What to do with Nick Folk?

and hasn’t cost us a game yet. It’s one thing to almost miss a PAT and another to actually miss it (ask Detroit). He’s been good enough and has won us more games then he cost us. My memory is a bit shaky, but he’s only missed 1 makeable kick so far (I don’t consider anything around 50 to be makeable on an ordinary basis). I can’t imagine any current FA being better.

Plus at least he’s been working in the Meadowlands all year and knows how the wind goes and what not. It’s one of the hardest places to kick, and if you bring someone in it means they have 5 days to prepare after Folk has been preparing to kick at the Meadowlands all year.

He came to the Jets with the worst % inside the 30 yard line. What does that tell you?

Is that we’re using it too much. I almost hope Folk gets worse and this team STOPS playing like a field goal is even a damn option in the red zone. When we NEED a touchdown, magically the right calls are made and we zoom in. When a field goal is an option the play calling reverts to terrible conservative crap, blows our rhythm and we end up settling for three (or worse, zero).

We should have absolutely torn the Vikings to shreds to the point that Favre’s late game resurgence was meaningless. What did we end up with instead? Five field goals. Five. Turn two or three of those into TDs and that game is over before the forth quarter comeback attempt.

For a team that considers it to be so ground and pound there is NO reason we should EVER send out the kicking team on 4th and 1 or 4th and 2, particularly past the 50.

nate kaeding has been the most accurate kicker in nfl history and he’s given us 2 playoff victorys. mike vanderjagt was incredible and then butchered that kick against the steelers. when it comes playoff time and the gm is on the line i would worry no matter who the kicker is.

Folk hasn’t been bad enough yet to give up on, but I understand the concern. I have a feeling that with the season on the line, this guy is going to miss an easy one.

Lets score more so a kicker is less important to the overall team success/… (with the exception of last game) Lets have the defense hold a 4th quarter lead and not let the other team drive down and tie/take the lead. The whole team can be better, to put the Jet’s struggles just on the kicker over the past month+ is what is crazy imo. And like you said there are no better options out there so why complain about it?
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We picked up a kicker who was chased out of his last city at the bottom dollar to save money for other areas of the team, what are we expecting here a kicker who is automatic everytime? Like other players with baggage that we got Folk at a reduced who had a pro bowl year but has since struggled, if we were paying this kicker 2+ million a year then maybe I would be more willing to place blame on him but for what we paid I think Folk is doing a pretty good job.

Look at that sideline versus kickers, The one with Curtis Martin on the Ring of Honor side. Look at the Patriots kicker missing a chip shot week 2, then Folk’s miss and the Cincinnati Kickers miss, that sideline has more misses than hits in my opinion

Oh and for what we got Folk for we Also got Jason Taylor so who would you rather have, A feely or a Folk WITH JT

in fact there have been a couple of wtf moments. But, his powerful leg drove us through a couple of wins. Baltimore would have been ours, but if I remember correctly that wasn’t all his fault.

It’s not that I’m blindly optimistic. I’m just wondering who we could possibly replace him with that would be an upgrade. Don’t say Jeff Reed. If you say Jeff Reed you haven’t been following the Steelers.

When it comes to kickers, we are totally snakebitten. We’re never going to get our own version of Adam Vinateri or Garrett Hartley (the post-season version) or Matt Stover. The only way that we are going to make it all the way is if we can win without a reliable kicking game. And we wouldn’t be the first team to win with an unreliable kicking game – the 07’ Giant had Lawrence Tynes…and no one would ever accuse him of being “Mr. Automatic”