Imagine what a really terrible day at your job would be. If you're a bartender, maybe you served someone a drink with a fingernail in it. If you're a bank teller, maybe you accidentally handed a customer $1,000 in cash when all they wanted was $10. If you're a car salesman, perhaps you dented that $100,000 beauty on the corner of the dealership while bringing it around for a test drive. Cringeworthy mistakes, all, but fireable offenses?
NFL: NFC Wild Card Round-Dallas Cowboys at Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Kicking is such a strange, thankless, boom-or-bust occupation. In any game that ends on a final missed kick – the 2022 Peach Bowl, say, or the 1991 Super Bowl – a kicker’s teammates will rally around him, reciting – probably through clenched teeth – the old cliches about one play not costing them the game, or winning and losing as a team.
against Tampa Bay in Monday night's wild card round finale. If the rest of the Cowboys hadn't utterly throttled the Bucs on both sides of the ball, rendering the misses irrelevant, Maher might now be living under an assumed identity to avoid the murderous wrath of Dallas fans. Veteran status has its privileges, too. Butker missed extra points or field goals in five straight games upon his return, but held onto his job. Four years ago, in a regular-season game against the Lions, Mason Crosby— four field goals and an extra point — and not only held onto his job, he kept on kicking for Green Bay right on through this season.
Kickers who have made clutch kicks understand the different demands of the postseason."In games where you feel the ground shake a little bit, stomping and screaming becomes white noise,", who kicked a crucial extra point for Denver at the end of John Elway's famous Drive, then kicked the playoff winner in overtime.
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