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Justin Tucker is widely viewed as the greatest kicker in league history. However, if you’ve only ever watched him through the first three weeks of the 2024 season, you’d be scratching your head at that type of claim. Through three games, Tucker is just 5 of 8 on field goal attempts and has missed at least one field goal in every game thus far, including a miss from 48 yards out in the fourth quarter of the Baltimore Ravens victory over the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday.
After fending off a late rally from Dallas and securing the win, the broadcast showed coach John Harbaugh and Tucker talking on the sideline.
“From a conversation standpoint, we’re pretty close,” Harbaugh told reporters Monday of his postgame conversation with Tucker. “We’ve been together for a long time and had a lot of conversations. We know each other, so it’s just two guys talking about where we’re at and just love the guy, respect him. He’s everything you want in a player and a friend, so that was really the basis of that.”
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Author : Tyler Sullivan
Publish date : 2024-09-23 20:15:15
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