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“I saw the way she kicked that ball and she’s obviously got a lot of talent,” Hauschka said after the Bills’ preseason finale. “It feels close to my heart because when I was 18, 19 years old, I was a soccer player and I had a dream of kicking footballs just for my Division III college team. I was fortunate enough to have an opportunity and I had a coach that showed me how to do it.
“If it’s something she really wants to do, not only will I help her out — if she wants it — but I hope she goes for it. I do think it’s possible to kick well in this league as a female. It’s a very mental position, it’s physical, it’s technical and I think it could be done eventually.”
“It’s definitely different, the thing I think that’ll be tough for her is just game experience,” he said. “There’s a lot of things that you’ve got to learn over the course of [a career] and it’s hard to learn that stuff at the NFL level because there’s not room for error. I was fortunate enough to be able to kick at a Division III level and then the Division I level and work my way up.
“But I think it’s really cool, a really cool story.”
As for skeptics who believe Lloyd’s ability to tackle her opponents would keep her out of the NFL?
Hauschka quickly shut it down.
“She doesn’t have to.”
Hauschka, who signed a two-year, $8 million extension with the Bills on Wednesday, said it took him “about a year” to get used to kicking a football.
At times it seems like he still is. . .
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