Kicker Matt Prater will be named the Week 14 AFC Special Teams Player of the Week, the league informed the Broncos on Tuesday.
Prater matched his career long with a 59-yard field goal with three seconds remaining in regulation to force overtime. In overtime, Prater ended the game with a 51-yard game winner to give the Broncos a 13-10 victory over the Bears.
Prater joined Mike Vanderjagt (Ind., at Den., 11/24/02) as the only players in NFL history to kick a 50+yard field goal with less than one minute remaining to force overtime and then go on to kick an overtime game-winning kick from 50+yards.
Sunday’s victory over Chicago marked the third consecutive week that Prater has kicked a walk-off field goal. He is the first player since Chris Jacke (Ari., 1998, Weeks 15-17) with game-winning field goals on the final play of the game in three straight week.
With his 51-yard game-winning field goal against the Bears, he improved to 12-of-16 (.750) on career field goal attempts from 50+ yards to pass Tony Zendejas as the most accurate kicker from 50+ yards in NFL history (players who started their careers after 1970 / min. 10 att.). Prater improved to 28-of-29 (.966) on career field goal attempts in the fourth quarter or overtime.
He is just the fourth kicker in NFL history to kick three overtime field goals in a single season and is the third player in NFL history to kick at least four game-winning field goals in a single season.
Prater is the first Bronco to win the Special Teams Player of the Week Award since Week 12 of 2009 when he took the honors after finishing 4-of-4 on field goals to go with five touchbacks on kickoffs in Denver’s 26-6 win against the Giants.
He also won the weekly award in Week 5 of the 2008 season after converting all three field goal attempts to go with four touchbacks on five kickoffs.
-Stuart Zaas
Tags: Matt Prater, Special Teams Player of the Week, Weekly Awards
Congratulations to Matt prater certainly well deserved.
Congrats Matt!!! Way to step up after having a rough stretch
http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=7348377
I watched this and I dislike how Tebows religion is analyzed how it is. Tebow like many athletes and Americans is Christian and is very vocal about his beliefs and is bound to them. I think they make him a strong person. But when Tebow is on the football field his performance needs to get the credit and the defense and ST and the coaching. Skip Bayless sounds clueless here in this video I’ve liked him but as Tebow gets better Skip starts saying crazy stuff.
Watched the game and loved it! Tebow made some unreal plays down the stretch The defense kept the game close and stepped up big late to get another win really cant credit them enough!
Broncos 37-24
Well deserved by Prater.
I know its a long shot but if the Broncos keep it close and the Defense gets consistent pressure on Brady they can win this game against NE. So my guess for the score contest. Broncos 24-17
Hey RH, been on that kawi lately? Been to cold and snowy here in south Dakota for riding.looking forward to some supercross only about a month away.
Congrats to the best Kicker in the NFL!!!!!!!!!!!
Prater…you’re the man!!!!!!!!!
http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=7348377
Great post LAX.
I agree with everybody!
I can’t imagine how it is going to happen. I can’t see the match-ups working out in the Broncos favor. I can’t imagine any Bronco except Champ being able to keep up with Welker. I can’t see how anybody but Champ can keep up with Gronk. Hence I was early on the suggestion that we turn Tebow loose on him. LOL and while funny…it could end up being not very funny at all when the Pats end up being up 21 points going into the forth quarter. Man-oh-man- the posts are going to be rough to read. I even predict the reappearance of Carnage. LOL
but…
I still expect the Broncs to find a way. I hope to see Fox have to loosen up and take some uncharacteristic risk in order to give his team a chance.
Bronco fans – we are heading into some turbulence – fasten your seat belts and pretend you purchased an E-ticket! Enjoy the ride!!!
I was at a local track Saturday. I’m no slow poke but I felt that way cause there were about 25 guys out there that were either local pro or A class guys. So the the track got rough early.
Lots of fun for sure. Those rough tracks really separate riders by skill level. A buddy of mine got the better of me for the day but he was on a 450 so Ill use that as an excuse lol.
Moto Sat. and Broncos win on Sun. makes a good weekend.
Prater, your the man!
Wife and I already have tickets to the Oakland SX. Hope Trey will be there.
