The Sports Xchange

JACKSONVILLE — Jason Myers isn’t haunted by his two missed field-goal attempts last Sunday that cost the Jacksonville Jaguars a chance to beat the Indianapolis Colts and take over first place in the AFC South at 2-2.

Instead, they’re 1-3 as they go to Tampa Bay Sunday because Myers missed from 53 yards at the end of regulation time and from 48 yards in overtime.

“You’re not going to make everything,” Myers said. “Being able to not let it affect you down the road is what’s important.”

Myers said it helps that he kicked both of them well, but the first one drifted to the right and the second one to the left.

Before he missed the 53-yarder, Colts coach Chuck Pagano called time as he started to approach the ball, but Myers said he heard the whistle so he kicked it even though he knew it wouldn’t count.

“I didn’t want to do something stupid and pull off,” he said.

Myers said the first kick after the whistle had nothing to do with the miss. Myers said he won’t make any changes in his style because he said he hit both of them well.

“I didn’t pull off because I was nervous,” he said.

The Jaguars are sticking with Myers after trading Josh Scobee to Pittsburgh to open the door for the young kicker who was in the Arena League last year. Scobee struggled in Pittsburgh and was cut last week. Myers said he’s not dealing with pressure.

“I need to get back to the way I do things and put that behind me and think about this week in practice,” he said. “It’s (the misses) already in my rear-view mirror.”

Holder Bryan Anger, who’s also the team’s punter, said Myers is handling the misses well.

“You can’t let things faze you,” he said. “If something like that gets to you, then you crumble. You have to have a strong head and move forward. You can’t get too up or too down. You’ve got to stay in the middle. There’s no reason to change anything. He’s been hitting the ball well.”

–Head coach Gus Bradley spent three years as an assistant coach in Tampa Bay under Jon Gruden from 2006 to 2008 and told the Tampa media in a conference call that he learned a lot from the coaches and players.

In his last year, they were 9-3, lost their last four and Gruden was fired. “It was a good run until we hit that wall,” Bradley said. It worked out well for him because he was then hired in Seattle and that was the springboard for him getting the Jaguars job.