david dieHl - New York Giants
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LAWRENCE TYNES<br />
9<br />
kicker<br />
Height - 6-1<br />
Weight - 202<br />
College - Troy<br />
HIGH SCHOOL - MILTON (FLA.)<br />
Birthdate - May 3, 1978<br />
How Acquired - Trade (Kansas City, 2007)<br />
NFL Exp. - 9th Year<br />
<strong>Giants</strong> Exp. - 6th Year<br />
new york football giants<br />
TRANSACTIONS:<br />
- Originally signed by the Kansas City Chiefs<br />
as a rookie free agent on April 26, 2001…<br />
Released by the Chiefs on Aug. 27, 2001…<br />
Signed by the Chiefs on Jan. 16, 2002…<br />
Released by the Chiefs on Sept. 1, 2002…<br />
Signed by the Ottawa Roughriders (Canadian<br />
Football League) on Sept. 5, 2002….Signed<br />
by the Chiefs on Feb. 9. 2004…Traded to<br />
the <strong>Giants</strong> on May 22, 2007 for a 7th-round<br />
draft choice.<br />
GIANTS NOTE:<br />
- Tynes kicked overtime field goals to win<br />
both the 2007 and 2011 NFC Championship<br />
Games. He is the only kicker in NFL history<br />
with two postseason game-winning field<br />
goals in overtime.<br />
- Tynes’ game-winning 47-yard field goal<br />
just 2:35 into overtime in the 2007 NFC<br />
Championship Game in Green Bay was the<br />
longest postseason 3-pointer in Lambeau<br />
Field history.<br />
- Tynes is the NFL’s first Scottish-born<br />
player. Although raised in Florida, he was<br />
born in Greenock, Scotland after his parents<br />
met there while his father was a Master<br />
Chief in the U.S. Navy.<br />
- While playing in NFL Europe: played in<br />
10 games as the long-distance kicker for<br />
the Scottish Claymores…Hit nine of 12 field<br />
goals (75.0 percent) for 27 points, with a<br />
long of 49 yards.<br />
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS:<br />
- Tynes has played in 128 regular-season<br />
games and in 10 postseason games…In the<br />
regular season, he has made 190 of 233<br />
(81.5%) regular season field goal attempts<br />
and 349 of 355 extra point tries (98.3%) for<br />
919 points…In postseason play, Tynes has<br />
made 13 of 18 field goal attempts (72.2%)<br />
and all 20 of his extra point tries.<br />
- With the <strong>Giants</strong>, Tynes has played in<br />
60 regular season games and made 122 of<br />
146 (84.9%) field goal attempts and 214 of<br />
216 extra point tries (99.1%) in the regular<br />
season…Tynes has scored 578 regular season<br />
points for the <strong>Giants</strong>, placing him 2nd<br />
in franchise history…Tynes’ 214 extra points<br />
place him 2nd in <strong>Giants</strong> history, behind<br />
Pete Gogolak (268)…Tynes has made 196<br />
consecutive extra point attempts, breaking<br />
Gogolak’s former team record of 133 in a<br />
row…Tynes’ 122 field goals are 4th in <strong>Giants</strong><br />
history and his 145 attempts are 5th…In 9<br />
postseason games with the <strong>Giants</strong>, Tynes has<br />
made 13 of 17 field goal attempts (76.5%)<br />
and all 20 of his extra point tries – all <strong>Giants</strong><br />
postseason records.<br />
- Tynes also owns the <strong>Giants</strong> postseason<br />
record with 59 points. Amani Toomer is 2nd<br />
with 42.<br />
- With both Kansas City and the <strong>Giants</strong>,<br />
Tynes kicked at least one field goal in 15 consecutive<br />
games. With the Chiefs, the streak<br />
began at Denver (12/19/04) and ended vs.<br />
Denver (12/4/05). With the <strong>Giants</strong>, he kicked<br />
a field goal in each of the 1st 15 games of<br />
the 2009 season, beginning vs. Washington<br />
(9/13) and ending at Minnesota (1/3). He<br />
enters the 2012 season with at least 1 field<br />
goal in 13 consecutive games…Tynes has<br />
scored at least 100 points in each full season<br />
of his career: 109 in 2004 and 2007, a careerhigh<br />
126 in 2009, 125 in 2005, 107 in 2006<br />
and 100 in 2010, 2011 and 2012…Eighty<br />
eight of his 673 career kickoffs (12.9%) have<br />
resulted in touchbacks.<br />
2012 SEASON HIGHLIGHTS:<br />
- Did not attend a field goal at Baltimore<br />
(12/23).<br />
- Missed his only field goal try, a 30-yard<br />
attempt which sailed wide left, in a shutout<br />
loss at Atlanta (12/16)...His streak of consecutive<br />
games with at least one field goal<br />
ended at a career-high 26...His lone kickoff<br />
resulted in a touchback.<br />
- Went one for two in field goal attempts<br />
vs. <strong>New</strong> Orleans (12/9)...Made his 39-yard<br />
attempt and missed a 36-yard attempt...<br />
Went seven for seven on extra points.<br />
- Connected on three of four field goal<br />
attempts at Washington (12/3)...His lone<br />
miss, from 43 yards, sailed wide left...Also<br />
went one for one on extra points.<br />
- Went one for one in field goal attempts