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Loyalty. Pity. A botched fantasy football pick. Blackmail.
Whatever it is, Kansas City Chiefs head coach Andy Reid is sticking with his longtime kicker Harrison Butker despite missing more field goals than a blindfolded Brett Maher.
“As far as the kicking part goes, I’m going to stick with Butker this week,” Reid said on Wednesday to reporters, according to ESPN. “And we’ll go (wide right) from there.”
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Okay, so he didn’t say the middle part, but he might as well have, according to Chiefs fans after hearing the news.
Butker’s field-goal percentage is at a league-low of 63% among active kickers and will be facing off against the Atlanta Falcons come Sunday. He’s gone 12 of 19 in eight games this year and is often booed by his own fans in the recent weeks.
This means Justin Tucker, who was signed to the Kansas City practice squad in October, won’t be seeing any playing time soon.
Fans and professionals alike have been extremely vocal about begging Reid to retreat from the 31-year-old kicker – suggesting everything from “put in Tucker” to perhaps replacing Butker with a cardboard cutout of Cameron Dicker.
After the announcement was made on Wednesday, folks gathered on social media to air their grievances.
“The Chiefs moving their practice goalposts to the right to help Butker,” one person posted on X.
“Just score TDs and then he shouldn’t screw up the outcome,” another noted.
“Please keep him so he can keep missing kicks and more women get their degrees,” someone joked.
“Typical Andy Reid smh, waiting until he costs us the game that’ll make us lose the division,” one person commented.
“Why?” someone asked.
“Harrison Butker was literally booed off the field at halftime of the Jets game at Arrowhead,” another expressed. “It takes a lot for Chiefs fans to turn on one of their players in their home stadium. Andy Reid sticking with that same player is a slap in the face to Cheifs fans that are committed to watching this team succeed. He’s the worst kicker in the league by far, and will lost the Chiefs multiple games moving forward.”
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