OntarioRam
Hall of Fame
Karty is not a good kicker. Leg? Average. Accuracy? Average. Clutch kicking? Average. And now, he is missing his kicks at a rate that far and away leads the NFL. And we are several weeks into the season. The sample size is not small. He needs to go.
I have never seen such an unremarkable Rams player have so many defenders before, or have so many excuses made for them. "It was windy". "The blocking wasn't good". "The snap was bad". "It wasn't from a gimmie distance". Do you think the Rams are the only team that has to kick in the elements? Or with poor FG protection? Or that sometimes needs their kicker to hit from distance? Yet only Karty is missing this badly and often. It's the NFL. You need to find a way to make those kicks in less than perfect circumstances. If you can only hit when the circumstances are great, what use are you? Perfect circumstances is not NFL reality. And certainly not come playoff time, when the weather gets cold, windy, snowy, and the opposition gets consistently more challenging. The kid is bottom of the NFL in almost every metric. He needs to go.
To be clear, I don't think he is bad kicker. I think he is a league median talent that is nowhere close to playing up to his abilities because he is in his own head now, more than anything. I have nothing against him. But you cannot deny it at this point. Kicking is important and we are well below par at the position right now. The position needs an upgrade. I have not seen anything from him that suggests he is worth trying to salvage or seeing if he can work though this rough patches. Kicking admittedly can see highs and lows out of nowhere. But when you see a team trying to work through it with a guy, there is usually one big trait, often a very strong leg, or a longer history/pattern of great production. Karty doesn't have either.
I have never seen such an unremarkable Rams player have so many defenders before, or have so many excuses made for them. "It was windy". "The blocking wasn't good". "The snap was bad". "It wasn't from a gimmie distance". Do you think the Rams are the only team that has to kick in the elements? Or with poor FG protection? Or that sometimes needs their kicker to hit from distance? Yet only Karty is missing this badly and often. It's the NFL. You need to find a way to make those kicks in less than perfect circumstances. If you can only hit when the circumstances are great, what use are you? Perfect circumstances is not NFL reality. And certainly not come playoff time, when the weather gets cold, windy, snowy, and the opposition gets consistently more challenging. The kid is bottom of the NFL in almost every metric. He needs to go.
To be clear, I don't think he is bad kicker. I think he is a league median talent that is nowhere close to playing up to his abilities because he is in his own head now, more than anything. I have nothing against him. But you cannot deny it at this point. Kicking is important and we are well below par at the position right now. The position needs an upgrade. I have not seen anything from him that suggests he is worth trying to salvage or seeing if he can work though this rough patches. Kicking admittedly can see highs and lows out of nowhere. But when you see a team trying to work through it with a guy, there is usually one big trait, often a very strong leg, or a longer history/pattern of great production. Karty doesn't have either.
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