justice98 Posted December 28, 2011 Share Posted December 28, 2011 Minus the blocks, he's been pretty decent. But he's gotta get a handle on the kicks out of bounds though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HTTR F Dallas Posted December 28, 2011 Share Posted December 28, 2011 We can all agree that he has looked shaky at times... but he has been great the past few games as well as hitting the Redskins career long at FedEx... He deserves another shot to prove he can kick 85% + next season. Besides a couple mistakes on kick-offs he has excelled there as well. Our entire team is going through growing pains and rebuilding, and he is right there with him.. At 24, he is a good prospect. Gaurantee he kicks for 85% next season... he'll be here for another 10+ seasons... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenspandan Posted December 28, 2011 Share Posted December 28, 2011 gano is alright. he set the franchise record for longest field goal this season, and his stats look worse than they really were because of the absurd number of blocks. he wasn't great, but to finally find a bit of stability at the position would be nice. we've had a kicker carousel going on pretty much since chip lohmiller left. the coaching staff has much higher priority things to focus on this off-season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bang Posted December 28, 2011 Share Posted December 28, 2011 Minus the blocks, he's been pretty decent. But he's gotta get a handle on the kicks out of bounds though. You realize he isn't the one deciding to kick it over there, right? He's got a coach who would rather play stupid little field position games (that never work) and ignore that Gano can kick it almost out of the end zone 90% of the time. ~Bang Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justice98 Posted December 28, 2011 Share Posted December 28, 2011 You realize he isn't the one deciding to kick it over there, right?He's got a coach who would rather play stupid little field position games (that never work) and ignore that Gano can kick it almost out of the end zone 90% of the time. ~Bang It doesn't matter who's decision it was, it's still his job as a professional NFL kicker to execute a directional kick when called upon, stupid call or not. And proper execution of a directional kickoff is not kicking it so it goes out of bounds at the 10. Directional kickoffs seems like it should be a pretty standard skill for a kicker, you should be able to handle that without screwing it up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bang Posted December 28, 2011 Share Posted December 28, 2011 It doesn't matter who's decision it was, it's still his job as a professional NFL kicker to execute a directional kick when called upon, stupid call or not. And proper execution of a directional kickoff is not kicking it so it goes out of bounds at the 10. Directional kickoffs seems like it should be a pretty standard skill for a kicker, you should be able to handle that without screwing it up. No, it entirely matters who's decision it was. Whether or not Gano can do it is WAY beside the point. Fact is he can kick it deep and get a touchback more than 50% of the time, and when he doesn't get the touchback, our unit is #1 in the NFL in covering kickoffs. Only a noodle brained idiot would try to do anything else. Cue Danny Smith. Directional kicking is the art of kicking the ball in a direction. NOT the art of making it bounce where you want it to.. because no one can predict how an oblong ball is going to bounce, no matter HOW much they try. But that is what Danny Smith does,, and as a result of the other team being smart enough to let the oblong ball bounce, we end up giving the ball to the other team on the 40 five times this year. The Redskins absolutely positively have NO reason to ever kick it anywhere but straight and deep, and yet that gum chomping idiot insists on trying to do something that A/ often results in the ball at the 40 (for anyone, not just us.) B/ ignores the strength of his own unit (You'd think he'd recognize this, given how badly his special teams fail in most everything else. You'd figure he knows what they're good at... but it would appear he does not. C/ ignores the strength of the defense. Smith feels he must compensate for them when he has no reason to. If there was ever a more crystal clear bit of evidence of why Danny Smith is a HORRIBLE special teams coach, it's the number of kickoffs out of bounds. It's not that his kicker can't do it. It's that his kicker has no business being told to do it at all. It is a penalty that is 100% avoidable on every single kickoff we ever kick. And in terms of field position, it is one of the costliest penalties in the game. If Gano kicked to the 10 or 15 every time, OK,, try and gain some field position out of it. But he kicks it 5-9 yards deep practically every single time he kicks deep. The other team doesn't bring it out more than half the time. And again, when they do, we're 1st in coverage. And yet Smith tries it again and again and again, and he has absolutely no reason to. ~Bang Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
issapunk Posted December 28, 2011 Share Posted December 28, 2011 No, it entirely matters who's decision it was.Whether or not Gano can do it is WAY beside the point. Fact is he can kick it deep and get a touchback more than 50% of the time, and when he doesn't get the touchback, our unit is #1 in the NFL in covering kickoffs. Only a noodle brained idiot would try to do anything else. Cue Danny Smith. Directional kicking is the art of kicking the ball in a direction. NOT the art of making it bounce where you want it to.. because no one can predict how an oblong ball is going to bounce, no matter HOW much they try. But that is what Danny Smith does,, and as a result of the other team being smart enough to let the oblong ball bounce, we end up giving the ball to the other team on the 40 five times this year. The Redskins absolutely positively have NO reason to ever kick it anywhere but straight and deep, and yet that gum chomping idiot insists on trying to do something that A/ often results in the ball at the 40 (for anyone, not just us.) B/ ignores the strength of his own unit (You'd think he'd recognize this, given how badly his special teams fail in most everything else. You'd figure he knows what they're good at... but it would appear he does not. C/ ignores the strength of the defense. Smith feels he must compensate for them when he has no reason to. If there was ever a more crystal clear bit of evidence of why Danny Smith is a HORRIBLE special teams coach, it's the number of kickoffs out of bounds. It's not that his kicker can't do it. It's that his kicker has no business being told to do it at all. It is a penalty that is 100% avoidable on every single kickoff we ever kick. And in terms of field position, it is one of the costliest penalties in the game. If Gano kicked to the 10 or 15 every time, OK,, try and gain some field position out of it. But he kicks it 5-9 yards deep practically every single time he kicks deep. The other team doesn't bring it out more than half the time. And again, when they do, we're 1st in coverage. And yet Smith tries it again and again and again, and he has absolutely no reason to. ~Bang I love how much you hate Smith, Bang. I agree. Our special teams has never been 'special', but manages to put us in so many positions to lose us games. Get a new ST coordinator and Gano will be fine. His coverage units are good, but he has costs us a game or more every year. Time to go Danny Smith. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bang Posted December 28, 2011 Share Posted December 28, 2011 Hell, it's not that I even want to hate Smith. But damn,, the evidence is there of how he loses us games, and yet he continues to stay. I consider myself a pretty knowledgeable football fan.. but I will be damned if I can see why he keeps his job. He is an anchor around this team's neck. Granted, the Redskins make enough mistakes in other areas to still be a pretty bad team, but.. if we got back every game Smith put us in position to lose over the last 7 years, we'd be talked about in the playoff discussions at this time of year. We wouldn't necessarily be considered good,, but i'd gather our special teams cost us on average of about 3 games per year. That is the difference between looking at the draft in December, or looking at the playoffs. ~Bang Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stadium-Armory Posted January 1, 2012 Share Posted January 1, 2012 That wasn't on Gano. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jfriedenthal Posted January 1, 2012 Share Posted January 1, 2012 That wasn't on Gano. There was about twelve things that went wrong with that, none of them Gano. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
graffjd Posted January 1, 2012 Share Posted January 1, 2012 replay showed laces were in and the ball was leaning towards the line of scrimmage, crazy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RemoveSnyder Posted January 1, 2012 Share Posted January 1, 2012 I'm waiting for bang to show up and cut into that debacle right before the half. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bang Posted January 1, 2012 Share Posted January 1, 2012 I'm waiting for bang to show up and cut into that debacle right before the half. I've got notes. ~Bang Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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