As abysmal as the Bears season has been at times there’s one unit that you can always count on. Of course I mean the special teams unit. Robbie Gould and Brad Maynard have been about as reliable of kicking tandem as you’re ever going to come across in the NFL, which brings me to my real point.
Gould, is 3rd on the all-time field goal percentage list, you know who’s first? Mike Vanderjagt, remember him, he of the career 86 percent success rate. I know he got into a very public verbal spat with arguably the best Quarterback of our generation (Peyton Manning), and missed a couple of early season kicks in 2006 with the Cowboys, but how has he gone three years without getting another shot.
Have you seen the state of kicking in the NFL, it’s downright emberassing at times. You’d think you could find 32 kickers who can successfully matriculate the ball through the goal posts with regularity but how many changes at kicker do you see in the typical NFL season?
I understand Vanderjagt is now 39 but hey Nick Lowery, Gary Anderson, and Morten Anderson all kicked well into their 40’s. In the grand scheme of things Mike Vanderjagt’s fate is low down on the list but I’ve just always wondered why he got black balled from the NFL.
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This post was written by jwilbers on November 17, 2009
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