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Yeah, I think his confidence is totally shot. He's become an absolute liability. We'd be 3-0 if he could kick. He was pretty solid last year. Don't know if coaching is needed or if this dude is a lost cause. It's beyond a bad game now. He's totally flopped.
 
I have never been a Baxa fan seeing him live at the Kohl's kicking Showcase. This kid was a boomer on kickoffs, but never great on accuracy. If he were in another program he would strictly be a kickoff specialist.

My son was a kicker and I watched the game with him. During XPs he told me that twice he saw Jack Spicer place the ball on the hold with laces in. That is a speed of snap to quick hold technique issue. Getting it wrong is a recipe for disaster. I never saw any technique work done during fall or during warm ups. You can thank the great Todd Hartley for this special.

Our current commit Borregales (2021) is legit. https://247sports.com/player/andres-borregales-46058603/

If I am Manny I would hire this local guy as a consultant to help out Baxa
 
DTP said:
Yeah, I think his confidence is totally shot. He's become an absolute liability. We'd be 3-0 if he could kick. He was pretty solid last year. Don't know if coaching is needed or if this dude is a lost cause. It's beyond a bad game now. He's totally flopped.
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You can actually see the terror in his face when he’s asked to go in the game before FGs. It’s a mixture of lost confidence and total fright.
 
Liberty City El said:
This is one of the times where I actually agree with making a thread singling out a player.

Baxa's kicking is basura, no 2 ways about it & the difference between people overreacting to Garvin & a thread like this is that Garvin 100% without doubt will play better & produce as the season progresses... Baxa on the other hand is just simply not happening.

Teams in the NFL cut their kickers sometimes on a weekly basis, obviously we can't do that here, but we need to seriously consider other options because unless we step up our Red Zone offense we cannot afford to rely on Baxa to get us FG's from even within the 30-40yd range.

We have 2 other Kickers on the team both are Walk-ons, but we should see what they got in practice this week. I don't think the staff is going to go to another Kicker, but it's seriously become a liability & could cost us games down the line.
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Yup. And it's the difference between us being 3-0, and our current 1-2 record.
 
Last night after the first miss I said he was toast. He confirmed it. He’s given us no choice but to move on. Can’t trust him now, period.

That said, totally agree with those who say we should hire a kicking analyst. In fact, we should hire two positions, a kicking analyst and a special teams analyst.
 
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simplycanes said:
How Stoops looked at that kid and even thought "FG" is beyond me.
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Yes they should have just went for it on that 4th and 1. And if he was dead set on a field goal how about pick a play that runs to the middle of the field and if you pick up the first, great but if you don’t atleast you helped you kicker out by putting the ball in the middle of the field. Smh that’s was a corching move by ole stoops
 
DTP said:
Yeah, I think his confidence is totally shot. He's become an absolute liability. We'd be 3-0 if he could kick. He was pretty solid last year. Don't know if coaching is needed or if this dude is a lost cause. It's beyond a bad game now. He's totally flopped.
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I dont know if he was totally solid last year D. I think he was showing signs last year of what could come. Which is why I was mad manny didn’t bring in a back up plan like he did with our punter. Baxa is fecals, fecals is Baxa! Lol
 
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Liberty City El said:
This is one of the times where I actually agree with making a thread singling out a player.

Baxa's kicking is basura, no 2 ways about it & the difference between people overreacting to Garvin & a thread like this is that Garvin 100% without doubt will play better & produce as the season progresses... Baxa on the other hand is just simply not happening.

Teams in the NFL cut their kickers sometimes on a weekly basis, obviously we can't do that here, but we need to seriously consider other options because unless we step up our Red Zone offense we cannot afford to rely on Baxa to get us FG's from even within the 30-40yd range.

We have 2 other Kickers on the team both are Walk-ons, but we should see what they got in practice this week. I don't think the staff is going to go to another Kicker, but it's seriously become a liability & could cost us games down the line.
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It's already cost us at least one game (and probably two). The staff now needs to scheme strictly for four downs within the opponent's 40.
 
NicKane said:
I dont know if he was totally solid last year D. I think he was showing signs last year of what could come. Which is why I was mad manny didn’t bring in a back up plan like he did with our punter. Baxa is fecals, fecals is Baxa! Lol
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He wasn't perfect but he was generally accurate, especially for a freshman. I figured he would improve, as almost every kicker does over time but I was wrong. I'll take the L for assuming Baxa was gonna get better.
 
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