Three Kickers, Three Weeks, and No End in Sight

The kicker situation has become its own category of problem. I wrote about it first on October 15, flagged it again on the 16th, and here we are — still without a settled answer at the position. Three kickers in three weeks is not a depth issue. It's a structural failure at a spot the Rams cannot afford to leave unresolved.

The timing makes it worse. This team is already short a star receiver for the next six to ten weeks, has Myles Garrett on IR, and has been patching the secondary with whatever is available. Every close game this season is a potential one-score game, and last year's Rams already struggled in those — winning fewer than half of their games decided by a possession. A kicker carousel does not fix that math. It makes it uglier.

My read is that the front office needs to stop treating this as a week-to-week transaction and commit to someone. The position has been a revolving door long enough that it's now a genuine liability, not a footnote. When a team is this banged up everywhere else, the last thing it can absorb is a missed field goal in the fourth quarter of a game it needed.