San Diego 2010
The San Diego Chargers have been at the top of their game over the course from the last four seasons, winning the NFL’s AFC West crown in each campaign. This four-season romp via their division has marked the team’s finest string of success since the early days in the franchise within the 1st half on the 1960s. As fans with the team know, however, their appearances from the playoffs have been less than spectacular. Much from the blame for the team’s inability to go deeper into the postseason and win that elusive initial Super Bowl trophy has fallen squarely upon the shoulders in the Chargers’ otherwise flawless kicker, Nate Kaeding.
The Iowa Native
Kaeding was selected by the Chargers within the 2004 Draft. They were only able to get him due to receiving several favorable lottery picks as part with the Eli Manning and Philip Rivers draft/trade deal done that year, and there was quite a bit of excitement surrounding his selection. Right after all, the Iowa City, Iowa native had earned a national reputation in the course of his college career with the Hawkeyes – even winning the Lou Groza kicking award soon after the season of 2002. Like a Hawkeye, he was acknowledged as “Mister Automatic”, for his ability to seemingly often make his team’s field goals when they were needed most. He was particularly deadly from long range, as he had a career record of 24 forty-plus yard field objectives made out with the 29 he attempted. That included twenty out of twenty one created during his senior campaign.
Winning records
Even being a Charger, Kaeding has gone on to set records. During the 2009 season, he became the most accurate kicker within the history with the National Football League with an overall percentage of field ambitions built that is certainly in excess of eighty-seven percent. All through the regular season campaigns in San Diego, his performance in several ways mirrors what he did while at Iowa City. In 1 season, he missed only three total subject targets all through the sixteen-game season. Unfortunately, all of that’s very easily overshadowed from the minds of many Chargers fans by his inability to make the significant area ambitions when they matter most: the playoffs.
Missing the large ones
For instance, Kaeding missed a 54-yard field goal against the Patriots throughout the 2006 playoffs. Had he manufactured it, he could have tied the game. Then, in 2007, a missed industry objective towards Tennessee and just one towards the Colts could have effortlessly ended the Chargers’ season. They eventually lost to the Patriots that year inside the AFC title game. The worst postseason performance came in the 2009 playoffs towards the Jets. In that overall performance, Kaeding missed the only 3 area ambitions he attempted. Had he made just one, the game would have gone to overtime – two out of three would have won it.
Inside the end, Kaeding is now finest known by Chargers fans as the kicker who can’t make the large kick when his team needs it most. Fairly, or unfairly, that reputation will continue to dog him all through his time with the team until he once again earns the title “Mister Automatic” by making his subject objectives within the postseason.
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