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Icing the kicker


TheKiD

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I think a lot depends on timing...one great example of icing the kicker was the Denver Broncos game against Oakland. Janikowski is all ready to kick the game winner (something like a high-40 to low-50 yard kick) ball is snapped and kick is good for the Oakland win....However, Denver called a timeout just before the snap. Next kick goes off the upright and Broncos win in overtime.

 

Maybe that is just pure luck and nothing to do with a timeout but in some scenarios it does seem it to work.

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I think Iceing works, it worked today.

 

Icing implies getting into a player's head and making them fail....like a 40 yard field goal. A 55 yard field goal is made about 20% of the time in college and that player might not even have 1 so it's not really considered icing. And statistically it doesn't work.

 

Having said that it doesn't matter....he missed so you can't second guess it.

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Err, I'm pretty sure it was 48 yards and 27 seconds left on the clock... There was 17 left when we got the ball back after the kickoff.... am I wrong?

 

EDIT: Nevermind i guess it was 55yards.. but their kicker was capable of making 60+ anyway.. but i'm still fairly sure it was 27 seconds left before they kicked the field goal.

 

I remember it well, it was only 17 sec... and only 12 sec remained after the errant kick.

 

Apparently the BSU kicker made a 65 yarder in practice this past week.

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I remember that being asked of Callahan last year. His reply was that he wasnt icing the kicker, but letting the block unit get as much rest as possible.

I seriously wonder if he says that stuff just to see if someone will print it. I know I might do stuff like that if I was a coach.

 

Seriously, I guess I could take that depending on how much of your block unit is based on your defensive players.

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Let's not start a flame war. K. Thanks.

 

 

Sorry Dave. Its been a sh**ty day

 

I think MODS will let you flame me.....just make sure you put

 

"Callahan has us going in the right direction" before you say "youre a moron,no nothing idiot that doesn't know anything so just go away I Bleed Red"

 

That typically will get being a FLAMER overlooked.

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