ROBBIE GOULD RELEASED!!!

I won't compare two because it's too short of a window to compare stats.  You can if you like but I use stats every day of my life to analyze financial issues and investments and there are not enough data points for accuracy using just 2014 and 2015.

On top of that you'd have two outliers to consider.  One for each.  2014 is the single worst year of Robbie's career in which he was injured and missed four games and it was the single best year in Barth's career yet he only played in 5 games and had just 16 attempts that year.  So we'd have to throw one of the last two years out anyway as not being useful for statistical accuracy.

What alternative should I use then?  Four years?  Fours years and take out 2014 altogether?

End of an Era for sure. He has some Bears records.

His time was over, will be interesting to see if we will draft a new Kicker in Round 5/6/7

Well if we want to compare the very latest stats we have from the preseason then we can do that.

Robbie's KO's averaged 67.2 yds vs 64.0 for Barth.  So the leg power advantage would seem to go to Robbie here and that's been an issue some have griped about.

Barth only attempted one XP and made it in addition to two FGs made out of two attempts; a 33 and a 40 yarder.

Robbie attempted 3 XPs made one, missed one, had one blocked.  He attempted 6 FGs and made 5 of them, his longest was a 43 yarder and I can't recall the exact yardage of the miss but it was over 45 yards if I recall correctly.  He was 3 for 3 on FGs in the Cleveland game missed one XP and had one blocked.

On the basis of all this I'd still have to give Robbie and edge over Barth or looking at it differently then Robbie certainly didn't perform poorly enough to lose his job to Connor Barth if this had been a preseason competition between the two.

I think the bottom line here at least to me is this was a decision based entirely on saving cash and cap dollars neither of which was all that critical.  We had ample cap space to sign Sitton even after having extended Long's deal if the cap hits were apportioned well but I also suspect Pace front loaded them because he had around $20 mil of cap space so all of that was his decision not what he was forced to do and for the most part Robbie was as much a cap casualty as he was released due to his sub par performance.

I could live with the decision a whole lot easier had Robbie lost a competition to a better PK but that isn't what happened and IMHO Connor Barth is not a better option than Robbie Gould.  Just a cheaper one and sometimes you get what you pay for.  We'll see.

I am guessing you have never been to Colorado between October and April. Denver is the extact opposite of a low wind, warm weather city.