Bass’s missed XP

[DCofNC]

I guess I fail to understand why the posts can’t be taller.

[Buffalo_Stampede]

8 minutes ago, ProcessTruster said:

nah.  hell , Justin Tucker is now missing kicks left and right (pun intended) .  let it go.  

He’s finally having his down year. Every kicker has slumps. I would rather go with the guy I know then start searching for a new kicker.

 

The Bengals kicker also having a terrible year. Talented kicker that would be signed in less than a week if the Bengals released him.

[Warriorspikes51]

5 minutes ago, DCofNC said:

I guess I fail to understand why the posts can’t be taller.

wind concerns?  But they should be.  Or cameras and technology need to be used to review these close ones that happen every week 

[Buffalo_Stampede]

5 minutes ago, DCofNC said:

I guess I fail to understand why the posts can’t be taller.

Cameras and technology is probably the best way to fix this problem. Someday they will put a chip in the football for first downs and FGs.

[TheyCallMeAndy]

Curious to see a clip of the missed XP now… 

[Mr. WEO]

or he could just kick it between the uprights.....

[harmonkillebrew]

if it goes over the goalpost and would have doinked, is it good or a miss? Do they have to guess whether it would have doinked in or hit it square, or is it like a TD, so long as it crosses the plane of the goalpost it's good....?

[Senth]

It was good.

[Dillenger4]

The second angle showed that it was wide right. By a bit too...

[fan_in_tx]

9 hours ago, That's No Moon said:

With all the technology we have these days, that doesn't feel like something that should be so hard to determine anymore. It's not really that complex to put a camera in each goalpost pointing upward with a reticle on the output that shows if the ball passed to the inside or outside of the center of the post.

 

Cameras are too expensive? OK. You could do the same thing with a laser.  You'd see it hit the ball on its way past with the cameras they already have on the game.

Laser is the way to go..  Put it on the inside of the goalpost as we know the ball could easily hit the goal post and tail out so simply aligning a laser pointing skyward from inside of goal post attached to a alert monitor which will tell if the ball crosses on the inside path.

[uninja]

9 hours ago, That's No Moon said:

With all the technology we have these days, that doesn't feel like something that should be so hard to determine anymore. It's not really that complex to put a camera in each goalpost pointing upward with a reticle on the output that shows if the ball passed to the inside or outside of the center of the post.

 

Cameras are too expensive? OK. You could do the same thing with a laser.  You'd see it hit the ball on its way past with the cameras they already have on the game.

laser sensors mounted vertically on the uprights would be dumb easy to do. 

[Einstein's Dog]

9 hours ago, Another Fan said:

 

Me too.

 

Bigger issue I have is I still have trust issues with Bass.  

The trust issues with Bass were a huge sub-plot to coaching in this game IMO.  The XP miss (and I'm with those thinking they should have the tech at this point for a much better way to view it) went a long way to strategy throughout the game.

 

Affected the decision not to try a 53 yarder.

 

Affected the decision to go for it on 4th and 2.  It changed the odds of whether it was a gimme.  We're not hearing a lot from the anti-McD crowd but that certainly wouldn't be the case if that 4th and two failed and KC got a winning FG.

[Matt_In_NH]

9 hours ago, ChevyVanMiller said:

Those single points are going to be huge, they say it ever time!

[chris heff]

If they can utilize Hawk Eye, Electronic line calling and AI in tennis, which can show within millimeters where the ball lands, they can do this in football. I seem to remember that the NFL was going to use some kind of technology to determine whether ball crossed line to gain, rather than the archaic chains. Surely they can come up with something better than two guys starring up in the air.

[Matt_In_NH]

4 minutes ago, Einstein's Dog said:

The trust issues with Bass were a huge sub-plot to coaching in this game IMO.  The XP miss (and I'm with those thinking they should have the tech at this point for a much better way to view it) went a long way to strategy throughout the game.

 

Affected the decision not to try a 53 yarder.

 

Affected the decision to go for it on 4th and 2.  It changed the odds of whether it was a gimme.  We're not hearing a lot from the anti-McD crowd but that certainly wouldn't be the case if that 4th and two failed and KC got a winning FG.

 

No to the bolded, the numbers said go.  It is scary to take those 4th downs but it was the right move to give themselves the best chance to win regardless of anyones confidence in Bass.

[Einstein's Dog]

41 minutes ago, Matt_In_NH said:

 

No to the bolded, the numbers said go.  It is scary to take those 4th downs but it was the right move to give themselves the best chance to win regardless of anyones confidence in Bass.

What numbers?  Whose numbers?  Can we look at the data they used?

 

Because no, generally the move would be to go up 5 with under 2 minutes to go. 

 

So the general analytics with mass data would suggest kicking the FG.  But this situation was looked at differently because of who they were playing and the QB they had.   Adjusting your decision to account for the specifics of the situation is kind of the opposite of doing what the numbers said.

[Sabres 2025]

He made the important XP at the end to put us up 9 points. Solid day from our kicker.

[Saxum]

10 hours ago, sven233 said:

In today's world, you'd think the league that just prints money, could find a way to put a couple sensors on top of the goal posts, or use some sort of computer program, that could virtually extend the goal posts high enough to remove all doubt on these types of kicks.  There is no reason you can't use technology to take all of the judgement out of these kicks.

 

The only reasons I can see are (1) NFLPA objecting and (2) Easier to rig games.

[RyanC883]

12 hours ago, Virgil said:

It looked like it went directly over the right goal post, which would be good.   No camera on the cross bar, so I don’t know how they would have overturned it.  
 

I think it was good 

 

they should prob put one there! 

[Heitz]

11 hours ago, stevewin said:

Its crazy they can't put a camera on each post to remove any doubt in these cases

 

Or