Cowboys Kicker Conundrum: Sign Star - Or XFL/USFL Leg for Camp?
The Dallas Cowboys sided with kicker Brett Maher just ahead of the 2022 season, and it worked out just fine. Maher has made four of the five longest field goals in team history during his time in Dallas, after all.
Things were fairly solid with Maher ... until this happened. In the playoffs.
Maher botched FOUR extra points in Tampa Bay and set a record for the most missed PATs in an NFL game. He has not been brought back to The Star.
Now the Cowboys are sort of without a kicker, as the only candidate on the roster is Tristan Vizcaino. He has a leg, sure, but the 26-year-old has played just 10 games in his NFL career, going just 10-15 on PATs and hitting 11 of 12 field goals with a long of 47 yards.
Coordinator "Bones'' Fassel has talked about "anyone on earth” being a candidate. The team has also talked of adding a guy from the XFL or USFL. And known names like Robbie Gould, Ryan Succup and Mason Crosby have come up.
Is there some method to the madness of waiting this late in the game to nail this thing down? Our Mike Fisher reports via a source inside The Star that Dallas "does have a plan,'' though the details are not known.
The Cowboys waited until August to sign Maher last season, and it worked out fine. Is that the strategy again? There will be competition with Vizcaino, we know that. But we wonder in what way a minor-league kicker is superior to a proven NFL commodity ... and Cowboys Nation hopes the trust the organization has put in Fassel to make a winning call is rewarded.
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