“Supposedly, it was emphasized all season but it’s never been brought up to me my whole career.”
is cracking down on kickers using “foreign objects” to line up their kicks, something that has always been illegal but players have gotten away with due to loose officiating. But it seems not everyone involved was aware of the rule change – until it was being enforced in real time.
“I hadn’t seen any memo or discussion about it,” Fassel said. “I didn’t even know about it until our holder came up to tell me what happened. Supposedly, it was emphasized all season but it’s never been brought up to me my whole career.”Fassel reaffirmed that it wasn’t “an excuse by any means” for Maher’s miserable outing, the first time in NFL history a kicker has missed four extra points in the same game.
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