Raiders Kicker Matt Gay Secret_ Simple Swing, Powerful Results!

Mon, Aug 3, 2026

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For sure.

I mean, first thing me and Joe did was sit down and kind of look over film over the last couple of years.

He brought back film from when I was with him in in LA and we kinda looked to see what had gone wrong or what was different or what had changed and just trying to get me back to.

A couple of, just a couple of cues, like for me, and not like I can't overthink tons of stuff, but like one or two cues that helped me, uh, lock in my technique have been really good.

And the way I said me and Joe work really well together, he kind of gets me, he kinda knows.

When to push me, what to say, um, and it's been really good for me, so we kind of diagnosed the film and we're able to eliminate some stuff that was just too much stuff going on in the swing and take that out and I've really seen the benefits of it through OTAs and through the first couple of weeks here, the first week here just haven't hit the ball.

I don't remember if it was Thursday or Friday, but one of them.

You hit a 55 yarder that hit the building.

I mean, it would have been good from probably 70.

Is that, no offense, but I don't remember that being in your arsenal.

Is that improved leg power?

No, I mean, I, uh, offense taken, offense, uh, no, I'm just mess with you.

I, I feel like I've always been able to hit the ball pretty good.

Uh, I, I don't feel like 60 or anything like that's been out of the wheelhouse.

I think when I'm smooth and it looks very calm is when it's actually the most powerful as opposed to like when it looks like I'm really going after it.

And so again eliminating some of those things in the swing and just keeping things simple and smooth, I've seen a little bit of the ball kind of popping off the, the foot and we're probably going this way with the wind which helps so not too bad.

What throughout the offseason would you say you've worked on the most and whether that be mentally, physically?