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13 hours ago, abstract_thought said:

His college stats aren't too good but who knows with kickers...

Player A - FG 39/61 63.9% PAT 115/121 95%

Player B - FG 55/79 69.6% PAT 198/204 97.1%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Player A is Robbie, Player B is Blewitt. Sometimes you have to ignore college stats for kickers

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15 minutes ago, HuskieBear said:

Player A - FG 39/61 63.9% PAT 115/121 95%

Player B - FG 55/79 69.6% PAT 198/204 97.1%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Player A is Robbie, Player B is Blewitt. Sometimes you have to ignore college stats for kickers

I have always been of the opinion that no kicker who makes the NFL can't kick or is even bad at it...it's all about the mental jump that has to be made...a lot of guys just don't have the right makeup...as funny has his name is if he gets the job done no one will care...that said I do hope we draft someone or at least add the best UDFA K we can.

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1 hour ago, Madmike90 said:

I have always been of the opinion that no kicker who makes the NFL can't kick or is even bad at it...it's all about the mental jump that has to be made...a lot of guys just don't have the right makeup...as funny has his name is if he gets the job done no one will care...that said I do hope we draft someone or at least add the best UDFA K we can.

I have often talked about how NFL OL, while still top .01% of athletes are still lower end of top of top because of how coaches at lower levels pick positions.  A lot of guys could be good NFL O linemen, but they played D line or Tight end instead and weren't quite good enough for that.

Kicker is kind of weird because not like best athletes in high school are trying to be kickers.  Kicker is usually the guy who starts doing it in little league because he was only one who could at time and he just kept practicing at it so he keeps the gig through high school.  Vast majority of athletes never try kicking field goals with any seriousness.  As field narrows best of these into college you actually get some good ones just because of relatively large sample.  But it isn't nearly what it could be with more participants.    

Lots of guys from this group are accurate and nail 35 - 40 yarders all day.  That is years of practice and skill.  Thing is most fairly athletic men can achieve that feat with years of practice.  I have kicked 35 yarders just goofing around pre-practice as a coach and I am nothing special, not that I could do it with pressure and regularity.    

Sample size gets smaller because NFL wants accuracy combined with power.  They want you to be able to kick it to end zone or alternatevily kick it high to 1 yard line AND be able maintain accuracy through goal posts at around 52 yards with consistency.  Those guys are rare because it takes years of practice AND well above average athletic ability or at least leg strength.

Again if NFL teams cared they could develop great kickers simply by identifying strong legged soccer players not quite good enough to be large money making professionals and paying them and teaching them for a year or so in a specialized program for that purpose.  Talent pool would be so much higher.  They don't do it because they never really felt they had to.  Always been able to find college kickers just good enough to get job done.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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He's been getting extended coaching since he graduated and won a kicking competition where he was being coached so signing makes sense.

It's only my imagining the headline of the Monday morning Trib the first time he misses a game winner that make this so funny.

It's gonna look like BLEW......ITT.

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3 minutes ago, dll2000 said:

Again if NFL teams cared they could develop great kickers simply by identifying strong legged soccer players not quite good enough to be large money making professionals and paying them and teaching them for a year or so in a specialized program for that purpose.  Talent pool would be so much higher.  They don't do it because they never really felt they had to.  Always been able to find college kickers just good enough to get job done.

 

Seems like that's what the outfit Blewitt has been working with in AZ does specializing in working with PK, Punters, and Long Snappers and Blewitt won a competition there so signing him makes sense.  We need legs in competition with each other may the best man win.  That's how we ended up with Gould.

I placed kicked one year in HS when I was 16.  Up to 40 yards was OK.  Not that hard.  I made 3 of 4 FGs with the longest being 38 yards IIRC.  The miss was a shorter kick but into a strong headwind and it hit the cross bar and fell short.  Never even tried over 40 yards in a game.

Beyond 40 yards is much tougher if you want to get enough loft to avoid getting blocked and not coincidentally that's where Parkey was least accurate and of course his 40 yard plus kick against Philly was partially blocked.  To me it's kind like golf.  You need a lot of practice to develop a groove that's consistent.  But like golf what's in your head is more important than what's in your leg.  IMHO that's where many of these guys fail.

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1 minute ago, soulman said:

 

Seems like that's what the outfit Blewitt has been working with in AZ does specializing in working with PK, Punters, and Long Snappers and Blewitt won a competition there so signing him makes sense.  We need legs in competition with each other may the best man win.  That's how we ended up with Gould.

I placed kicked one year in HS when I was 16.  Up to 40 yards was OK.  Not that hard.  I made 3 of 4 FGs with the longest being 38 yards IIRC.  The miss was a shorter kick but into a strong headwind and it hit the cross bar and fell short.  Never even tried over 40 yards in a game.

Beyond 40 yards is much tougher if you want to get enough loft to avoid getting blocked and not coincidentally that's where Parkey was least accurate and of course his 40 yard plus kick against Philly was partially blocked.  To me it's kind like golf.  You need a lot of practice to develop a groove that's consistent.  But like golf what's in your head is more important than what's in your leg.  IMHO that's where many of these guys fail.

Outfit should recruit, make it free to really talented guys or small cost and take a commission on future earnings.  Not a bad business to start.

 

 

 

 

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24 minutes ago, dll2000 said:

Outfit should recruit, make it free to really talented guys or small cost and take a commission on future earnings.  Not a bad business to start.

 

 

 

 

Here's the story on Blewitt and the outfit he's been training with.  He and Redford Jones have both worked with place.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/football/bears/ct-spt-bears-kicker-chris-blewitt-tryout-20190306-story.html

 

Kohl started his professional camps in 2000 and now works with kickers, punters and long snappers across the country. He counted 62 former campers on NFL rosters at the start of training camp last August. While his business is primarily designed to coach high school athletes and create exposure for players seeking college scholarships, he also works with professionals and said nearly 100 free agents or draft-eligible specialists participated in last month’s event.

NFL rules prohibit teams from attending the event because draft-eligible players are present, but the camp makes live streams available and the Bears took an interest in the event.

“We’ve worked for 20 years to build a reputation where coaches will listen to us,” said Kohl, who compiles national rankings of high school specialists for ESPN. “Part of what we have tried to establish is a trust factor that if we get to know guys and work with them and so on, that they will actually pay attention.”

Kohl worked with Parkey previously and has spent time with Jones.

“I remember Redford when he was in high school and saw him his early years at Tulsa,” Kohl said. “I haven’t seen Redford personally in probably two to three years, but he’s obviously done a nice job getting noticed by Chicago.”

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15 hours ago, beardown3231 said:

The Bears could sign someone named Gaylord Cockandboner and as long as he could make kicks, I wouldn't give a flying ****, so if Blewitt is the guy and he's a good K for the next 7 years here, I'll be ecstatic.

 

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7 hours ago, RunningVaccs said:

The jerseys... I need the jerseys

 

17 hours ago, beardown3231 said:

The Bears could sign someone named Gaylord Cockandboner and as long as he could make kicks, I wouldn't give a flying ****, so if Blewitt is the guy and he's a good K for the next 7 years here, I'll be ecstatic.

 

Well, he'd probably be the first player in NFL history to be required to wear blackout tape over his name.  LOL

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