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Mitchy moo
08-30-2006, 08:23 AM
<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=top width=20 rowSpan=3></TD></TR><TR><TD class=vaLink width=80 height=18>http://images.usatoday.com/_common/_images/_inside/enlarge.gif (javascript:;) Enlarge (javascript:;)</TD><TD class=photoCredit align=right width=165>By Matt Slocum, AP</TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2 height=1>http://images.usatoday.com/_common/_images/clear.gif</TD></TR><TR><TD class=photoCredit colSpan=2>Mike Vanderjagt feels the pressure of succeeding as the Cowboys' kicker this season after signing a $6 million deal in the offseason.</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>

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Three games.
Mike Vanderjagt (http://fantasyfootball.usatoday.com/content/player.asp?sport=NFL&id=1497) has heard all about the Dallas Cowboys' three losses last season by three points or fewer.
In each case, kickers missed field goals — none longer than 41 yards — that might have changed the outcome. Theoretically, a 9-7 non-playoff finish might have become a 12-4 playoff run.
"I've got three games on my shoulders this year," Vanderjagt said early in training camp. "I'm supposed to turn it around."
Bill Parcells told you that?

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/football/nfl/cowboys/2006-08-29-vanderjagt_x.htm

Meathead
08-30-2006, 09:28 AM
drink plenty of liquor

North_Coast
08-30-2006, 09:59 AM
Unlike most predictors, I think that the Cowgirls and Eagles will fight it out for the NFC East and a wildcard spot, and I think Vanderjagt was a good acquisition. Philly has a clutch kicker in Ackers, and Vanderjagt ain't bad, although not quite as clutch as Vinatieri.

Jan Reimers
08-30-2006, 11:48 AM
If he and/or the Cowboys stink, he can always criticize his QB, like he did Manning in Indy.

Historian
08-30-2006, 11:54 AM
He has CFL written all over him.

HAMMER
08-30-2006, 12:22 PM
He has CFL written all over him.

The most accurate kicker in the history of the league?

pats-were-right
08-30-2006, 01:28 PM
Do some of you guys REMEMBER how the Colts' season ended last year? Accurate or not he's a choker.