{"id":163532,"date":"2025-09-23T10:10:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T10:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/163532\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T10:10:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T10:10:06","slug":"blocked-kicks-walk-off-field-goals-and-a-336-pound-hero-winnipeg-free-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/163532\/","title":{"rendered":"Blocked kicks, walk-off field goals, and a 336-pound hero \u2013 Winnipeg Free Press"},"content":{"rendered":"

Special teams are sure kicking up a fuss in the young 2025 NFL season.<\/p>\n

There were four big blocked field goal attempts in Week 3 to go with four walk-off field goals, including one that sent the Broncos to their second straight loss despite Denver having never trailed in the fourth quarter of either game.<\/p>\n

Two of the blocked field goals came in the same quarter of the same game against a kicker who had never been blocked before.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPhiladelphia Eagles defensive tackle Jordan Davis (90) celebrates after blocking a field goal attempt and running it back for a touchdown as time expired in an NFL football game against the Los Angeles Rams Sunday, Sept. 21, 2025, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo\/Matt Slocum)<\/p>\n

Three of the blocks came in the final two minutes, something that hadn\u2019t happened in the NFL since at least 1990, and the four blocked field goal attempts in the fourth quarter marked the most on a single day since at least 1978.<\/p>\n

The defining image of Week 3\u2019s wackiness was Philadelphia\u2019s 336-pound Jordan Davis rumbling 61 yards for a touchdown after blocking a 44-yard attempt by the Rams\u2019 Joshua Karty on the final play of the game that would have won it for Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

That gave the Eagles a 33-26 victory in a playoff rematch with L.A., which blew a 19-point second-half lead.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know what mph I hit but I\u2019m pretty sure it was something crazy,\u201d Davis said.<\/p>\n

Try 18.59 mph, the fastest by a player over 330 pounds since at least 2017, per Next Gen Stats.<\/p>\n

Also, at 336 pounds, Davis is the heaviest player in league history to return a blocked kick 50 or more yards for a touchdown.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of people look at field goal blocking as just another play,\u201d Davis said. \u201cJust another down, put your hands up, get off the field, check a box. The way we talked about it on the sideline, we knew especially off his last kick, we knew his angle, we knew his launch point. We just hit the gap, put our hands up at the right time and I saw the ball on the ground at the right time.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Eagles blocked multiple field goals for the first time since Sept. 21, 1975, against the New York Giants.<\/p>\n

Earlier in the fourth quarter, Karty, who had never had a field goal attempt blocked before, watched Jalen Carter block a 33-yard attempt that helped Philadelphia recover from a 26-7 deficit.<\/p>\n

Shortly after Davis\u2019 heroics, the Jets\u2019 Will McDonald jumped over the Buccaneers\u2019 snapper, blocked a 43-yard try by Chase McLaughlin and returned it 50 yards for a touchdown to give New York a 27-26 lead at Tampa Bay with 1:49 remaining.<\/p>\n

Baker Mayfield led the Buccaneers down the field to set up McLaughlin\u2019s 36-yarder that won the game as time expired.<\/p>\n

Mayfield noted afterward that the victory was especially sweet because the Jets\u2019 defensive coordinator, Steve Wilks, once cut him.<\/p>\n

\u201cI loved it,\u201d said Mayfield, who joined Matt Ryan in 2016 as the only QBs since 1950 to lead lead fourth-quarter comebacks in the first three games of a season. \u201cAnd also their D-coordinator was the one that cut me in Carolina. Lot of stuff was personal today.\u201d<\/p>\n

And chaotic.<\/p>\n

In Cleveland, Shelby Harris blocked a 43-yard field-goal attempt by Green Bay\u2019s Brandon McManus that would\u2019ve given the Packers the lead with 21 seconds left. Greg Newsome II recovered at the 47, and Andre Szmyt kicked a 55-yard field goal as time expired to give the Browns a surprising 13-10 victory.<\/p>\n

\u201cSeason 12 chapter 3 #browns
#besthandsintheleague \u201d read Harris\u2019 Instagram post after the game.<\/p>\n

Since he entered the league in 2014, nobody has more than Shelby\u2019s seven career blocked kicks \u2014 six field goals and an extra point.<\/p>\n

Eddie Pineiro and Cameron Dicker also nailed game-winners on the final play Sunday as their teams remained unbeaten.<\/p>\n

Pineiro\u2019s 35-yarder gave the San Francisco 49ers a 16-15 win over the Arizona Cardinals, and Dicker\u2019s 43-yarder capped the Chargers\u2019 23-20 comeback over the Broncos, who lost on a last-second field goal in Indianapolis in Week 2.<\/p>\n

In neither game did the Broncos (1-2) trail in the fourth quarter, but they trudged off the field with the sting of defeat after watching their opponent nail a field goal with no time left.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, it stinks,\u201d Broncos quarterback Bo Nix said. \u201cIt definitely is not fun, it\u2019s not enjoyable but all you can do is go to the next game. I\u2019ve never been able to figure out how to go back and change anything yet. I\u2019m still working on that, but the most important thing is we have the whole season ahead of us.<\/p>\n

\u201cInstead of going back and changing things, all we can do is move forward and change in them in the future and do things differently and find a way to not let these close games fall into another team\u2019s hands.\u201d<\/p>\n

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With contributions from AP Sports Writer Dan Gelston in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n

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Behind the Call analyzes the biggest topics in the NFL during the season.<\/p>\n

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AP NFL: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NFL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Special teams are sure kicking up a fuss in the young 2025 NFL season. There were four big…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":["post-163532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}