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Will the 49ers Release Kicker Jake Moody?

How many more field goals can Jake Moody miss before the 49ers cut him?

Grant Cohn

Nov 10, 2024; Tampa, Florida, USA; San Francisco 49ers place kicker Jake Moody (4) misses a field goal as Tampa Bay Buccaneers defensive end Logan Hall (90) and tight end Cade Otton (88) defend during the first half at Raymond James Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Kim Klement Neitzel-Imagn Images
Nov 10, 2024; Tampa, Florida, USA; San Francisco 49ers place kicker Jake Moody (4) misses a field goal as Tampa Bay Buccaneers defensive end Logan Hall (90) and tight end Cade Otton (88) defend during the first half at Raymond James Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Kim Klement Neitzel-Imagn Images / Kim Klement Neitzel-Imagn Images
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How many more field goals can Jake Moody miss before the 49ers cut him?

Moody missed a whopping three field goals Sunday during the 49ers' 23-20 win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He was the main reason the 49ers almost lost. After his third miss of the day, Deebo Samuel appeared to yell at him on the sideline. It seems Moody's teammates are losing patience with him as he loses confidence in himself.

To Moody's credit, he made his final field goal attempt and that field goal won the game. And he had to attempt six field goals because the 49ers offense struggles to finish drives with touchdowns. But 3 for 6 is unacceptable. And this wasn't Moody's only bad game.

He also missed a field goal Week 3 against the Rams. Plus he missed two field goals in the playoffs last season. And he missed a critical extra point in the Super Bowl.

Moody clearly has a powerful leg -- that's why the 49ers drafted him in the third round. But kicking is mostly mental, and when the pressure mounts, he struggles. Which means the 49ers can't count on him.

How can they consider themselves legit Super Bowl contenders if they don't have a kicker they can trust?

If Moody misses another field goal next week, the 49ers will have no choice but to waive him and sign someone else -- perhaps Anders Carlson, who replaced Jake Moody for two games while he had a high ankle sprain.

Unfortunately for the 49ers, Carlson isn't much better than Moody.

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Grant Cohn has covered the San Francisco 49ers daily since 2011. He spent the first nine years of his career with the Santa Rosa Press Democrat where he wrote the Inside the 49ers blog and covered famous coaches and athletes such as Jim Harbaugh, Colin Kaepernick and Patrick Willis. In 2012, Inside the 49ers won Sports Blog of the Year from the Peninsula Press Club. In 2020, Cohn joined FanNation and began writing All49ers. In addition, he created a YouTube channel which has become the go-to place on YouTube to consume 49ers content. Cohn's channel typically generates roughly 3.5 million viewers per month, while the 49ers' official YouTube channel generates roughly 1.5 million viewers per month. Cohn live streams almost every day and posts videos hourly during the football season. Cohn is committed to asking the questions that 49ers fans want answered, and providing the most honest and interactive coverage in the country. His loyalty is to the reader and the viewer, not the team or any player or coach. Cohn is a new-age multimedia journalist with an old-school mentality, because his father is Lowell Cohn, the legendary sports columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle from 1979 to 1993. The two have a live podcast every Tuesday. Grant Cohn grew up in Oakland and studied English Literature at UCLA from 2006 to 2010. He currently lives in Oakland with his wife.

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