New Kicker?

[maryvillenative]

Agree, if we stop the 4th down TD pass or the 2 pt conv. game over. The missed FG was our 3rd opportunity to win

Exactly! All that or score seven when UGA turns the ball over in their own territory also late in the 4th quarter. Max is the easiest to blame, but the TEAM lost that game.

 

[Vol Farmer]

There’s a good kicker out of South Fulton High School that should at least be looked at

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Isn't Max a true freshman? Give the kid a break.

Agree and disagree with this to some extent. We don’t want to throw the baby out with the bathwater, but he needs to take a step forward. Usually some carrot and some stick are needed from the coaches, unless he’s really internally motivated. Anyhow, slagging him on a public forum is probably not productive.

 

[Volanta]

We need to upgrade our kicker position

 

[VOLINVONORE]

Max didn’t “lose” the Georgia game, he failed to win it. Sounds like semantics but there is a difference. We were tied when he missed the kick and could have won it in OT. Max gave us the lead in OT with a kick from almost the same spot. The defense failed to hold it.

There were many failures in the game. Most notably, the TD on 4th down, the 2 point conversion (where there was a total bust on D on the play), the offense only gaining 1 yard in OT and the defense getting immediately gashed after the FG in OT and ultimately giving up the winning TD. Max (and the FG unit) was one of the few people to actually DO his job in OT. Yes, you can say his miss put us there. But all the blunders BEFORE (clock management and false start too) his miss put him there. It’s a team game and the team lost that game.

I trust CJH and the coaches that he was our best option this year. If they feel the position needs to be upgraded (like Defensive Coordinator), I trust them to go get someone better. Or get a sports psychologist to get Max better prepared to face that situation if it ever comes up again.

That’s one way to look at it. However, the outcome of the ball game depended on his kick and he failed to make it. The snap was good the hold was good but the kick was not good. If he’d had made it, we win. He missed and we lost. Seems pretty simple where the problem was.

 

[Volinnooga]

His job is to kick field goals and he failed to make one he should have made. It cost us the game against one of the top seeds in the country He missed another makable field goal and flirted with missing a couple of extra points I would like to see completion during the off season to make st we have our most accurate kicker kicking for us next season. If is our best, he is the guy.

Sure he missed the FG but there are plenty of plays throughout the game, if executed better, would not have put him (or the team) in a position where we had to have a FG. No games comes down to only one play.