No NFL team missed more field goals last season than the Dallas Cowboys. So hiring former kicker Chris Boniol as a consultant seems like a good investment. Yet the Cowboys are taking a big gamble by asking Boniol to turn thumping kickoff specialist David Buehler into a precision guy. Buehler led the NFL with 29 touchbacks last season, but they didn't ask him to try a single field goal. He had a chance to take the job from Nick Folk during a practice-field "kick off," but was so erratic the team let Folk keep the job a little longer, then ended up bringing in Shaun Suisham. But early this offseason, coaches told Buehler to start working on his aim. They want him to win the job so badly that the only veteran they brought in was Boniol, and that was strictly for guidance. http://sports.espn.go.com/dallas/nfl/news/story?id=5223448
We use to have a coach just for the FG kicker, forget his name, he did a great job, but we dropped him which to me makes no sense since a coach doesn't count against the cap. We've struggle at the FG kicker since. He would bring in a no name every year and then when the kicker did really well he'd get more money from another team and we'd bring in another no name kicker and the same thing. I sure miss that coach.
