There were some who didn’t believe Titans kicker Ryan Succop could make a 53-yard field goal in the closing seconds of Sunday’s game against the Chiefs.
That includes Succop himself.
“I told some of the guys this afterward: You could give me 10 kicks from there and I don’t know if I could make one, honestly, in the weather and the cold and just kicking a frozen football,” Succop told the team’s website via NFL.com.
But Succop made the kick to give the Titans a 19-17, comeback win and keep their division-title hopes alive.
Chiefs coach Andy Reid felt the need to ice Succop. He and everyone else in the stadium were “iced” to begin with in the single-digit temperatures. Reid called timeout just before the snap, but Succop still got the kick off and was short. The timeout nullified the miss, and Succop knew what he had to do to make the kick that counted.
“On the second one I just kind of had to throw technique out the window a little bit and really go after it and kick it as hard as I could,” Succop said.
Succop was Reid’s kicker in his last year with the Chiefs in 2013. Apparently Reid didn’t learn enough about how his kicker was wired. If he did, maybe he wouldn’t have tried to ice him.
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