{"id":599483,"date":"2023-01-19T09:53:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T15:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/19\/eagles-kicker-jake-elliott-refutes-cheating-accusations-sports-illustrated\/"},"modified":"2023-01-19T09:53:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T15:53:00","slug":"eagles-kicker-jake-elliott-refutes-cheating-accusations-sports-illustrated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/19\/eagles-kicker-jake-elliott-refutes-cheating-accusations-sports-illustrated\/","title":{"rendered":"Eagles Kicker Jake Elliott Refutes Cheating Accusations &#8211; Sports Illustrated"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nfl\/team\/philadelphia-eagles\">Eagles<\/a><\/span>\u00a0kicker\u00a0<span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nfl\/player\/jake-elliott\">Jake Elliott<\/a><\/span>\u00a0refuted accusations that he and the Eagles are cheating on field goals and extra-point kicks on Wednesday after he says they spoke to the NFL.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia was accused of using a small white foreign object to help with at least one kick against the\u00a0<span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nfl\/team\/new-york-giants\">Giants<\/a><\/span>\u00a0during the Eagles\u2019 Week 14 win. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.footballzebras.com\/2023\/01\/officials-told-to-watch-for-illegal-foreign-objects-used-for-fg-and-xp-attempts\/\" rel=\"noopener\" onclick=\"return phoenixTrackClickEvent(this, event);\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Football Zebras<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0Philadelphia emergency holder Britain Covey, playing in place of injured punter Arryn Siposs, was seen picking up a small white object from the field after a field goal attempt by Elliott. <em>Football Zebras<\/em> cited a video that showed the object was seen directly under the ball when the snap was received.<\/p>\n<p>Subsequently, officials were told to watch for the object during Saturday\u2019s Giants-Eagles divisional playoff game.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve always used something that\u2019s within the rules,\u201d Elliott said, per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nj.com\/eagles\/2023\/01\/eagles-kicker-answers-cheating-accusations-its-completely-legal.html\" rel=\"noopener\" onclick=\"return phoenixTrackClickEvent(this, event);\" target=\"_blank\">NJ.com<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s just literally to mark the spot. It\u2019s part of the playing surface, like a piece of grass or something like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/sitickets.com\/performer\/philadelphia-eagles?utm_source=si-editorial&#038;utm_medium=referral&#038;utm_campaign=philadelphia-eagles\" rel=\"noopener\" onclick=\"return phoenixTrackClickEvent(this, event);\" target=\"_blank\">Get your seats to Philadelphia Eagles games at SI Tickets<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Elliot said the NFL brought the subject up five weeks ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we talked to them, we explained what we\u2019re doing, and they saw what we were doing,\u201d Elliott said. \u201cProbably 30 teams do it around the league. It\u2019s just a point of emphasis, and someone makes it bigger than it is. Everything we\u2019ve done has been completely legal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Elliot is 20 for 23 on field goals this season and posted career-highs in makes and attempts for extra points, going 51 for 53. Kickoff from Philadelphia between the Eagles and Giants is set for Saturday at 8:15 p.m. ET on Fox.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nfl\/2023\/01\/19\/eagles-kicker-jake-elliott-refutes-cheating-accusations\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Joseph Salvador<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eagles\u00a0kicker\u00a0Jake Elliott\u00a0refuted accusations that he and the Eagles are cheating on field goals and extra-point kicks on Wednesday after he says they spoke to the NFL.\u00a0 Philadelphia was accused of using a small white foreign object to help with at least one kick against the\u00a0Giants\u00a0during the Eagles\u2019 Week 14 win. According to Football Zebras,\u00a0Philadelphia emergency [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":599484,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3577,534,25564],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-599483","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eagles","8":"category-financial","9":"category-kicker"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}