New Packer kicker Brayden Narveson nailed a 59-yard field goal with the Titans in the preseason.

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Can we be honest about something? The Packer kicking situation is a tire fire. Like most fans I will hope that Brayden Narveson starts nailing kicks next Friday night and doesn’t stop for the rest of the season, but as we sit right now, on August 29th the year of our Lord 2024, it’s a mess.

You spent a draft pick on Anders Carlson last year, he was pretty ‘meh,’ you brought in veteran competition, you brought in no-name competition, these guys all kicked for 30 days of training camp and preseason, and the result on cut-down day was that we still had no confidence in what we had.

They cut Carlson on Tuesday, Greg Joseph had the job for 18 hours, then he was cut on Wednesday morning.

Enter: Brayden Narveson. He kicked at NC State, then signed as an undrafted rookie free agent in Tennessee. He was never going to win that job with Nick Folk on the Titans, but he performed well enough (6/7 on field goals, 2/2 on XP) to get looks from teams with, shall we say, ‘uncertain,’ kicking situations. Enter: The Green Bay Packers.

So now we’ll see what this kid can do. Brian Gutekunst and Matt LaFleur both met with the media before practice yesterday and LaFleur seemed, in a word, exasperated with the questions about his kicking game.

Hot Seat: Rich Bisaccia. And you know what? He should be on the hot seat. We talked about that on the podcast A LOT last season. They made him the highest paid special teams coach in the league a few years back and outside of lucking into Keisean Nixon as an All Pro kick returner, he hasn’t done a whole lot of anything. The new kickoff rules add a different dynamic this year, but overall the coverage units still stink, the kicking game stinks, tons of penalties, it’s like nothing changed. I suppose they’re slightly better than the disastrous 2021 unit that cost them a playoff game, but that’s like being the first airship after the Hindenburg. Nowhere to go but up.

Anyway, let’s all hope that Narveson seizes this job and can hit bombs the way he did in the first video on the blog. And that was a BOMB. Would have been good from 65. In the Narv-Dog we trust (?).

PS: Degenerate Sports Brain (DSB): When they signed Brayden Narveson yesterday, my first thought was to check if he was related to former Brewer pitcher, Chris Narveson:

He is not.