The Bills offense didn’t make life easy on kicker Tyler Bass against the Cardinals in Week 10.
On your TV screen, you’ll see a “target area” for a kicker when the Bills offense is on the field, at times. When approaching that part of the field, on one occasion, quarterback Josh Allen lost 5 yards on a delay of game penalty. On another, the offense lost a yard on a third-down carry.
Still, the Bills (7-3) trotted their rookie kicker out time and time again against the Cards (6-3) and he not only converted from long range, but he also made history.
According to Pro Football Reference, Bass became the 12th kicker in NFL history to make three 50-yard kicks in a single game. Three in the single game is one thing, but Bass stands alone in one sense. He’s the only one in NFL history to have all three of his split the uprights in one quarter.
In the second stanza, Bass hit from 54, 55 and 58 yards, respectively. All three of those set a new personal career-long for him as well. And worth noting, there was some extra pressure here, too.
His counterpart, Cards kicker Zane Gonzalez, exchanged kicks with him. Bass hit one, then Gonzalez, then Bass, then Gonzalez, and once again… then Bass, to bring the game’s score at the time to 16-9.
Because of Bass and his history-making effort converting on all of those, Arizona needed a miracle to win the game in the end. Still, the Cards cannot take history from him.
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