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• MATT GAY SHOWS HE'S ONE OF NFL'S BT KICKERS WH 55-YARR AT EEZG LAMBE
• RAMS' MATT GAY: MISS FIRST FIELD GOAL OF SEASON
• WELL BEFORE EX-BUC MATT GAY’S WALKOFF, BUCS KICKED THEMSELV
• RAMS' MATT GAY: MISS 51-YARD FIELD GOAL LOSS
• MATT GAY MISSED 2 FIELD GOALS 2022.
• MATT GAY HAS QUIETLY BEEN ONE OF THE NFL'S BT KICKERS SCE JOG THE RAMS
• MATT GAY’S MISS SEALS TAMPA BAY BUCNEERS’ VASTATG LOSS TO GIANTS
• FORMER UTAH UTE MATT GAY SENDS RAMS TO NFC CHAMPNSHIP GAME WH WALK-OFF FIELD GOAL
• LA RAMS MATT GAY BOOMG 54 YARD FG PROV HE IS STILL STARTER
• BT MATT GAY PROP BETS SUPER BOWL LVI
• RAMS' MATT GAY: MISS FIRST FIELD GOAL OF SEASON

MATT GAY SHOWS HE'S ONE OF NFL'S BT KICKERS WH 55-YARR AT EEZG LAMBE

Jt Tucker is unqutnably the bt kicker the NFL, but Matt Gay is right there wh him as the send-bt football right now. Gay once aga proved jt how good he is durg the first half agast the Packers, drillg a 55-yard field goal eezg ndns at Lambe Field. Wh two more field goals the first half, Gay is now 21-for-23 on the year and his only miss were om beyond 50 yards.

RAMS' MATT GAY: MISS FIRST FIELD GOAL OF SEASON

In the last two years, Gay is 53 for 57 on field goal attempts and has only missed six field goals sce jog the Rams 2020, gog 67-for-73. Gay went 2-for-3 on field goals and 2-for-2 on extra pots durg Sunday's 37-20 loss to the nnected on both his field goals the first half, cludg a 42-yarr to open the srg on the Rams' openg drive.

It had to give the figurative knife a fal, fatal on a day which Tampa Bay’s un unrwhelmed every facet, om tepid return yardage to kickoffs out of bounds to a missed field goal, also had to watch a former beleaguered peer reem himself a Rams, that was Matt Gay — who shoehorned a reer full of heartbreak to one abysmal season Tampa Bay as a rookie 2019 — drillg the wng 30-yard field goal as time expired the Rams’ 30-27 playoff triumph. “He’s been great, he’s been clutch, ” said Rams ach Sean McVay, who watched Gay’s 47-yard try fall short earlier the fourth. ”Such was the ironic epilogue for the Bucs’ most abysmal special teams effort of the Gay kicked a 30-yard field goal as time expired to lift the Los Angel Rams to a 30-27 victory over the Tampa Bay Bucneers an NFC divisn playoff game Sunday at Raymond Jam to the walkoff by Gay, who missed three field goals his fal game pewter, the Bucs spent the better part of a bright, crisp afternoon gift-wrappg short fields to the Rams, whose average startg field posn was their own 39.

WELL BEFORE EX-BUC MATT GAY’S WALKOFF, BUCS KICKED THEMSELV

Explore all your optnsHelpg expede those qutns was Gay, who sent his own Tampa Bay torment sailg to oblivn, by way of the north end zone uprights.

Gay nnected on one of two field-goal attempts and nverted his only extra-pot attempt Sunday's 22-10 loss to the Rams offense had another weak performance Sunday, limg Gay's opportuni to produce. A 51-yard field-goal attempt the fourth quarter went wi right, and while Gay did nnect on a 29-yard field goal the first quarter, marked the fourth game out of five this season where the pendable kicker has had two or ls field-goal attempts. The Rams face a stgglg Panthers team Week 6 before gog on bye, which may help boost Gay's otherwise pestrian numbers.

Matt Gay missed 2 field goals 2022. Fally, the Rams land on Matt Gay, who they signed jt prr to Week 11 agast the Bucneers.

RAMS' MATT GAY: MISS 51-YARD FIELD GOAL LOSS

Very quietly, Gay has turned out to be one of the bt kickers football – and no, that’s not hyperbole.

MATT GAY MISSED 2 FIELD GOALS 2022.

Midway through last season, Gay has ma 37 of his 40 field goal attempts and 51 of 52 extra pot tri. It’s not as if Gay is only htg chip-shot field goals, eher.

Among kickers wh at least 10 attempts of at least 40 yards sce the start of last season, Gay ranks third wh an accuracy rate of 88. 9%) have been better than Gay the last two years. The Rams’ special teams has been an absolute ms this season, but Gay has been the savg grace the last two years.

Mut after a 32-31 feat to the Giants when rookie kicker Matt Gay missed a potential game-wng goal om 34-yards, the Bucs new head ach said he took a lay a game penalty before centerg the football between the hash marks bee the kick is easier when ’s not so close to the goalposts.

