Billy Cundiff Cut, replaced by Kai Forbath

[skinsfan1993]

I missed the game but read his kick offs were a bit short. Did he have any touchbacks? How far on average was he kicking the kick offs?

he had at least three touchbacks, i dont see what the big deal is here

[dahibachi]

he had at least three touchbacks, i dont see what the big deal is here

yeah, i could really care less about the touchbacks, as long as Kai can be depended upon to make his FGs. Although I find it funny that Kai easily made a 50 yarder that would have been good from 60 and come up short on his kickoffs more often then not, but Billy Cundiff can boom them through the back of the endzone and struggles to hit the distance necessary for 50+ yard FGs.

[rskin72]

Forbath came out and hit his first fg fm 49 yds that cundiff would not have had a chance on. It made the score 9-3 and gave us momentum. He did have some touchbacks.....but not because the ball went out of the end zone on the fly. The vikings kicker, by contrast, hit every kickoff out of the rear of the end zone. Harvin had a couple of nice runbacks from the end zone....the kicks fro forbath were not short, but not out of the end zone either. Later, it looked like forbath was told to kick to one side of the end zone or the other kind of like gano used to do.

Only one game, but forbath may be a keeper.

[HailToTheRedskins14]

Cult of Kai initiated.

[BruinSkin]

LOL another bad decsion by Shanny IMO.. So you replace a kicker,with another kicker who has never played in a regular season game? Right this makes sense...This guy will probably be cut after the Vikes game.

How's that prediction working out for ya?

[Warhead36]

That 50 yarder he made was big, even if it was early. If he misses it the Vikes are up 9 with great field position.

He had a few short kickoffs though.

[MontanaSkins]

Even I didn't realize the effect these field goals can have on the team as a whole. You can't deny the difference in momentum from last weeks short miss and this weeks long make.

I hope we found a keeper.

[Mr. Sinister]

He is the Supreme Kai (borrowed from Dragonball Z)

[GoDeep81]

Maybe with a little technique he can start getting it through the end zone on a regular basis? Odd that he can 3 step a 50+ yarder, but can't nail touchbacks, when Cundiff was the exact opposite.. (Im not sure Smith is the man to teach him anything though, but hopefully he'll get better..) He nailed a couple, so it's possible.. Hell, if teams does their job you can usually get em' behind the 20 anyway.. Still playin with fire though, especially with our outstanding teams/coach.. :P

[Warhead36]

Maybe with a little technique he can start getting it through the end zone on a regular basis? Odd that he can 3 step a 50+ yarder, but can't nail touchbacks, when Cundiff was the exact opposite.. (Im not sure Smith is the man to teach him anything though, but hopefully he'll get better..) He nailed a couple, so it's possible.. Hell, if teams does their job you can usually get em' behind the 20 anyway.. Still playin with fire though, especially with our outstanding teams/coach.. :P

The problem is he line drives his kickoffs. They barely get to the endzone and they're low so the coverage unit is in a bad spot. Even a couple of his touchbacks were low kicks that just barely got over Harvin's head and bounced out of the back of the end zone.

He's just gotta get them a little higher and a couple yards farther back. With our coverage team, a good kick 5 yards into the EZ should hold teams to the 20 or thereabouts.

[elkabong82]

Cult of Kai initiated.

more like Cobra Kai Dojo open enrollment

[No_Pressure]

Anyone who wants to join the dojo, feel free to employ this forum sig

[youngchew]

more like Cobra Kai Dojo open enrollment

Sign me up!

[Metaldrumz]

I was being sarcastic, guess that is lost here on a message board too often.

Oh ok. My apologies. Guess I should have asked first.

[gbear]

Given that he did not kick off in college, I thought he did a good job on all fronts yesterday.