Just a reminder, if the Packers would have retained Don Chandler on a part time basis (he wanted to spend the first few days of the week at his business and fly in Friday and kick on Sundays) Phil Bengston's teams would have made the playoffs his first 2 seasons as they lost so many close games because of missed kicks. Go back and check who and how many kickers they brought in, they even had anyone off the street doing trials at Ashwabenon High School it got so bad. Points are a premium especially with a first time starter at QB and noting a below average in the red zone success rate with a Hall of Fame QB the year before. Everyone would like the kid to be the answer but their needs to be a Plan B and Plan C.

"I won't be concerned about our Kicker until Rich Bisaccia says otherwise."

I kind of thought he went with our 1st punt return specialist a little too long last season, don't you?

I really wonder if he or who was responsible for that?

As a former HS kicker (makes me a topic expert!) I agree that there should be a position coach for the kicker.
I'm guessing that the best ST's coaches are good at all phases.
I'm also guessing the kickers, like golfers, have their own personal swing coach and the ST's coach just watches tendencies so when things go bad, they can help bring them back into their groove.
For me, no matter who's kicking, I'm always nervous. Good luck Anders, Good luck Rich and Good luck Mason, no matter where your life/career takes you from here. You've always Carried the G in a very dignified and professional manner.
GPG!

And he did everybody's grandma.

Since we're talking ancient history, Jerry Kramer was also a placekicker - his FG stats are better than Hornung's, at 53.7% made. (29 of 54). For reference, Don Chandler was at 58.4%, so Kramer was actually a decent kicker.

My understanding is that Hornung struggled as a kicker, at least for awhile, after he was suspended for the entire 1963 season for gambling.
In other words, Hornung's accuracy as a kicker may have been better earlier in his career through the 1962 season.
Maybe you can affirm or refute this, Ferrari-Driver, and other fans could weigh in, too.
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I was born in 1962 in Columbia Hospital in Milwaukee, and a couple of years after my late dad was involved with a community group in South Milwaukee, I think the Jaycees.
He asked Bart Starr to speak at a group event, but he politely declined due to a prior commitment. However, my dad was able to get as a speaker a new basketball coach at Marquette named Al McGuire.
Anyway, the joke my dad told at the event -- apparently in 1964 -- was similar to the one noted above by Ferrari-Driver: Someone asked Paul Hornung about how he was doing, and he replied, "I can't kick."
I don't know if my dad had heard Hornung tell the joke previously, or where he got it, or if he made it up on his own coincidental to Hornung telling it. It seems the joke went over well with the audience, from the way my dad told the story.
Anyway, the kicker to the joke is that the phrase, "I can't kick," wasn't familiar to me growing up in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s, with high school graduation in 1980.
Apparently, it means, "I can't complain."
Maybe it's a Wisconsin thing like calling a water fountain a "bubbler."
We moved out of the state to suburban Houston about this time (maybe 1965) for a couple of years, then to suburban Philadelphia, later to suburban Chicago -- so somehow I became a devoted Packers fan from far away after the Lombardi Era (following the team from about 1971).

A game of inches, indeed. NFL history could have been much different if the correct call was made on Chandler's game-tying field goal. If Dallas could have converted from the Packers 2 year line in 1966, or if Bart slipped or Jethro Pugh got lower than low in 1967, teams could be playing for the Tom Landry Trophy. Or maybe Kansas City would have won two of the first four Super Bowls and the trophy would have been named after :shudder:: Hank Stram? (65 Toss Power Trap Trophy).

I don't know whether the kick for a field goal at the end of regulation was inside the uprights or not -- but it's worth noting that the Packers had beaten the Colts already twice that season of 1965, including a win in Baltimore just two weeks earlier.
With Bart Starr, the Packers were going to play those big games through with toughness and intelligence to the very end, and his record in the playoffs was 9-1 (although I understand that one of those wins was actually this matchup with the Colts as a tiebreaker playoff game, in which Starr was knocked out of the game with an injury on his very first play, and Zeke Bratkowski came through as the backup).
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The main point is that our current Packers of 2023 in all of their youthfulness need to develop this tenacity to play every game all the way through -- trying every legitimate tactic and expending every ounce of energy to come out on top.
In other words -- while there's no guarantee of victory no matter how well a team plays -- the Packers of the Lombardi Era largely made their own luck through disciplined and determined teamwork.
The legendary 68-yard touchdown drive in the 1967 NFL Championship Game against the Cowboys in the last frigid minutes on the literally frozen tundra -- culminating in Starr's winning quarterback sneak -- was the climax of all the years of common sacrifice for shared glory.
It seems the Packers of recent years have been finding ways to lose the biggest of games -- ending their past three seasons with devastating losses at Lambeau Field.
What I think we can indeed get from Jordan Love is a quarterback who leads the Packers in finding ways to win when it counts the most.
May Love realize that the true test of his career won't be mainly his stats, but his stature. His character from the most meaningless moments of the preseason to the highest pressure of the playoffs will be the key to putting the Packers over the top more often than not.
I'm excited to see Love not only throw precision passes all over the field, but developing as a leader of men.
That's how you truly become a Starr.

Wouldn't that be awesome if we have our next QB/PK combo in place for the next decade or so like we did with Rodgers/Crosby?

I think this season we should just score TDs. That way he can dial in on extra points to get the kinks out. If the worst happens, we'll make it up with 2 pointers the next time.