Justin Tucker's Future and Kicking Dilemma in Baltimore

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00:00All right, now let's have the uncomfortable conversation, which is the kicking situation

00:07in Baltimore, where Justin Tucker, as soon as he's done in five years, is going to be

00:11the next kicker that gets into the Hall of Fame.

00:12I think Vinatieri will get in, and then is Vinatieri in?

00:15Maybe he's in already.

00:16I don't know.

00:17But Vinatieri is going to go in, and then it'll be Tucker.

00:21And so the thing is that, Vinny, I don't mind a kicker like Tucker who hits and misses some,

00:27but I think the thing for me with the Ravens moving forward is he was always that guy that,

00:32like betting on the Ravens, you knew the game was going to be really close because he was

00:35going to make all of their kicks, and it would be a three-point game.

00:39I don't know how Baltimore makes a change here.

00:41I don't think that they can.

00:42I think the Ravens just have to hope things get figured out, and then maybe they part

00:48ways with him at the end of the season.

00:49I'm not really sure what's going on here because I don't know how to identify kicking success

00:53or failure.

00:54Yeah, I think just missing some things that you expect.

00:59Sometimes you're a victim of your own success where you have such a high standard that you

01:04set because of what you've done.

01:05I mean, he's got the all-time record.

01:07I mean, someone tried to beat it.

01:08Joey Sly couldn't quite make that 68-yarder, but then you realize, wait, he made a 66-yarder

01:14in his prime when he was a kicker, and you're going to fade a little bit when you get older.

01:17I mean, we forget about that, right?

01:20Everybody gets old.

01:21The leg is not going to be as strong, and it's a delicate situation to bring up, and

01:25there's some guys that have defied that, like a Phil Dawson or a Robbie Gould, somebody

01:29like that, but Tucker just may not be that guy, the way he's built, and he might just

01:33be wearing down, and that can happen at kicker, too.