Back when I was in the newspaper business we had a word we used in headlines when shit was just all tossed up. The word was “woes.” And If there was any word to describe the Saints kicker situation in the last 12 months it would be, “woeful.”
In 2006, we cut John Carney and that was stupid. Saint Ashmo, in particular, hated the decision. Then we had a bad season with a bad kicker, Olindo Mare. He missed a lot of field goals and then did us a favor and got injured and we brought in Martin Grammatica who was good, at first. Then he started missing field goals and costing us games. So he was cut and Taylor Mehlhaff was brought in and was OK but then missed an extra point and was cut and tryouts were held and we signed Garrett Hartley and he was pretty good but he took an Adderoll while driving back to New Orleans from Dallas one night an now he’s suspended for four games.
So the Saints have up and resigned Carney. Nice move actually.