San Diego Chargers
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 through their division has marked the team’s greatest string of success since the early days with the franchise within the primary half in the 1960s. As fans from the team know, nevertheless, their appearances inside the playoffs have been less than spectacular. Much with 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 on the Chargers’ otherwise flawless kicker, Nate Kaeding.
The Iowa Native
Kaeding was selected by the Chargers in the 2004 Draft. They were only able to get him due to receiving several favorable lottery picks as part on the Eli Manning and Philip Rivers draft/trade deal done that year, and there was quite a bit of excitement surrounding his selection. Following all, the Iowa City, Iowa native had earned a national reputation through his college career using the Hawkeyes – even winning the Lou Groza kicking award soon after the season of 2002. Being a Hawkeye, he was identified as “Mister Automatic”, for his ability to seemingly always make his team’s industry ambitions when they were required most. He was particularly deadly from long range, as he had a career record of 24 forty-plus yard subject targets built out from the 29 he attempted. That included twenty out of twenty one particular manufactured during his senior campaign.
Winning records
Even being a Charger, Kaeding has gone on to set records. In the course of the 2009 season, he became the most accurate kicker inside the history in the National Football League with an overall percentage of subject goals manufactured that is certainly in excess of eighty-seven percent. All through the regular season campaigns in San Diego, his efficiency in many methods mirrors what he did while at Iowa City. In one season, he missed only 3 total area ambitions all through the sixteen-game season. Unfortunately, all of that may be effortlessly overshadowed in the minds of several Chargers fans by his inability to make the significant area objectives when they matter most: the playoffs.
Missing the huge ones
For instance, Kaeding missed a 54-yard area objective against the Patriots throughout the 2006 playoffs. Had he manufactured it, he could have tied the game. Then, in 2007, a missed area objective towards Tennessee and a single against the Colts could have easily ended the Chargers’ season. They eventually lost to the Patriots that year inside the AFC title game. The worst postseason efficiency came from the 2009 playoffs towards the Jets. In that overall performance, Kaeding missed the only three subject goals he attempted. Had he created just 1, the game would have gone to overtime – two out of 3 would have won it.
Inside the end, Kaeding is now very best acknowledged 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 throughout his time using the team until he once again earns the title “Mister Automatic” by making his field plans inside the postseason.
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