Hey do you guys remember that game at the meadowlands? We only won by 1 point and I think It was my beloved Mickens that blocked the field goal and ran it back at the end of the game. I think Parcells also had some trick plays with our punter. Forget who that was. I hope Sunday's game isn't even close to that. :raiders: :raiders:
I was there with my friend in my sig who has since passed away. That was a fun day, we won and got to 2-2, surpassing our win total from the previous season. The girl I was seeing called and dumped me later that night, but the day was sunny and nice, and a Jet win. :up:
Current Jets secondary coach Corwin Brown caught a 26-yard pass on a fake punt play. Brian Hansen threw the pass. (should be moved to history forum)
That was the moment Cole Ford turned into a long haired maniac hell bent on exposing siegfried and roys plot to control the world using their magic powers. http://www.amw.com/fugitives/brief.cfm?id=28757
The worst individual game I recall any pro kicker having. He missed a PAT and four field goals, the third one was blocked and returned for the game-winning TD, the last would have given Oakland a late lead.....
I'm sure kickers have had worse games, and I'm sure they were wearing Jets uniforms when it happened.
Lin Elliott in a 1995 AFC Divisional Playoff game vs Indianapolis was the worst effort I ever saw. I rank it as worse than the Ford performance due to the magnitude of the game. Worst performance in a college game was probably the one in the 2005 Sun Bowl by Northwestern kicker Joel Howells. He had a field goal blocked, missed two extra points, and allowed UCLA to score touchdowns on two errant onside kicks.
Leahy had some clunkers - the road Miami game in 1982 comes to my mind, missed PAT and a missed 23 yard field goal in a key one point loss. Let's not forget Cary Blanchard's missed three field goals in 1993 at Buffalo costing the Jets the playoffs. But the Ford game stands out simply because he missed four which I don't ever remember seeing and the winning points were scored directly because of it. The magnitude of the game was no biggie though....
Yes, that Colts-Chiefs playoff game was probably the worst kicking effort on a national stage. The Chiefs had home-field advantage, played superb defense and were eliminated because of three blown very makeable field goals........
I was thinking about some other kickers who had bad days. Don Cockroft, Browns vs Raiders, 1980 AFC Divisional Playoff Game He missed two field goals and an extra point. The Browns were trailing 14-12 in the waning moments of the 4th quarter. There were in what would normally be makeable field goal range. Cockroft was so bad that day, they eschewed a FG try. League MVP Brian Sipe then threw an interception to Mike Davis in the end zone. The Raiders went on to win the AFC Championship Game in San Diego and then the Super Bowl. Doug Brien, Jets vs Steelers, 2004 AFC Divisional Playoff Game Mike Vanderjagt, Colts vs Steelers, 2005 AFC Divisional Playoff Game Scott Norwood, Bills vs Giants, Super Bowl 25 Uwe von Schamann, Dolphins vs Chargers, 1981 AFC Divisional Playoff Game When you consider the fact that Cockroft, Vanderjagt, and Norwood's opponents went on to win Super Bowls, you might want to say one of them had the worst game ever by a kicker. I understand Norwood's try was a difficult 47-yarder, so we can give him a bit of a pass. Vanderjagt gets no pass. That was a massive choke job on his part. Cole Ford's bad game against the Jets didn't even help the Jets get into the playoffs. Ford was awful, but the game didn't have major implications. The Colts lost the AFC Championship Game the week after Elliott's disgusting performance. The Cockroft thing was awful. That was the final game of his 13-year career, which was spent entirely with Cleveland. Two times he was an All-Pro. That Raiders-Browns game was played in frigid Cleveland. The wind chill was minus 37, making it the coldest game since the Ice Bowl. Exactly six years later, in the same stadium, another Browns kicker was having a bad game. Mark Moseley had missed three kicks when he lined up for the game-winner in double overtime. As we all know, that 27-yard field goal was good and Moseley had redeemed himself.
