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NFC wildcard game 1: Seattle at Minnesota


YoloinOhio

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Not only the laces but the ball wasn't straight either. More on the holder than the kicker I think.

 

Lots of kickers don't want the ball straight up. They often tilt it a bit.

 

We can blame the holder, of course, but I'd be willing to bet he was coached not to play around trying to rotate the ball, given how cold and slippery it was. Especially since the kicker did fine with the laces earlier.

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Didn't he make 47 yard laces-in kick earlier?

What was interesting when they showed it was he kicked under the laces on the earlier one. The ball went perfectly straight. This one he kicked on the laces and it immediately went left. Plus, again, the ball wasn't straight. I don't know enough about kicking to know whose to blame more. Probably both of them. But the laces seemed to clearly affect the kick.

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Lots of kickers don't want the ball straight up. They often tilt it a bit.

 

We can blame the holder, of course, but I'd be willing to bet he was coached not to play around trying to rotate the ball, given how cold and slippery it was. Especially since the kicker did fine with the laces earlier.

It was sideways though, not the tilt.

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