Jake Moody delivered a standout outing with five of six field goals, including a 59-yarder, generating optimism within the 49ers organization. Special teams coordinator Brant Boyer praised Moody's moxie and growing confidence as potentially career-changing. A week later Moody missed an extra point, kicked a kickoff out of bounds and struggled in warmups and practice, highlighting pronounced inconsistency. Those mixed performances renewed questions about whether the team should seek another option at kicker. Coach Kyle Shanahan indicated the team is not ready to move on immediately while acknowledging Moody's earlier strong performance.
In the days after kicker Jake Moody made five of his six field goal attempts including a game-winning 59-yarder in the San Francisco 49ers' second preseason game, optimism abounded at team headquarters. "It could change his career," special teams coordinator Brant Boyer said. "I think he showed the moxie he has and the confidence he's starting to gain. I think it was critical for him."
As so often happens, though, the NFL wasted little time reminding Moody and the Niners that the distance between a pat on the back and a kick in the butt is far shorter than any field goal Moody has missed in his career. Seven days after Moody kicked tying and winning kicks from a combined 103 yards away in the same game in which he missed badly from 53 yards out and barely snuck a 26-yard try inside the left upright, he missed an extra point wide left and hit a kickoff that went out of bounds in the preseason finale against the Los Angeles Chargers. That capped an up-and-down week in which Moody also struggled in warmups against the Chargers and had multiple misses in practice, once again leaving outside observers wondering if the time has come for the 49ers to move on to another option.
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