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If you don't believe your kicker can make a 49 yard FG

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  • gumby73G gumby73 wrote on
    #21

    Ibleedbrown transforms into Iwritebooks. Outstanding.. You get the play by play mik from Donovan on kicks from here on out!! Excuse Jim let me handle this 😆

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  • hoortaH hoorta

    @tour2ma said:

    As Pet said in his presser, they'd already established that reference point in pre-game.

    Going that way the cut-off line was the 30 for a 47-yd FG limit.

    I think the point would be- if we had just made 4 crummy positive yards- (instead of full reverse) it would have been worth the risk to try a 52 yarder. Denver's kicker had plenty of leg on his 51 yard attempt- he just missed wide.

    Tour2maT Tour2ma wrote on
    #22

    @hoorta said:

    I think the point would be- if we had just made 4 crummy positive yards- (instead of full reverse) it would have been worth the risk to try a 52 yarder. Denver's kicker had plenty of leg on his 51 yard attempt- he just missed wide.

    In OT? Sure... but in reality we only had one 4th down at the Denver 32 all game long... and that was at the end of our first drive early in the 1st Quarter with 10:15 left. And per Pet at the time the winds made the 49 yard try a no go.

    McManus' miss came at least an hour later with 0:22 left in the half. The wind was obviously still an issue as the upright streamers showed a L to R wind, but his kick started just outside the left upright and did not move an inch to the right.

    Pet also said in his presser that by OT the winds had died off substantially.

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  • jiggins7919J jiggins7919 wrote on
    #23

    Going for it on 4th and 5 was super aggressive, and it's one of those things that makes the coach look like a genius or an idiot. Obviously, we know what happened. We got the matchup we wanted, and the pass appeared to hit our most dependable receiver in the hands, but he didn't bring it in. Gary has a history of making big catches, even some on 4th down, but he didn't haul this one in. Did anyone see what happened? Did the defender hit the ball, or did Gary just drop it? The coverage was perfect, as it was most of the day, but still...he usually brings that catch in. I can understand not wanting to set your kicker up for failure, but even with the wind swirling, don't you have to at least see what the kid has? If you plan on him being the kicker for a while, doesn't he have to learn how to make tough kicks in bad conditions?

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