Kickers - yes they're players too

**iggyman555** · 02-01-2013, 03:16 PM

no one is really talking about the kicking game but tucker > akers IMO. tucker has major confidence right now while akers had 2 weeks to think about his missed fg against the falcons and sucking the whole year. i think both kickers can kick it out of the end zone so that's a positive for both. overall i like TUCKER

p.s. andy lee is a great punter and so is koch so thats a tie.

**Paintballguy** · 02-01-2013, 03:22 PM

I'm definitely taking Tucker over Akers. Akers has been missing everything.

**bmore finest** · 02-01-2013, 03:29 PM

Tucker all day!!! Did you see him flowing? Love the young man. He is a Raven.

Tucker is the better kicker, Akers is ok, but he has sucked this year. Hope it continues.
Hope tuck boots all kickoffs out the end zone. GO RAVENS

**Ravenswintitle** · 02-01-2013, 03:31 PM

yeah I hope they ask Akers to make a clutch kick or two... I don't like his chances

**Bigfish** · 02-01-2013, 03:34 PM

Stuck in mind is the Denver game, I don't remember a kicker loosely joking around and grinning at such a pivotal moment. If the game comes down to kicking, we got it.

**RavenScallywag** · 02-01-2013, 03:46 PM

Can you believe that in 2012, David Akers made a 63 yard FG? And it WASN'T in Denver?

**kronusthebonus** · 02-01-2013, 04:03 PM

I was watching a video w/ Tucker and 3 other players. Dude is hilarious, he's all , "Guys, I'm flexing so hard right now you don't even know". Funny as hell, I he's here for a long time.

**cjandrze** · 02-01-2013, 04:11 PM

Imagine how this guy is feeling right now too.

UDFA Rookie comes in and TAKES the starting job right away from Cundiff. I know he blew it last year but he played up to par in pre-season.

Clutches it up all year long actually winning more than a few games for us (including the legendary Denver Game)

And is now part of a Super Bowl Team.

There is absolutely no fucking way we are playing in this Super Bowl with Billy Cundiff.

Thanks a lot Tucker!

**AirFlacco** · 02-01-2013, 04:56 PM

Tom Matte always said FG kickers are not football players but he sure loved it when Jim O'Brien won SB 5 with a FG
with 3 seconds remain.

He owes his ring to the kicker.

**alien bird** · 02-01-2013, 05:10 PM

Originally Posted by iggyman555

andy lee is a great punter and so is koch so thats a tie.

Lee sometimes will out-kick his coverage with a low line drive, so watch out for Jacoby Jones and a big return.

**FlawlessVictory** · 02-01-2013, 05:37 PM

PUNTERS ARE PEOPLE, TOO!

**AirFlacco** · 02-01-2013, 05:41 PM

Yea, remember the Koch punt in Denver that put their backs vs the goal line when
Jimmy made that great open field tackle?

It was a turning point in the game.

**Ravenalytics** · 02-01-2013, 05:51 PM

Originally Posted by cjandrze

Imagine how this guy is feeling right now too.

UDFA Rookie comes in and TAKES the starting job right away from Cundiff. I know he blew it last year but he played up to par in pre-season.

Clutches it up all year long actually winning more than a few games for us (including the legendary Denver Game)

And is now part of a Super Bowl Team.

There is absolutely no fucking way we are playing in this Super Bowl with Billy Cundiff.

Thanks a lot Tucker!

He was also on the 49ers briefly. He missed two trips to the Super Bowl.

**Baltimoreboy** · 02-01-2013, 06:14 PM

Originally Posted by AirFlacco

Jim O'Brien won SB 5 with a FG
with 3 seconds remain.

And like Tucker he was a rookie.
Four years later he got hit in the face with a beer bottle by the ex husband of a girl he was talking to in bar.
Messed up his eye,cut his career short.

**iggyman555** · 02-01-2013, 06:16 PM

**BcRaven** · 02-01-2013, 06:37 PM

Originally Posted by cjandrze

... UDFA Rookie comes in and TAKES the starting job right away from Cundiff...

I wish we had him last year... Bc

**lobachevsky** · 02-01-2013, 07:58 PM

2002: Tuck Rule?
2013: TUCKER RULES!

**RavenScallywag** · 02-01-2013, 08:09 PM

Originally Posted by Baltimoreboy

And like Tucker he was a rookie.
Four years later he got hit in the face with a beer bottle by the ex husband of a girl he was talking to in bar.
Messed up his eye,cut his career short.

He made the NFL list for Top 10 One Shot Wonders. It's amazing he made that kick, considering he missed several EASIER FGs throughout the season.

**AirFlacco** · 02-01-2013, 08:29 PM

Originally Posted by Baltimoreboy

And like Tucker he was a rookie.
Four years later he got hit in the face with a beer bottle by the ex husband of a girl he was talking to in bar.
Messed up his eye,cut his career short.

Yea, damn shame.

Jim said he didn't even know the gal. She just sat next to him at the bar. He got a tryout with the Giants
later on and didn't make the team but said his heart wasn't even in it.

Actually, Jim was a complete football player because he doubled as a WR and wasn't too bad either. You
never see that today so Matte gave Jim a break on that one.

I remembered that Jim O'Brien story the a few weeks ago when a guy was karaoke singing and his wife came up to
me at the end the bar and got a little too close. I kept looking around for her
husband and said I gotta go to the bathroom and slipped out the back door. I'll tell ya man, the girls in that bar talk with their boobs.

**AirFlacco** · 02-01-2013, 08:34 PM

Originally Posted by RavenScallywag

He made the NFL list for Top 10 One Shot Wonders. It's amazing he made that kick, considering he missed several EASIER FGs throughout the season.

Yea, I couldn't even watch it just like Tucker's kick. Too nervous, just like Earl Weaver when he stood in the tunnel
to the locker room and smoked a pack of cigs when a certain reliever was on the mound-lol. He would come
in with the bases loaded and send a long fly ball deep to the outfield every time but the guy always caught it to retire
the side. He drove Earl nuts.