With David Akers' struggles continuing Sunday, the 49ers tried out unemployed veteran kickers Billy Cundiff and Nate Kaeding on Tuesday, Matt Maiocco of CSN Bayarea reports. The tryouts were first reported by Scout.com, and confirmed by a league source. Cundiff missed 32-yard field-goal attempt in the closing seconds of the AFC championship game prevented the John Harbaugh's Baltimore Ravens from tying with the New England Patriots. He was cut by the Washington Redskins earlier this season, he made just seven of 12 attempts in five games. Kaeding is the most-accurate kicker in NFL history. He played all nine of his NFL seasons with the San Diego Chargers. He has made 180-of-207 career attempts (87 percent), but, like Cundiff, Kaeding did not have success in the postseason with some costly misses for the Chargers. Source: The Redzone
akers had such a monster year last season and remember his 63 yarder was just from earlier this year ............. not sure why he's struggling so badly.
Niners shaking crap up...lol. Can't remember a team in their position this late in the season switching QBs and now looking to switch kickers too.
good point. it is rare for a winning team to be mixing things up so much this late in the season. we'll see if it works out.
