Younghoe Koo dominated out, doesn’t journey for Falcons Week 2 recreation vs. Minnesota Vikings

ATLANTA — The Atlanta Falcons have dominated kicker Younghoe Koo out of Sunday evening’s matchup with the Minnesota Vikings, the staff introduced Saturday afternoon.

The group listed Koo’s cause for downgrade as not being damage associated. He didn’t journey with the staff to Minnesota.

The staff concurrently elevated new kicker Parker Romo to the sport day roster by way of an ordinary apply squad elevation. Romo was signed by the staff earlier this week after Atlanta labored out a gaggle of kickers following Koo’s missed 44-yard discipline purpose within the closing seconds of the Falcons’ Week 1 loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

This information comes after head coach Raheem Morris was requested about Koo’s standing because the beginning kicker all week following the missed discipline purpose final Sunday coupled with Koo placing up his lowest discipline purpose success charge final yr at 73.5%. In his final 10 video games (together with final Sunday’s loss and never together with the video games he missed in 2024 following a stint on injured reserve), Koo has made 15 of his 23 discipline objectives.

The miss Sunday was Koo’s first missed discipline purpose with the prospect to tie or take the lead within the closing minute of the 4th quarter (or extra time) since September 2022 vs. New Orleans (which was a miss from 63 yards). He had made seven straight discipline objectives in that particular state of affairs earlier than final Sunday.

“That’s cut-and-dry position, right? You either make it or you don’t, and we’ve got to have guys in a position to make them,” Morris mentioned Wednesday. “And there’s no real coaching points there. Obviously, there’s kicking aspects and there’s points of those coaching things that they want to do and all those things. But for us, from a fan standpoint, a coach’s standpoint, everything else, you either make them or you don’t. You’ve got to go out and let it be competitive at every level. You want to go out and try to win games, and we wouldn’t be having this conversation if you make those kicks — you make them all clean, and that’s not the conversation. But we put it on ourselves, and now we’ve got to go out there and we’ve got to be ready to deal and be ready to make the best out of it.”

And, when requested, Koo himself mentioned the dialog round his accuracy is going on extra often than he, or anybody for that matter, would need.

“We’ve been in this situation so many times,” Koo mentioned Monday. “The frustration just came out of just disappointment in myself and knowing that I know I’m better than that. On top of that, I let the guys down.”