{"id":168302,"date":"2025-11-30T23:02:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T23:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/168302\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T23:02:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T23:02:07","slug":"smyth-shines-on-nfl-bow-but-saints-fall-short-in-miami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/168302\/","title":{"rendered":"Smyth shines on NFL bow but Saints fall short in Miami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Irish kicker Chrlie Smyth connected on his first ever regular season field goal attempt and also pulled off a late onside kick but his New Orleans Saints went down 21-17 at the Miami Dolphins.<\/p>\n<p>Smyth was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/us-sport\/2025\/1129\/1546533-new-orleans-saints-activate-irish-kicker-charlie-smyth\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">called up to the first team from the Saints&#8217; practice squad<\/a> in the days before the game and was only confirmed as the kicker for today&#8217;s contest 24 hours before the tie.<\/p>\n<p>The Mayobridge man kicked his heels on the bench for much of the game when, having nicely clipped away the opening kick-off for his side, the Saints failed to get into advanced positions throughout a turgid first half.<\/p>\n<p>The home side led 16-0 at half-time as the Saints little-known quarterback Tyler Shough struggled to make headway.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\">Ireland native Charlie Smyth makes his 1st career field goal attempt with a 56-yarder \ud83d\udc4f<\/p>\n<p>NOvsMIA on FOX\/FOX One<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HkKw7uXVnt\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/HkKw7uXVnt<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/a6FwNhfuYl\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/a6FwNhfuYl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NFL (@NFL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NFL\/status\/1995231605926027637\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">November 30, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Dolphins had De&#8217;Von Achane rushing for 134 yards and a touchdown and Riley Patterson kicking four field goals as the Saints slipped to their 10th defeat.<\/p>\n<p>Carolina Panthers pulled off an upset with a 31-28 win to end Los Angeles Rams&#8217; six-match winning run.<\/p>\n<p>The Panthers, who were 6-6 going into the game, had quarterback Bryce Young complete 15 of 20 passes for 206 yards and throw three touchdowns but things were more difficult for opposite number Matthew Stafford.<\/p>\n<p>Stafford was intercepted twice, Mike Jackson running in one for a 48-yard touchdown, as the Rams lost for the third time and remain level with Chicago at the top of the NFC.<\/p>\n<p>San Francisco 49ers won for the ninth time as Brock Purdy rushed for a touchdown and passed for another in the second half of their 26-8 victory over Cleveland Browns. San Francisco racked up 19 unanswered points after going behind in the second quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Houston Texans won a fourth consecutive game with quarterback CJ Stroud, back in the team, completing 22 of 35 passes for 276 yards in the 20-16 victory over divisional rivals Indianapolis Colts.<\/p>\n<p>Nick Folk, who had earlier missed his first field goal of the season, kicked a last-gasp 56-yarder as the New York Jets snatched only their third win with a 27-24 victory over Atlanta Falcons, losing for the sixth time in seven games.<\/p>\n<p>Trevor Lawrence threw for 229 yards and two touchdowns as the Jacksonville Jaguars beat Tennessee Titans, whose quarterback Cam Ward was sacked three times, 25-3 to join the Colts at the top of the AFC South.<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay Buccaneers remain top of the NFC South after their 20-17 victory inflicted a fourth successive defeat, and ninth in 12 games, on the Arizona Cardinals.<\/p>\n<p>                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Irish kicker Chrlie Smyth connected on his first ever regular season field goal attempt and also pulled off&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-168302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}