Cam Little can’t let go of his jersey from his record-setting field goal 🤣 | The Pat McAfee Show

Cam Little can’t let go of his jersey from his record-setting field goal 🤣 | The Pat McAfee Show

the man who holds the longest field goal in the history of the NFL. And it’s not even his longest that he has kicked in an NFL sanctioned game. Ladies and gentlemen, 68 bomber from the Jacksonville Jaguars and Woo Pig Sooie. Ladies and gentlemen, K. Pleasure to be on the show. I’m excited, man. Always wanted to be on the show. Peace. There it is. Yeah, we always get it wrong. Yeah, we try our best. Cam, uh, thank you for joining us. And you said you’ve always wanted to be on the show. I since watching you kick a ball has always been I have always been very fascinated by how you create so much leg speed. So, let’s just let’s dive into this. Uh, I don’t think you’re like the most jacked guy. I don’t think you’re No, that’s a very fair statement. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Little little is your last name. I don’t think you’re tiny, but you’re certainly not one of these massive guys. Have you always had an incredibly strong leg? Like in soccer whenever you were growing up, were you always the free kick taker? Always had a strong leg. And how did you get to this point? Yes, I think that’s where it kind of first started. I was always good at taking free kicks um and penalty kicks and all that stuff kind of tied into me learning how to kick a football. And obviously um going to Cole’s camps growing up. I never really had the fastest leg and I developed a little later um in my high school career when I was going to these camps. I saw guys that had faster legs than me and I would always ask him like how are you guys getting your legs faster like because at the end of the day that’s what gets you the most power on the ball. Um and so you know started developing a faster leg and now it’s like my best trait as a kicker because obviously I’m a 6’1 175 pound guy that cannot squat a huge amount. So everyone always asks me what how do you kick the ball so far? I think ball contact and leg speed is the key to kicking the ball so far and high. Yeah, you’re hitting the ball sweet every time. You’re hitting that ball sweet, which is not easy. You know, Vinitary, I was very lucky to uh work alongside. Obviously, everybody in the kicking world knows that in Venitary, Vinnie, whenever I got there, you know, I used to be a kicker in college and I had a strong leg, but I had no idea where the ball was going. So, his big thing was like, hey, you cannot sacrifice the sweet spot. So, if you have to swing 85% to hit the sweet spot, do that. If you have to swing 75% to hit the sweet spot to do that. Now granted, if you can swing hyundo and hit the sweet spot, that is where the magic that is where the magic comes. And that’s where the Cam Littles of the world come in, I do believe this generation of kickers bombing it further than ever. You had a 70 yarder in preseason against the Pittsburgh Steelers, everybody loses their mind. They’re like, “Holy hell.” Then obviously the conversations about Aubrey in Dallas. You hitting that 68 yard now against the Raiders because of the 70 yard. Were you confident walking out there this was going to be a make? Like that obviously has to be the mindset, but 68 is so you’re so much closer to the other uprights than the ones that you’re kicking to. What is the mentality as you’re walking out there, Cam? Yeah, I mean, you kind of go out there and Logan, obviously Logan and Ross both do a great job of prepping me for this stuff. They Logan always thinks I hit the ball the best when I’m swinging the hardest. And so, um, I told him right as I was going out there to spot it, I said, “I’m swinging hard at this football. I’m making sure that I’m going to drill this thing.” And so, um, you know, I spot the ball and I’m looking down at the spot and I tell him that and he’s like, “Hit that ball hard, boy.” And, uh, hit it hard and obviously stayed left middle and just stuck dead straight down that left middle um, the whole time. And, you know, you go out there and you prep so much from deep in practice and, you know, you’re working with your OP for fun back there at 60 plus sometimes. And then for it to finally come to fruition again was so cool. Yeah. In a real game, too. They won’t give you credit for that 70 yard. You know, they won’t give you credit. They won’t give you credit. We will obviously cuz we’ve