Jumping Bill signs with NYG

[Evil Ash]

By the way, I had forgotten about this until I read it this morning, but do you guys remember who handled kickoffs in the game after Gramatica hurt himself?

That would be Pat Tillman (RIP), he used to play soccer so he thought he could handle kicking the ball off. He wasn't too good at it though

 

[jerryp]

Billy will be competing with Matt Bryant, who converted only 78.6% of his field goals in 2003. Tom Coughlin goes through kickers like crazy.

Well then it doesn't look good for Billy then. He's only beat that percentage one year in his career, his rookie year, and his career percentage is 3% less.

 

[Kel Varnsen]

I remember that. You sit in the North End Zone, didn't they let you keep the ball?

KingofCards, you are hardcore! That was at the very end of a preseason game. There must have been four people left in the stadium! Good for you. And, yes, they did let me keep the ball - I was shocked. I also couldn't believe how hard that ball was. They air those things up to the max.

 

[JasonKGME]

Well then it doesn't look good for Billy then. He's only beat that percentage one year in his career, his rookie year, and his career percentage is 3% less.

Check their broken downs stats based on field goals per 10 yards % career:

1-19 yards Gramatica 1-1 100%, Bryant 2-2 100%
20-29 yards Gramatica 14-15 93.3%, Bryant 10-11 90.9%
30-39 yards Gramatica 7-8 87.5%, Bryant 18-24 75%
40-49 yards Gramatica 10-15 66.7%, Bryant 7-9 77.8%
50+ yards Gramatica 2-6 33.3%, Bryant 0-0

take the 50+ out of the stats and they end up overall:
Gramatica 32-39 82%, Bryant 37/46 80.4%, slight edge to Gramatica

Kick Off's Gramatica had 125 with 8 touchbacks or 6.4% with only 1 returned for a TD, return average of 22.9 yards
Kick Off's Bryant had 114 with 4 touchbacks or 3.5% with only no returned for a TD, return average of 21.8 yards.

They both averaged kicking the ball 60.4 yards each kickoff which means on average the opposing team will recieve the ball on the 4 and a half yard line.

Obviously these are pretty close stats, Gramatica appears to be a little better inside the 40, but bryant looks like he might be better outside the 40, they are pretty much dead even on kickoffs. I am guessing it will come down to "CLUTCH" kicking, who is better under pressure? Since I am not a big NYG fan I have no idea how Bryant does under pressure, I know Billy is pretty solid thos, had a pretty good percentage when it game to game winning FG attempts.

 

[KingofCards]

KingofCards, you are hardcore! That was at the very end of a preseason game. There must have been four people left in the stadium! Good for you. And, yes, they did let me keep the ball - I was shocked. I also couldn't believe how hard that ball was. They air those things up to the max.

Yeah I had drank so much I passed out in the aisle and woke up when that happened.