Jason Sanders’ rise to stardom: From high school soccer to the NFL’s elite
The Phinsider’s Justin Hier sits down with Brent Grablachoff, Sanders’ personal kicking coach, to learn more about how Sanders became the league’s best.
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Being a placekicker in today’s NFL is one of the most high-pressure jobs not just in football, but in all of sports. So how exactly does one go from kicking soccer balls in high school to nailing 50+-yard field goals with an entire NFL organization’s success on the line? I sat down Brent Grablachoff, Miami Dolphins kicker Jason Sanders’ personal kicking coach, to find out.
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History suggests that the Chiefs’ road back to the Super Bowl may be daunting. Only eight teams in NFL history the 1971 Cowboys, the ‘72 Dolphins, the ‘73 Vikings, the ‘87 Broncos, the 1991-93 Bills and the 2018 Patriots have returned to the Super Bowl the year after losing the Big Game. And out of those teams, only the ‘71 Cowboys, ‘72 Dolphins and ‘18 Patriots were able to hoist the Lombardi Trophy a year after being on the short end of the Super Bowl scoreboard.
While getting back to the Super Bowl has proven to be a daunting task for the Super Bowl runner-up, simply making it back to the playoffs is also not a guarantee. Several recent runner-ups have failed to qualify for the postseason the year after playing in the Big Game.
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Terez Paylor, the popular NFL writer and Pro Football Hall of Fame voter whose career took him from the Kansas City Star to Yahoo Sports, died unexpectedly at his home early Tuesday. He was 37.