Why do I still feel angry?

SaintsFanatic said

People are actually complaining about the roughing the kicker call?

That's a call 100% of the time. Roughing the kicker? No. Running into the kicker? Yes. Same result, rekick.

You can't make contact with the kicker, period. A rookie made a rookie mistake. Stop looking at things through B&G glasses and stop complaining. Not a good look.

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I really don't even look at it as a horrible rookie mistake. The kid was laying out to make what seemed at the time to be a potentially game 'saving' play by trying to keep the score tied. What no one seems to want to remember that if he gets his hand(s) on the ball even a little, then the kicker (or punter) is fair game. And he was so close to making contact with the ball that if he had done so (and the PAT was still missed) he would possibly have been riding on the same shoulders that Lutz was later in the game.

The kid did what he was trained to do and almost made the play. He actually took a pretty good angle to the ball and came very close to missing the kicker altogether. I'm glad we have an athletic kid with that kind of potential when we may need a block to win a game later in the season and beyond.