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[FQDawg]

People who give kickers a hard time on twitter try to actually make field goals. It goes about as well as you'd expect. Hashtag talk is cheap.

 

[Swede39]

Kickers. They have one job. Unbelievable.**

 

[anon1787432961]

I'm sorry but I expect perfection from kickers. Their team is giving up their bodies and have all sorts of injuries. A kicker trots out on the field with a clean jersey and has to do one thing. If you're a professional you owe it to your team to be perfect on kicks. Or get someone else who is.

 

[Swede39]

I'm sorry but I expect perfection from kickers. Their team is giving up their bodies and have all sorts of injuries. A kicker trots out on the field with a clean jersey and has to do one thing. If you're a professional you owe it to your team to be perfect on kicks. Or get someone else who is.

While I hold kickers to a high standard, expecting them to be perfect is not plausible. There's a lot that goes into kicking field goal.

 

[dorndawg]

I'd pay money to watch you attempt an uncontested 25 yard field goal.

 

[Wizard.sixpack]

she has a really strange looking mouth.

 

[Wizard.sixpack]

I have seen the LSU guy tweeting. He talks a lot of smack.

 

[Msubulldogfan1]

I'm sorry but I expect perfection from kickers. Their team is giving up their bodies and have all sorts of injuries. A kicker trots out on the field with a clean jersey and has to do one thing. If you're a professional you owe it to your team to be perfect on kicks. Or get someone else who is.

That’s dumb. That’s the same as saying a QB should never miss a pass, WR miss a catch, LB miss a tackle, etc.

 

[MSUDawgFan86]

Yeah that’s real cute and all but give the average joes an entire lifetime to practice kicking like Parkey. The Bears fans are dumb anyway because the Eagles guy tipped the ball he missed.

 

[UpTheMiddlex3Punt]

When it's your job and you mess up, people have a right to complain about it. If I get a new roof put on my house and it leaks, the roofer did a crappy job of installing it. Sure, I don't know the first 17ing thing about roofing, but it doesn't mean I can't complain about it.

 

[johnson86-1]

I'd pay money to watch you attempt an uncontested 25 yard field goal.

25 yards isn't that hard. That's from the 15. I would think most people who played soccer would handle that uncontested.

I'd be curious whether they had to screen out people that looked like they might have kicked a ball before, or if people who have ever kicked a ball just don't trash kickers in teh same way.

 

[notoriousD_O_G]

When it's your job and you mess up, people have a right to complain about it. If I get a new roof put on my house and it leaks, the roofer did a crappy job of installing it. Sure, I don't know the first 17ing thing about roofing, but it doesn't mean I can't complain about it.

A roof is a lot more important than a field goal and even then if you told a roofer to kill themselves you would be an *******.

 

[rem101]

Not saying 25 yards is hard or easy, but kicking a soccer ball is a whole different world than a football.

 

[dorndawg]

Run go try a couple.

 

[bulldognation]

Considering all the factors that go into a successful kick (snap, hold, angle, direction, pressure, etc etc) it's hard to argue for perfection.

 

[ScrotieMcBoogerBalls]

she has a really strange looking mouth.

You know how I know you're gay?

 

[CookieMonster.sixpack]

When it's your job and you mess up, people have a right to complain about it. If I get a new roof put on my house and it leaks, the roofer did a crappy job of installing it. Sure, I don't know the first 17ing thing about roofing, but it doesn't mean I can't complain about it.

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[Bulldog from Birth]

The equivalent of your roofer comparison would NOT be expecting a functional roof at the end of the job. It would be expecting the roofer to complete the job without ever dropping a shingle or a nail.

 

[HumpDawgy]

I would never think kicking in a packed stadium, on tv, in a pressure situation would ever be easy. These guys didn't even have to worry about the snap, hold, wind direction, or the rush. They were also kicking on a kickoff tee which is easier. That said, all kickers should be "near" perfect on extra points in college. The only exception should be blocks or muffed snaps or holds. Once the kick is up, it should go through the uprights. They should be able to hit a "pop up" and it still carry through the uprights.