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I get what you mean... He is not the direct cause. Agreed. But he's the head coach. It's his issue. The way I interpret the kicking performance at Temple vs now is that at Temple, you had different kickers and, I am assuming here, some different coaches working with those kickers. Our coaching...

This. People are molding their memories to fit their narratives. It's why the same people are also getting caught completely fabricating things. I'm not arguing that Wells may have been struggling with consistency in practice or in warmups, but facts and video evidence refute the suggestion that...

Weird... Isn't it odd when people on one side of a debate are just consistently fabricating stuff? It's almost as though the facts don't support their argument. Just bizarre I tell ya. NO NO NO. That COULDN'T be it. Because... Practice. Yeah. That's it. Because he was missing really really...

Good god man. Try to keep up. Are you actually reading posts or just rapid fire responding? I didn't have a point about Ankiel. I sarcastically posed a rhetorical question to someone else who apparently believes basketball comparisons are apples and oranges but who took no objection to a...

No, not really. He started 2/2. He got benched without missing a kick. Then he missed a single XP. Got benched for 5 more games. Got brought back out and went 4 for 5, missing one FG. You guys are making it sound like he was completely inept. Even with his supposed practice struggles, he was...

And this is called moving the goal posts. You completely made stuff up and I provided factual data to call you out. Now you're claiming that I'm making stuff up. I used to umpire and I watch a lot of baseball. I couldn't begin to give you a list of the pitchers that have trouble finding the zone...

Me: Practice performance doesn’t equal game time performance. You: But I heard he wasn’t kicking well in practice. Me: Practice performance doesn’t equal game time performance. You: But I heard from sources in the know that he was really really bad in practice. Me: Practice performance...

This, also, is unequivocally false. I have seen more times than I could possibly count pitchers wildly missing the zone in their warmup pitches and never once have I seen them yanked. Just keep making stuff up though.

I was being sarcastic. It was a rhetorical question. Apparently a baseball comparison is acceptable but a basketball comparison is wildly incorrect. Good grief. Part 1 of why this is a horrible comparison: It completely misses the point. Wells had demonstrated no issues in the game, but in...

This is utterly absurd. Of course that's not my logic. We're talking about a slump, or "yips" as some have called it. Wells wasn't kicking well in practice/warmups. He didn't have a broken leg. Let's at least try to be intellectually honest, shall we? I also have not flatly stated that Wells...

But the Rick Ankiel comparison was spot on, right?

I would love to be able to really take that wager. No one cares if the guy balls out at game time. Find one example in the history of basketball in which a coach has even intimated that an established shooter was benched because he hit a slump in practice.

1. You weren't at practice either. 2. You don't understand what a strawman is. 3. You're still missing the point. Wide right. Way wide.

Warmups are not games. Practices are not games. Dude was 50 for 50 in games. By this logic, if Steph Curry goes 0 for 20 in warmups, you're going to bench him, right?

Yes. When a kicker is 50 for 50 over his career, but has a few bad weeks in practice, yet you don't have a replacement that is clearly better, you dance with the one that brought you. No, I don't think that's how it works at all positions. For those that have an established track record, I think...

You totally missed both points. My initial point, stated quite clearly, was that I don't care what happened at practice. Kicking is such a mental game and Wells had such a strong track record on the field that it's my opinion he should have been given ample opportunity on the field. He was 50...

I'm not suggesting the "yips" don't exist. I was suggesting that even IF someone develops a mental block (the "yips") they don't lose the physical ability to kick (or throw) the ball. People here keep speculating that Wells developed these yips without any evidence, while suggesting I am the one...

1. It's not at all speculation. It's based on comments CGC made himself. 2. A kicker that went 48 for 48 doesn't just magically lose the ability to kick and cease "having it". 3. No, I didn't state anything of Wells' confidence. I'm telling you that Wells was the superior talent and got...

Wells can kick. He was 9 for 9 in 2018 on FGA, including 4-4 between 40 & 49, and 39 of 39 on XPs. Then the coaches started playing mind games to artificially manufacture "competition", completely dismissed Wells's previous on-field performance based on performance in practice, and replaced him...