MATT GAY HAS QUIETLY BEEN ONE OF THE NFL'S BT KICKERS SCE JOG THE RAMS

’’Gay, who kicked four field goals the game, had already missed an extra pot om that same distance wi left and had another one the name of Roberto Aguayo, Nick Folk and Chandler Catanzaro was Arians thkg? As turned out, Gay phed the kick right and missed htg the upright by the width of a football. Well, the Bucs would be 2-1 stead of 1-2 and not the B-roll to the boffo NFL but of Giants rookie quarterback Daniel Gay fell to the same trap as prev Bucs kickers on Sunday, wr @romano_tbtim #TBvsNYG #NYGvsTB #Bucs TampaBayTimSports (@TBTim_Sports) September 23, 2019.

It was jt one of the many thgs that went wrong orr for the Bucs to blow an 18-pot halftime field goals are nothg new Tampa Bay, which n’t seem to reverse the curse no matter how many kickers as ual, the game wouldn’t have been on Gay’s toe if Arians have left on Jameis Wston’s right arm or if the fense had acunted for Jon on fourth-and-5 at the Tampa Bay 7-yard le when he smpered to the end zone untouched for his send TD n.

He dropped his hands to his kne and bent at the waist when he realized Gay had missed.

MATT GAY’S MISS SEALS TAMPA BAY BUCNEERS’ VASTATG LOSS TO GIANTS

“This loss is 100 percent on me, ’’ Gay urse, that’s not te. Thanks to rookie kicker Matt Gay, they’d left five pots – and a w – on the table. Gay missed three kicks, none more agonizg than a 34-yard field goal as time expired that sailed narrowly wi of the the fifth-round pick om Utah took the blame.

One play prr to Gay’s 34-yard miss, wh the ball on the 9-yard le and the clock stopped, the Bucs were flagged for lay of game. ”Tampa Bay Bucneers kicker Matt Gay looks down jectedly after his stly miss agast the Giants.

”And that’s exactly what Gay was dog.

FORMER UTAH UTE MATT GAY SENDS RAMS TO NFC CHAMPNSHIP GAME WH WALK-OFF FIELD GOAL

At his day-after news nference on Monday, he seemed to change his story slightly:#Bucs ach Bce Arians explas what happened on lay of game penalty before Gay’s missed FG attempt yterday. A ltle different than yterday’s explanatn, but seems evint that he didn’t want Gay kickg om right haha no matter the distance. Enca (@EddieInTheYard) September 23, 2019Eher way, though, he did Gay, of urse.

Los Angel Rams’ Matt Gay (8) kicks a game-wng field goal agast the Tampa Bay Bucneers durg the send half of an NFL divisnal round playoff football game Sunday, Jan.

LA RAMS MATT GAY BOOMG 54 YARD FG PROV HE IS STILL STARTER

Talk about a remptn Utah Ut kicker Matt Gay h the 30-yard game-wng field goal as time expired for the Los Angel Rams as they beat the Tampa Bay Bucneers 30-27 on w sends the Rams to the NFC champnship game next week, where they will host the San Francis 49ers for the right to advance to the Super, playg agast a Bucneers anchise that had let him go after draftg him 2019, had missed a 47-yard field goal attempt midway through the fourth quarter that would have given Los Angel a 30-13 Bay then rallied to tie the game at 27, all by srg two touchdowns the fal four mut, cludg a Leonard Fourte 9-yard n on fourth down wh 42 sends to the ensug drive, the Rams got to srg range on a 44-yard pass down the middle om Matthew Stafford to Cooper Kupp, settg up Gay’s wner. Matt Gay entered the NFL as 2019 5th round draft pick of the Bucs. After Stafford spiked the ball wh four sends to play to stop the clock, Gay me on and lmly h the game-wner, the third time durg the divisnal playoffs this weekend that the wner was termed by a field goal as time, who was named to the Pro Bowl this season for the first time his reer, also ma field goals of 26 and 40 yards the first other former Ut were also victor wh the Rams on Sunday.

After fdg a suable kicker after shufflg through five players 2020, the team was eager to start the season wh the placekicker Matt Gay.

BT MATT GAY PROP BETS SUPER BOWL LVI

And the followg week, the LA Rams kicker Gay missed a field goal bee was blocked on the fensive le of scrimmage. So after two preason gam, Matt Gay had missed an extra pot and a field goal.

He has kicked off twice, and both tim Gay has not allowed a kick return the first half. Matt Gay has been stellar kickoffs.

RAMS' MATT GAY: MISS FIRST FIELD GOAL OF SEASON

And Corey Bojorquez has punted for 154 yards wh no returns, He pooched one to the Denver Brons one-yard le jt before the may be seeg the end of the Johnny Hekker era wh this performance by Corey Bojorquez, After a strip-sack and fumble revery by DL Michael Hoecht, Matt Gay booted a 30-yard field goal, his third of three attempts, to give the Rams ne pots headg to halftime. Mon 10/31/22 10:47 AMGay did not attempt a field goal Sunday while gog 2-for-2 on extra-pot tri the Rams' 31-14 loss to the AnalysisGay failed to produce at least one field goal for the first time this season, but he remaed perfect on extra-pot attempts, raisg his season total to 13-for-13 over seven ntts. Gay uld be more volved Week 9 agast the Bucneers as both teams will look to rebound off disappotg loss.