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He has plenty of range left, usually a kicker starts to lose range. He was hitting from 60+ in practice apparently. He’s probably overthinking the misses, you can tell he’s overcompensating from each of the previous misses. Now why it would get to him now after years of it not? It could simply be a combo of the misses and the fact that he feels he has to produce at his age to justify continuing. At the same time he has nothing left to prove. Matt Bryant player at 44, he missed a 50 yarder but his other kicks were fine (including another 50 he made with relative ease), he had no training camp and had to do kickoffs because their other kicker injured his groin. Now you have two choices, you retire (he may), or you work it out (he may). Could they try and talk him out of retiring? Perhaps, especially if there is no immediate option to plug in. I mean look at what happened to the Jets. No doubt they don’t want him to get ahead of himself because he certainly isn’t the only kicker to have had struggles. Gostkowski missed just as many kicks against Miami but wouldn’t feel the same pressure because his team was crushing them. For all you know is he comes out has a perfect game his confidence is back and strings a good streak together like a few years ago when he started bad. I’m sure they remind him of that and he makes the ultimate decision. I’m sure he doesn’t want to hurt his team, but at the same time if it’s a workable issue retiring now could be worse for the team. I’m sure it’s a tough decision and unlike a lot of kickers he’s got a track record of consistency.

He only regresses after the big paycheck is delivered in that scenario He’s too good a backup. He could and should seek to get out of there. I’m sure plenty of teams would take him as a backup.

I think everyone is overlooking the fact Miami also has to play New England. Given the wild ride of Fitz it is entirely possible he outshines Brady in those games.

I’ve wanted Clappy fired since last season. Watching this BS week after week, he can shove “the process”

Lol, this went downhill fast

Even Gregg Williams is outcoaching Clappy. I’m watching the Cleveland game right now. He’s the damn interim. So we’ve got a coach worse than our former coach who is serving as an interim.

Still say they should fire Clappy but I guess everyone likes a losing team

In his defense he looked a bit sore after slipping on the wet turf during pregame warmups. Field conditions looked bad had a few players falling on it. Other issue is the risk of injury worth it? The league isn’t exactly swimming in halfway decent kickers. I’ve watched a ton of games this season and that’s when you realize just how good a pickup Hauschka even was. I’m sure the Seahawks wouldn’t want the risk of losing Janikowski’s long range if they’re going into the playoffs over an injury. What about the 5 guys before him that missed the tackle?

Call me crazy but I would not have cut him. Guaranteed salary is one reason. I’d have made him sit the bench. No one would have signed him next year so you could sign him to a very low heavily performance laden contract. In doing so you could throw him out there as a decoy on certain routes even if he sucks they’ll still cover him. Now someone can try him out for free

I wouldn’t take McCarthy but have zero faith in Clappy

Wrong but hilarious

Hmm this is the Bills... sign him for a 10 year $145 million in guaranteed money in the off season

Jets are so turnover prone it doesn’t hurt to start Peterman and give Allen until after the bye to heal. One guy could be the future, the other guy is setting records that may never be broken in the future (not good ones either).

I’d take Rex over Clappy. Under Rex the players seemed to have enthusiasm the team looks flat under Clappy. Of course the guy does clap when you fumble a ball or throw an interception. I’m not behind him as a fan and if he were my coach and he clapped at my screw up I’d probably deck him.

I forget who we had back then, was it Lee Evans? Anyway I looked it up at one point and he missed half of Fotz’s last season here due to injury Career stats 186 TDS 141 INTs 28541 yard in 138 games and he only started 123 of them. I really wouldn’t consider that that bad.

We had lousy receiving corps back then. You’d have had to get receivers to work with and we’d have saved a lot of draft busts, probably a lot of money. Instead we are left with this mess. Fitz is proven as moderately serviceable with a good receiving corps even behind a marginal line. However he’s had several 400 yard games this year and we’ve had what a bunch of ints from peterman?

Fitz may not be the answer, neither was Tyrod but with Allen hurt either is arguably better than what we are watching now. If Fitz plays 2/3 of the next two seasons or continues to throw 4tds a game he’s going to be very close to Jim Kelly’s numbers by the time he hangs them up. I think the the point is it’s hard to put much worse on the field at this point. Hopefully Allen is healed up soon because if we’re gonna lose he’s wasting practice time.

Keep in mind I’m not discounting Allen at the moment. I’m talking about all these interims. By this point in his career I’d have expected Fitz to be mentoring Allen but prepared to fill in in the case of injury like we have now. With a few good receivers he’s putting up 3-4tds behind a pretty lousy line. Nothing would ever have prevented the Bills from getting some receivers and building a line.

We’ve done no better at the QB position. I kind of wonder what he’d have been like behind a good line with a few good receivers. He doesn’t look bad in Tampa with no real running game and a pretty bad line.

The Bills need to build a floating open air stadium on the waterfront near the old Bethlehem steel site.

Age is but a number. As long as he’s fast and can grab a ball, even if they have to throw someone on him to cover him it’ll at least make things more confounding for other defenses.

I see zero harm in working him out. Our receivers are such garbage I can’t see any single way he’d be worse. Even if you’ve gotta do a veteran minimum incentive contract just let the guy play if he wants.

You can’t score TDs so we have to play a strategic game of field position. The idea to pin the opponent back so you can immediately kick a FG, just can’t let the other team out of Hauschka’s range and we can completely eliminate the need for an offense entirely.

This is true. If the season is toast and Allen is hurt he could still become a serviceable backup. Confidence can be shaken and it can also be regained, read some of Adam Vinatieri’s career, he got close to being cut and now will finish with a probably insurmountable pinnacle. I suggested this earlier or yesterday, it’s a gamble. I mean at this point who really cares? TO says he wants to play sign him to a veterans minimum worst case he retires, good chance he is still better then Kelvin Benjamin.

I wanted coach Clappy McDumbass gone the moment he clapped when we fumbled a ball, missed a FG, threw an INT etc. their play calling is boring and ineffective. He had his time in my mind and should have been let go this morning.