Matt Stover
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"John Matthew "Matt" Stover" is a former American Football placekicker. As of the start of the 2009 NFL season, he was the third most accurate kicker in the history of the National Football League. He is of Greeks/Greek descent. He has played for the New York Giants, the Cleveland Browns, and the Baltimore Ravens, with whom he played for 13 seasons. He was signed by the Indianapolis Colts in October 2009 to replace injured kicker Adam Vinatieri.

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Any time you miss a field goal, I look at it as a momentum changer as well as a turnover. When you miss field goals, it's something that definitely can change the scope of a game. As you saw today, when you miss three, what it will do to you. It takes away momentum. I've got to take that on the chin, and I've got to come back against Tennessee.

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Any time you miss a field goal, as a kicker, I look at it as a momentum changer and a turnover. I have got to take this on the chin. I have had a game like this before. I bounced back and that's what I plan on doing.

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The majority of the guys are happy he's back. … I don't know of anyone that's not happy about it. Some people say that change for the sake of change — new blood or a new voice — is a good thing. I disagree. You have a guy that's taken you to a Super Bowl, and now it's just a matter getting us back.

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It excites me as a veteran here to see that we didn't give up and we did enough to win the game.

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It gave me a little more time to feel the wind. Line up the putt, is what I call it. I just went out there and hit it like any extra point, and the ball was good enough and far enough.

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The grass isn't very good there. It will take me back to my Cleveland days and the first part of my career here kicking on grass. The special-teams battle is going to be huge.

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Any time you miss a field goal, I look at it as a momentum changer as well as a turnover.

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Technique-wise, I was in too fast on the ball.

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My time is usually five-, six-, seven-one-hundredths of a second slower, and, believe it or not, that makes a difference on a field-goal kick.

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