seen it before, but 68 in the history books forever, brother. At least for the time being. Now, talking about hitting that 68 yard last night there was an ONP. Go ahead, Tone. Yeah, Cam, I don’t know if you were watching the game at all or not, but when when Aubrey goes back to 68, and we had mentioned it yesterday on the show where like, oh, the 68, you know, this could get broken this season. Aubrey’s going tonight. And then he steps back to 68. Is he one of the guys like when you go back and you you’re like, oh no. Like, is he going to do it tonight? Is he going to top me tonight? Yeah, I uh I actually wasn’t watching the game, but I had got a FaceTime call um from someone and they’re like, “Dude, are you watching this game right now?” And I was like, “No, what’s happening?” He’s like, “Aubry’s about to tempt to 68.” And I was like, “Yep, he’s going to hit one day.” I get one day. That That is a funny 63. 63 lived forever. Then 64, then we get to 66. You hit 68. It almost only had a 24-hour shelf life. That is a wild thing to think about. Yeah. It’s it’s actually crazy to think about and I I was talking to the media the other day and I was like, you know, this record’s going to get broken this season. I I want to live through this record. No, obviously selfishly I want the record, but there’s so many guys around the NFL that are so good at kicking footballs now that I have a feeling it will get broken. You look at Brandon Aubrey for instance. You look at Jake Bates 64 twice last year in the NFL, he’s hit 60 plus with the Lions. And so you look at guys that have that leg strength and it it’s honestly just impressive. I think everybody has the legs. Well, not everybody. I saw a couple people come up short and then, you know, some people were getting the QB ball in there instead of the K ball. Let’s talk about the balls a little bit. How’s it feel going in? And I know you’re just a young ass, you know, kicker. You have no idea what it was like back in the day. Okay. You don’t know what it was like with the brand new balls coming in to the games, but this year obviously huge change is the Kball. Everybody’s talking about it. From your perspective, can you give your take on the K ball being brought into the game as opposed to a brand new ball? Yeah, I can. I uh thankfully we have the best equipment staff that we have a guy that is so good at breaking in footballs. Like last year, you know, we would get him obviously the rule change where you can get it through the week and you can use it three weeks and it’s got to be out. But last year you had to break in obviously, you know, um the ball 30 minutes before the game. You got a guy in there breaking that thing in like it’s it’s Yeah. Like literally sitting there sweating and drenching sweat trying to break in the football. And so our guy did a really good job last year breaking the footballs in. And so we had a good K ball last year and I thought um you know going into this year it does give you that bit of edge of you can hit the ball just about three or four yards farther I think but I don’t think it’s enough to give guys not give guys enough credit because I think guys are just yes the K ball is going to make you kick the ball farther but I think guys in the NFL are just getting more talented. I mean you look Brandon Aubrey just we’ll speak on him for a sec. He’s had four 60 plus yards this 360 plus yarders this season or something like that and so and he was doing that last year too. He had a 66 in preseason last year and that’s with the old ball. So I think guys are just getting more talented and and specialists from high school to college to the NFL are just getting that more talented and um I think that probably has more to do with it than the cable. That’s my personal opinion though. No, I think you’re accurate in saying that. Now from you said three to four more yards for the ball coming in for the we talk about brand new ball. like 15 yards. Brand new ball out of the box 15 20 yard ball out of the box is a lot different. Yes. Yeah, that’s a nightmare mentally too though. I think going onto the field knowing that the ball is a ball that you’ve kicked before mentally. Yeah, I think that probably helps. And I would like to say as a uh I’m 38 now. How old are you? 22. Jesus Christ. The youngest kicker ever drafted in the NFL, by the way. He was youngest guy ever drafted in the NFL. Absolute beast. With that being said, not easy to get drafted at the kicking position, but