The Day Extra Points Became Extra Hard to Make in the NFL

But they don’t get a whole bunch of extra practices on them. If the risk of losing 2 points is greater as well, then that plays into it too. Stephen Gostkowski missed for the Patriots, as did Stephen Hauschka of the Seahawks (he also missed a field goal).

He broke Mike Vanderjagt’s previous National Football League record of 42 during a win at Tennessee on October 23.

Nugent was solid in the Bengals’ first six games, making all of his PATS and 13 of 15 field goal attempts including a 47-yard game-winner in the season opener. Still, his missed extra point with 9:45 remaining in the fourth quarter should have cut Pittsburgh’s lead to 17-10.

There have been 161 two-point conversion attempts over the past two seasons – 94 in 2015 and 67 this season.

Missed extra-point attempts continue to have a major impact in the early games.

Mike Nugent might have had the worst day among kickers, missing his only two extra-point attempts. Last season, there were eight missed extra points in two separate weeks.

We watch for long, lovely passes, like when Washington’s Kirk Cousins hit Pierre Garcon in stride for a 70-yard touchdown Sunday night against Green Bay.

That 0.12 points would convert to 146 more points if every team went for two after every touchdown past year.

Not every coach is going Full Tomlin by eschewing PATs at an extremely high rate, but that needs to be the direction for all of them.

This was more a comedy of errors than a series of meaningful missed extra points.

Several kickers noted they were compensating for the wind, particularly the Giants’ Gould and the Bears’ Barth, who coincidentally replaced the veteran Gould in Chicago this season. It’s much easier to accept Hopkins shanking a chip-shot field goal in overtime, opposed to, say, Cincinnati’s Mike Nugent hitting the upright on two attempts in a four-point loss.

“It just drives me insane to have a poor performance that contributes to a loss”, said Nugent, whose Bengals fell 16-12 to Buffalo.

11 and 12: Detroit Lions 26, Jacksonville Jaguars 19. He rejoined his team Friday before leaving again to attend the funeral.

Cincinnati Bengals receiver A.J. Green has been carted off the field. They knew it would make their jobs harder and boy were they right. He rolled over onto his back and immediately grabbed his right hamstring. He walked to the locker room under his own power. We never did find out whether Parkey’s miss had much meaning, since the Browns fumbled away their final attempt to even the score in the final minutes and kept their winless season alive.

The Minnesota Vikings returned, literally, to their winning way.

BEARS: Right guard Kyle Long will require two surgeries before he gets back into action.

It seems the National Football League likes messing with kickers and it is finally getting to them.

Elsewhere, Baltimore (5-4) visits Dallas (8-1) in a matchup of division leaders. But NFL coaches prefer to lose traditionally if the alternative is trying something “radical” to win. (It’s a most valuable player, singular, not a most valuable group of players, and you can’t give it to a whole offensive line just like you can’t make an entire secondary the Defensive Player of the Year.) But if you watched Elliott and Prescott play yesterday against a very good Ravens defense, I hope it was obvious what special players they are.