the now decades old trend to move to soccer style vs toe kickers been proven out stat wise? I would almost swear Knight Mosley and Lohmiller (honorable Mention, Steve Cox) had as good of accuracy and distance as any of our modern day kickers. who have the luxury of turf and domes more often than not.