Jake Elliott has a one-minute rule.
“If you miss a kick you got one minute to get over it and bounce back,” Elliott said. “You make a kick and you got one minute to enjoy it.”
Rules are made to be broken. Elliott, the Eagles kicker for not even two weeks, can be excused if he basks in the afterglow of his game-winning, last-second, 61-yard field goal for more than just 60 seconds.
“We’ll give it a day,” he said. “24 hours.”
It may take more than a day for players and fans to come down from the high of the Eagles’ gutsy 27-24 home win over the New York Giants on Sunday.