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K Mike Nugent (All American, Lou Groza Winner, National Champion)

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He was great. Been my kicker for a while now in a keeper league. Kicked everyone's arse this week.

I think the Bengals will get better in the Red Zone though when they start running Hill more. I think he'll be able to pound the rock better than Bernard.
 
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The Bengals might finish more drives and score more TDs in the future, but they always get in scoring position and Nugent hardly ever misses. He is consistently a top fantasy kicker, yet nobody takes a flyer for some reason.
 
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brodybuck21 said:
3 missed fg's yesterday. not a good day for Nugent
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The 55 yard attempt before halftime was a shit decision. He's never hit a 55 yarder in the pros, he had wind at his face (not much, but still some wind), and with how efficient Dalton has been (I'm probably jinxing myself now), why not chuck one to the end zone and let Sanu try and make a play?
 
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The 55 yard attempt also would have been 45 or less had Sanzenbacher not been flagged for holding on the edge on an earlier gain that series. Nugent didn't exactly shank the kicks either. They were well struck but faded a few feet outside the posts after looking initially like they were on line.
 
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Dryden said:
The 55 yard attempt also would have been 45 or less had Sanzenbacher not been flagged for holding on the edge on an earlier gain that series. Nugent didn't exactly shank the kicks either. They were well struck but faded a few feet outside the posts after looking initially like they were on line.
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They were nice kicks, don't get me wrong. Just a horrible play call on that 55. I don't disagree with any of the other calls to kick it at all. He was on fire last week.
 
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Bengals re-sign Mike Nugent

On a wild day of action across the NFL on Sunday, the Bengals quietly kept putting away their own players. Cincinnati re-signed kicker Mike Nugent to a two-year contract, first reported by NFL Network.

The agreement keeps Nugent from hitting the free agent market when the new league year starts on Tuesday.

The Centerville native will make $2 million each of the next two seasons with $250K each year tied to incentives. The deal serves as a rise for Nugent, who made $1.5 million average per year on his previous two-year contract.

Entire article: http://www.cincinnati.com/story/blogs/2015/03/08/report-bengals-re-sign-mike-nugent/24626477/
 
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REMEMBER WHEN: A PLACEKICKER SAVED OHIO STATE'S SEASON, REPEATEDLY

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Typically our Remember When series deals with events beyond almost all living memory, but this time is a little different.

The very first thing that I wrote for Eleven Warriors, way back in those heady days of 2010, was about kicking. I made a Simpsons joke, made fun of Lydell Ross, and generally extolled the virtues of just one guy being essentially the only functioning part of Ohio State's offense in the early days of the Tressel era. To wit:

...What if there was a team so incompetent offensively that the kicker became the most consistent scoring weapon? What if that kicker shared his name with a man who once laid down some serious riffs in a loincloth? What if that team was the 2004 Ohio State Buckeyes and that kicker was Mike Nugent?

Part of the reason that I thought this might make for a good Remember When? is because under Urban Meyer, the field goal kicking game has become increasingly less important. In his first year as head coach, Ohio State attempted 11 field goals, which is 15 fewer than Jim Tressel's team did in his last season at Ohio State.

In fact, Tressel's teams averaged 24.5 field goal attempts a year, whereas Urban's teams have only sent out their field goal unit an average of 14 times a year. The reasons for this should be fairly obvious, but I'm worried that as we revel in an orgy of red zone touchdown conversions, we're forgetting a truly incredible run by one of the greatest Ohio State placekickers of all time.
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Under Urban Meyer, Ohio State will probably never see the likes of a Mike Nugent. Not because of a lack of available talent, but because the conditions that would allow for a placekicker to become team MVP for an entire season would lead Meyer to permanently swear off football and head to a cave in Tibet for a few years.

Which makes me a little sad! Sure, thanks to some incredible athletes I've been able to witness some truly incredible stuff over the past five years or so, but nothing will top sitting in Block O as a baby-faced sophomore and losing my mind because I just watch a dude become a folk hero by nailing an impossible field goal.

Entire article: http://www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio-...acekicker-saved-ohio-states-season-repeatedly
 
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