Justin Tucker's difficult season hit a new low Sunday night at M&T Bank Stadium.
For the first time in his 13-year career, Tucker missed three kicks in a game, hurting the Ravens in a 24-19 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles.
Tucker missed field goals from 47 and 53 yards in the third quarter, plus an extra point in the first quarter.
"I feel like I cost us this one, but it doesn't really do anybody any good to dwell on it," Tucker said. "The only thing that we can do – that I can do – is just continue to work, move forward, take it one kick at a time."
Tucker is now 19-of-27 on field-goal attempts this season and has missed two extra points. His 10 missed kicks leads the NFL and his field-goal percentage of 70% is by far a career low.
Seven of his eight missed field goals have come in losses and two missed field goals cost the Ravens dearly two weeks ago in an 18-16 loss to the Steelers.
"Anytime we lose – especially, for me, given my performance today, it was just not up to our standard – it's crushing," Tucker said. "But at the end of the day, my feelings don't really matter."
Tucker's miss from 47 was wide left and his extra point doinked off the left upright. The 53-yard miss was wide right – his first time missing to that side this season. Tucker said it wasn't because he over-compensated, however.
"The fact that a number of kicks have gone left on me didn't have anything to do with why the 53-yarder, why I pushed it right," Tucker said. "It was just a matter of I didn't strike the ball on the target line – or on the exact target line that I wanted to – on that given kick."
Tucker did make kicks of 34 and 50 yards, but that was of little consolation by game's end.
After Tucker missed two field goals in the Ravens' 18-16 loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers two weeks ago, Head Coach John Harbaugh said there was no thought to having kickers in for a tryout, and he reiterated that again Sunday night.
"If you're asking me, 'Are we going to move on from Justin Tucker?' I'm not really planning on doing that right now. I don't think that'd be wise," Harbaugh said. "But he'll tell you, [and] he'll be the first to tell you he needs to make kicks, because he can. I just think if you look at Justin Tucker's history, you'd have to say he's capable of doing that."
The Ravens have been steadfast in their confidence that the man long considered the G.O.A.T. will turn it around and that didn't change Sunday night.
"He is the G.O.A.T. still. Let's get back to who he is, that's all. Whatever is going on, just block it out. I believe he's still the G.O.A.T.," Lamar Jackson said. "Hell yes, I have confidence in him. He just made his kick last week. He made a couple this game, just when we needed it, it just didn't happen, but that can go for everybody on the team."
There's not much teammates can say to Tucker that would make him feel better. They just let him know they're with him.
"He's about the most pro that you can get. So for us, it's just having his back," tight end Mark Andrews said. "He's going to get it down. It's just belief."
