Nick Folk Is Perfect

by John B on May 27, 2010 9:28 PM EDT

Nick Folk hit every kick he attempted in practice today.

Today Folk responded with an impressive 4-for-4 finish to his day.

"I feel a little better today than I did the other day," the coach said. "Nick made all his kicks. I feel a little better about that."

"Oh, yeah. That's all right," Folk said about last week's remarks from his boss. "It's a learning curve right now. We're still learning, getting together and working out the kinks. It's a slow process, but today I think we showed a great deal of confidence in our operation and it showed pretty well in the results."

This is good news. I think people have been too quick to judge Folk. He was a Pro Bowl kicker until a hip injury messed up his mechanics. Kickers fluctuate a lot from year to year. A big bounce back year is certainly possible.

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Good news.

But since Stitser was released I think we should bring in Stover or Tiffen for competition.

by Bob_The_Friendly_Baker on May 27, 2010 9:40 PM EDT reply actions

i agree
stover is def an upgrade over folk, better still. if the colts dont resign vinatierri, how about him?

by servantofchrist on May 27, 2010 9:54 PM EDT reply actions

How the hell is Stover an upgrade over Folk? His season long last year was 43 yards. I could kick FGs further than that.

by Exystence on May 28, 2010 8:35 AM EDT up reply actions

Then maybe you ought to try out :-)

Go Jets
Go Devils

by FrankG929 on May 28, 2010 1:41 PM EDT up reply actions

Yeah, lets not overreact to wheather he has a bad day or even a good day. The only kicks that matter are still months away.

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by Ryan Alfieri on May 27, 2010 9:54 PM EDT reply actions

kicker is a very important position,it is never too early to panic.lol

by dreaux on May 28, 2010 7:27 AM EDT reply actions

i still wish we had feeley back

by realsouthace on May 28, 2010 8:08 AM EDT reply actions

FG success at the very least is the most random thing in the sport of football. Feely wasn’t perfect, Folk won’t be either. I’ve been saying it all offseason since his release, Feely is just as prone to start missing kicks left and right as Folk is to get hot this year. You seriously never know.

Everyone’s been overvaluing Feely. We loved him for his tenacity and competitiveness, plus he had that awesome streak. Did you know however that since the streak ended, he was 22 for 28—just 78.6%? If you include the playoffs, he’s 25 for 33—just 75.8%. That’s below average. Folk did a lot worse last year obviously, but he’s too talented to stay that bad. And neither has proven to be very clutch anyway. I like Feely as much as any Jets fan, but if we really lost anything in the FG kicking department—which has yet to be seen—then we didn’t really lose much.

by Exystence on May 28, 2010 8:50 AM EDT reply actions