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While Smyth’s winning effort on Saturday would be viewed as relatively routine for an NFL kicker, he was seen successfully executing from considerably greater distances during his pre-game preparations.<\/p>\n
New Orleans Saints head coach Dennis Allen said after the game that he would have been confident handing Smyth a more challenging effort had the final drive stalled further back up the field. <\/p>\n
“We would’ve kicked it from, I don’t know, sixty. You know? Depending on how much time was left in the game and whether I thought the down and distance was, what we thought the percentages was,” he said.<\/p>\n
“But I felt good about him hitting the distance, wasn’t worried about that at all.”<\/p>\n
Having only previously watched him work in practice, Allen was pleased by Smyth’s ability to perform in a “pressure situation” with a game on the line.<\/p>\n
“I thought that was awesome,” he added. <\/p>\n
“First kick in, not an NFL game, a football game, in an American football game. For him to knock it through like that in a pressure situation, that was cool to see.”<\/p>\n
The Saints’ pre-season continues against the San Francisco 49ers at 01:00 BST on Monday 19 August, building towards their first competitive action of the 2024 campaign against the Carolina Panthers on 8 September.<\/p>\n
Smyth was not the only player from Northern Ireland to make his NFL debut over the weekend.<\/p>\n
Swatragh’s Jude McAtamney, another from a GAA background but who previously played college football at Rutgers, kicked an extra-point in the New York Giants’ pre-season win over the Detroit Lions on Friday night. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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