{"id":211554,"date":"2025-09-09T01:16:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T01:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/211554\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T01:16:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T01:16:09","slug":"chris-boswell-didnt-watch-his-60-yard-game-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/211554\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Boswell didn&#8217;t watch his 60-yard game winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even with Steelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers generating his 28th career four-touchdown, no-pick game, Pittsburgh\u2019s ability to avoid an 0-1 start came down to kicker Chris Boswell\u2019s ability to nail a 60-yard field goal to win the game by two points.<\/p>\n<p>It looked like it would have made it through the uprights from 70. After the game, I asked Boswell how far he thinks the kick would have been good from.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHonestly, I have no idea,\u201d Boswell said by phone from the team plane. \u201cI hit it pretty square, and so I knew there was no distance lacking. I saw it down the middle and then I just turned away from it. I didn\u2019t watch it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He didn\u2019t need to. He knew that he\u2019d nailed another long kick, when his team needed it.<\/p>\n<p>It was the second straight season opener in which Boswell hit multiple field goals from 56 yards or longer in a Pittsburgh win. <\/p>\n<p>Given Boswell\u2019s range and Rodgers\u2019s ability to get the offense there, Boswell could end up being the difference more than a few times for Pittsburgh in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Even with Steelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers generating his 28th career four-touchdown, no-pick game, Pittsburgh\u2019s ability to avoid an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":211555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[1232,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-211554","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115171700573223174","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}