The Jets’ instability at kicker brought an interesting name to Florham Park on Wednesday.
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Kicker cut over sexual misconduct allegations gets third NFL tryout since release
Hot Mic Moment
Twelve for twelve, and three front offices holding stopwatches for a man not one of them will explain on the record — run the tape, Angelo, this reporter no longer cares. Because this reporter has done the arithmetic the league will not. Thirty-four felony counts. Guilty on every single one of them. And the tryout that fella got was the presidency of the United States — sentenced in January to no penalty at all, handed the nuclear codes ten days later — while the man who kept the arithmetic stands on a wet practice field in New Jersey, timing a kicker. Put this reporter on the political desk. This reporter has been ready since Watergate. Is this thing off or not.
Gushis side
FLORHAM PARK — This reporter watched a nine-time All-Pro kicker put twelve footballs through the uprights at the New York Jets facility on Wednesday, and let this reporter say plainly: the leg still works.
The kicker in question, released by the Baltimore Ravens back in 2024 following allegations of sexual misconduct, arrives in New York the way a proven veteran arrives anywhere — quietly, on a Wednesday, with the front office saying nothing on the record.
And make no mistake, this is the first team willing to give the man a look since Baltimore showed him the door.
This reporter has seen this particular play before. Back in March of 2018, the Weinstein Company filed for bankruptcy under the weight of its own misconduct allegations and, in the same filing, released every employee from the non-disclosure agreements that had kept them quiet for years. The company dissolved itself rather than keep operating around the problem.
The National Football League has taken the opposite approach: no bankruptcy, no dissolution, no released paperwork of any kind — just a quiet field in New Jersey and a stopwatch. Three franchises have now decided the allegations are a scouting question rather than a hiring question, and the fourth may yet call. The kicker gets another look. The paperwork, if there is any, stays where it always stays.
Trudyher side
Eight-time, sugar. CBS Sports has the number right there in the same story Gus is holding upside down.
2025. The Ravens cut him last year, not the year before — CBS Sports again, dated right on the wire. Gus is off by a full season, which for a kicker is about sixteen games he wasn't on anybody's roster.
It is not. The New York Post has the Saints and the Colts already running him through workouts before the Jets ever picked up the phone. That makes New York team number three, not team number one. Three teams, one allegation, zero explanations offered by any of them.
And that's the whole column, folks. Nobody's disputing the leg. Nobody in the league office has to.
And that was the sound of a man discovering the microphone was live. I told him to lie down; he declined; so I did the other half of my job and checked the tape against the record. Guilty on all thirty-four counts, May 2024. Sentenced January 10, 2025 — unconditional discharge, the conviction standing, the penalty nothing. Inaugurated ten days later, per NPR. The crazy old man got every number right. First time all season.
“Three teams gave this guy a look after the same allegation, and every one of them is betting the story dies before the season does — that's not scouting, that's laundering, and the kicking net don't ask questions. You want to know why nothing ever changes in this league, it's 'cause the paycheck clears no matter who signs off on it.”
“Look, nobody's been convicted of anything here — this is a man exercising his right to earn a living, and the Jets are exercising their right to evaluate talent. Every team in the league has had a workout with him at some point, so clearly the market has already made its judgment. Wait, did I just say the market cleared him? That's not — that's not what I meant to say.”
The receipts
The 36-year-old former All-Pro was released from the Ravens in 2025 following misconduct allegations and previously had tryouts with the Saints and Colts
· After a series of allegations of sexual misconduct against co-founder Harvey Weinstein, The Weinstein Company files for chapter 11 bankruptcy. The company also states that it will release all employee from the morgue, 20 Mar 2018
This page is a back-issue: the story as it ran, receipts as they were. The current edition is at the front.