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Message: <blockquote data-quote="adambr2" data-source="post: 792090" data-attributes="member: 7277">Today dropped Mason's career FG percentage to 79.8%.  Mason's reputation far exceeds his actual career accuracy.  In this day and age, kickers under an 80% career FG mark are almost unheard of.   Most kickers who can't maintain 85% or better are unemployed quickly.  I'm certain that among active kickers, 79.8% is either the lowest career mark or one of the lowest.Why Crosby has earned a reputation as one of the best, I'm not certain.  People seem to mistake longetivity for accuracy.  He's never had a season over 90% in 12 NFL seasons.  For comparison, Dan Bailey, who was recently unemployed, currently has 4 in 8 seasons.  Justin Tucker, who has a career average over 90%, has 5 in 7 seasons. Yes, he's made some clutch kicks, as will any kicker by circumstance over the course of 12 seasons.  He's also missed some, as we saw against Minnesota.People love Crosby.  But most of his support is based on not really quantifiable arguments -- "He's made some big kicks for us", "He's one of the best", and a lot of that support is simply the status of being a Packer for a long time.  But making an actual statistical argument for Mason being one of the best in the game is much more difficult.  If you actually analyze his career statistically and remove emotion from the equation, he's one of the most overrated kickers in the game, to put it bluntly.</blockquote>

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