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KOD - Mike Vanderjagt (1 Viewer)
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MeVsMaradona
Footballguy
Please post when more is learned.
Futility
Footballguy
Plan A was going after Matt Bryant, a kicker who could handle kickoffs and wouldn't break the bank. They reached a
verbal/oral agreement and he reneged to re-sign with the Bucs. By then, the Cowboys has missed out on the Longwells & Vinatieris and were forced to spend big money on Vanderjagt.
bentley
Footballguy
Looks like you're right. And he's pissed about it.
Mike Herman
Footballguy
Bankerguy
Footballguy
FYI......
IRVING -- Proving that money isn't guaranteed to fix a thing, the Cowboys spent $2.5 million -- at least -- to repair a kicking situation that thus far remains a problem and a headache.
But they'll find out in the games that count whether their $2.5 million solution -- the NFL's most accurate kicker -- can begin to answer this problem.
Expect Mike Vanderjagt to kick Sunday.
Vanderjagt, who was inactive for the season opener, has been kicking with the first team in drills during practice, and might even kick off, an NFL source said.
"It's a weight off his shoulders," the source said. "He's very confident and in a good frame of mind. It's been a lot of stress on him as well. But he's got to come through now, and he will."
On Thursday, for the first time, Cowboys coach Bill Parcells entertained the thought of carrying two kickers on the active roster for Sunday night's game against Washington. In the past, Parcells has been reluctant to make such a move for fear of the trickle-down effect on special teams players and other positions.
Parcells said he would decide after today whether he would carry Vanderjagt and second-year pro Shaun Suisham, who made 1 of 2 field-goal attempts in the opener.
"We have to decide when we think it's time. Whatever you do could be wrong. It's one of those deals," Parcells said. "I don't really want to [carry two kickers], but we might."
It is clear the Cowboys coach is concerned that Vanderjagt's mind is not right. He has said as much.
Cowboys owner/general manager Jerry Jones is not concerned. He said as much after the Cowboys' loss, when Vanderjagt didn't make the trip to Jacksonville. Vanderjagt was, essentially, a healthy scratch as the groin problems that slowed him in preseason were gone.
And Parcells doesn't like the fact that Vanderjagt was erratic in training camp and bad in the preseason when he made 2 of 4 field goals, including a pair of short-range misses in overtime kicks in a 10-10 tie with Minnesota.
Vanderjagt, 36, said after that preseason finale he can flip a switch and make the kicks when they count. But regardless of that and his 87.5 percent career accuracy in eight NFL seasons, Parcells said he wants to see more.
Vanderjagt remains confident that he will make kicks when they count and that his 46-yard miss for Indianapolis in the AFC divisional playoffs in January has no lingering effect on his ability to make the next kick.
"I'm fine. I kicked all week," Vanderjagt said Monday. He has not made himself available to the media since then.
Either way, activating their big-dollar, off-season investment in Week 2 and not Week 1 was not what the Cowboys envisioned when they signed him in the summer.
After seeing three wins turn to losses last season because of poor field-goal kicking, the Cowboys thought they had solved that problem with Vanderjagt's arrival.
Since Vanderjagt entered the league with the Colts, he made 217 of 248 field goals, an NFL-record 87.5 percent. And in that time, the Cowboys have used Richie Cunningham, Eddie Murray, Tim Seder, Jon Hilbert, Billy Cundiff, Jose Cortez and Suisham to the tune of 180-of-241 (including last week), 74.6 percent.
"I think everybody anticipated when Vandy was signed here that our kicking situation was done and we'll go forward," Cowboys quarterback Drew Bledsoe said. "Hopefully it will get to that point, but it's not there yet."
ONLINE: dallascowboys.com
IRVING -- Proving that money isn't guaranteed to fix a thing, the Cowboys spent $2.5 million -- at least -- to repair a kicking situation that thus far remains a problem and a headache.
But they'll find out in the games that count whether their $2.5 million solution -- the NFL's most accurate kicker -- can begin to answer this problem.
Expect Mike Vanderjagt to kick Sunday.
Vanderjagt, who was inactive for the season opener, has been kicking with the first team in drills during practice, and might even kick off, an NFL source said.
"It's a weight off his shoulders," the source said. "He's very confident and in a good frame of mind. It's been a lot of stress on him as well. But he's got to come through now, and he will."
On Thursday, for the first time, Cowboys coach Bill Parcells entertained the thought of carrying two kickers on the active roster for Sunday night's game against Washington. In the past, Parcells has been reluctant to make such a move for fear of the trickle-down effect on special teams players and other positions.
Parcells said he would decide after today whether he would carry Vanderjagt and second-year pro Shaun Suisham, who made 1 of 2 field-goal attempts in the opener.
"We have to decide when we think it's time. Whatever you do could be wrong. It's one of those deals," Parcells said. "I don't really want to [carry two kickers], but we might."
It is clear the Cowboys coach is concerned that Vanderjagt's mind is not right. He has said as much.
Cowboys owner/general manager Jerry Jones is not concerned. He said as much after the Cowboys' loss, when Vanderjagt didn't make the trip to Jacksonville. Vanderjagt was, essentially, a healthy scratch as the groin problems that slowed him in preseason were gone.
And Parcells doesn't like the fact that Vanderjagt was erratic in training camp and bad in the preseason when he made 2 of 4 field goals, including a pair of short-range misses in overtime kicks in a 10-10 tie with Minnesota.
Vanderjagt, 36, said after that preseason finale he can flip a switch and make the kicks when they count. But regardless of that and his 87.5 percent career accuracy in eight NFL seasons, Parcells said he wants to see more.
Vanderjagt remains confident that he will make kicks when they count and that his 46-yard miss for Indianapolis in the AFC divisional playoffs in January has no lingering effect on his ability to make the next kick.
"I'm fine. I kicked all week," Vanderjagt said Monday. He has not made himself available to the media since then.
Either way, activating their big-dollar, off-season investment in Week 2 and not Week 1 was not what the Cowboys envisioned when they signed him in the summer.
After seeing three wins turn to losses last season because of poor field-goal kicking, the Cowboys thought they had solved that problem with Vanderjagt's arrival.
Since Vanderjagt entered the league with the Colts, he made 217 of 248 field goals, an NFL-record 87.5 percent. And in that time, the Cowboys have used Richie Cunningham, Eddie Murray, Tim Seder, Jon Hilbert, Billy Cundiff, Jose Cortez and Suisham to the tune of 180-of-241 (including last week), 74.6 percent.
"I think everybody anticipated when Vandy was signed here that our kicking situation was done and we'll go forward," Cowboys quarterback Drew Bledsoe said. "Hopefully it will get to that point, but it's not there yet."
ONLINE: dallascowboys.com
