There is no excuse for missing a game-winning field goal from only 24 yards away, so Arizona Cardinals kicker Chandler Catanzaro didn’t try and offer one.
“I just missed it,” Catanzaro said, via Josh Weinfuss of ESPN. “No excuse. Just came out of it a little too fast. Didn’t stay in it. No excuse for those. The team played their tails off, but I have to move past it as fast as possible, no matter what.”
The Cardinals drove 69 yards on the first possession of overtime, setting up Catanzaro’s chip-shot field goal from 24 yards out. The kick hit the left upright square, sending the football back unto the playing field and giving the Seattle Seahawks life again.
Seahawks kicker Steven Hauschka promptly missed from 28 yards out, and the wacky game ended in a 6-6 tie.
Cardinals head coach Bruce Arians, who could be seen on the broadcast slamming his clipboard down after the miss, wasn’t in the mood for coddling his kicker after the game.
“He’s a professional,” Arians said. “This ain’t high school. You get paid to make it.”
Catanzaro finished the tie making just two of four kicks. His other miss came in the first half, when Bobby Wagner jumped over the snapper and blocked the kick.
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