Brett Maher picked a bad night to have the yips.
Maher, the Dallas Cowboys' kicker, had a good regular season. He was 50-of-53 on extra-point attempts and hit 90.6% of his field goals.
Then on Monday night, he couldn't hit anything in the first half. In a wild card playoff game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Maher missed all three extra points. That's as many as he missed in 17 regular-season games. Maher's first two extra points went wide right. He seemed to overcompensate on his third kick and hooked it wide left.
The Cowboys led 18-0 at halftime but it should have been 21-0, and quarterback Dak Prescott was rightfully angry on the sideline after the third missed extra point.
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