{"id":326112,"date":"2025-12-02T13:49:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T13:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/326112\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T13:49:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T13:49:06","slug":"younghoe-koo-on-botched-field-goal-the-ball-was-slipping-so-i-pulled-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/326112\/","title":{"rendered":"Younghoe Koo on botched field goal: The ball was slipping so I pulled up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Giants kicker Younghoe Koo made one of the strangest plays of this NFL season when he kicked the turf in front of the football, not the ball itself, leaving holder Jamie Gillan with nothing to do but pick up the ball and run, which he did for a 13-yard loss.<\/p>\n<p>Koo said after the game that he saw the ball moving on Gillan\u2019s hold and thought he wasn\u2019t going to be able to get a successful kick off, so he pulled up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was approaching the ball and, cold weather, the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/01\/sports\/giants-younghoe-koo-botches-field-goal-attempt-in-extraordinary-fashion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">ball kind of slipped<\/a> out at the bottom so it was moving,\u201d Koo said, via the New York Post. \u201cI wasn\u2019t able to kick through the ball. The ball was moving when I was driving to it, so I just pulled up on it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Koo said Gillan did the best he could but Koo had already pulled his kick by the time Gillan got the ball down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJamie did a good job of catching it and putting it back,\u201d Koo said, \u201cbut, at that point, it was too late.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Giants lost 33-15, and it\u2019s not like that one botched field goal made the difference, but it was emblematic of what a bad night it was. The Giants\u2019 special teams, and the team as a whole, have a lot of work to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Giants kicker Younghoe Koo made one of the strangest plays of this NFL season when he kicked the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-326112","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326112","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=326112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}