{"id":276417,"date":"2025-08-10T08:11:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T08:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/276417\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T08:11:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T08:11:14","slug":"raiders-2025-aj-cole-remains-an-elite-punter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/276417\/","title":{"rendered":"Raiders 2025: AJ Cole remains an elite punter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">\u201cYeah, I was actually talking about this a little bit earlier &#8212; the funny thing about my job versus Daniel\u2019s (Carlson) job is, for instance, is for Daniel, the uprights are the exact same dimensions every single year. So there\u2019s a theoretical max to what he can do, which is make 100 percent of his kicks. But for a punter, the better you play, the more the goal posts just shift. If I kick it 50 yards, can I kick 51? I kick a 4.8 hang, can I kick a 4.9? There\u2019s no theoretical limit to what I can do. It feels like the ball could always go a yard further, a tenth higher, a yard closer to the sideline. And so, yeah, I mean, I think there is a little bit of pressure, but I think it\u2019s a good thing. And I think that it forces me to really lock in.\u201d\u2014Las Vegas Raiders punter AJ Cole III when asked what kind of pressure he feels as one of the NFL\u2019s top punters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cYeah, I was actually talking about this a little bit earlier &#8212; the funny thing about my job&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2065],"tags":[7,1744,393,7275,4242,2455,2454,6,525],"class_list":{"0":"post-276417","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-las-vegas-raiders","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-las-vegas","10":"tag-las-vegas-raiders","11":"tag-las-vegas-raiders-depth-chart","12":"tag-las-vegas-raiders-roster","13":"tag-lasvegas","14":"tag-lasvegasraiders","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-raiders"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115003463162201844","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}