The Arizona Cardinals were the first team to give kicker Chandler Catanzaro his NFL shot. Former Cardinals coach Bruce Arians loved how far he could kick it.
In 2014, he beat out incumbent kicker Jay Feely in training camp for the job with the Cardinals. Feely was the more accurate kicker, however Catanzaro didn’t have any trouble getting the ball to the end zone on kickoffs. That was the x-factor.
However the Cardinals finally had enough of Catanzaro and his inaccuracies after the 2016 season, which were also present in that ’14 camp, making it a mild surprise he beat out Feely.