NEWYORKER | the sporting sceneThe Odd, Shifting Role of the N.F.L. PunterNFL踢球手的奇特变迁角色2025-11-23 1351词 困难字号收藏PDFEvans has taken two or fewer punts in five of the first eleven games, which would have been unusual only a decade ago. Last Sunday, though, against the Seattle Seahawks, he was busy. Seattle’s stifling defense had bottled up the Rams’ quarterback, Matthew Stafford. The team’s defense kept them in the game, harassing Seattle’s quarterback into an even worse day, which included four interceptions. But Seattle, like most N.F.L. teams these days, didn’t need much in the way of offense to score; they just needed to cross into Rams territory. The Seahawks’ kicker, Jason Myers, attempted five field goals in the game, including one of fifty-seven yards, which he converted. At the same time that punters have been getting less and less use, field-goal kickers, their clean-uniformed comrades, are being brought out for longer and longer attempts—and hitting them at a historically high rate. Yet another reason that teams don’t need to punt as much as they used to.journey-inline-newsletterinline-newsletter请登录后继续阅读完整文章
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