like I kicked the soccer ball like 124 miles an hour. Okay, I kicked like a 70 yard field goal when I was in high school. Okay, so I had a very strong leg. I I think people would say, “Hey, this guy had a very strong leg.” Now, did I know where it was headed? No. I mean, that thing was, you know, there’s a good chance that thing was traveling. But nowadays, your guys’ leg strength is just it it’s I don’t even think I’d be top 15, top 20 in the league right now. And you talk about how like the evolution, it all becomes from what perfect perfecting technique throughout uh high school with Jamie Cole and the Cole brothers and then also exercising and everything. Do you think there’s going to be a peak for this? Like do you think you guys are going to continue to go because you’re 22? You can you’re only going to get stronger somehow I if this really works out? I think even from last season to this season, I think my leg has just gotten that bit stronger. Like, yeah, I was hitting from 60 plus last year, but I think 70. That one would have been good from like 72. You hit there in Las Vegas. I think you that hit the net, bro. That hit the [ __ ] net. And so, like, you you you make that little jump and it was like, dude, I didn’t think my leg could get stronger from last year, but it has. And like you said, guys are just going to keep setting the peak higher and higher. Eventually, we’re going to see someone hit a 75 yard. Um, so I think it’s just evolving and I think it will just keep peaking until eventually it can’t peak anymore. Um, when that will be, we have no clue. Um, because there’s going to be someone that’s going to set it again. Feels like it’s not within the next 10 years with your little ass coming through their entire thing. Also, having a great team around you and coaching staff is a part of it. Go ahead, con man. Yeah, Cam, how’s your relationship with Liam Cohen? We’ve kind of heard a few different coaches talk this past week. Matt Laflur says, you know, he doesn’t speak to the kicker. We saw Shawn Payeyton, you know, bark at Will Lutz before his game winner. Hey, right through. Uh, what is your relationship with Liam Conan? Did you get that shiner from the celebration after uh hitting that 68 yard? Um I’ll answer that question first. I got bit by a dog when I was five. I was eating a bologn sandwich and got bit by a dog. Jumped up, tried to get my baloney sandwich, but it didn’t it didn’t get my bologn sandwich. Bit me in the eye. Hell yeah. You you finished that bologn sandwich. Exactly. Exactly. Yes, you did. All right. No, but um man, Liam has been such a good um just head coach to me. And I know sometimes you don’t have the best relationship as far as head coach specialist. They kind of want to leave you alone um and let you do your thing, but I think um he instills a lot of confidence in me throughout the week, throughout prep, throughout pregame. And you know, we have a very good relationship with each other. And um you know, throughout you know, kind of prep this week, you know, during field goal period, he’s out there. Nice operation, nice kicks, you know, nice punts, Logan. So, um, that’s something for me that is huge to hear out of my head coach because as a specialist unit, we want to know that our head coach, um, is involved with us. We want him to be, um, you know, acting like it knowing it’s a big deal. Um, and so Liam is a superstar about that. And I can’t, um, thank him enough as a head coach because he does care a lot about us, a specialist. And, um, that one-on-one relationship is is is forever indebted. Yeah, I I’m happy you’re an athlete. You know, some of these kickers, you know them. you’ve been to those kicking camps, not not athletes, you know, and that’s like who these coaches like I’m not talking to the kicker, I’m not talking to the kicker. You’re treating them as if they’re not athletes. Like, hey, these guys are just coming out to do there. You can tell how much the coach respects the athleticism of the kicker with how they interact with each other. Laflur saying I don’t talk to kickers is like, okay, he’s a [ __ ] though. That’s exactly that’s exactly how I would view that. Venitary, imagine Laflur saying I don’t talk that [ __ ] I don’t talk to you either. Like, what are we even talking about? So, I respect and appreciate that. And I don’t know if you heard Liam Cohen say he felt like you won the Super Bowl after you hit that. He said he said it felt like we won a Super Bowl after