Butker is the best kicker not named Justin Tucker. If Tucker didn't exist, the NFL as a whole would be consistently telling the world that Butker was the best kicker in football, period.
Amazing that some CPers were weeping about a few missed XPs and demanding he be traded/cut just a little while ago. Dipsticks.
Originally Posted by Megatron96:
Butker is the best kicker not named Justin Tucker. If Tucker didn't exist, the NFL as a whole would be consistently telling the world that Butker was the best kicker in football, period.
Amazing that some CPers were weeping about a few missed XPs and demanding he be traded/cut just a little while ago. Dipsticks.
Yeah, I'd like to try to make an argument that Butker is better than Tucker but I just can't.
Tucker is unbelievable. He once had a year where he went 10/10 on kicks longer than 50 yards. He's made 174 of 177 kicks inside of 40 yards and 95% of his kicks over his career of less than 50 yards. Oh, and since 2016 he's hit on about 85% of his kicks over 50 yards. He had those 2 weird years where he really struggled from long distances. In those 2 years he missed 11 kicks over 50 yards. He's missed 7 in every other year of his career combined.
Originally Posted by DJ's left nut:
Yeah, I'd like to try to make an argument that Butker is better than Tucker but I just can't.
Tucker is unbelievable. He once had a year where he went 10/10 on kicks longer than 50 yards. He's made 174 of 177 kicks inside of 40 yards and 95% of his kicks over his career of less than 50 yards. Oh, and since 2016 he's hit on about 85% of his kicks over 50 yards. He had those 2 weird years where he really struggled from long distances. In those 2 years he missed 11 kicks over 50 yards. He's missed 7 in every other year of his career combined.
Dude's just a monster.
And he sings like an angel.
Fortunately, kicking is a function where players don't compete against each other, but rather they compete against perfection. Tucker can be as good as he wants, but if Butker is also near-perfect, I'm happy.
Originally Posted by DJ's left nut:
Yeah, I'd like to try to make an argument that Butker is better than Tucker but I just can't.
Tucker is unbelievable. He once had a year where he went 10/10 on kicks longer than 50 yards. He's made 174 of 177 kicks inside of 40 yards and 95% of his kicks over his career of less than 50 yards. Oh, and since 2016 he's hit on about 85% of his kicks over 50 yards. He had those 2 weird years where he really struggled from long distances. In those 2 years he missed 11 kicks over 50 yards. He's missed 7 in every other year of his career combined.
Dude's just a monster.
He's basically the Steph Curry of place-kicking. I have a co-worker that's from Maryland, so I've heard every stat Tucker owns, and he owns them all.
And not just during his career or in the last 20 years, but in all of NFL history. And it's not close. At all. Tucker is not human.
Maybe Butkicker is the Larry Bird, whatever. I can live with that. Larry Bird was a beast in his own right. Butker is far better than whoever is third, and that's not terribly close either.
Originally Posted by Megatron96:
Butker is the best kicker not named Justin Tucker. If Tucker didn't exist, the NFL as a whole would be consistently telling the world that Butker was the best kicker in football, period.
Amazing that some CPers were weeping about a few missed XPs and demanding he be traded/cut just a little while ago. Dipsticks.
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At some point in the recent past, NFL kicking hit an inflection point. In the past, fans were happy when a kicker made a 50+ yard field goal because they didn't really expect it to be good. Now they're unhappy when a kicker misses a 50+ yard field goal because they expect it to be made. As a result, I think we're too harsh on our kickers.
Butker is the best kicker who ever lived on the planet.
The only criticism I can find of Tucker seem to come from the SDH types of Ravens fans, who argue he's been Kershaw like in his postseason performances (a God in the regular season but critical misses in his playoff opportunities). Most Ravens fans argue it's a sample size/field conditions issue. Their fandom is all hoping he can add a few signature playoff moments to his resume.
That 66 yard field goal just put him in a different category for me. There's Tucker and there's everyone else.
