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Wednesday, January 13, 2016

What happened on the missed field goal that cost Minnesota the game.

FULL DISCLOSURE: When I was living in the Caribbean I did some rugby penalty and conversion kicking. I was pretty average, but there was no one else, and I missed plenty of "easy" kicks.

I thought that the problem was that Blair Walsh's plant foot (the non-kicking foot) skidded. But maybe it always skids? Here's an interesting analysis by a former kicker, in USA Today.

An NFL kicking expert explains what happened on the Blair Walsh miss

 

Wednesday, January 13, 2016 |

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