{"id":334622,"date":"2025-12-09T13:31:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T13:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/334622\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T13:31:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T13:31:08","slug":"lessons-from-a-record-setting-nfl-kicker-on-performing-under-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/334622\/","title":{"rendered":"Lessons from a Record-Setting NFL Kicker on Performing Under Pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph_text__yGFNO\" data-first-paragraph=\"true\">At one point in his career Brett Maher, a National Football League (NFL) kicker who retired in 2024, boasted two records: most field goals made at 60 or more yards in single season (a mark <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/news\/cowboys-kicker-brandon-aubrey-nfl-records-field-goal\/\" class=\"ContentLink_anchor__Q6_U6\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">recently surpassed<\/a>) and most missed extra points in a single game. Over his decade as a professional athlete, he made 79.9% of the field goals he attempted and 95.5% of the extra points. And yet he was also released by 12 teams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At one point in his career Brett Maher, a National Football League (NFL) kicker who retired in 2024,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-334622","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334622","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=334622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}