ATLANTA, GA – OCTOBER 30: Carolina Panthers #4 Eddie Pinheiro responds to a missed field goal against the Atlanta Falcons during overtime at Mercedes-Benz Stadium on October 30, 2022 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Todd Kirkland/Getty Images)
Hear the heart-wrenching radio call of Carolina Panthers player Eddie Pinheiro, who lost a potential extra point to win the game after DJ Moore hit a touchdown.
Here’s one of the saddest sentences of the NFL season: Carolina Panthers player Eddie Pinheiro missed an extra point that would have given his team a top spot in the NFC South.
Grief is very difficult to categorize, but it can go well:
- The Panthers, at 3-5, had the only possession of first place
- Atlanta was one more point away from home supremacy with the top spot on the line
- Eddie Pinheiro missed an extra point that would have won the match
There are a lot of nuances here, like the Falcons still have 12 seconds to potentially win the match with an inexcusable unsportsmanlike penalty from DJ Moore pushing the bonus point further than it would have missed Pineiro repeatedly In overtime with a chance to win.
This is life for an NFL footballer, when you miss a game on the line, you wear the loss whether it is perfectly fair or not.
Hear a radio call from Carolina Panthers singer Eddie Pinheiro who lost an extra point
Carolina Panthers stage presenter Anish Shoof was on standby, and you could feel what you were experiencing through the peak of Moore’s Landing and the low of Miss Penrio.
Moore’s moment was objectively incredible and was also a perfect metaphor for the gap between NFC and AFC this year. Moore’s hunt was amazing but was immediately followed by something very stupid that pretty much nullified any excitement. Moore scored and took off his helmet, which has been reported for unsportsmanlike behavior — a 15-yard penalty the Hawks wisely chose to impose when attempting the extra point.
Possibly Arthur Smith’s reasoning was that pushing the extra point back made it more likely that Pinero would miss the kick. That was a gamble that paid off:
These two radio connections perfectly sum up the highs and lows of being a sports fan, and also paint a picture of how things are in NFC. Outside of Eagles, Cowboys, Giants, Seahawks, and Vikings, the remainder of NFC is a complete crapshoot that is a code that is impossible to decipher.
Case in point, this sequence of events happened with the first place and the right to host the Wild Card game on the line.
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