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Kicker?
Hello all,
It has been a while since my last post.
I have a major concern (or two) heading into this season. The kicker. Sean Suisham is inconsistent at best. Is anyone else concerned? I rarely see this mentioned at all by the national 'Skins bashing media or on the blogs.
It was nice to see that we finally brought in a decent above average punter in Smith. He will do a good job with the field position battles.
With our sick defense (and it will be sick), the "Skins are likely to be in many close games as JC and the offense get in sync, especially early on in the season in my opinion. Why not go spend on a solid kicker (who can also kickoff deep) as kickers are frequently the deciding factor between a win or loss?
Let me know what the Redskins Nation thinks...
It has been a while since my last post.
I have a major concern (or two) heading into this season. The kicker. Sean Suisham is inconsistent at best. Is anyone else concerned? I rarely see this mentioned at all by the national 'Skins bashing media or on the blogs.
It was nice to see that we finally brought in a decent above average punter in Smith. He will do a good job with the field position battles.
With our sick defense (and it will be sick), the "Skins are likely to be in many close games as JC and the offense get in sync, especially early on in the season in my opinion. Why not go spend on a solid kicker (who can also kickoff deep) as kickers are frequently the deciding factor between a win or loss?
Let me know what the Redskins Nation thinks...
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Anyhow, there might not be anyone out there now but I am sure a kicker could have been picked up earlier during free agency. Not sure about Raynor either...
Maybe Suisham will get better and improve on his kickoffs...
Let's hope he has plenty of opportunities.

Anyhow, there might not be anyone out there now but I am sure a kicker could have been picked up earlier during free agency. Not sure about Raynor either...
Maybe Suisham will get better and improve on his kickoffs...
Let's hope he has plenty of opportunities.

KJ
Graham Gano (K)
Height: 6'0"
Weight: 194
College: Florida State
Conference: ACC
Hometown: Pensacola, FL
High School: Tate HS
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Moved up NFL draft boards with a surprising first season as the Seminoles' kicker in 2008. Gano won the Lou Groza Award and garnered first-team all-ACC honors after making 24-of-26 field goal attempts -- including 5-of-7 of 50 yards or longer. Gano actually missed the first two games of his senior season after having surgery in August on a torn right meniscus. He ended the season as the team's triple-threat specialist, re-gaining punting and kickoff duties as the season progressed. Honorable mention all-ACC as a punter in 2007 with a 43.4-yard average overall; he averaged 42.7 yards a boot and placed the ball well after returning from injury. Gano finished a dream season by winning the Champs Sports Bowl MVP award after pinning Wisconsin deep multiple times. Had an arm span of 30 3/8 inches and a hand span of 7 7/8 inches at the combine.
I haven't seen that he signed with anybody. He has 60+ yd range. He can kick field goals, kick off & punt.
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yupchagee wrote:Graham Gano (K)
Height: 6'0"
Weight: 194
College: Florida State
Conference: ACC
Hometown: Pensacola, FL
High School: Tate HS
View Combine Page >>
Choose Specialists Overview
Moved up NFL draft boards with a surprising first season as the Seminoles' kicker in 2008. Gano won the Lou Groza Award and garnered first-team all-ACC honors after making 24-of-26 field goal attempts -- including 5-of-7 of 50 yards or longer. Gano actually missed the first two games of his senior season after having surgery in August on a torn right meniscus. He ended the season as the team's triple-threat specialist, re-gaining punting and kickoff duties as the season progressed. Honorable mention all-ACC as a punter in 2007 with a 43.4-yard average overall; he averaged 42.7 yards a boot and placed the ball well after returning from injury. Gano finished a dream season by winning the Champs Sports Bowl MVP award after pinning Wisconsin deep multiple times. Had an arm span of 30 3/8 inches and a hand span of 7 7/8 inches at the combine.
I haven't seen that he signed with anybody. He has 60+ yd range. He can kick field goals, kick off & punt.
I have confidence that Cerrato's guys are on top of this - there is no way we should not have a kicker that can consistently put the ball into the end zone on kick-offs - now, we all know we are going to be kicking off a lot this year with our new high scoring offense so Cerrato better produce a decent kicker.

