On Thursday night against the Jacksonville Jaguars, Stephen Gostkowski made a 43-yard field goal and missed a 56-yard try in New England’s first preseason game of the season. Although he’s coming off one of his more troublesome seasons in recent years, Gostkowski said he isn’t going to let his 84.4 percent field goal percentage from 2016 keep him down.
The kicker—who averaged a 90 percent field goal percentage in the three seasons prior—told NESN’s Zach Cox that he learns “so much from his bad years, a lot than [he does] from his good years.