Is Kicker Top Priority?

Hall stinks it up. We need someone with some leg. I can't stand seeing teams start near or at the 40 yard line. What happened to Novak, he was a great rookie. Maybe could have made that game winner against San Diego, and maybe would have made a crucial kick in the Seattle playoff game. Plus Hall is constantly injured and costs over 1Mil on the cap, dish him out to Buffalo or somethin.

I believe after Hall's string of injuries, he's toast. Let's face it, when your range ends at 45 yards, something is wrong. That shouldn't be THAT difficult of a field goal for an NFL kicker. I know I'm not qualified to say, but I've always felt that a 45 yard field goal is somewhere in the moderate range of difficulty, but not a breaking point. I don't mind if we have one of those deals where there is a field goal kicker, a seperate kick off guy, and of course a punter.

As it stands right now - a kicker is a priority, but it isn't the TOP priority. That title would go to getting a Wide Receiver.

1. Kicker is not nearly the #1 priority. In fact it may not even be #4.

2. What happened to the John Hall Adoration Society? When he arrived here from the Jets, his digning was one of the great thefts of NFL talent in history - - if I were to believe The Warpath threads at the time. Just last year when the Jets missed the playoffs because their kicker missed field goals in playoff games, people here chortled because the Skins had stolen the kicker who would have put the Jets "over the top". And now he's a bozo such that his replacement might be the team's "#1 priority"? Hall is a good but not great kicker; that's what he was when Danny Boy signed him and the rest of the "Jetskins" and that's what he will always be. If the Skins want a great kicker, it will cost them a lot more than they have been paying for Hall.

1. Kicker is not nearly the #1 priority. In fact it may not even be #4.

2. What happened to the John Hall Adoration Society? When he arrived here from the Jets, his digning was one of the great thefts of NFL talent in history - - if I were to believe The Warpath threads at the time. Just last year when the Jets missed the playoffs because their kicker missed field goals in playoff games, people here chortled because the Skins had stolen the kicker who would have put the Jets "over the top". And now he's a bozo such that his replacement might be the team's "#1 priority"? Hall is a good but not great kicker; that's what he was when Danny Boy signed him and the rest of the "Jetskins" and that's what he will always be. If the Skins want a great kicker, it will cost them a lot more than they have been paying for Hall.

He's not a great kicker as you say, but the problem is that he's gone from being a good kicker in 2003 to being below serviceable. Injuries surely are to blame, but what's the sense in paying a kicker that can't kickoff more than 50-55 yards and can't make 50+ yard FGs $ 1.8 million? I know that given needs on WR#2 , O-line and Defense that we can't afford a Vinetieri or Vanderjagt, but we can surely get some competition into camp to give Hall a run for his money.

Hall's stock has fallen because he just can't seem to stay healthy and it's definitely hurt his power.

I don't think we'll cut him outright without having a solid replacement, I think he'll be challenged in camp, and not by some camp fodder kicker who's just there to keep him company.

I dont think John Hall was ever completely healthy this year.... was it a hamstring??? anyone that has played knows they will always be a nuisance till you rest them...but Hall is a good kicker......

I agree with you guys on Hall...it's time to let the garbage out...As for Frost, dont worry about it, Tupa will be back next year....The real question would be is there going to be a FA Kicker out there for us to pick up...because we dont have the draft picks to waist on a Top Kicker coming out of college.

I agree with you guys on Hall...it's time to let the garbage out...As for Frost, dont worry about it, Tupa will be back next year....The real question would be is there going to be a FA Kicker out there for us to pick up...because we dont have the draft picks to waist on a Top Kicker coming out of college.
I think we need 1-2 WRs and a pass rushing DE more than a kicker, who I am sure we won't draft, we'll either go with a vet, an undrafted rookie, or John Hall if he gets his act together. When I was at Madison he was kicking there, touchbacks all the time and a MUCH bigger leg than he has now. He is gimpy.

John Hall is a kicker that we can win with, and a kicker that can help us win. He is a very good kicker. For all you bozos out there that don't understand that, maybe you should go back and take a look at the late 90s/ early 00s. We would have killed for what we now have in John Hall.

John Hall is a kicker that we can win with, and a kicker that can help us win. He is a very good kicker. For all you bozos out there that don't understand that, maybe you should go back and take a look at the late 90s/ early 00s. We would have killed for what we now have in John Hall.

I agree with you about the 90s and 00s, but that was also the same time that Hall was in his prime...Now that we have him in the MID 00s, he's hurt to much for his salary and doesn't kick the ball deep anough on kickoffs for his salary...