JoeF Posted August 21, 2019 Posted August 21, 2019 https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/27428652/carli-lloyd-drills-55-yard-fg-eagles-practice Nice....good snap, good hold, monster kick. 1
That's No Moon Posted August 21, 2019 Posted August 21, 2019 24 minutes ago, JoeF said: https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/27428652/carli-lloyd-drills-55-yard-fg-eagles-practice Nice....good snap, good hold, monster kick. I don't understand D1 colleges with terrible football kickers and both a mens and womens soccer program. There are plenty of them too. 1
JoeF Posted August 21, 2019 Author Posted August 21, 2019 11 minutes ago, That's No Moon said: I don't understand D1 colleges with terrible football kickers and both a mens and womens soccer program. There are plenty of them too. No kidding....great point
Mr. WEO Posted August 21, 2019 Posted August 21, 2019 24 minutes ago, That's No Moon said: I don't understand D1 colleges with terrible football kickers and both a mens and womens soccer program. There are plenty of them too. Wrong "football", man...
Utah John Posted August 21, 2019 Posted August 21, 2019 I think soccer players just want to play soccer. Of course the money is better if a kicker makes it to the NFL, unless the soccer player is a star.
oldmanfan Posted August 21, 2019 Posted August 21, 2019 She’d have to cut down the number of steps before she kicked but she has some power.
MJS Posted August 21, 2019 Posted August 21, 2019 1 hour ago, That's No Moon said: I don't understand D1 colleges with terrible football kickers and both a mens and womens soccer program. There are plenty of them too. I don't think the skill set is completely the same.
Benjamin Franklin Posted August 21, 2019 Posted August 21, 2019 (edited) 9 hours ago, That's No Moon said: I don't understand D1 colleges with terrible football kickers and both a mens and womens soccer program. There are plenty of them too. Playing football in college as the kicker is a huge bore. Why would a soccer player want that (the random 32 who make it to the nfl are lottery winners who worked on one strange subset skill)? The appeal of the games themselves aside, football kicker vs soccer player...soccer is more fun for 999/1000 kids. Edited August 21, 2019 by Benjamin Franklin
OldTimeAFLGuy Posted August 21, 2019 Posted August 21, 2019 2 hours ago, Benjamin Franklin said: Playing football in college as the kicker is a huge bore. Why would a soccer player want that (the random 32 who make it to the nfl are lottery winners who worked on one strange subset skill)? The appeal of the games themselves aside, football kicker vs soccer player...soccer is more fun for 999/1000 kids. ..Roch-Cha-Cha's very own Bob Thomas, a McQuaid HS soccer player, kicked for Notre Dame, went on to become the Bears' PK and now is the Chief Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court...
Benjamin Franklin Posted August 21, 2019 Posted August 21, 2019 1 minute ago, OldTimeAFLGuy said: ..Roch-Cha-Cha's very own Bob Thomas, a McQuaid HS soccer player, kicked for Notre Dame, went on to become the Bears' PK and now is the Chief Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court... As a Knight alum, I’m well aware!
aristocrat Posted August 21, 2019 Posted August 21, 2019 plenty of soccer players have tried to kick a football. wasn't tony meola on the bills like 25 years ago for 5 minutes in camp? the us soccer goalie now explained it isn't the same as soccer so it probably won't ever work
OldTimeAFLGuy Posted August 21, 2019 Posted August 21, 2019 10 minutes ago, Benjamin Franklin said: As a Knight alum, I’m well aware! ...me too.........I know Bob well........
Jobot Posted August 21, 2019 Posted August 21, 2019 3 hours ago, Benjamin Franklin said: Playing football in college as the kicker is a huge bore. Why would a soccer player want that (the random 32 who make it to the nfl are lottery winners who worked on one strange subset skill)? The appeal of the games themselves aside, football kicker vs soccer player...soccer is more fun for 999/1000 kids. Idk, it might be pretty sweet to nail a game winner for a top college program and have the field get rushed.
Benjamin Franklin Posted August 21, 2019 Posted August 21, 2019 4 minutes ago, Jobot said: Idk, it might be pretty sweet to nail a game winner for a top college program and have the field get rushed. Yes but that's .0001% of kickers. The rest of the time, you're the team joke and sit on the sidelines for all but 3-5 plays of a game.
Don Otreply Posted August 21, 2019 Posted August 21, 2019 Hell, maybe we should sign her, they would have to build her a locker room though... (meant in in a humorous way) Go Bills!!
Jobot Posted August 21, 2019 Posted August 21, 2019 39 minutes ago, Benjamin Franklin said: Yes but that's .0001% of kickers. The rest of the time, you're the team joke and sit on the sidelines for all but 3-5 plays of a game. I'm not sure what your point is, but being on the football team is usually a big deal in college.
Chuck Wagon Posted August 21, 2019 Posted August 21, 2019 13 hours ago, That's No Moon said: I don't understand D1 colleges with terrible football kickers and both a mens and womens soccer program. There are plenty of them too. This is such a massive inefficiency in college football. The state of FG kicking at the D1 level is sooo sooo bad.
Benjamin Franklin Posted August 21, 2019 Posted August 21, 2019 27 minutes ago, Jobot said: I'm not sure what your point is, but being on the football team is usually a big deal in college. The point is that most soccer players have the leg to kick a ball 55 yards and choose not to do the work to specialize with a football because if you have that single skill, it’s more fun to play soccer than to be the football kicker. Of course that’s not everyone and of course it’s fun to be a kicker, but one of the reasons college kicking blows chunks is that most of the legs capable of kicking footballs are instead kicking soccer balls. On the flip side, US soccer sucks because most of the kids who would be killer soccer athletes play football and hoops!
That's No Moon Posted August 21, 2019 Posted August 21, 2019 3 hours ago, aristocrat said: plenty of soccer players have tried to kick a football. wasn't tony meola on the bills like 25 years ago for 5 minutes in camp? the us soccer goalie now explained it isn't the same as soccer so it probably won't ever work except the people who started soccer style kicking in football all came from soccer backgrounds. Pete Gogolak and Jan Stenerud come to mind but there was a massive trend of having tiny little foreign guys as your kicker for years and years.
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