Re: Should the Saints get competition for Hartley?
 

I wonder if Morton would come back? :wink:

Re: Should the Saints get competition for Hartley?
 

Oh.... You said competition.... I could have sworn you said compensation:grin:

I hold my hands over my eyes when he kicks extra points now.

Re: Should the Saints get competition for Hartley?
 

ugh Im holding my breath when he lines up to kick.... I wish Kasey was kickin I no he Is money from the 30 n closer Hartley its oh please don't miss !

Re: Should the Saints get competition for Hartley?
 

Hartley is garbage and Kasay is only a little better. We need a real kicker.

Re: Should the Saints get competition for Hartley?
 

I think Lawrence Tynes is going to be available...just sayin'...

Re: Should the Saints get competition for Hartley?
 

Jason Hanson, K, Lions is out there also. dome kicker that can still handle the out doors. which maybe key in the playoffs. hit nearly 90 percent of his field goals with a couple from 50-plus.

Re: Should the Saints get competition for Hartley?
 

He's long in the tooth, but Jason Hanson is the bomb. Although veteran minimum for him would probably be larger than the minimum for others, since he has been in the league since 1956 or something. Still I would love to see what he could do.

And there is no conceivable kicking situation that Hanson has not seen before, which I sometimes feel is part of Hartley's problem -- like the ridiculous injury on grass in Oakland, or the one where Hartley gets iced by a timeout and makes it, then missing the second identical attempt, or the overtime FG against the Falcons. It just seems to me sometimes like a lot of Hartley's unpredictability is the kind that comes from "learning on the job" when he is stuck in a new or unfamiliar situation or when he makes "head case kicker" mental mistakes.

Re: Should the Saints get competition for Hartley?
 

As in, he's a FA? Or are you saying he'll be cut?

Wasn't he one of the better kickers in the league last year?

Re: Should the Saints get competition for Hartley?
 

Isn't Steven Hauschka available?

Re: Should the Saints get competition for Hartley?
 

YES, without a doubt. No confidence in him since the superbowl run.