Watching the playoffs again, i’m okay with Bass for now

[Billsfed1]

He might turn into one of those redemption stories ppl love so much.

 

He was gold in the playoffs when certain guys on the team folded.  Bring in some competition of course, but if I had to put money on it I’m thinking he’s the guy, at least for now.

 

Nothing would make me happier to see him do the reverse Norwood and lock one up for us.  If he does, it’ll be a lifetime contribution to the cats for me…no questions asked.

Edited yesterday at 02:46 AM by Billsfed1

[Brand J]

They should bring in legitimate competition for Bass, not a guy who had a 1% chance of unseating him during the regular season. If he wins the job again, great. 

[Miyagi-Do Karate]

34 minutes ago, Billsfed1 said:

He might turn into one of those redemption stories ppl love so much.

 

He was gold in the playoffs when certain guys on the team folded.  Bring in some competition of course, but if I had to put money on it I’m thinking he’s the guy, at least for now.

 

Nothing would make me happier to see him do the reverse Norwood and lock one up for us.  If he does, it’ll be a lifetime contribution to the cats for me…no questions asked.

Agreed. He was absolutely money in the playoffs. The Bass of old. You could tell too that the coaching staff had total confidence in him, as well.

[Ed_Formerly_of_Roch]

19 minutes ago, Brand J said:

They should bring in legitimate competition for Bass, not a guy who had a 1% chance of unseating him during the regular season. If he wins the job again, great. 

 

To bring in legit will cost money, likely a decent signing bonus if he is a true legit kicker.  Plus why would a true "legit" kicker sign with Buffalo when he knows unless Bass looks terrible, Bass will win the job as too much money invested in him and other than late in 2023 and early 2024, he's been a very good kicker.

[Draconator]

58 minutes ago, Billsfed1 said:

 If he does, it’ll be a lifetime contribution to the cats for me…no questions asked.

The kitties don't need a field goal to get what they need. (My wife and I have 5 cats, and possibly more when we get back from vacation. We can't help ourselves). 

[Brianmoorman4jesus]

He really rallied. I was done with him last year but, idk he sort of fought. He went from a guy that I was so confident in to a guy that I never wanted to see again but he fought. I appreciate that. I can certainly live with him going forward. Just clean up the silly short misses and keep going forward 

[UConn James]

Esp. when releasing him would come with a cap hit / dead money.

 

If we can move on from Sam Martin, however, do it tout-suite. The punt block-TD cost us the Rams game and his slowness to kick very nearly resulted in more blocks.
 

A new punter would mean a new holder for Bass, too. Which to me wouldn’t be a bad thing, because WRT to Martin… slow is slow.

[Nelius]

Bass cares, tries, adapts and is loved by the team. I think he got rid of the grandma eye black thing in an attempt for zero distractions and then nailed a 61 yarder. Josh loves him. There are many, larger issues.

[NoSaint]

1 hour ago, Ed_Formerly_of_Roch said:

 

To bring in legit will cost money, likely a decent signing bonus if he is a true legit kicker.  Plus why would a true "legit" kicker sign with Buffalo when he knows unless Bass looks terrible, Bass will win the job as too much money invested in him and other than late in 2023 and early 2024, he's been a very good kicker.

to be fair, we’d open up cap space cutting him at this point in the contract. 

[UConn James]

2 minutes ago, NoSaint said:

to be fair, we’d open up cap space cutting him at this point in the contract. 

I thought the dead cap hit was $8M last season iirc. It’s less for this year, but still not nothing.

[Brand J]

1 hour ago, Ed_Formerly_of_Roch said:

 

To bring in legit will cost money, likely a decent signing bonus if he is a true legit kicker.  Plus why would a true "legit" kicker sign with Buffalo when he knows unless Bass looks terrible, Bass will win the job as too much money invested in him and other than late in 2023 and early 2024, he's been a very good kicker.

I meant by drafting one with promise. You can usually get a good kicker from round 5 on.

[MJS]

1 hour ago, Brand J said:

I meant by drafting one with promise. You can usually get a good kicker from round 5 on.

And many of them flame out. It's still a crap shoot.

[Brand J]

11 minutes ago, MJS said:

And many of them flame out. It's still a crap shoot.

It’ll be a crap shoot either way - going with an unproven rookie, or continuing with Bass (who we know has had a case of the yips). 

[Sweats]

As long as you're okay with it........have you informed the FO about your feelings on this?!?

[HOUSE]

Are we giving the bass to the cats

I am confused ?

[Kelly to Allen]

He turned the corner, made an incredible kick vs Miami and then was perfect in the playoffs. 

[NoSaint]

8 hours ago, UConn James said:

I thought the dead cap hit was $8M last season iirc. It’s less for this year, but still not nothing.

its 1.6m less than his actual cap hit 

[eball]

9 hours ago, Miyagi-Do Karate said:

Agreed. He was absolutely money in the playoffs. The Bass of old. You could tell too that the coaching staff had total confidence in him, as well.

 

After the Miami kick, Bass was absolutely fine.  Even on his couple of misses after that he was just drilling the ball.  Whatever issues he had were fixed and there is no need to “worry” about our PK situation.

 

[BuffaloBillyG]

I think Bass's "troubles" were largely overblown by fans. 

 

Here's the thing, if you pay attention bro only Bills games (which I know many here do) you're used to seeing kickers from other squads convert FGs at an insanely accurate pace as it seems rarely does a kicker miss against us. 

 

If you paid attention to the rest of the league especially last year you would have seen that kickers all over the league were struggling. Flip on Red Zone one Sunday... seriously. At one point they showed something  like 10 FG attempts live over a 5 minute span and more than half of those missed...and many of those were from under 50 yards. Compared to the rest of the league Bass was darn near upper tier. 

[HamptonBillsfan]

10 hours ago, Billsfed1 said:

He might turn into one of those redemption stories ppl love so much.

 

He was gold in the playoffs when certain guys on the team folded.  Bring in some competition of course, but if I had to put money on it I’m thinking he’s the guy, at least for now.

 

Nothing would make me happier to see him do the reverse Norwood and lock one up for us.  If he does, it’ll be a lifetime contribution to the cats for me…no questions asked.

Bass is an example of a guy that may have needed to experience failure and come through it in order to find his way. He was money in the playoffs and I must admit I wanted him dealt anywhere or just released, but with tremendous support by Sean and his teammates, he proved something. Maybe he becomes dependably solid going forward.