Shame of the Game - Bengals

[Brian Fein]

Lamar Miller could fumble 4 times, all of which get returned for TD's, and Carpenter misses a garbage time FG when they're down by 20, and you give it to Carpenter?

[Pappy13]

I am going to nominate Carpenter every week until he makes all his kicks.

How many weeks in a row can this guy miss field goals and still have apologists?

(Clay sucks, though.) 

When he starts missing from inside 40, then I'll be right there saying get rid of him. Maybe Miami needs to be a little more cautious in sending him out there from over 45? Not everyone just trots out their kicker from that distance and expects him to make them all especially if it's at the end of a game or overtime. He has the leg for it, but does he have the accuracy or is this just a slump? Lots to consider. No reason to be hasty about it unless there's a surefire upgrade out there not just hitting FG's but can match or at least come close to Carpenter's leg on kickoffs. He's a big reason that opposing teams have an average start position of inside the 20 on kickoffs.

[BigDaddyFin]

How many weeks in a row can this guy miss field goals and still have apologists?

I'm not appologizing for the guy.  But I also remember the days when Nick Lowery and Scott Norwood and Matt Bahr couldn't make field goals of more than 47 or 48 yards.  So to me if you're kicking 45+ yards all the time and your kicker goes cold, that says more about your play calling than it does your kicker.