Will Kicker Shopping Start With Eddy Piñeiro?
March 23rd, 2023
Update: Carolina re-signed Piñeiro. The upside of the Bucs cutting 36-year-old kicker Ryan Succop today is now they can sign a better and younger kicker.
And Bucs officials want a younger team.
They made that clear last month at the NFL Scouting Combine.
Succop was too old to expecting him to improve his game.
Joe has an eye on Panthers free agent kicker Eddy Piñeiro. The former Gators kicker was an undrafted free agent signee of the Raiders in 2018. Chucky loved the guy.
Piñeiro was then traded to the Bears after the season and won the Chicago job and proceeded to hit only 82 percent of his field goal attempts in 2019. (Succo hit 81.6 percent last season). A groin injury knocked Piñeiro out of the 2020 season before he bounced from Indianapolis to Washington to the Jets in 2021. His only kicks that season were for New York and he was a perfect 8-for-8 to close that season.
In 2022, he scored a free agent deal with the Panthers and had a great year, as fantasy football players know very well. Piñeiro was a stunning 33-for-35 on field goal attempts, including a perfect 2-for-2 from 50 yards or more.
If the Bucs want to get younger at kicker but stay experienced, and land a hot kicker with experience in the heat, Piñeiro could be an affordable choice for a multi-year deal.
Joe watched Piñeiro choke away arguably the wildest game of the regular season, the Panthers’ 37-34 loss to Atlanta in Week 8. He missed an extra point in regulation and a 32-yarder in overtime, but he was lights out the rest of the season.
March 23rd, 2023 at 5:46 pm
Why don’t the Panthies want Eddie? I love Eddie.
March 23rd, 2023 at 5:56 pm
Draft the kicker from Michigan Jake Moody!
March 23rd, 2023 at 5:58 pm
Speaking for Pablo
“Pablo has been very quiet and embarrassed when his hombre, Roberto Aguayo, kicked like mierda…..then the Bucs passed on Cairo Santos……and didn’t resign Nacho……Pablo is bummed out. Pablo pleads for Pineiro.”
March 23rd, 2023 at 6:00 pm
Licht is definitely going to draft a kicker in the 4th round this year lol.
March 23rd, 2023 at 6:10 pm
What’s the rush?
March 23rd, 2023 at 6:31 pm
No rush. We’re going to draft one late if Licht is able to get one he likes. If not, then you add one off the street. And don’t count out Jake Verity, already on the roster.
March 23rd, 2023 at 6:39 pm
Dreday don’t act like Camarda wasn’t special teams MVP picked in the fourth last year. But without a fourth round pick, I’m sure he won’t be getting a kicker at that point in the draft.
March 23rd, 2023 at 7:07 pm
How much will he cost?
If he will work for $1.5-$2M per season and he can make a field goal longer than 45 yards than he will be an upgrade over Succop.
March 23rd, 2023 at 7:13 pm
Thanks Succop, he stabilized the Bucs kicking. However, we do need to at least be 70% hitting the 50 yarders ( just my opinion)
March 23rd, 2023 at 7:15 pm
SOEbuc said – “Dreday don’t act like Camarda wasn’t special teams MVP picked in the fourth last year. But without a fourth round pick, I’m sure he won’t be getting a kicker at that point in the draft.”
Only two punters were taken in the entire draft last year and the Bucs got the 2nd of the two. Chances are good that they could have picked Canales up off the street since nobody else apparently needed a punter.
March 23rd, 2023 at 7:22 pm
Oh, and only one FG kicker was taken in the entire 2022 draft – Cade York, also in the 4th round. No other kickers were drafted. He made 75% of his FG kicks for the Browns.
March 23rd, 2023 at 7:25 pm
we could have had a kicker for the next 10 years in matt gay, but they pulled the plug too early for whatever reason…
dude has straightened out, no pun intended 🙂
March 23rd, 2023 at 7:27 pm
Mack, if we would have picked Canales as a punter who would of called plays
in Seattle? lol
March 23rd, 2023 at 7:43 pm
Welcome back Pablo.
You are the fresh scent of purple Fabuloso that this place needed.
Can I get some more chips and salsa when you get a chance?
March 23rd, 2023 at 7:54 pm
ScottyMack Says:
March 23rd, 2023 at 7:15 pm
SOEbuc said – “Dreday don’t act like Camarda wasn’t special teams MVP picked in the fourth last year. But without a fourth round pick, I’m sure he won’t be getting a kicker at that point in the draft.”
