He does have a strong enough leg to have made the kicks last week. Does anyone have indoor/outdoor numbers for him? Maybe the roof being open threw him off? I don't care to make excuses but Bullock will at least give us a high draft pick.
the 5th round pick is a sunk cost at this point. you can't get it back. you don't keep a guy because you made a mistake on him...particularly if he's terrible. I don't see upside here...there's not upside just because a guy is young. He's put together the worst half-season performance for a kicker since 1985.
ahhhhhhhhhhhhh....i'm fine with that i guess. I just don't think that's why the decision makers are holding on at this point. It's either because they want Kubiak's input first....which I get.... or it's because Texans gonna Texan. And they can't bring themselves to make decisions that involve change unless they're absolutely, positively forced to...even when everyone else in the world can see the change is necessary.
Smith doesn't want to look bad. Apparently in practice the kids automatic. He just has the mental makeup equivalent to Jonathan Martin.
Where is Andrew Shapiro hanging out now? He had a solid preseason and I'm sure he would be more effective than Fat Randy.
Heard the opposite about him during training camp. Jerome Solomon said the guy was missing all the time, and that he asked the Texans then if they were concerned. Smith's gonna look a lot worse if he doesn't bring someone else in.
Hit your "what" against the wall? Your wife? Your manhood??? Your kneecap? Your fist? Your puppy? Just how mad does it make you?
To be fair, this isn't on him solely. Most of his kicks get into the end zone, but if you played the Texans would you kneel it? You get to the 30 or better almost every time if you return against us, even if it is from the back of the end zone.
Any other team in the league, this guy's cut. Why do the Texans keep him around when other teams would have moved on long ago? The same can be said for Schaub and Kubiak, why do they get so invested in things other than wins and losses when other franchises do not?
What other game would we have won with better kicking? He missed a kick against San Diego but we won. He missed one against Tennessee that kept us from winning in regulation, but we still won in OT. He missed one against SF but you can't put the blame squarely on him for a 34-3 loss. And he made all his kicks against Seattle, St. Louis, Baltimore, and KC. He could have cost us the SD and Tennessee games, but this game against Indy is the only where he really did cost us the game.
Not really. I've seen some go mid-zone (which should be returnable), and I've seen some come short. Occasionally he booms one. Kickers with "big legs" tend to ALWAYS boom them, when they want to. He's inconsistent on making good contact on the kickoffs just like he is on FG's. Also, last year he couldn't get the ball close to the end zone in pre-season (even when he was "healthy").
If we have to suffer for one season to get rid of Schaub and Kubiak, so be it. As it turns out, games in Dec will be meaningful after all, just not in a way I had hoped.
Now they're saying they've adjusted something in his technique. SMH If that's the case, why didn't that happen earlier in the season and why is Marciano not being held accountable?
