ROMOTOOWENS
Well-Known Member
It keeps getting longer and longer. Soon it will be a 60 Yarder.
We were on the 35. Add 7 and 10 and it’s 52. Sometimes they go back an extra yard on long FGs so 52 or 53. Maher has a much stronger leg than Crosby no doubt. Maher would never have trouble reaching on a 52 yarder on a clear day that was just a little cold. Everyone talks about him putting his foot in front of the heater but he didn’t even have a jacket on, did he? This whole thing about the heater is completely overblown. You kick the FG and make the other team go 75 yards to beat you. Did you really think we were going to convert the 4th and 4? I didn’t. 4th and 1, sure. 4th and 2, ok. 4th and 4 for our team is IMO much less likely from a % perspective than Maher kicking a 52 yarder. I’m sorry, but I just can’t accept it was anything other than a horrible decision And my utter disbelief watching us line up and hoping we were trying to draw them offsides and not actually going for it BEFORE the play was not second guessing.
I see that side too.
Off topic - talking about Maher and the heater on his foot while watching the Eagles - anyone remember that damn K for the Eagles in the late 70s , early 80s. Tony Franklin. He would walk out there with one shoe on and kick barefooted. Didnt matter if it was freezing or not. Damn.