The four extra points Dallas Cowboys kicker Brett Maher missed Monday night set off groaning, screaming, helmet-smashing and, on Twitter, a trending hashtag: KickersArePeopleToo. The latest from joshlpeter11:
Maher is playing his fourth full season in the NFL and in 2019 set a Cowboys record when he made a 63-yard field goal. This year he is 9-for-11 on field-goal tries of 50 yards or more; 6-for-7 from 40 to 49 yards; and 29-for-32 on field goals overall. He was 50-of-53 on extra points before Monday's game, during which he made his fifth and final point-after attempt.
He and his wife, Jenna, met in high school and were dating when Maher walked on to the football team at Nebraska. He developed into a two-time All-Big Ten pick as a kicker, the team’s starting punter and a mentor. Gerald Foltz said he reached out to Maher in 2021 to ask if he’d participate in the memorial kicking camp run by Kohl in Greeley, Nebraska, near the Foltz’s family town.
“It’d kind of funny,’’ he said. “A receiver can drop two or three balls and a linebacker can miss two or three tackles. That’s never talked about,’’ Foltz said. “But a kicker can make 50 straight kicks as a pro and miss one and no one forgets it.’’ “If you start trying to aim it instead of just trusting your swing, bad things are going to happen,’’ Elam said. “Gosh, he didn’t miss them by much. … I feel like he needs to drop a bag of balls, hit like 30 or 40 of them and get his confidence back and say, 'Hey, it just was a bad evening' and forget about it.
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