Damn... We fired our Punter!

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Once you start salivating over how important that is, kicking balls inside the 20, it's hard to even understand why another punters "intangibles" would even matter. I don't care if he can kick the ball out of the stadium... I could understand something like punt coverage and hang time being a smart, understandable reason... but otherwise I just don't understand why you'd leave the position up to an experiment over "potential." ... he's the punter!

And things like "potential" and "kicking it out of the stadium" are just assumptions... because why else would you go out of your way to acquire a new punter? 

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Can't wait for Zim's reasoning for this move.

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I would guess it's a hang time issue considering all the long returns we've had during preseason. 

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Glad to see Quigley go. He was in the bottom 5 in nearly every punting category the last 2 years. People get really hung up on the “no touchbacks” stat, but dont pay attention to how many times he surrendered a fair catch between the 15 and 20. A few punts downed inside the 5 are worth the occasional touchback.  Give your guys a chance to down it inside the 10 and risk a touchback — better that than the constant fair catches at the 16 yard line. 

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@Wetlander said:
I would guess it's a hang time issue considering all the long returns we've had during preseason. 

winner winner, did yall miss the preseason?  there is a reddit thread saying our new punter was the second best rated PFF rated punter this preseason. Still not sure going this route at this time makes sense but who knows?

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Actually, I wonder if some of our PK's problems (Blair & Forbath) were due to Quigley.  Didn't he start holding... about the same time that Blair started shanking?

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@pumpf said:
Actually, I wonder if some of our PK's problems (Blair & Forbath) were due to Quigley.  Didn't he start holding... about the same time that Blair started shanking?

specifically the playoff miss against Seattle. i know, it was too short for a miss, but you dont want to kick the laces. 

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I guess my question is If this new guys pff ranking is so high ARG says he seen #2 why was he available? Did Pittsburgh have #1 & 2? Or is there a down side to him? My concern is him as a holder or do we use someone else as a holder. Like I said yesterday hope this doesn't screw up both positions. Kickers...you never care till they make you care. Hopefully I won't care.

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I wish we’d go back to using a back-up QB as the holder.  It gives a plausible chance to occasionally fake one.  Whatever happened to that around the league?

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@Purplewhizz said:
I wish we’d go back to using a back-up QB as the holder.  It gives a plausible chance to occasionally fake one.  Whatever happened to that around the league?

I think that's an excellent idea, and in Sloter we have an athletic QB to pull it off...