Female reporters temporarily barred from National Football League locker room
“Can’t do it”, Pagano said. He did everything you could have asked the backup quarterback to do, and he helped the Colts to a win – ugly, yes, but a win nonetheless. “I just have to stop pressing and play football and have fun”.
The Jaguars (1-3) lined up twice for field goals with 6 seconds left in regulation, but Jason Myers’ first attempt from 53 yards sailed wide right – just after the Colts had called timeout.
The Colts tried to get Andrew Luck back as soon as they could, but after testing the quarterback’s arm on Saturday, it was clear he wasn’t ready to play yesterday. “Try not to have it in my head about the other one”.
Suzuki finished allowing one run on two hits with a ground out and two fly outs.
The rest of the roster didn’t entirely pass the test either. And Hasselbeck doesn’t have the playmaking ability of Luck, though he improvised with a late naked bootleg that picked up a few key yards on the game-winning drive.
The Jets lost strong safety Calvin Pryor in the fourth quarter of their 27-14 win after he apparently hurt his knee colliding with a receiver. But we don’t want to count on a team missing two game-winning field goals and having 13 penalties for a second consecutive game. Coach Chuck Pagano said Luck was “trending in the right direction” last week, but he “didn’t have the arm strength” necessary on Sunday morning.
That will not be the expectation in two weeks, when the New England Patriots bring their revenge tour to the team that started Deflategate. The eight-play, 35-yard drive that culminated with a 32-yard field goal by Vinatieri. You know, because of all the man stuff happening inside. The game was part of a management exercise in which they would develop a coverage plan as if they had a staff of writers at the game. Repeatedly this season, the Colts have been backed up in their own territory, and McAfee has bailed them out with long punts.
Vinatieri’s 27-yard field goal with 4:36 remaining in overtime gave the Colts (2-2) a much-needed victory.
And Luck is important, make no mistake. He also moved past John Carney for fourth-most field goals made in National Football League history. “As ugly as it may have seemed, at the end of the day we had opportunities to win that game”. Pittsburgh followed suit after Thursday night’s loss to Baltimore, getting rid of the unreliable Josh Scobee. It is apparent that opposing teams will target his side of the field on passing plays until there is improvement or a change made. That’s a success rate of 75.7 percent. Although he is 42 years old, he is still making field goals at an efficient rate. “It just goes back to execution”.
“Extra points used to be in-game practice”, Feely texted Sunday afternoon. “But it’s hard to get a feel when you’re not playing. The pressure intensifies and it impacts field goal performance as well”.
“That was a tough one to swallow”, Jags quarterback Blake Bortles said.