Franchise Record 62 yarder...With a few yds to spare
Vikings kicker Will Reichard thinks we’ll see a 70-yard field goal somewhere in the NFL, maybe even U.S. Bank Stadium, sooner than later.
“Guys are just getting too good,” he said after kicking a 62-yard field goal — a record in 65 seasons of Vikings football and the fifth longest in NFL history — in a 48-10 win over the visiting Cincinnati Bengals. The NFL record is 66 yards.
Asked whether his 62-yarder — a sweet little baby draw that curled just inside the right upright — had another 5 yards on it, he said, “I think so.”
The ball cleared the crossbar at least a quarter of the way up the goal post. “I really went after it, which is why you saw the little draw,” Reichard said.
Two weeks ago, his 59-yarder tied the longest kick in 100 years of football at Soldier Field. Asked what his pregame range was indoors Sunday, Reichard revealed that he doesn’t practice anything longer than 59 yards in-season.
“I normally don’t go back that long during the season just because I feel like trying 60-yarders creates some bad habits,” he said. “But I hit from 59 in pregame and saw that it had some distance left on it.”
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StickierBuns wrote:
That kick was good from 70 yards for sure. He nailed it, you could hear it on TV when he struck it. It had that little draw back at the end, loved it.
Close to 70 anyway. I figured there was a solid 5 to 7 yards past the crossbar when I saw it televised from the side angle. Maybe 8 yards.
But dayum...look at the history he blew away Week 1 and Week 3 already.
StickierBuns wrote:
That kick was good from 70 yards for sure. He nailed it, you could hear it on TV when he struck it. It had that little draw back at the end, loved it.
Not sure it was good from 50. Good to hear he has his head on right as well, knowing his limits and keeping his mechanics clean.
greediron wrote:
Not sure it was good from 50. Good to hear he has his head on right as well, knowing his limits and keeping his mechanics clean.
you gotta play the break, everyone knows that US Bank breaks away from the water in the afternoons. :)
Why isn't Chuck Foreman in the Hall of Fame?
Montana Tom wrote:
Close to 70 anyway. I figured there was a solid 5 to 7 yards past the crossbar when I saw it televised from the side angle. Maybe 8 yards.
But dayum...look at the history he blew away Week 1 and Week 3 already.
looked to me that it hit about 7' or so up in the net, which is typically about 8 yards or so behind the cross bar, I cant prove it, but I would say 70 at a minimum, maybe 1 or 2 more as it was pretty high up on the goal post when it crossed and it wasnt a sky ball type kick, it was driven pretty well without a ton of trajectory.
Why isn't Chuck Foreman in the Hall of Fame?
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