Rackers Must Go! Now

[D-Dogg]

Me: He has Fitz! Nooooooooooo!

Me: That pass had to be tipped.

Erin: It wasnt tipped.

Me: It HAD to be tipped.

Replay.

Me:

It's a main reason I am completely fine with the playcall. It worked...Fitz was wide open. Q was rolling to him. Q, who earlier in the year threw the ball 60 yards in the air on the money....

And Q sissy arms it. Well designed and well executed right up to the point of the throw.

 

[82CardsGrad]

You're entitled to your opinion, but then don't bitch when we are staring at another top 5 pick in the draft. A kicker is not hard to find. How many hundreds of college teams are out there. Start auditioning them now. Did any of the following guys have household names or have "can't miss superstar" attached when they came into the NFL. Boronis, Gostkowski, Bryant, Folk, Rayner, etc, etc. Even the very good kickers seldom were even drafted. This position is not the QB position that requires adjustments to the speed of the NFL. Rackers has heavily influenced three of our four losses. You can continue to accept that, but Whisenhunt won't. Our FO is SICK & TIRED of losing & so am I.

Love your passion dude, but man are you tossing the anger in the wrong direction...
Rackers missed an extra point yesterday that has ZERO to do with him! Did you see the hold??
He missed a 55 yard FG in the last seconds of a game... Surely he's the first kicker to ever do that, huh??

Rackers is known throughout the league to be one of the upper-tier kickers in the game. BOTH Berman and Jackson made this point last night.

We lost the game yesterday for so many reason, NONE of which had anything to do with Rackers...

What a waste of a thread...

 

[82CardsGrad]

It's a main reason I am completely fine with the playcall. It worked...Fitz was wide open. Q was rolling to him. Q, who earlier in the year threw the ball 60 yards in the air on the money....

And Q sissy arms it. Well designed and well executed right up to the point of the throw.

Totally agree... If Q had put even the least bit of loft on that throw - the game was tied... Amazing...

 

[D-Dogg]

What a waste of a thread...

Thank goodness threads aren't a finite resource!


I say, waste away! Hell, most of our threads are recycled anyway.

 

[MigratingOsprey]

rackers is a fine kicker - the fact that people were even expecting him to hit from 55 yards is a testament to his ability

the seattle game down here he hit a couple very long kicks to put them in a position to win

bringing in competition in the offseason is fine - but don't discredit how difficult it is to find reliabile kickers - let alone ones who have a leg strong enough to reach from 55 and can consistently get touchbacks on their kicks completely removing the return threat

 

[MigratingOsprey]

I think these stats are going into yesterdays game, but in the NFL this season only 13 kickers have made a FG from 50+ - 2 of them were at 50 yards exactly

5 of them are 1-1; Kris Brown is 3-3 with a long of 57 and statistically the best long ball kicker this year

everyone else is 1 of 2 from their attempts except Rackers who is 3-6 ...... he's attempted twice as many as anyone else in the league from this distance and is 50% - it was a coin flip for him to make that kick

he's also 4th in the league in TB % at 22.7% and has the 2nd longest kickoff average at 67.4 yrds

 

[Redheart]

55 yards into a gusting side-wind. After a perfect on-sides kick to give the team a CHANCE.

Rackers nails that kick in the nest.

Call off the auditions and get on with the game-plan for the Bucs. Get the trainers and wounded in the treatment center.

 

[New Mexico]

Rackers is costing this franchise big-time. He has prevented Whiz from executing his gameplan - get late into the 4th & come away with W's. I know that some on this board want the entire team to share the blame, but with a reliable leg, so many of our mistakes become insignificant. That's the beauty of having a Matt Stover or Adam Vinnetiari (spelling wrong). Don't you think their teams made mistakes during the course of their games. That doesn't stop these guys from making kicks that render those mistakes insignificant. Football is an emotional game & eventually the emotional well goes dry. This team will eventually tire of going to war every week, only to have the kicker not come through. Did anyone see the Cardinal bench after his miss. They were all on their knees AGONIZING. We can be excited that Whiz has this team playing hard for 4 qtrs, but without RESULTS, they will eventually quit. That's why it is so hard to turn around a losing culture. It's such a physical & emotional game & it's so easy for these guys to eventually say uncle & give up. When did the Colts finally go the distance? When they dumped a choker (Vandergacht) & brought in Adam V. The team busted their butts because in the end they knew their kicker was MONEY in the bank. Look at all the successful franchises. They all have kickers that come through. Reliabilty is far more important than distance. The Cardinal offense would just have to take into account that they need to move the ball an additional 5-7 yds in order to get into range. I'm convinced that if Rackers misses just ONE more FG (critical or not), he is a goner. He will need to go on a streak 7 make like 6 in a row to get off the Whiz Hot Seat.

For what its worth (not much), I tend to agree with you. I'm sick of watching Rackers miss critical field goals either at the end of the half or the end of the game. The bottom line is that notwithstanding all the penalties and turnovers during the game, we had a chance to win it with a field goal, and missed--again. Rackers is not clutch, either from 55 or 45. I don't think it'll be too long before we start auditioning other kickers.

 

[AZCardsWin]

Rackers is costing this franchise big-time. He has prevented Whiz from executing his gameplan - get late into the 4th & come away with W's. I know that some on this board want the entire team to share the blame, but with a reliable leg, so many of our mistakes become insignificant. That's the beauty of having a Matt Stover or Adam Vinnetiari (spelling wrong). Don't you think their teams made mistakes during the course of their games. That doesn't stop these guys from making kicks that render those mistakes insignificant. Football is an emotional game & eventually the emotional well goes dry. This team will eventually tire of going to war every week, only to have the kicker not come through. Did anyone see the Cardinal bench after his miss. They were all on their knees AGONIZING. We can be excited that Whiz has this team playing hard for 4 qtrs, but without RESULTS, they will eventually quit. That's why it is so hard to turn around a losing culture. It's such a physical & emotional game & it's so easy for these guys to eventually say uncle & give up. When did the Colts finally go the distance? When they dumped a choker (Vandergacht) & brought in Adam V. The team busted their butts because in the end they knew their kicker was MONEY in the bank. Look at all the successful franchises. They all have kickers that come through. Reliabilty is far more important than distance. The Cardinal offense would just have to take into account that they need to move the ball an additional 5-7 yds in order to get into range. I'm convinced that if Rackers misses just ONE more FG (critical or not), he is a goner. He will need to go on a streak 7 make like 6 in a row to get off the Whiz Hot Seat.

I couldn't have said it any better. Well done!