I’ve been as vocal as anyone, since the pre-season, about the need to bring in some kicking competition for Dustin Hopkins. He struggled at times last season, and this year, in the pre-season, and I asked, “Can the WFT do better than Dustin Hopkins?”
Washington could certainly do worse than Hopkins, but the real question now is, can it do better?
The team ignored the pleas for kicking competition in the pre-season until virtually the very end. In early September, they finally brought Eddy Pineiro in for a tryout, and I profiled the young kicker, applauding the move - perhaps naively - as a genuine gesture of competition on the part of the coaching staff.