I forgot to add that Ryan Longwell was 2-2 from 50 or beyond, but obviously, he's also primarily an indoor kicker.

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Game by Game Look..

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Yes... those above numbers are Crosby's.

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I don't really care if they bring somebody else in or not really. The only "meaningful" competition would require somebody with enough NFL real-game experience to add the necessary credibility to give them any consideration.

Anybody else would have to kick every ball sticking up off the ground dead through the uprights basically the entire camp to even have a remote chance.

I am slightly worried about Crosby but only with what's going on in his head and not at all with his talent. I think there is something to be said about the head games that can start happening when they start missing kicks....no matter how far out they are asked to kick them from.

Now Crosby's going to say he should have made them all and that's how you want them to think but I can't help but believe that the misses, regardless of the distance, started to get to him. He didn't look as confident out there late last year.

McCarthy might have to look at that when he's talking about "putting the player in the best position to be successful." Do you send them out there every time there's an outside shot at 3 or do you monitor that so you have a kicker who will nail a 48 yarder when you need it?

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It's an interesting trend that Shawn has brought up. I wish I had the statistical tools at hand to analyze whether the differences are statistically significant. There are certainly possible explanations: it's possible that in the losses, he was being put in a worse position; e.g., our offense was stalling earlier and he was having to attempt harder kicks. It would be interesting to compare relative proportions of different-length kicks in the various games. In the games in which his completion percentage was lower, was he attempting longer kicks on average?

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Crosby is not that bad.

OK, let's say we cut him and bring in another K. Almost guarantee you that he'll have similar numbers to Crosby. Why? Because GB is a sucky place for FG Kickers. That's just something we deal with because we play REAL football, not any of this dome b.s. And we play in a real cold place.

I'll tell you what. Come to California in September. Kick 100 FGs at varying distances.

Then go to Green Bay in December and kick 100 FGs at varying distances.

For some strange reason, your stats are going to be considerably better in California. And not just marginally better, considerably better.

GB is the one place that when a Kicker is drafted, he absolutely doesn't want to go to. "Please don't pick me. Please don't pick me."

"And the Green Bay Packers pick Kicker, Joe Blow."

"Nooooooo!"

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