SP loves him some Wil Lutz
 

Sean Payton on Wil Lutz: 'Best kicking workout I've ever seen' - New Orleans Saints Blog- ESPN

Never heard SP gush like this over a kicker.

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Lol for some reason I find this hilarious.

Well, last time he said he'd watched the best position workout he's ever seen it was Delvin Breaux.

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That's right and Breaux has turned out pretty well.

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After 10 kickers in 10 years, either he doesn't know what good looks like, or we're just voodoo'd at PK. Better exorcise the demons out of his feet before game 1.

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You know why? Because you deserve to be here son...

LOL

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The way he spells his first name is driving me insane lol.

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I hope he's right!

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I think I read somewhere that he was somewhere in the 60% range + or -. Give him time with his coach and let him learn the ropes from a proven special teams coach who develops a proven system and he has the tools. Oh wait, we still have McMahon. Dang! Well, there goes that theory.

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Lutz better not be a PUTZ!

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what the hells going on over there, kicker in ,kicker out, other kicker out. rookie kicker hired, please tell me wth's happening in nola

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Sounds like a f**ked up version of the hokey pokey

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It's only a kicker. Who really cares?

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Lutz is listed on ourlads depth roster to take kickoffs.

Anything wrong with Morstead?
Lingering injury thats taken a bit of power out his leg or they just dont want to risk injury with kick offs

Just thinking outload.

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Morstead has said he would rather not kickoff. It is a totally different stroke. And with the new rule we may be seeing far more pooch kicks anyway.

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I could care less who's kicking off; as long as he can keep it on the field and not out of bounds; we're okay :doh:

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Not heard that
Just wondering if something was lingering. Be interesting how these new rules work. I think Payton might be right in these new rules causing more big hits than reducing them like the league want.

Once again the league ruining things by sticking their noses in

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For some reason I always cringe when Morstead kicks off. Have that fear that he is going to tear a quad or something.

I'd be elated if he gave that job up.

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I sure cared when we lost the Division, and a first round bye because our kicker couldn't make a 20 yard field goal a couple of years ago.

We make fun of these little buggers, but they are important. The Patriots don't win the Super Bowl in 2001 without Adam Vinatieri making long field goals in awful kicking conditions to get them there. And then he hit a long field goal to win another SB.

I'd like to have a kicker who's money in the bank like that.

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Just maybe; we've found one in Lutz...

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Here's hoping.

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Will he take a pay cut if he does? :confused:

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I think there's no question that Sean Payton also really wants a kicker who can reliably be THE GUY, and that has been his pattern, the whole time, of him constantly looking for THE GUY so he can have HIS GUY and stop looking for THE GUY and then stop worrying and fretting about it. After starting out with Karney and Olindo Mare, I think Garrett Hartley was kinda supposed to be THE GUY, and for a little while he definitely was THE GUY. People hate him but the emo kid set records in the Super Bowl, and got us out of the OT against Minnesota, for crying out loud. Payton tried to stick with Hartley, because he was supposed to be THE GUY, but when Hartley cracked up and wasn't THE GUY anymore, then Payton went back to the drawing board, back to the nerve-wracking OCD carousel of kickers, that we all know and hate him for. And so here we are.

I'm hoping that maybe this guy will be THE GUY. I mean, Payton obviously saw something in this guy, that must have felt better in his gut than BOTH the other two options, who to me were clearly just "guys" and not THE GUY.

At this point, we can only hope! But I share the feeling, that both of those guys we had, were okay, decent journeyman kickers, but they were not really THE GUY.

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Pats wouldn't have won the majority of their Super Bowl's without a kicker.

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Just means he won't be cut till week 4 is all that means.

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we really dont know how well Breaux is going to work out yet. Kenny V also looked good in his first year only to plateau the next 2. lets see how Breaux does as the number one guy.

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Vaccarro regressed after his first year.

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The entire defense regressed after his first year...

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This is true.

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the big question is this

is his name above the locker on medical tape, like so many other kickers before him or did he get a name plate.

give a man a name plate. now that is love

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I think Sean had the same philosophy as Buddy when it relates to kickers ...

“Football kickers are like taxi cabs. You can always go out and hire another one.” - Buddy Ryan

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I don't think he needs to. He wasn't hired to kick off. In fact McMahon told him to stop kicking at practice(dumb ass). After practice Payton saw him doing kick offs and Moorestead was given the job. He is a chess piece for Payton. When he punts they are boomers and he places them beautifully. He is the leg and worth every penny.

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I'm not sure if Payton is trying to copy Carolina with Gano.