{"id":16493,"date":"2010-10-04T14:51:44","date_gmt":"2010-10-04T18:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=16493"},"modified":"2018-06-29T14:47:17","modified_gmt":"2018-06-29T18:47:17","slug":"kicker-matt-prater-boosts-broncos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/kicker-matt-prater-boosts-broncos\/","title":{"rendered":"Kicker Matt Prater Boosts Broncos"},"content":{"rendered":"

He does.<\/p>\n

“Oh, yeah, I definitely remember all that stuff,” Prater said.<\/p>\n

He doesn’t miss them anymore. The Broncos beat Tennessee, 26-20 on Sunday in large part because Prater was 4-for-4 in field goals.<\/p>\n

His distances: 36, 36, 35 and 36 yards. For the year, Prater is a perfect 8-for-8 on his field-goal attempts \u2014 5-for-5 in the 30-39 range.<\/p>\n

“Field goals went all right, but kickoffs were an issue,” Prater said. “I’m not happy with the way I kicked off.”<\/p>\n

On the final kickoff, Prater didn’t hit the ball well, and it floated into the wind. Titans returner Marc Mariani, who for a while was the game’s hero with a 98-yard kickoff return, muffed the quirky boot, and the Broncos’ Cassius Vaughn recovered to all but clinch the victory.<\/p>\n

“Sometimes better lucky than good,” Prater said.\u00a0 In his first two seasons, Prater missed four field goals from inside the 40. He’s still a young kicker, in just his third season. But now he’s not only made all his field goals, they pretty much all split the uprights down the middle.<\/p>\n

Source: DenverPost.com, Kicker Matt Prater’s dead-on day boosts Broncos over Titans<\/a>, by Mike Klis, The Denver Post. Posted: 10\/03\/2010 04:48:11 PM MDT; Updated: 10\/03\/2010 11:51:00 PM MDT <\/em><\/p>\n

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