Succop Says KC Timeout Helped (Not The Practice Swing)

Probably had more to do with the field conditions and how he felt after the miss. He said he knew he needed to tighten his shoe to give it all he had.

Icing the kicker rarely ever works. Reid knows that. I think KCs kicker even said that he's told to always kick the "practice kick" when a timeout is called to get a feel for the kick.

It doesn't make sense to give a kicker 2 shots at a kick. Tennessee was in a hurry to get the kick off in the first place which made the timeout even more ridiculous in that situation. It just gave Succop time to think about it and knowledge on how he needed to kick it on the second try.

 

I don't know the stats on it, but it seems like it usually backfires if the first kick misses. Most of the time though it's 2 makes anyway. Rarely is it a make then a miss. (I think I read Washington actually got iced on 2 attempts this week though. Rare occurance)

 

I misread it. I just ran across the comment again on PFTs comment section. Washington's kicker got iced 2 times this season. Once by the opposing team, which he hit the first and missed the second, and once his own coach called timeout and he missed the second kick.

From what I've seen, he's struggled anyway...so the timeouts might not have had a lot to do with it.

 

Icing worked back before it was expected so much.

Then after a while it worked better to not ice since kickers always expected to get the TO. Now it's a crapshoot.

 

Literally told my girlfriend this first kick doesn't matter they will ice him. The 2nd kick I was kinda iffy about because I thought they might do it again but when they called the game I started fist pounding and screaming.

 

I was initially pretty upset it took us so long to spike the ball. I think we could've done it about 3 seconds sooner... that would've allowed for one more play as long as it went safely to the sidelines or thrown away.

Luckily it all worked out in the end.

 

Succop adding insult to injury lol