Also, Go Poto and Deano!
I for one do not think we will win by a touchdown or more. Patriots have too much of a high powered offense to lose by that much. Our defense has a very big task ahead of them this coming Sunday. They have a bigger task than Tebow does. The patriots average 424.4 yards a game which is unreal! They have the 2nd overall offense in the league. Our main key is going to be getting immense pressure on Brady the whole game. If we let him buy time in the pocket then we will not have a chance. Miller and Doom both have to have their best game of the year this game if we have a chance at stopping Brady. However, the Patriots defense is dead last at giving up the most yards. They are the worst ranked defense when it comes to passing and the 16th worst at when it comes to stopping the run.
I believe the key to this game is obviously passing the ball and doing that early!! I do love seeing a lot of improvement in our passing game each week. Tebow’s passing yards have went up each game I believe with this past Sunday being his highest of 246 if I remember correctly.
Thing is, what I saw in the Bears game is whenever we couldn’t run the ball, we were still calling running plays which just about killed us! If it isn’t working then change it. The best thing about this Sunday is, we need to make our main plays passing plays and then switch to the run. Basically opposite of what we usually do. The past two weeks there have been more and more attempts passing which I am loving that. Tebow has an incredible arm and is much more accurate than what people give him credit for.
Also, I really thought I would’ve heard of it by now but I haven’t yet, if you go back and watch the game, which I do with every game we play, if our receivers would’ve caught those perfect passes from Tebow that were right in their hands, he would’ve been right at 350 yards passing against a pretty good Bears defense.
Mike McCoy and Dennis Allen both have to be on their A games this Sunday and I believe the game will come down mainly to how much pressure VonDoom puts on Brady!!!
I’ve been back and forth but I want to keep my faith in Timmy and our Broncos and say we win 37-34.
We have to take advantage of our passing game and their worst ranked passing defense!!! Mix it in with some runs here and there but that’s how the offensive game plan should be wrote up. If we use the run and mix in some running we will lose and have no chance to win the game.
Everyone should look at the Vikings game we played. They even had a better passing defense than the pats and Timmy tore them apart through the air. I see Tim having to put up at least 300 passing yards to beat the Pats.
Attack them where they are weak!!!
Meant to say in the first paragraph 3rd line, If we use the run and mix in some passing! Correction
We have an indoor arenacross series here but don’t do them because the riders are to rough LOL. They seem to take it pretty serious will use you for a berm to win a $5.00 trophy. Went to all the supercross races when they had them in Minneapolis sure do miss being able to go .
I would love to see Tebow put up his first 400 yard passing game this coming weekend. I know a lot of people would say that’s impossible but I do not in any way. Just like I said above, he should have put up 350 yards if the receivers would’ve caught the passes that they should have caught. This is where I back up my 400 yard statement:
Vikings- 26th ranked passing defense- Tebow 202 passing
Bears- 28th ranked passing defense- Tebow 236 passing (should have been 350)
Pats have the worst ranked passing defense. Tebow should have at least 300 passing yards in this game if we want a chance of winning. He needs to come out throwing early instead of waiting until the final 5 minutes when he has no choice but to throw!
My prediction …
Patriots 38
Broncos 24
Ugh!!!!!
Thanks DB… With Tebow I love and hate the guy… He throws some ugly balls ealry and has some balls dropped then boom he looks like a QB marching up and down the field leading denver to gut wrenching victory after another… This can’t be good for my health
Wiemin! Ugggh…. is right! ;o)
How’s the hip?
Just saw a preview for Tebow mic’ed up on NFL Network. CAN NOT WAIT TO WATCH THAT! They showed him talking to DT after the drop on the would-be touchdown. He is always crazy positive. He just said “don’t worry we will just keep it closer for a while. You will catch the game winner.”
0723 – I thought it was Deck Tebow said that to? Tebow then says something to the effect of – well he didn’t catch the TD but he did catch one in the forth that was critical.
Either way – both Decker and DMT looked pretty hand-dog til the finale. LOL
(Can you imagine River’s giving a receiver a – “that’s ok, you’ll get the next one” – amazing!!! Meaning our QB!!!)
daddy, in the clip they show Tebow with his arm around DT. And Decker never had a pass thrown his way on Sunday that could have been considered TD worthy.
