Also he may have been resigned to his career being dead and this is all a bonus for him. He's wasn't even on a PS, he was signed off the street.
As I said, hard to say, but he has more bad than good in the league so far in his career and the team should be cautious moving off a proven commodity like Prater.
Prater would also have made all these FG's BTW.
Prater had a gimme game winning attempt last year and missed it from inside 40 yards so we’ve seen him have a chance at all these type of kicks and he failed.
You earlier just said we can get lulled into a false sense of security with a kicker like Zane Gonzalez nailing kicks when they don’t matter. Uh… that’s what Prater’s done the last two years in a no pressure job. Previous to us, he was 30/37 and 21/28. And again, in one of his only chances for a deciding kick in the last two years, he ished the bed.
The idea that Wyland might be kicking carefree… while being a young guy kicking for his career, coming to a woeful franchise, and carrying both of those burdens and nailing three straight game winners… makes no sense to me whatsoever.