you hit that because the excitement now you guys had to go out in the second half and overtime and go win that game and you were able to do that. But I love how much Liam has supported you and I like how many opportunities he’s given you because of the amount of [ __ ] he’s seen you do in practice. On that note, you made history, brother. It’ll live on forever. Debbut has a question for you. Absolutely. We had a chance to go down to uh Canton at the Hall of Fame and they do a great job preserving different things from the game. And you said history, you made history. So, have you put any thought about or do they just come in and take what they’re going to put in the Hall of Fame to be enshrined forever? Man, I’m uh I’m definitely keeping the football. That’s 100%. And I’m still deciding if I’m going to give him my jersey or not, but I think I might let it go and let Kanton have that one. Um let the jersey roll, bro. Let the jersey roll, Canton. Dude, the fact they’ll put your ass, they’ll have lights on that thing. They’ll have a picture of you. Keep the ball for sure. Have that. I still have the ball from the 70 as well. It’s actually I was telling uh my coordinator, my ball, I haven’t put it on a plaque yet. It’s actually sitting in my pantry right next to some protein bars in my pantry. I I haven’t moved it yet. So, he’s 22 years old. This guy’s 22. He’s got no This guy’s got no idea about life. Okay. Uh, we need to get those things in some frames. We need those things lit up with LED. We need them put on the wall because you’re you’re doing special stuff, brother. Legitimately very special stuff. It’s been an honor to kind of watch you go about doing your thing. 22 year old, this guy has no idea about life at this point. Who cares? Tai has a question for you. Yeah. Cam, speaking of all that, you know, you being an athlete and the relationship you have with Coach Cohen, like at at this point, you know, if you’re going back to 70 people or, you know, you’re kind of in that Aubry territory. Have you maybe talked to him a little bit like, “Hey, maybe we do like a fake field goal pass here. You give me the opportunity to throw a 70 yard touchdown or maybe I just I tuck and run and I give a couple people a few shoulders to chew on, you know, and maybe I get a 70 yard touchdown run.” Like, is there any of that kind of stuff going on behind the scenes? Now, man, I think uh there’s a funny story actually. Me and Logan, my holder, the punter, um we’re talking about trying to, you know, what does a fake field goal look like? And I was like, “Dude, do you think I could ever run a fake field goal?” And he goes, “If you ever had the ball in your hands, I would be extremely worried. One, because I think you would get broken in half. And two, you can’t throw.” So, I think we might stay away from the fake field. Logan’s a beast, though. Logan is a beast. He’s an a You talk about a guy that’s an athlete, man. That guy, talk about his punting. That dude is unbelievable. I know it’s We’re talking about fake fields. That guy is unbelievable at punting the football and throwing the football. Um, so to have a guy like that in my room that’s leading me and to have a guy like Ross snapping it, two-time allp pro snapper and a allp pro punter last year, both pro bowlers, like they set me up for success and those guys are a leader at what they do. So, it makes my job a lot easier. That’s a good place to be when you got a snapper and a holder. They’re all pro alongside you and then you got a kicker that can hit from 68 and 70. Liam Cohen’s living a good life whenever it comes to special teams. Please tell Logan Cook we’re massive fans. That big country [ __ ] bomb balls, dude. He can, man. He is unbelievable. I’ll tell you what, Jacksonville is not a bad place to call home either. I know you guys. No. Uhuh. Yeah. A lot of fun. Yeah. You’re 22. All right. Enjoy your life. All right. Ladies and gentlemen, kicker for the Jacksonville Jaguars, record setter, history maker, ladies and gentlemen. Came little head back. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music]

Jacksonville Jaguars kicker Cam Little joins The Pat McAfee Show after setting the record for the longest NFL kick at 68 yards.

0:00 Pat is fascinated by Cam
3:04 Kicking mentality
4:18 Breaking the record
5:40 K-balls
8:12 Will he get even better?
9:22 His dog story
11:37 Hall of Fame thoughts
13:02 Could he get a touchdown?

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