{"id":151572,"date":"2025-09-12T13:52:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T13:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/151572\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T13:52:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T13:52:06","slug":"officiating-blunder-put-vikings-will-reichard-in-soldier-field-record-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/151572\/","title":{"rendered":"Officiating blunder put Vikings&#8217; Will Reichard in Soldier Field record book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rt-Text\">Confidence in a kicker is an underrated feeling. Until it\u2019s gone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">Ask the 49ers, who just released Jake Moody after he missed a short field goal and had another one blocked in Week 1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">Ask the Browns, who might have to follow suit with rookie Andre Szmyt, who missed a PAT and a 36-yard game-winning try late in a one-point loss to Cincinnati.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">And ask Sunday\u2019s Vikings opponent, the Falcons, whose formerly reliable kicker, Younghoe Koo, struggled last year and then opened this season by missing badly from 44 yards in the closing seconds of last week\u2019s 23-20 loss to Tampa Bay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">Then there\u2019s Kevin O\u2019Connell, 1-0 and seemingly as much a kicker whisperer as he is the highly publicized quarterback whisperer that made him last year\u2019s NFL Coach of the Year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">\u201cThe confidence Coach has expressed in me since I first got here is huge,\u201d Reichard said. \u201cHe showed it again on Monday keeping me out there.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Confidence in a kicker is an underrated feeling. Until it\u2019s gone. Ask the 49ers, who just released Jake&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-151572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}