Why do people expect kickers to make every single kick?

[OnlyOneBoss]

I’m not defending egregious performances like going 0/4 or 0/5 or 1/6.



But if a dude goes 3/6 or 2/4 people will call it a bad day and he should get cut? Why?

Best comparison is a free throw frfr.

So kickers are supposed to make every kick under extreme pressure with 11 people running straight towards them, but an NBA player can miss 30% of his wide open shots from a set spot with nobody guarding him?

I mean realistically, expecting a kicker to make every kick, especially every game winning kick is dumb. That’s a ridiculous standard to have for a task that’s dependent on so many other variables you can’t account for

 

[Harry B]

Statistics

 

[boskey]

There is nobody on the football field who is allowed to fukk up 50 percent of the plays he's involved in. Holder can't mishandle 50 percent of his snaps. A linebacker can't miss half the tackles he attempts. A DB can't blow coverage 50 percent of the time...

 

[Primetime21]

But if a dude goes 3/6 or 2/4 people will call it a bad day? Why?

Because 50% is a bad day for a kicker, are you kidding me

 

[VegetasHairline]

It's what fans expect. Fair or not, they're professionals.

 

[OnlyOneBoss]

Because 50% is a bad day for a kicker, are you kidding me

I mean realistically though you’re gonna have days like that

As long as their season/career % is decently high I’m just gonna chalk it up to the ball didn’t go their way frfr

 

[Blessings]

There is nobody on the football field who is allowed to fukk up 50 percent of the plays he's involved in. Holder can't mishandle 50 percent of his snaps. A linebacker can't miss half the tackles he attempts. A DB can't blow coverage 50 percent of the time...

Facts
+ Thread title is factually incorrect lol....Most people don't expect kickers to make every kick

OP just spewing some BS...congrats on the plat thread

 

[In The Zone '98]

Under 45 should be a lay up

 

[OnlyOneBoss]

Under 45 should be a lay up

So should every free throw but it’s clearly not

 

[mozichrome]

nobody is expecting kickers to be booming from 55-60 plus on auto....this aint video games
but if its a chip shot to atleast maybe 50 yrds you'd expect every worthwhile kicker to be able to make that
thats why they get paid, to make the damn kick

 

[Ghostface Trillah]

A DB can't blow coverage 50 percent of the time...

Trevon Diggs says what up

 

[ImmaGetJoeClarkArrested]

Compare field goals to free throws brehs

A kicker has 2 jobs…kickoffs and field goals literally nothing else…why the fukk are u on the team if u can’t do your job…

If shaq only did half of his job he wouldn’t be on the team… free throws at the most were 20% of shaq’s job the other 80% he did better than anyone in history

Free throws do not equal field goals

 

[JLova]

There is nobody on the football field who is allowed to fukk up 50 percent of the plays he's involved in. Holder can't mishandle 50 percent of his snaps. A linebacker can't miss half the tackles he attempts. A DB can't blow coverage 50 percent of the time...

At the same time mistakes can’t be hidden as a kicker. QB can be off on a pass and it falls incomplete or the receiver adjusts and makes a catch. Thr kicker marking for error is significantly smaller.

 

[phillycavsfan]

Because they're barely football players. At least punters have to make tackles every once in a while.

 

[OnlyOneBoss]

Compare field goals to free throws brehs

A kicker has 2 jobs…kickoffs and field goals literally nothing else…why the fukk are u on the team if u can’t do your job…

If shaq only did half of his job he wouldn’t be on the team… free throws at the most were 20% of shaq’s job the other 80% he did better than anyone in history

Free throws do not equal field goals

And NBA players have probably shot a basketball at least 100,000 times in their life.


You’re telling me they can’t make a shot with nobody guarding them at all, from a pre determined spot on the floor 100% of the time?

Nobody is guarding them
Nobody else is even touching the ball

Why can’t they make them at a 100% clip?