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00:00 What's up, Baltimore Ravens fans?
00:06 Indy Cartham here with your Baltimore Ravens Daily Blitz.
00:08 It's going to be a quick hit today on Monday, November 27th.
00:11 As it's not really breaking news because it's sort of been trending this season, but surprising
00:19 news nonetheless for everybody that's been a Ravens fan for a long time.
00:24 Going back probably to at least 2012, as for the last decade, Justin Tucker has been the
00:30 best kicker in the NFL, but he's not anymore.
00:35 This year he is not.
00:36 If you were watching the game on Sunday night, you saw that he missed a 44-yard field goal
00:41 attempt against the Los Angeles Chargers.
00:45 It goes wide left.
00:47 It wasn't a very good kick.
00:49 It didn't look like a clean kick.
00:51 He picked up a little bit of turf along with the ball.
00:54 Didn't really get talked about on the broadcast, but it wasn't a clean kick at all.
00:57 It was a good snap, good hold, but that miss brings his field goal percentage this season
01:03 down to just 80.8%.
01:06 That is the worst mark of his 12-year career, and he's not even average right now, boys
01:12 and girls.
01:13 The league average is 85.8%.
01:16 That's clearly well below or above what his 80.8% is right now this season.
01:25 I don't know that we've ever been able to use the words "below average" when discussing
01:29 Justin Tucker before, but that's certainly where we are now.
01:34 He's 34 years old.
01:35 Of course, he came into the league as an undrafted free agent out of the University of Texas,
01:40 where he kicked, I think, from '08 to '11.
01:45 The Ravens right now rank 23rd out of the NFL's 32 teams in field goal percentage.
01:51 Not a good look as the Kansas City Chiefs' Harrison Butker, who's gone 20 for 20 on field
01:57 goals and 28 for 28 on extra points, is the only kicker in the league right now who is
02:01 perfect and is the unquestioned top kicker in football, which used to be a title held
02:08 by Justin Tucker.
02:10 We'll see if he can get things back on track this season with the kicks.
02:15 If not, his days in the league might be numbered.
02:18 No, I am not knee-jerking here.
02:22 You've seen how important kickers are to NFL teams.
02:24 Just go ask Houston.
02:27 Ask anybody else that's had kicking problems.
02:30 Washington, Dallas, and kicking's important.
02:36 Good luck, Justin, the rest of the way.
02:38 We'll keep our eyes open for you and we'll be crossing our fingers for you every kick.
02:44 But appreciate you guys tuning in.
02:45 We'll do it again tomorrow.
02:47 Until then, we'll see you.
02:48 [Music]