Being a kicker in the NFL is like the best job ever

[R.E.N. Spells Ren]

this makes no sense. if youre the best in business it you get paid accordingly. people overlook STs but its important element in football.

It makes perfect sense. Punters aren't worth $4M/year.

The only reason to spend that much is if you're contending for a title, and that's a hole in your roster spot. They should've let him walk.

worse in what way ?

Worse in the sense that they do more work. Gotta go through the same drills as the real players and shyt. Plus the clipboard work. Practice is the "work" part of the NFL experience, and backup QBs aren't even rewarded with the joy of getting in the games (typically).

Do punters/kickers go through the regular drills and shyt?

 

[yseJ]

It makes perfect sense. Punters aren't worth $4M/year.

The only reason to spend that much is if you're contending for a title, and that's a hole in your roster spot. They should've let him walk.



Worse in the sense that they do more work. Gotta go through the same drills as the real players and shyt. Plus the clipboard work. Practice is the "work" part of the NFL experience, and backup QBs aren't even rewarded with the joy of getting in the games (typically).

Do punters/kickers go through the regular drills and shyt?

punters and kickers are "real players", stop wit the bullshyt.
also drills are different for players in general. qbs dont go through drills DBs or offensive linemen go through.

lechlers salary is 3.8 milly, if moorman was getting 2.3 at the time...why the fukk not ?
kickers are getting around 3 milly a season too. jano got nearly 5 milly last season including bonuses

 

[R.E.N. Spells Ren]

punters and kickers are "real players", stop wit the bullshyt.
also drills are different for players in general. qbs dont go through drills DBs or offensive linemen go through.

lechlers salary is 3.8 milly, if moorman was getting 2.3 at the time...why the fukk not ?
kickers are getting around 3 milly a season too. jano got nearly 5 milly last season including bonuses

I'm not talking about "real" or fake....I'm saying there's no way a punter's practice is as strenuous as a QBs. You arguing a punter's practice is harder?

Yea, that they dropped so much cash on a kicker and a punter is one of many reasons they've been a bottom of the barrel team for the last decade. Two of the best of their era... two of the best of all time, yet how many wins do they have to show for it?

The Pat's had one of the best QBs.... got multiple rings. Ravens had one of the best LBs and Safety's... got many competitive seasons. Even the jets with one of the best CBs got back to back championship games. Obviously, it's a team sport, and none of those teams' successes were due to single players, but the point is they have a greater effect on your outcome than punters/kickers.

ST is important, but you don't overspend on it unless you're comfortable with the rest of your squad or deathly afraid of your other options.

 

[Padron1926]

I know they aint the norm but

Punter Daniel Sepulveda doesn't fashion himself as a specialist. The 6-2, 227-pounder walked onto Baylor as a linebacker and is so devoted to lifting and working out that he said he can bench press 335 pounds. Sepulveda, who twice won the Ray Guy Award while at Baylor, said he wanted to take part in the 225-pound bench press test at the NFL Scouting Combine. The Steelers' first fourth-round pick Sunday didn't get a chance to show how many repetitions he could do since NFL teams generally don't concern themselves with punters' upper body strength. Sepulveda, for the record, said he bench pressed 225 pounds 23 times before.
"I don't know how much good that does at the position that I play," Sepulveda said, "but it certainly can't hurt."

Daniel Sepulveda



Steve Weatherford

At the end of his off-season program, Weatherford was able to leg-press 1,000 pounds 12 times; he could squat 475 pounds; he could bench-press nearly 400 pounds. The totals are particularly remarkable when you consider that Weatherford had surgery last year to correct an irregular heartbeat.

 

[FaTaL]

fuk a kicker, being a punter is the best job in the world

 

[jadillac]

You sayin their careers are over if they miss one kick?

Nobody firing a kicker over a couple missed kicks breh. The team knows there's a possibility that he's gonna miss. It's part of them game.

It happens all the time? Do you even watch football?

Probably not since you're the one who said all black Americans are ignorant & stupid.

 

[ThugLife]

Edit: Whoops wrong thread

 

[Brock Landers]

If you're somebody that came from a soccer background such as myself you could do quite well, Martin Gramatica showed that you don't even need to be physically imposing just kick the ball damn consistently

I should have tried out

 

[Padron1926]

Both Gramaticas didnt last long in the league as some kickers...fukk i remember kickin with Andersons when I was a youngin

 

[Swiggy]

If you're somebody that came from a soccer background such as myself you could do quite well, Martin Gramatica showed that you don't even need to be physically imposing just kick the ball damn consistently

I should have tried out

My nephew figured that out his Sophomore year last year. This was his first year ditching soccer completely, and going full-time kicker. He accurate as fukk, but needs more boom.

 

[Brock Landers]

My nephew figured that out his Sophomore year last year. This was his first year ditching soccer completely, and going full-time kicker. He accurate as fukk, but needs more boom.

I hope it works out for him, going the soccer route in the USA is much less lucrative/harder if you want to make it to play in europe at a high level. Get him hitting the weights breh, squats/deadlifts/leg extensions will help him out a great deal.

 

[DeVanteSwing]

no concussions either, still possible but yeah

 

[Buckeye Fever]

Uniforms stay cleaner too

 

[Busby]

Akers

 

[OH SOHH TRILL]

Don't forget both the Gramaticas played until they were 40+