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12-07-2010, 04:53 PM
By Bob Labriola - Steelers Digest
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Another pretty day in Pittsburgh it was. Cloudy, with a high near 25-degrees, with a westerly “breeze” at 14 miles-per-hour, with gusts as high as 25 miles-per-hour. Very nice if you’re a penguin or a polar bear. Not so much if you’re auditioning for a job as a punter.
Tuesdays seem to be the day the Steelers choose to audition kickers. They did it in 2002 when they found Jeff Reed, and they did it again several weeks ago when they found Reed’s replacement. This time it was for a punter.
Another Tuesday, another shopping day for the Steelers, because they needed someone to take the place of Daniel Sepulveda, who tore the ACL in his right knee for the third time since 2006 in the win over the Ravens in Baltimore last Sunday night...................
..............The things that may have been the difference for Kapinos were his age – at 26 he’s still at a time in his life where improvement is still a possibility – and in the fact he can handle kickoffs and hold for placements.
“We’ll determine that over the course of the week,” said Tomlin about whether Kapinos will hold for the Steelers. “Really, we’ll rely on the comfort level Shaun (Suisham) has in the candidates.”
And such is life for a kicker in the NFL. Two weeks ago, a bunch of players in the Steelers locker room didn’t know Suisham’s name, let alone how to pronounce it, but after clutch performances in Buffalo and in Baltimore, he gets to pick his own holder.
Read more @ http://www.steelers.com/news/article-1/Kapinos-fit-Steelers-criteria/c3005410-a6ac-441a-9627-43cd07d916d1
Posted 51 minutes ago
a (http://www.steelers.com/news/article-1/Kapinos-fit-Steelers-criteria/c3005410-a6ac-441a-9627-43cd07d916d1#)
a (http://www.steelers.com/news/article-1/Kapinos-fit-Steelers-criteria/c3005410-a6ac-441a-9627-43cd07d916d1#)
Another pretty day in Pittsburgh it was. Cloudy, with a high near 25-degrees, with a westerly “breeze” at 14 miles-per-hour, with gusts as high as 25 miles-per-hour. Very nice if you’re a penguin or a polar bear. Not so much if you’re auditioning for a job as a punter.
Tuesdays seem to be the day the Steelers choose to audition kickers. They did it in 2002 when they found Jeff Reed, and they did it again several weeks ago when they found Reed’s replacement. This time it was for a punter.
Another Tuesday, another shopping day for the Steelers, because they needed someone to take the place of Daniel Sepulveda, who tore the ACL in his right knee for the third time since 2006 in the win over the Ravens in Baltimore last Sunday night...................
..............The things that may have been the difference for Kapinos were his age – at 26 he’s still at a time in his life where improvement is still a possibility – and in the fact he can handle kickoffs and hold for placements.
“We’ll determine that over the course of the week,” said Tomlin about whether Kapinos will hold for the Steelers. “Really, we’ll rely on the comfort level Shaun (Suisham) has in the candidates.”
And such is life for a kicker in the NFL. Two weeks ago, a bunch of players in the Steelers locker room didn’t know Suisham’s name, let alone how to pronounce it, but after clutch performances in Buffalo and in Baltimore, he gets to pick his own holder.
Read more @ http://www.steelers.com/news/article-1/Kapinos-fit-Steelers-criteria/c3005410-a6ac-441a-9627-43cd07d916d1