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Vanderjagt Visits With Saints; Olindo Mare Wants You to Know He's Sorry

Oct 9, 2007 – 7:54 PM
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Tom Mantzouranis

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Hey everyone! Olindo Mare's 3-of-7 start? His two missed field goals Sunday against Carolina? All water under the bridge, because Mare is taking full responsibility!
"There are no excuses," Mare said. "I was brought here to make field goals, and I did half of that (on Sunday). Obviously, I'm disappointed. I felt I could make the 20-yarder (blocked by Julius Peppers). Until I see it (on film), I don't know. But if I hit it low, then I don't have any excuses. It's obviously my fault."
Whew, well that's a relief. I was still deciding whether to place the blame for those botched kicks on Mare of Drew Brees. Glad the decision has been made for me. Unfortunately, Mare's terrible kicking has been a large part of the team's 0-4 start. So unless he's got a time machine that I don't know about, accepting all the blame in the world won't do any good.

But bringing in a new kicker would at least stop the bleeding. The team has scheduled tryouts with a few, including, as predicted, Mike Vanderjagt. Others include Billy Cundiff, maybe Martin Gramatica and Josh Huston, and a host of other unnamed kickers. Not the most inspiring crew of names, but I'm not sure it can get any worse than Mare circa 2007. But, hey, accountability!
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