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Re: Kicker?
Esquirekj wrote:Hello all,
It has been a while since my last post.
I have a major concern (or two) heading into this season. The kicker. Sean Suisham is inconsistent at best. Is anyone else concerned? I rarely see this mentioned at all by the national 'Skins bashing media or on the blogs.
It was nice to see that we finally brought in a decent above average punter in Smith. He will do a good job with the field position battles.
With our sick defense (and it will be sick), the "Skins are likely to be in many close games as JC and the offense get in sync, especially early on in the season in my opinion. Why not go spend on a solid kicker (who can also kickoff deep) as kickers are frequently the deciding factor between a win or loss?
Let me know what the Redskins Nation thinks...
It's definitely a concern because Suisham was statistically the worst kicker in the NFL last season. He also missed more field goals, ten, than any other kicker in the league last year. He is decent from less than 40 yards, but from 40 yards or more he is garbage, missing eight such kicks last year. His kickoffs also leave a lot to be desired.
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Re: Kicker?
CanesSkins26 wrote:Esquirekj wrote:Hello all,
It has been a while since my last post.
I have a major concern (or two) heading into this season. The kicker. Sean Suisham is inconsistent at best. Is anyone else concerned? I rarely see this mentioned at all by the national 'Skins bashing media or on the blogs.
It was nice to see that we finally brought in a decent above average punter in Smith. He will do a good job with the field position battles.
With our sick defense (and it will be sick), the "Skins are likely to be in many close games as JC and the offense get in sync, especially early on in the season in my opinion. Why not go spend on a solid kicker (who can also kickoff deep) as kickers are frequently the deciding factor between a win or loss?
Let me know what the Redskins Nation thinks...
It's definitely a concern because Suisham was statistically the worst kicker in the NFL last season. He also missed more field goals, ten, than any other kicker in the league last year. He is decent from less than 40 yards, but from 40 yards or more he is garbage, missing eight such kicks last year. His kickoffs also leave a lot to be desired.
I agree his kickoffs are slacking. I am not too concerned yet about his field goal kicking. Lets wait for at least 2 bad years in a row for field goal kicking. Even Mayk Mosely had his slump years.
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Kilmer72 wrote:CanesSkins26 wrote:Esquirekj wrote:Hello all,
It has been a while since my last post.
I have a major concern (or two) heading into this season. The kicker. Sean Suisham is inconsistent at best. Is anyone else concerned? I rarely see this mentioned at all by the national 'Skins bashing media or on the blogs.
It was nice to see that we finally brought in a decent above average punter in Smith. He will do a good job with the field position battles.
With our sick defense (and it will be sick), the "Skins are likely to be in many close games as JC and the offense get in sync, especially early on in the season in my opinion. Why not go spend on a solid kicker (who can also kickoff deep) as kickers are frequently the deciding factor between a win or loss?
Let me know what the Redskins Nation thinks...
It's definitely a concern because Suisham was statistically the worst kicker in the NFL last season. He also missed more field goals, ten, than any other kicker in the league last year. He is decent from less than 40 yards, but from 40 yards or more he is garbage, missing eight such kicks last year. His kickoffs also leave a lot to be desired.
I agree his kickoffs are slacking. I am not too concerned yet about his field goal kicking. Lets wait for at least 2 bad years in a row for field goal kicking. Even Mayk Mosely had his slump years.
Actually he has had two bad years. In 2007 he was 21st in the NFL in field goal percentage and in 2008 he was 32nd. Neither one of the those seasons was good and last year was downright awful. Those are his only two full NFL seasons to date so based on his body of work so far the guy has performed as a below average NFL kicker. It would be absurd to go into this season with a kicker that was statistically the WORST in the league last season.
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(d)oink wrote:Fios wrote:VetSkinsFan wrote:That's what he meant by sick.
... someone is not down with the slang
Is our defense also going to be fat? (phat)
phat? Maybe...
bad? Definitely.

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