Congrats to Jake Elliott

[*TheLeonardLeap*]

Even in a hypothetical world where Marvin Lewis takes the Bengals to the SB, the Bengals aren't putting up over 40 points. When you're the #1 scoring offense in the NFL, you can afford a kicker who misses a lot of kicks. When you're the Bengals and you play to conservatively hold onto small leads, missing a PAT, causing you to have to try (and fail) for 2pts the next time, would be the thing to make you lose.

Elliott missed 5 PATs and 5 FGs this year.
Nugent missed 6 PATs and 6 FGs in '16 and we all remember how F'ing awful that was.