Adam Vinatieri Breaks Down What It’s Like To Have A Game Winning Kick In The NFL | Pat McAfee Show

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Uh yesterday cuz I was lucky enough to watch it and we were talking about team earlier Vinnie has a unbelievable little segment towards the end of the second episode uh first of all they go to the Raiders kick was the end of the second episode and there’s a clip of Vinnie

Being like hey uh if you don’t make this your life is over before he hits the game time field goal somebody said that to him no he says that about himself he was like Hey if you don’t make this you your your life is done hey he Tre to

Practice like that too well he he went into the Z like he talk about the Z goes I want to let you like this dude is a machine right here like this guy is an absolute machine he would miss a kick in practice and it was

Like worst day ever I’m like bro kick 10 balls this one who gives a sh you’ve already won four Super Bowls but then once you but then me personally once I’m watching him treat it that way I’m like oh that’s why he’s one force so then I

Start you know like getting pissed off over a shank like you molded me into a I don’t want to say just much better punter human almost with the way you focused on your craft were you like that going into the Patriots do you think parcels and bellich created you into

That was it a fear like what what do you think it was well I I I truly believe there’s moments in your life and and I don’t think just like moments in a game I I don’t know if you know this specific moment is going to change your life

Right we talk about that snow kick or a Superbowl kick absolutely we know that moment is going to change your life for the better or for the worse we don’t usually know when that time is going to happen but I I always try to make practice more difficult than than games

I know you know bill bill parcel’s went my rookie year it’s it’s training camp Hey practice is over we’re going to do our conditioning that’s back when you conditioned after after practice too in training camp two a days kind of thing and he said all right um vinary get out

There kick this 50 yard field goal if you make it uh no no conditioning if you miss it we’re going to do double conditioning so that’s the kind of stuff that they put pressure on you in practice so when you get into a game it’s it’s it’s different but it’s not

Different you know what I mean yeah I think you are first ballot Hall of Famer we all think that I think every football person thinks that you’re up next year right I am okay so let’s go and get that we will pound the drum for you obviously

All year for what you’ve done for kickers and punters Justin Tucker what he’s he’s a machine that guy is an absolute machine every craft evolves and gets better as the years go on Ray guy used to be the guy Ray guy would be like

Number 15 or 16 in the NFL right now if he was in there cuz everybody’s gotten bigger stronger faster techniques have gotten better that’s what’s supposed to happen in the sport whenever you see guys like Justin Tucker and Harrison bucker who he M hits a 57 y in the super

Did you see I mean he Mish hit that ball absolutely completely and he still puts it in it’s like there’s people I assume to think maybe you’re bitter about that I don’t think that’s probably the case how you feel at all about how those guys

Are doing I love the fact that the the sport or our craft is continuing to get better you know like like I look at it and you know you you get little at Adam hey who’s the best kicker oh Justin Tucker this I am a huge fan of Justin

Tucker and Harrison Buckner and you there’s so many guys out there that are so good right now yeah Jake Moody’s a rookie that guy went through the rookie wall and hit A50 yeah 52 55 in the game I’m like those are huge kicks in the most stressful tough time of your life

Yeah I I love the fact that these guys are doing it and you know our stats our records all that stuff will be broken and great I mean that’s part of the game I I can sit there and watch the stuff I get more nervous I’m watching the Super

Bowl and I’m watching these guys having to do it and and granted I’ve gone through it so I know what it feels like but I’m I think I’m more nervous sitting on the couch W with no skin in the game whatsoever I’m sitting there going dude holy I can’t believe this is going

On right now we’re watching in a suite at that Colts game and Ros is coming out to punt for a backed up punt in like the fourth quarter and I’m like my God I’m like so nervous cuz there’s so many things that can go wrong that people

Don’t let’s say the snap is just a little bit wide he drops it that goes out of the back for a safety we lose that game right there like those are all things that I’m like thinking of for R and obviously he just catches it turns

It over and does it whenever we were in that situation we wanted to be there but now that I’m watching I’m scared to death for these guys I’m happy to hear you are the same thing it’s just different it’s different now because when you’re on this I always said I was

Always way more nervous when I’m standing on the sideline and I can’t make a you know hey we’re we’re up by a point they’ve got the ball in two minutes and they can go down and score a field goal and and game’s over I hate sitting on the sideline because I have

No control over it other than flying a towel or cheering you know what I mean like I’ve told I’ve told the story before about you becoming a psycho basically for those uh gamewinners like a soulless human being okay and I assume you talk about a little bit sounds like

You talk about getting into the Zone a little bit did you ever have any of those scared or negative thoughts during your career how about towards the end there when you’re battling injuries and like that you you know that that for me was more about am I going to be

Able to help my team cuz you’re trying to get the record right we all know that yeah yeah well it got to a point where where when I played against I think I played against Morton my second year in the league he was in Atlanta shook his

Hand I’m like hey I’m I’m going a fanboy for a second I’m like you know you were the guy when I was growing up as a kid your records will never be touched oh my God you know I was really fanboying it at the time and then you play a couple

Of decades right and all of a sudden you’re like you know I’m looking at this stuff going hey you know there might be an opportunity here where if I play long enough I maybe can catch his records right and so I never really thought about it but I suppose those last couple

Of years it got to a point where I was a little bit more you know wanting those records but I think the most nervous kick of the Year for me always was first kick of the season because it’s been six seven months of you know as you get into

The middle of the Season you just get into your routine everything goes playoffs yeah it’s a different beast but by then you know you guys are clicking Everything feels normal and right for me when you take six months off and you get back out there you don’t forget how to

Do it but it was always once I drilled that first one then I was like okay The Season’s on the way yeah you’re one of the only kickers that has the top 10 kicks exactly you know top 10 game winners or whatever sets alltime career points record here on a chip shot yeah

This is a chippy hey who cares yeah right who cares they give it to you it does not matter how three counts you put that thing right through the middle I assume going into this one you wanted a good ball to be on tape whenever you broke the record I did Kaitlin Clark

Last night she said you knew I was going to Go Logo 3 to break the record because that’s going to be played over and over and I you thought as well we need to hit a good ball here well you know we all thought it was going to happen at home

The week before and then it was that game it never really turned out that I had a bunch of attempts so it pushed two of all things in Oakland of of all places you know they they uh they I’m sure they didn’t want me to break the

Record there they still hate me there but it’s okay you know it’s part of the deal yeah I mean it’s a Tuck Rule wasn’t your fault right yeah that that Tuck Rule when they go back over that in the second episode is nuts as well wa cuz

You guys you guys robbed everybody well just the rule that they the rule that they had in place the definition of the rule was just the most incorrect rule you’ve ever heard of cuz they read it and they show it too offense leaves the fields Oakland comes on Patriot’s

Defense goes on I know I was sing my locker cleaning my locker out at the time yeah great call oh