Players across the league are missing kicks they should make with ease. Has an infamous blooper from last season got into their heads?
The number must be an anomaly, one of those statistical improbabilities that will forever glare strange in the record books, because what other explanation can there be? Why else would NFL kickers suddenly miss a collective 12 extra-points on a single day as they did last Sunday? Never before had something like this happened, not even after the league moved the ball back from the two- to the 15-yard line in 2015. What made this weekend different from al the others before it?
“It was a coincidence,” former NFL kicker Michael Husted told the Guardian on Tuesday.
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