Only two punters were taken in the entire draft last year and the Bucs got the 2nd of the two. Chances are good that they could have picked Canales up off the street since nobody else apparently needed a punter.
^^^^^^^
Bills took a punter in the 6th Round. Camarda was well worth a late 4th Round pick if you watched the games.
March 23rd, 2023 at 8:31 pm
Speaking for Pablo
“Pablo forgot the Bucs going with Succop instead of Jose Borregales….another Pablo hombre. Pablo thinks Pablo’s Bucs may just be raci$t.”
March 23rd, 2023 at 8:43 pm
Should have let Suck go last year, probably would have been fine with Borregales or someone else. Same thing now.
March 23rd, 2023 at 8:45 pm
shhhhhh…a guy named Jake
March 23rd, 2023 at 8:46 pm
Yo LUV its on baby….
March 23rd, 2023 at 9:19 pm
Hey Pablo is back.
Hola hermano !
March 23rd, 2023 at 9:23 pm
Don’t use a draft pick on kicker.
If the bucs can’t find a free agent kicker screw em all.
March 23rd, 2023 at 10:03 pm
What does Pablo think about the Trask Suppression Conspiracy?
March 23rd, 2023 at 10:04 pm
Don’t we have a kicker that we loved on the practice squad?
March 23rd, 2023 at 10:45 pm
I kind of like Jake Verity, who is already on the team and is making peanuts in comparison to some of his peers. Wouldn’t put it past Licht to draft one, but I also wouldn’t put it past Licht plucking a K from the UDFA pool.
March 23rd, 2023 at 10:51 pm
panthers resigned him
March 24th, 2023 at 12:02 am
With Baker Mayfield at quarterback our best chances of scoring points is our kicker
Thank god we are in the market to find the best one
March 24th, 2023 at 1:24 am
Bad move to cut Succop. How quickly fans forget the horrible kicking woes this team had before him!
And within 50 yards he was great: 94%
I’m okay with never attempting a field goal beyond 50 yards and punting to pin the other team back, if it means you’ll make 94% of your fg attempts and 96% of extra point attempts.
March 24th, 2023 at 1:33 am
Couple of things:
* The majority of field goals that are attempted (league-wide) are in Succop’s wheelhouse.
* You should never kick a 50+ yard field goal unless it’s the last possession of the first half or for a game-winner. Odds are it’s a miss. That’s a turnover at midfield.
March 24th, 2023 at 5:55 am
What Joe said!
You play to lose … You lose!
March 24th, 2023 at 8:08 am
Trade for Matt Gay! LOL
March 24th, 2023 at 8:22 am
“kickers had made a record 72.3% of 50-yard field goals this season, which comprise a record 22.7% of all attempts.Oct 18, 2022”
So Joe why only try at the end of a half?
March 24th, 2023 at 8:48 am
Jake Verity is already on our Team, signed to a futures Contract. Look him up and Watch! The Kid is the real deal. Take a look
March 24th, 2023 at 10:36 am
Verity I think Is the kid I was thinking of
March 24th, 2023 at 11:00 am
Draft Jake Moody.
March 24th, 2023 at 8:38 pm
Draft Christopher Dunn NC State…. Solid kicker the best in 2023 draft….
March 25th, 2023 at 12:47 pm
Thanks, DoooshLaRue, “fresh scent of purple Fabuloso”, now I have that smell in my mind’s nose.
Dare we have our GM try and draft yet another FG kicker, with fans/bloggers supporting it? Even if they are like any other 5-6-7-UDFA draft choice in their success percentage rate? Be a refreshing kick in the arse to get our lungs started we all sometimes occasionally need. If they did.
Go!!!!! Bucs!!!!!
March 25th, 2023 at 2:54 pm
I’m not sure why the Bucs never tried using Jake Camarda for the 48 plus FG attempts. He kicks long FG really well. Has a history both punting and kicking. Go look on youtube if you don’t believe me. He banging 55-60 yard Fgs with ease. The trajectories are high too, not just line drives these kicks would go past a line 6 yards away. 12 ft high six yards away is what (according to coach Huerta) it needs to be.
How could no one in the press even bring this potential possibility up? 3.7 million is why Succup is gone that’s top tier kicker money and he’s not that at this point in his career. Good luck Ryan. We appreciate your consistency and professionalism. I hope you get a few more years living the dream