He had missed a PAT following the second Giants touchdown, and the one that would have given them a 33-30 lead and an opportunity in overtime once Wil Lutz booted his game-ending 39-yard FG as time expired.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s on me,\u201d McAtamney said at his locker. \u201cI missed vital points at vital times today. I\u2019m not gonna shy away from that.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe snap and the hold was good. It was my lack of execution on the kicks. I\u2019m not gonna shy away from my mistakes and letting the team down.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Giants kicker Jude McAtamney (99) kicks a field goal during the second half against the Denver Broncos at Empower Field at Mile High. IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect<\/p>\n
The killer miss was wide right.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u201cHonestly, when it came off the foot, I thought it was good,\u201d he said. \u201cI looked up, and it was wide right. I was as shocked as everyone else.\u201d<\/p>\n
This is the way a stand-up guy faces the music. Asked if there was anything with the turf, he said: \u201cNot at all. I had a great week of practice. We practice on grass, I had a great warmup. It\u2019s just one of those things, gotta make the kicks once the opportunity comes.\u201d<\/p>\n
The first missed PAT was wide left.<\/p>\n
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New York Giants place kicker Jude McAtamney (99) looks on during training camp at Quest Diagnostics Training Center. IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect<\/p>\n
\u201cGotta make the kicks. Not gonna shy away from that. I\u2019ll take full responsibility,\u201d McAtamney said.<\/p>\n
This was special teams coordinator Michael Ghobrial on Thursday: \u201cI think at this point, having him kick a game last year and in the preseason, and now obviously kicking on our active roster here these past couple of games, we have confidence in him just like we have confidence in Graham to be able to be sent out there whenever his opportunity arises.\u201d<\/p>\n
Wide left and wide right.<\/p>\n
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When the operation isn\u2019t smooth, the kicker suffers. McAtamney wasn\u2019t buying any excuses.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m a professional kicker, I gotta be able to make those,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The Giants had hoped to turn to Younghoe Koo after Graham Gano injured his groin during Week 3 pregame warmups, but settled for the inexperienced McAtamney, who had missed a PAT against the Eagles.<\/p>\n
It wound up kicking Brian Daboll and the Giants in the butt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DENVER \u2014 Jude McAtamney was accurate only after his nightmare had ended. In his Irish accent, McAtamney took…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[7820,977,349,99],"class_list":["post-238741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-denver-broncos","tag-new-york-giants","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238741","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=238741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}