Five years after his memorable 61-yard game-winner, Elliott remains one of the NFL's most reliable kickers. Last week showed that no team should take someone like him for granted.
: 44-of-44 on extra points, 30-of-33 on field goals. As former NFL executive Andrew Brandt likes to say, kickers are like lawyers: You don’t appreciate them until you need a good one. And the Eagles were so confident in Elliott that, in 2019, they signed him to a five-year contract extension reportedly worth as much as $19.3 million, as long and lucrative a deal as a kicker could hope for.
McManus, an alumnus of North Penn High School and Temple, has the same kind of status with the Broncos. This is his ninth season with them, and he agreed to a four-year extension, for as much as $17.2 million, in September 2020. But even for a kicker with as much experience and as strong a track record as Elliott’s or McManus’, Hackett’s strategy made no sense. A 64-yarder is simply too long to be anything other than a last resort, especially in an outdoor stadium.
“If you’re in a dome, you feel good about hitting a really, really good ball,” Elliott said. “Obviously, it’s a long kick, right? But you feel decent about it in a dome that it’s going to get there. [Outside], you feel probably pretty good about it if you’ve got a little tailwind, which doesn’t happen at the Linc. All of it’s got to align really well. It’s a tough one. It’s really a tough one.”Jonathan Gannon seems like a smart guy. The Eagles need him to prove he actually is one.
Those little variables and details add up, and often they make a difference. It’ll be a warm night Monday at the Linc, when the Eagles host the Minnesota Vikings. The Eagles have Elliott. The Vikings have Greg Joseph; they are his sixth NFL team in four years. And one week after Nathaniel Hackett placed too great a burden on one of the strongest legs in the sport, who knows? Maybe this game comes down to a decision involving the position no one thinks about until someone has to.
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