Kickers are ignored, except when needed
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The running gag in NFL locker rooms is that kickers aren't really football players &#151; just guys who hang around on the field before the game chatting with the other team's kickers.
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Once again, the Jets placed their hopes in kicker Doug Brien, who missed two field-goal attempts in the final 2 minutes 2 seconds of regulation.
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Broadneck kicker and punter Chris Desautels occasionally chats with Brooks Barnard, whose name is he is partially booting out of the school record book. Like Barnard a few years ago, Desautels is finding it extremely difficult to get interest from college recruiters.
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ST. LOUIS _ The problem for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers was not its offense Monday night. It was the defense, specifically the pass defense.
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Shortcuts never interested Tony Dungy. Sacrifice, though, well that was another story.
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Each time I leave one of these football championship games, I am not convinced that the right teams have reached the championship round. The current system needs to be fixed.
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Tennessee Titans kicker Joe Nedney had to leave practice early after being injured during a kicking session. Nedney apparently hurt himself yesterday while he was kicking off a tee.
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The wide receivers have been the most significant contributors to the Patriots [stats, news]&#39; inactive list this season. Every week quarterback Tom Brady [news] counts on one of
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BATON ROUGE, La. - LSU can thank an Oregon State kicker who could not make extra points for it's season-opening victory...
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FOXBOROUGH -- Kickers and punters, like Rodney Dangerfield, get no respect. This is true on the field, in the locker room, and, most of all, behind the walls of the Hall of Fame.
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Looking for a way to separate the keepers from the duds? Look no further.
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Green Bayâs much-improved special teams have been a key piece of its turnaround this season. But with the playoffs approaching, the teamâs punting and kicking have not been at their best.
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PITTSBURGH -- Peyton Manning wouldn't even recognize this as the same sport. A combined 336 yards passing? Manning's third-quarter stats all by himself. One touchdown pass, and that a shovel job that shouldn't even count as a pass? Embarrassing. A game handed to the Steelers because the Jets kicker misses two potential winners within two minutes, the second made possible ...
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Even Neil Rackers was surprised. When the Cardinals kicker was told in the second quarter of Sunday&#39;s game at Sun Devil Stadium that the team wanted him to attempt a 55-yard field goal, he thought, &quot;Really?
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Pittsburgh Steelers running back Duce Staley was inactive for Sunday&#39;s game against the Cleveland Browns because of a sore hamstring.
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OAKLAND - Let us bypass for a moment all that is debatable about yet another lost Raiders on Sunday. Let&#39;s forget the for-now unforgettable, unprecedented and bizarre referee&#39;s flag on rookie tackle Robert
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REGINA, Saskatchewan - Angry fans trashed the house of a Canadian Football League kicker after he missed a short field goal in overtime of a playoff game.