Phil Dawson

Five and a half minutes left to go in the period.

Only scoring so far, a 47-yard field goal by Phil Dawson of Texas to tie the game at 17.

Malcolm Johnson out to the right, joined by Mosley in the slot.

Drip Levitts.

They have two left.

It stops the clock with 69 seconds left.

Talking about Phil Dawson, the field goal kicker par excellence for the Texas Longhorns.

His longest field goal this year has been 52.

Robbie Gould, 77.8. Brandon McManus, who was on the team and people thought he was the kicking god when they first signed him, 69.2. Jason Elam, 74.3. Chad Ryland, 64%.

Greg Zerline, 74.2. Phil Dawson, 66.7. Randy Bullock, 74.3. You know...

It just goes to show, and this is the whole reason why I did that.

Yes.

you know he wouldn't have been

yeah

they wouldn't have won super bowls and he wouldn't have been a hall of famer uh phil dawson was like the only thing that was keeping the browns in games for the longest time uh jason elam was like one of the best kickers in the league forever robbie gould again sebastian janikowski it just you can't give up on a guy so easily because like you said it's not like an anders carlson situation where you once you missed one you were worried that he was never going to be right the rest of the game so you got to give him a break you're going to have to live with it because they decided to go with a rookie kicker we'll see what happens next year.

If he starts coming out next year and is going 50%, then maybe it's time to have a discussion.

1999, they had one win in New Orleans, and they beat the Steelers in Pittsburgh on a last-second field goal.

And when I mean last second, last second, because Phil Dawson couldn't find his helmet on the sideline.

Oh, my gosh.

And he had to run on the field real quick.

right 50 yarders were never really tried 40 was like all right let's do it 45 okay and after that it was like they can only do so much now that we expect them to kick 70 yarders it's almost like we expect them to kick them 100 of the time and we forget that they're missing 50 yarders and we're like you suck and it was like there was a time when they weren't even asked to do this and it's like man i totally get it and now the pressure is coming down on him because think about it who's the last team i mean justin tucker was probably the last kicker that played on the team for more than 10 years I mean, they used to be tough.

Joe Nedney played on this team for how many years, right? I mean, dude, Gary Anderson, Phil Dawson.

Dude, there was years where teams had kickers, one kicker for 20 years.

Morton Anderson, yeah.

Zane Gonzalez, where are you?

Yeah.

Phil Dawson, where are you? Get back

here.

a Hanson guy from Detroit? Matt

Bryant, Mason Crosby, Phil Dawson, Nick Folk, Robbie Gold, Jason Hanson, Sebastian Janikowski, Norm Johnson, John Casey, Matt Prater, and Matt Stover.

You did not get.

Stover, the other Ravens guy, right? Did pretty good, though.

That's the last time the Browns won in Pittsburgh.

Phil Dawson was kicking for the Browns that night.

He was 3 of 4 on extra points, 2 of 2 on field goals.

They kicked the crap out of the Steelers that night.

We'll see how much they can actually give when they come back.

But you know who's not walking through that door? Phil Dawson, Robbie Gold, David Akers.

They got a real problem at kicker.

And I don't, I mean, it's just kicker and maybe they'll find a guy off the street, but it seems like there isn't an easy solution there.

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And he was Phil Dawson's holder for a few years.

Great NFL punter.

And he always has talked about... missing those mid ranges that 30 to 40, right? Because it's, you know, because when you get to the 50, it's like, it's like, okay, this is a longer field goal.

A little alarming, but I think also that this question and the concern comes just from the fact that he was so automatic and he had 20-some consecutive kicks made.

So everybody's like, oh, something must be wrong now.

Let's you know, I understand that technically the Phil Dawson curse has not been broken yet.

I get that.