And yeah, Rivers would have just started yelling haha. Kind of funny that Tebow is so upbeat and positive considering that he was drafted by the Anti-Christ is/was Josh McDaniels.
*that is/was Josh McDaniels
LAX – it is good for your health!
Lol maybe but shortness of breath sucks!
Per Coach Fox Dawkins will be good to go Sunday. As will Royal, No word on Goody, but obviously picking up Carter gives you an inclination.
Source: NFLRadio Sirius XM
-Royalty
I listened to the interview too Royalty. Did you also hear that Tebow was there early today (his day off) to practice his throwing? Hope all the receivers were there too practicing their catching.
Congratulations Prater! I hope he can nail one of those 70 yarders he was kicking pre-game one day so that a Bronco can hold the record all alone. I just don’t like a Dorkland Hater being tied with Elam. Praters the man!
-Royalty
No I missed that shaz only caught the end sorry that my reply took so long I text slow LOL
Yeah, 110 yards in two subsequent kicks gotta get you something, Prater you the man!
Im glad that that’s the kind of guy that Tebow is; first to show, last to leave. I hope the receivers were there too, I really hope that Tebow can end all this talk beating the Pats this week, I really do.
How was the Birthday? For some reason I get depressed on my b-days LOL I usually just want to stay home or just go eat at the most, a FAR cry from my younger years when all I wanted to do was paint the town red LOL.
Well, mentioning depression will usually kill a blog huh? LOL
It was already dying I just gave it the coup de grâce LOL
when does the tebow micd up come on.
royalty i always listen to nfl on sirius xm. fox gives an interview every tuesday. good info.
I didn’t know that he did that every tuesday thanks socal
Anybody know when the Tebow Mic’ed up airs on NFLN? I wanna make sure I don’t miss it either…
Sound FX airs at 930eastern time on NFL Network. The game will be re-aired right before that at 630.
630 as in 730 eastern time. I live in the central time zone so I like to list when I can see it. But it is standard practice to list the eastern time I think.
All of this taking place tomorrow. I am not giving clear details haha.
yea on moving the chains tuesday’s 6:15 eastern. I listen to nfl radio all day long. cant ge enough of football espcially when all they do is talk about Tebow and Broncos. lol.
Den 27 NE 24
Just saw commercial about it on NFL Network, said 8 eastern, Tebow miced up one quote was him telling teammate “you might bruise me, but you cant hurt me”
#EAT GREEDY
Yeah made hubby upgrade to the premiere package on sirius just so I can have that station. I listen on my way to and from work. I listened to the interviews today on the computer since hubby also got the online package. I don’t care for the ESPN stations. They have this one that is hosted by some guy that has a very heavy accent and half the time you can’t understand a single word he says.
I found it on TVGuide.com, so for future reference you can go there if you wanna know what time something airs in your part of the country.
shaztah sounds like me listen all day long and on line. best show is the blitz with schine and gannon. good show. and have backed up tebow all year long when jerks like hodge were talking crap. they love them some tebow.
repost: I heard this comment a while back. But if we can beat the patriots, there really isn’t anyone left in the afc that we can’t beat. So this game is almost like a mini afc championship imo.
Actually I don’t fully agree with that though. The Ravens and the Steelers have both been our worst matchs up in the afc for many years now. Obviously the Colts are not in that group this year.
Of course if we make the playoffs, we the divisional round will probably be our worst matchup.
NE usually doesn’t fare well against physical teams. If we can punch em in the mouth early and often that will go a long way.
SCORE PREDICTION
DEN – 28
NE – 27
It is the Patriots. A team that is way better than us offensively. But against a “better” secondary at Minnesota, Tebow threw for 2 TDs and McGahee ran in a score as well. Tebow should have had 3 TDs but a nice play on the ball prevented DT from hauling in his third score of the day. I think Tebow has a similar/better performance on Sunday. With all the magic lately, it just seems hard to pick a loss. We shall see how it goes. It is probably not realistic, but neither were the comebacks at Miami and against Chicago. Forget logic. It is Tebow Time!