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Leave it to the Jags to do it when it doesn't 😏

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Good for you young man 👍

1 posted on 08/11/2025 7:29:20 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: Red Badger; dfwgator

Duuuuval Ping!


2 posted on 08/11/2025 7:30:34 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: V_TWIN

It needs to be in the record books, with an asterisk.


3 posted on 08/11/2025 7:32:21 AM PDT by Teacher317
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To: V_TWIN

Wonder how far it would go in Denver?


4 posted on 08/11/2025 7:32:41 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: V_TWIN

They probably drug-tested right after the kick.


6 posted on 08/11/2025 7:33:53 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: V_TWIN

Since the Jags aren’t going anywhere this year, he should be given at least one chance to kick a 70 during the season, in a game where missing it wouldn’t matter.


7 posted on 08/11/2025 7:34:40 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: V_TWIN

Kickers are insanely good now.

At the time of the merger, about 60% of the Field Goal attempts were successful, now it’s around 85%. And back then attempts over 50 yards were rare, even with the goalposts at the goal line.


9 posted on 08/11/2025 7:38:38 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: V_TWIN

What’s the record in pregame practice?


10 posted on 08/11/2025 7:38:39 AM PDT by RonnG ('')
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To: V_TWIN

Nice achievement. But, it’s a meaningless exhibition game.

Does anyone keep official records of exhibition games?

It sounds like officially this won’t count for anything.

But this guy seems to be a great kicker, if he can hit it from that distance.


11 posted on 08/11/2025 7:39:38 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: V_TWIN

It’s just like kicking an 80 yarder in practice. It doesn’t mean anything.


13 posted on 08/11/2025 7:39:53 AM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: V_TWIN
Little is in his second year in the league after being drafted out of Arkansas in the 6th round (insanely high for a kicker) and being the youngest kicker ever selected in the draft.

I have to correct that:

Sebastian Janikowski is the most iconic kicker in Oakland/Las Vegas Raiders history, holding nearly every franchise kicking record and playing for the team for 17 seasons from 2000 to 2017.

He is the only kicker in NFL history to be selected in the first round of the draft, chosen 17th overall in 2000, and he tied the NFL record for the longest field goal at 63 yards (tied with Tom Dempsey of the Saints), a feat he accomplished three times.

Janikowski is the Raiders' all-time leading scorer with 1,913 points, including 436 field goals made on a career 80.4% accuracy rate.

His legacy is cemented by his powerful leg, which also led to a record 76-yard field goal attempt in 2008, the longest in NFL history.

My best to Mr. Little. I hope he smashes that record.
14 posted on 08/11/2025 7:40:40 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: V_TWIN

Tom Dempsey’s kick was from his own 37-yard line, but back then the goalposts were at the end zone.

And of course it came against the Lions.


15 posted on 08/11/2025 7:41:24 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: V_TWIN

I hate to mess with historical rules, but kicking a field goal doesn’t seem to equal half the points of a touchdown based on difficulty. Maybe FG’s should be worth 2 pts :)


19 posted on 08/11/2025 7:44:48 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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If they have the 3-Point Shot in basketball, there should be a 4-Point FG for FGs over 70 yards.

Furthermore, every doink should be one point, so if you doink and miss, you still get one point, a double-doink is two points, or you could even get the quadruple doink for four points. And if it’s good you add the three points, so a good quadruple doink field goal would be worth 7 points, and if it’s over 70 yards, it’s 8 points.


21 posted on 08/11/2025 7:51:39 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: V_TWIN

We were visiting friends and went to watch their son’s high school football game. It was quite a windy evening and the kicker hit a wind assisted 70 yarder.


24 posted on 08/11/2025 7:54:52 AM PDT by fso301
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To: V_TWIN

Saw that yesterday on NFL Network!..............now if they can just set that up during a regular season game!.............


26 posted on 08/11/2025 8:00:17 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: V_TWIN

So the ball was on their own 47. If a team starts on their 30 they only have to gain 17 yards to get into field goal range. It will change end of game strategies.


33 posted on 08/11/2025 8:13:42 AM PDT by alternatives?
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To: V_TWIN

FG range on your side of the field is movie like scenarios..


43 posted on 08/11/2025 8:42:31 AM PDT by delchiante
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To: V_TWIN

He has one very strong - and accurate! - leg.


45 posted on 08/11/2025 9:01:43 AM PDT by Rummyfan ( In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.👨 )
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To: V_TWIN

Still boycotting


46 posted on 08/11/2025 9:02:54 AM PDT by KingLudd
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