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Jake Moody celebrates with his San Francisco 49ers teammates after scoring the game-winning field goal against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.Photograph: Julio Aguilar/Getty Images
The late, great coach Buddy Ryan once quipped, “Football kickers are like taxi cabs. You can always go out and hire another one.” If Ryan were alive today, he might think again. Kickers dominated Week 10 with a collection of horrors and heroics. A few examples of how they made their presence felt:
• Denver’s Wil Lutz entered Sunday with a 95% success rate on field goals this season. So, when Bo Nix led the Broncos down the field and set Lutz up for a potential game-winning, Kansas City Chiefs-beating 35-yarder as time expired, the odds were in his favor. BLOCK. The Chiefs won 16-14 and remain undefeated.
• San Francisco 49ers kicker Jake Moody made his return from a high ankle sprain after a three-week absence. Despite his fill-ins going 8-for-8 in that period, Moody resumed his role. Moody’s shaky return sparked an emotional rollercoaster that started with his own teammate turning on him, included three misses and ended in redemption when he nailed a game-winning 44-yarder that narrowly lifted the 49ers over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 23-20.
• Unlike Moody, there was no happy ending for Falcons kicker Younghoe Koo. Koo’s three missed field goals, including one that was blocked, were costly in Atlanta’s surprising loss to the New Orleans Saints. A loss made even more painful because it was by just three points.
• Jake Bates, a rookie kicker who never attempted a field-goal during his college career (he was a kickoff specialist), hit a Lions franchise record 58-yarder to tie Detroit’s game with the Houston Texans in the fourth-quarter. Then Bates, who was working as a brick salesman not too long ago, kicked the game-winner from 52 yards to complete a comeback victory for the Lions, who had trailed by 16 points. Oh, and Bates has never missed a field goal in his NFL career.
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Author : The Guardian
Publish date : 2024-11-11 08:00:41
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