Ralph Vacchiano
NFL Reporter
It looked like just another kick to Brandon Aubrey. His routine didn’t change. Neither did the look on his face. His pulse wasn’t racing any more than usual. And it was pretty much right down the middle, just like most of his kicks are.
No big deal, really, except that it was a 65-yard field goal — one yard short of the longest ever kicked in the NFL.
“He’s like the Steph Curry of kickers,” FOX analyst Tom Brady said after watching the late first-half kick during the broadcast of the Cowboys’ 28-25 loss to the Baltimore Ravens last Sunday. “There’s no range that’s too far.”
Tom Brady: Brandon Aubrey ‘like the Steph Curry of kickers’
That was quite the compliment from one of the greatest football players of all time, comparing a kicker to one of the greatest basketball players of all time. And it didn’t take long for Aubrey, the Dallas Cowboys second-year kicker, to see the viral video and hear Brady’s words.
In an exclusive interview with FOX Sports, Aubrey admitted it was a “pretty cool” comparison.
He also didn’t shy away from the larger point that Brady was trying to make.
“That was a really neat moment and a comparison that I never would have thought of,” Aubrey said. “But I think makes sense.”
It makes sense, Aubrey said, because that’s really the kind of confidence he has — that there aren’t many kicks too long for him to try, and he wants his coaches and teammates to believe he can make his shot from anywhere too. So far, in his short NFL career, he has. He’s made 15 straight field goals of 50 yards or longer since the Cowboys signed him out of the then USFL just 15 months ago — that’s the most consecutive 50-yarders made to start a career in the history of the NFL.
As Cowboys receiver Kavonte Turpin said after Sunday’s game, “You feel like they’re just automatic for him right now.” Aubrey feels that too, and so do his coaches. They not only watched Aubrey hit a…
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Publish date : 2024-09-25 16:04:36
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