That's right, Hopkins was unproven, but did just as good as Hocker and they made the wrong choice and we ended up on a kicker carousel until we picked up Lutz. When Lutz went on IR, went back on the carousel. Lutz had a down year last season, you could see when he was kicking last season he wasn't comfortable and something was still bothering him. I don't believe he was fully healed up from his core injury and it effected his kicking. He started getting better towards the end of the season last year. As I said earlier, Lutz has been nailing kicks from 50+ and he nailed a few from 60. Can Grupe hit those, we don't know since he hasn't attempted any yet in camp or in preseason. I would stay with what we know in Lutz and keep Grupe on the PS or trade him to a team that needs a kicker.
Nothing against Grupe, I believe he is a good kicker, but I've just seen him make short and midrange kicks. What can he do from further out, we don't know. Hopefully we see if he can in tomorrow night's game.