What do you think about icing kickers? Former Auburn kicker Anders Carlson said at the NFL Combine, “I think it’s a pretty cool part of the game.' “I like (the ability to call back-to-back timeouts), personally.”
While he doesn’t have firsthand experience with being iced in a clutch situation, and even though his college kicking days are behind him, Carlson still offered his thoughts on the NCAA’s proposed rule change that would eliminate teams’ ability to call consecutive timeouts. Such a rule change would mean no more situations where a team calls back-to-back timeouts late in a half or late in a game to try to throw off a kicker lining up for a critical field goal.
“I think it’s a pretty cool part of the game,” Carlson said Thursday at the NFL Combine in Indianapolis. “I don’t know what they’re going to rule; it’s their decision to do. I like , personally.” Carlson reiterated that he couldn’t recall a team ever trying that during his kicking career, but he vividly remembers Auburn executing the consecutive-timeout strategy last fall against Mississippi State. After the Tigers erased a 21-point first-half deficit and staked a 33-30 lead late in the fourth quarter in Starkville, Miss., the Bulldogs quickly got down the field and within range to attempt a game-tying field goal in the final seconds.
Mississippi State kicker Massimo Biscardi lined up for a 44-yarder with 29 seconds left when Auburn called a timeout. Biscardi drilled the first attempt, which didn’t count. He lined it up again, and Auburn again burned a timeout, hoping to ice him as his second try sailed through the uprights. On the third attempt, with Auburn out of timeouts, Biscardi tied the game at 33-33.Even as a kicker at risk of being iced, Carlson seems to enjoy the gamesmanship that comes with the late-game timeouts.
“When you’re out there on the field and you’re getting ready to kick, it’s absolutely not on your mind at all,” Carlson said. “You’re just present in the moment, listening to your holder’s cues and just focusing on whatever mental notes you might have, every single kick and, again, making it not different than every other kick.”one of four being considered to help shorten the length of college games“I don’t know what the reason might be,” Carlson said.
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