Blair Walsh Cut By Minnesota Vikings

When a team looses 4 straight games, it's time to take a deep look at your roster and see what cuts you can make to improve an already bad situation. This problem becomes even more dramatic when you start by winning 5 straight games before going on a 4 game loosing streak. The situation goes from really bad to shockingly worse. Have you ever had a close friend or relative with a heart problem recovering really well, getting stronger, building hope that maybe he can overcome this problem before this friend dies suddenly to a heart attack? But you just saw this friend a month ago and they were fine!

The same shock value is going through the Minnesota Vikings. It's becoming a panic more and more every week as the losses pile up. You know they are all wondering if they can be good enough to make the playoffs. So the first player really struggling on that team that comes to mind is pretty much gone. Unfortunately for Blair Walsh, a 2012 Pro Bowl kicker, that player was him.

Blair Walsh looked like a promising young talent his 2012 rookie campaign and the Minnesota special teams looked pretty solid for many years to come. But going into 2015, he wasn't the same player. This became painfully obvious in the NFC Wild Card Game when he missed a game winning 27 yard field goal wide to the left in the 10-9 loss to Seattle at home. Seattle would go on to be absolutely pulverized by the Super Bowl bound Carolina Panthers.

This season, however, Walsh hasn't been able to get over that hump, missing 4 extra point attempts and going 12 of 16 on field goal tries. Minnesota has had enough of dealing with this issue and has now let him go into the realms of free agency where perhaps he can get the councillor the Vikings cannot provide him with.

Minnesota has had a lot of problems in the past few weeks, Offensive Coordinator Norv Turner quitting after the first loss seeing that his scheme had been found and there was no fix to the weakness (oh, that's unofficial of course), Sam Bradford is their quarterback and, well... It's truly quite a pity to see the kicker going too.

USA Today's Tom Pelissero reports that the Vikings are expected to sign the former Redskin kicker Kai Forbath, ironically just 4 days after loosing to the Redskins. Well, you know what they say. If you can't beat 'em, get 'em to join your team.