Jason Elam
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"Jason Elam" is a retired American football placekicker. He was drafted by the Denver Broncos in the third round of the 1993 NFL Draft and played 15 seasons with the Broncos and two with the Atlanta Falcons.

A three-time Pro Bowl selection, Elam won two Super Bowl rings with the Broncos and was tied with Tom Dempsey, Sebastian Janikowski and David Akers for the longest field goal (football)/field goal in NFL history at 63 yards before it was broken by another Bronco, Matt Prater, on December 8, 2013, with a 64 yard field goal.

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That's a good thing, ... And if we're settling for field goals, we might not have won the last two, especially the Washington game. It was big our offense came through.

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I was really nervous. . . . You sort of trust your swing and let it go. We had to have it. Hopefully, it's going to give us some swagger back, get us some confidence back. Miami just physically beat us, we had to get some confidence back.

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I aimed it -- not quite as far right as the ball went -- but you want to shade it a little bit, just in case when it starts to lose its inertia, it's going to break a little bit left, ... That's what it did, fortunately.

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You're never feeling comfortable out there, ... You just try to trust your swing and let it go. If you miss, you miss. You've just got to have confidence that you're not going to miss.

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I'm always nervous, ... I was really nervous on that last one. You never feel calm. You just have to trust your swing and let it go. If you miss, you miss, you just have to keep your confidence.

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It was a smart call because had I missed and they had gone down boom, boom, boom, they could have gotten into field goal position pretty easily.

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If you have a championship mentality, then you have to go into hostile environments and win on the road. It's just the way it is.

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I get nervous and I was really nervous out there, but you have to be able to control your emotions out there I guess in certain circumstances, ... I am not bragging at all. Some people can and some people can't, and some of those I am probably going to miss, but you know you are probably going to make more of those than you miss.

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It's exactly like golf.

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