Broncos kicker calls out Justin Tucker o

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Broncos kicker calls out Justin Tucker o

kicker raised quite a Alex Wilson Jersey few eyebrows acro s the this week when an 84-yard field goal in a game if the kick was attempted under perfect conditions. To hit a kick that long, Tucker said that he'd probably have to be playing in Denver, where the mile-high air generally adds about 10 percent in distance to a kicker's range. "If conditions are prime -- like last season, we opened up in Denver, the weather was warm and the field was nice, you're up in altitude so the ball just carries and in pregame I hit the cro s bar from 85," Tucker said. "So if the situation is just prime, maybe 84 and a half yards." If you think that sounds ridiculous, you're not the only one -- so does . The kicker called out Tucker this week and basically challenged him to put his money where his mouth is. McManus is so convinced that Tucker can't make an 84-yarder Eric Thames Jersey that he's willing pay for the Ravens kicker to fly to Colorado. There is one catch though: McManus is only going to pay for the trip if Tucker actually makes the kick. "I will give him an all-expense paid trip if he can do it," McManus said on Thursday, . "I'll pay for his flight, his hotel, if he wants to come out here and do it. I'll kick with him, I'll witne s it and I'll vouch to the world that he can do Jesus Aguilar Jersey it." Although the Ravens kicker said he hit the cro sbar from 85 yards during warmups in Denver last season, McManus says he never saw that, which might be one reason why he doesn't believe Tucker can hit an 84-yarder. However, the Broncos kicker did admit that he saw Tucker hit a few from the "mid-70s." If you're keeping score at home, a 75-yard field goal would be a kick that's attempted from your own 35-yard line. Anyway, McManus does know a thing or two about long kicks: He did during a scrimmage at Broncos' training camp in 2015. So could Tucker actually make an 84-yard field goal? Zach Davies Jersey Maybe in practice, but probably not in a game. When he was hitting those 75-yard kicks during warmups last year, McManus said that the kicks were so low that they would probably be blocked. Tucker did hit a 69-yarder in Baltimore during practice this week, and if the air in Denver adds 10 percent to a kicker's range, that means he could hit from about 76 yards. That's far, but it's not 84 yards. If an 84-yard field goal does ever happen though, Tucker is right about one thing: It will almost certainly happen Jeremy Jeffress Jersey in Denver. Of the five longest kicks in NFL history (four 63-yarders and one 64-yarder), three of them were kicked in Denver, including 's record-setting 64-yarder in 2013. The longest field goal try in NFL history, which you can see at the 22-second mark below, was a 76-yarder attempted by , who came nowhere close to making it. 'If the situation is prime then maybe 84.5 yards' on the longest attempt he would be willing to try GMFB (@gmfb)
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