Beane / Farwell Scouting Prowess: Bass vs. Rohrwasser

[ColoradoBills]

4 minutes ago, PromoTheRobot said:

 

As did the stork bring them fully developed?

 

The stork drops them into a cabbage field were they awake the next day as veteran kickers!

[Doc]

1 minute ago, ColoradoBills said:

The stork drops them into a cabbage field were they awake the next day as veteran kickers!

 

Do they practice on the cabbages?

[ColoradoBills]

Just now, Doc said:

 

Do they practice on the cabbages?

 

I'm not allowed to report on that!

[Buffalo_Stampede]

I hate changing kickers because you never know. It's a good year to break in a rookie kicker though without fans. It'll be a a lot like practice.

 

 

[Warcodered]

not a great sign that you're having to get your rookie kicker fewer reps.

[Ed_Formerly_of_Roch]

1 hour ago, IgotBILLStopay said:

Bills selected Bass in Round 6 -but nearly 30 picks earlier (in Round 5) Belichick selected Rohrwasser.

 

Fast forward 4 months - Bass has won the starter job for the Bills besting Hauschka. The Pats, on the other hand, are bringing in Nick Folk to compete with Rohrwasser (suggesting Rohrwasser is not yet ready).

 

https://www.patriots.com/news/patriots-re-sign-k-nick-folk-sign-dl-michael-barnett

 

Kicker is one of the few positions on the team where talent and mental fortitude are the only criteria - you don’t have to worry about the player’s fit with the offensive and defensive schemes of the team. And Belichick’s ST evaluation is generally regarded as second to none. Just wanted to highlight our own staff’s superiority in scouting and drafting in this particular instance.

 

 

 

I'll wait to season end to highlight staff's superiority.  He did well enough in practice to win job, but lets see how the real games go first.  It's easier to know when a kicker isn't ready to know when he is ready until you play the real games.  Very often highly touted rookie kickers miss a bunch, get cut and replaced by a vet, but then 3 or 4 years later they are in the Pro-Bowl.

[ColoradoBills]

Hausch had the longest streak of +50 yard FGs ever.  Last year he was 1 of 5 over 50 yards.

I liked him a lot as a Bill but it was most likely the time to move on.

 

 

[SectionC3]

3 minutes ago, ColoradoBills said:

Hausch had the longest streak of +50 yard FGs ever.  Last year he was 1 of 5 over 50 yards.

I liked him a lot as a Bill but it was most likely the time to move on.

 

 

 

The fact that he hasn't had a workout this week (assuming that he would accept a workout) says that other people agree with you.  I'm one of them, for what it's worth. 

[GunnerBill]

1 hour ago, Kirby Jackson said:

I’m glad that they picked Bass over the white supremacist. 

 

Me too. Even if he never makes a kick for the Bills. 

36 minutes ago, Ed_Formerly_of_Roch said:

 

I'll wait to season end to highlight staff's superiority.  He did well enough in practice to win job, but lets see how the real games go first.  It's easier to know when a kicker isn't ready to know when he is ready until you play the real games.  Very often highly touted rookie kickers miss a bunch, get cut and replaced by a vet, but then 3 or 4 years later they are in the Pro-Bowl.

 

Yep. Very rare that kickers are ready right out of the gate. 

[First Round Bust]

.no crowd noise...no problem...the kid is going to auto-matic...as in Bass-O-Matic

 

 

 

[Logic]

Bass will be just fine. His Meemaw set him up for success with this sage advice:
 

 

[Augie]

1 hour ago, Doc said:

 

Do they practice on the cabbages?

 

No actual cabbages were harmed in the grooming of our Bass-O-Matic veteran rookie kicker.  

 

 

 

.....as far as you know. 

[Malazan]

 

2 hours ago, BullBuchanan said:

I have zero faith in rookie kickers. I really hope he turns out, because we're taking a huge gamble.

 

They were taking a huge gamble with Hauschka. The question is how much bigger of a gamble Bass is...

[PromoTheRobot]

Week he's our guy now. So resist the urge to freak out when he misses a few. Hopefully very few.

 

[3rdand12]

2 hours ago, PromoTheRobot said:

 

So where do new kickers come from?

The stork brings them

2 hours ago, ColoradoBills said:

 

dang it. ya beats me

[Mr. WEO]

3 hours ago, Doc said:

 

So...sign the Nazi kicker?

 

And the Bills have done a good job scouting kickers over the years.  They just don't give them time to develop and see them do well for other teams.

 

Huh?

Before this year, they drafted 2 in the last 20.  One washed out quickly and the other was on IR by week 5, replaced by Carpenter, given the chance to beat out Carpenter the next camp and failed.

[Doc]

3 minutes ago, Mr. WEO said:

Huh?

Before this year, they drafted 2 in the last 20.  One washed out quickly and the other was on IR by week 5, replaced by Carpenter, given the chance to beat out Carpenter the next camp and failed.

 

I'm also including undrafted guys they've brought in.  Graham.  Hopkins.  McLaughlin.  I think there was another guy.

 

And sure Carpenter beat Hopkins out.  But Hopkins went on to have a decent career.  Which is why I said they have to be patient.

 

 

[klos63]

3 hours ago, BullBuchanan said:

I have zero faith in rookie kickers. I really hope he turns out, because we're taking a huge gamble.

I seem to remember a veteran kicker that ruined out lives.

[Slippery Rubber Mats]

He could very easily pull a Peterman. This move to Bass gets no credit from me until this kid hits on game day.

 

That said Beane knows the stakes. They must be really confident.

[TigerJ]

3 hours ago, Doc said:

 

So...sign the Nazi kicker?

 

And the Bills have done a good job scouting kickers over the years.  They just don't give them time to develop and see them do well for other teams.

I agree on the Bills drafting kickers.  Most of those they've drafted have produced for other teams over the years.