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Bowen: Is Jake Elliott going to be the Eagles' Mitch Williams, or can he kick inconsistency?

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Jan 19, 2025; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; Philadelphia Eagles place kicker Jake Elliott (4) lines up a kick against the Los Angeles Rams in a 2025 NFC divisional round game at Lincoln Financial Field. Mandatory Credit: Bill Streicher-Imagn Images

As the Los Angeles Rams were driving toward a possible game-winning touchdown Sunday in what turned out to be their 28-22 divisional round playoff loss to the Eagles, I was thinking of Mitch Williams.
If you’re either really young or maybe you’re new around these here parts, Williams was the Phillies’ closer in 1993. His left arm was dead by the World Series, but manager Jim Fregosi kept running him out there anyway, because Williams was his closer, and Fregosi was a Baseball Man.
In those pre-analytics days, the solemn judgments of Baseball Men were sacred, at least to the very much closed fraternity of baseball media, which amounted to newspaper beat writers and columnists, with the intern...

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