Should I Really Ice the Kicker?

NFL: Move the Sticks with Daniel Jeremiah & Bucky Brooks

NFL

Sports, Football

4.7 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

For any NFL coach, it's all about making the right call at the right moment! If that moment happens to be calling a timeout right before the opposing team's kicker sends the football on a journey toward the uprights, then that kicker has just been ICED! On this episode of the NFL explained. podcast, Aditi and Mike explore the tactic of icing the kicker by analyzing the statistics surrounding the call and reliving some of the most memorable freeze-outs of all time!

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1:05.5	32 yards by Crosby. It's up and it is good, but hang on. The Bears call timeout. That does not count.
1:16.9	Packers win it. Some game.
1:25.2	We've all seen it. The final few seconds of a close game, the kicker lines up for a make or break field goal.
1:31.8	Heart rates start spiking.
1:33.9	The blood pressure starts creeping up, only to hear a whistle.
1:40.0	The defense calls a timeout prior to an important kick.
1:44.7	And in football vernacular, this is what we call icing the kicker.
1:51.2	Welcome, my friend, Mike Yam.
1:52.8	How are you doing today?
1:53.8	I'm doing great.
1:54.4	When you talk about the heart rate spiking and the blood pressure going, are you talking about the fans or the kicker?
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