{"id":153397,"date":"2018-09-17T14:17:12","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T19:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=153397"},"modified":"2018-09-17T14:18:44","modified_gmt":"2018-09-17T19:18:44","slug":"vikes-cut-carlson-missed-3-field-goals-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=153397","title":{"rendered":"Vikes cut Carlson, missed 3 field goals, Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EAGAN, Minn. (AP) \u2014 The Minnesota Vikings have waived rookie kicker Daniel Carlson, after the fifth-round draft pick pulled all three of his field goal attempts wide right at Green Bay.<\/p>\n<p>Two of Carlson&#8217;s misses came in overtime on Sunday, forcing the Vikings to settle for a 29-29 tie with the rival Packers. Carlson was cut on Monday, as the Vikings signed wide receiver Aldrick Robinson.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-153398\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Carlsonmisses-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Carlsonmisses-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Carlsonmisses-431x301.jpg 431w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Carlsonmisses-862x603.jpg 862w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Carlsonmisses-768x537.jpg 768w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Carlsonmisses.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Carlsonmisses-250x175.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They didn&#8217;t immediately announce a replacement for Carlson. Dan Bailey, the second-most accurate field goal kicker in NFL history, is a free agent after being released by the Dallas Cowboys two weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/99e0cf199dd447ed9f521582c17c4b5f\/Vikes-cut-kicker-Kai-Forbath;-rookie-Daniel-Carlson-gets-job\">Carlson was awarded the job when the Vikings let Kai Forbath go<\/a> on Aug. 20, and Carlson pulled two field goal tries wide left in a preseason game four days later.<\/p>\n<p>AP Photos<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EAGAN, Minn. (AP) \u2014 The Minnesota Vikings have waived rookie kicker Daniel Carlson, after the fifth-round draft pick pulled all three of his field goal attempts wide right at Green Bay. Two of Carlson&#8217;s misses came in overtime on Sunday, forcing the Vikings to settle for a 29-29 tie with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153397"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153401,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153397\/revisions\/153401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}