The Cowboys' Brandon Aubrey drilled a 66-yard field goal in Saturday's preseason win over the Raiders, which would have equaled Justin Tucker's NFL record.
Todd Archer is an NFL reporter at ESPN and covers the Dallas Cowboys. Archer has covered the NFL since 1997 and Dallas since 2003. He joined ESPN in 2010. You can follow him on Twitter at @toddarcher."Just kind of feels like nothing's quite there," Aubrey said."Got a little bounce off of your foot, that it sticks onto your foot for like a fraction of a second and then it goes. It kind of shoots off, jumps off your foot. And you know right off the bat it was a good, clean hit.
Last year, Aubrey, a former first-round pick by Toronto FC in MLS who only started kicking a few years ago before landing with the Philadelphia Stars of the USFL, led the NFL in scoring with 157 points. He made 36-of-38 field goal tries last season, including a record 35 straight to start a career. From 50 yards plus, he was 10-of-10, including a 60-yarder against theThe kick landed in the net, but it is not clear how far it would have been good from. According to Next Gen Stats, the kick had a field-goal probability of 8%.Said Aubrey,"I'm not entirely sure. From back there it's kinda tough to see.
"The game ended at like 4:39 and I was at the terminal at 5:15 pretty much," Aubrey said."I got out there. ... I got home at like 12:30 a.m. and we left for the hospital at 4:30. Not a lot of time. That was no sleep, then followed by obviously no sleep the next couple of days. Just catching up and recovering.""It's been hectic," he said."It's been tiring. But, you know, it's been life changing and exciting.
When Aubrey returns home from training camp on Thursday, he will have the football and his right cleat as presents for his son.So what is Aubrey's longest kick he has made?
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