Kicking is front and center in the NFL these days. It’s not quite to #collegekickers level concern right now, but the NFL an interesting swath of missed kicks the past few weeks has us wondering what’s going on. Certainly the late misses in Sunday night’s Seattle Seahawks-Arizona Cardinals game raised a few eyebrows. So was that a one-in-a-million pair of fluky misses? Or a sign that kicking is leveling off, or perhaps even falling off, in the NFL?
Timing appears to be the biggest thing. If Cincinnati Bengals kicker Mike Nugent boffs two FG tries, as he did in Sunday’s two-touchdown win over the Cleveland Browns, it barely make a ripple.