Giants kicker Younghoe Koo made one of the strangest plays of this NFL season when he kicked the turf in front of the football, not the ball itself, leaving holder Jamie Gillan with nothing to do but pick up the ball and run, which he did for a 13-yard loss.
Koo said after the game that he saw the ball moving on Gillan’s hold and thought he wasn’t going to be able to get a successful kick off, so he pulled up.
“I was approaching the ball and, cold weather, the ball kind of slipped out at the bottom so it was moving,” Koo said, via the New York Post . “I wasn’t able to kick through the ball. The ball was moving when I was driving to it, so I just pulled up on it.”
Koo said Gillan did the best he could but Koo had already pulled his kick by the time Gillan got the ball down.
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