Reaction to Draft: exceeds, meets, or meh

[Gary84Clark]

Originally Posted by Fiversons

Per Redskins SOP... We draft Hocker, he beats out Kobra Kai... We release Kobra Kai, he becomes a great kicker for another team.... Hocker kicks well for a few years, but we lose confidence and sign (insert Kicker) 2016... We release Hocker... Hocker becomes a great Kicker for another team as and then we sign/draft another Kicker in 2018....

ultimately field position is the objective of the game called football

[Dirtbag59]

Originally Posted by Gary84Clark

ultimately field position is the objective of the game called football

NFL new kickoff rules could be coming soon.
NFL owners will vote on moving kickoffs to the 40 | ProFootballTalk

At this rate they'll be able to randomly select fans to do kickoffs and still not worry about missing out on touchbacks.

On a side note let me back in the glory of me being right for 9th time in my life:

Originally Posted by Dirtbag59

7(228) Zach Hocker - K - Arkansas - Grade F - I know its a 7th round pick but it kind of feels like a waste. Ironically I wouldn't be surprised if he caught on somewhere else but yeah, maybe they wanted competition for Kai in camp and thought they couldn't sign Hocker to a UDFA contract.

Redskins draft: Jay Gruden on his team’s selections

“We got that extra pick in the seventh round and we had the extra pick and we felt good about the players that we drafted and we were wanting to bring in a kicker to training camp to compete with Kai [Forbath]. And instead of getting into the bidding process with every team come free agency, we thought we’d just go ahead and take one, the pick of the litter, so to speak.

#Winning #WL9-288,959,036 #TigerBlood #MessNeed2CleanUpTigerBloodStains #DowneyFastActing

[WillH]

Originally Posted by Dirtbag59

NFL new kickoff rules could be coming soon.
NFL owners will vote on moving kickoffs to the 40 | ProFootballTalk

At this rate they'll be able to randomly select fans to do kickoffs and still not worry about missing out on touchbacks.

On a side note let me back in the glory of me being right for 9th time in my life:



Redskins draft: Jay Gruden on his team’s selections


#Winning #WL9-288,959,036 #TigerBlood #MessNeed2CleanUpTigerBloodStains #DowneyFastActing

Good call, and I like that quote by Gruden. It sounds like a well reasoned strategy. Competition is good. Even if Kai beats him for the spot, that 7th rounder will result in a better kicker.