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Chargers P signs 5-year, $19M deal
One of the top special team players in the NFL, Mike Scifres was rewarded for his punting prowess with a five-year extension which includes $10 million in guaranteed money.
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September 08, 2011
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September 08, 2011
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2009 By the Numbers
*Key statistics from the 2009 San Diego Chargers season. *
2 Number of touchbacks this season for Mike Scifres in 52 punts. Scifres, who...
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February 11, 2010
Chargers, Scifres agree on 5-year extension
Punter Mike Scifres has agreed to a five-year contract extension that will keep him with the San Diego Chargers through 2016.
Scifres has been with the Chargers since 2003, when he was a fifth-round draft pick.
He has consistently been one of the NFL's best punters and was a Pro Bowl alternate from 2004-09.
While Scifres' gross average was 46.7 yards last year, he was a victim...
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September 07, 2011
Chargers sign P Scifres to five-year deal
The San Diego Chargers on Wednesday signed punter Mike Scifres to a five-year, $18 million contract extension, Scout.com reported.
Scifres was in the final year of his contract. He has been with the Chargers since 2003 and never has missed a game despite a hernia in 2009.
Scifres averaged a career-best 46.7 yards per punt last season, third in the NFL. However, his net...
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September 07, 2011
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September 07, 2011
In a pinch, Scifres puts his best foot forward
As a one-shot, no-notice battlefield promotion, Mike Scifres clearly distinguished himself under fire Sunday at Qualcomm Stadium.
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September 12, 2011
Mike Scifres Gets Hilariously Upended
Last night’s game wasn’t much of a joy to watch unless you’re a Chargers fan or a Vincent Jackson fantasy owner. But it did feature Chargers punter Mike Scifres getting hit so hard by a Niners returner that he flipped into a headstand. You can see that he flies nearly five whole yards before coming to a stop on his head. That should be a new skills competition during Pro Bowl...
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December 17, 2010
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December 17, 2010
"They Pay You To Play:" Scifres
Chargers punter Mike Scifres talks about coming back after postseason surgery and what was like to be injured in the 2009 season.
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August 04, 2010
Mike Scifres, Chargers agree on five-year extension
The San Diego Chargers endured a woeful season from their special teams units last year, but one of the few shining lights was punter Mike Scifres. The 9-year veteran was rewarded with a 5-year contract extension on Wedenesday after having the third-best average in the league last year per punt.… read more.
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September 07, 2011
Chargers Sign P Mike Scifres To Five-Year Extension
The San Diego Chargers have signed veteran punter Mike Scifres to a long-term contract extension, Aaron Wilson of Scout.com reports. Adam Caplan of The Sideline View reports the deal is worth $19 million over five seasons with $9 million in guarantees. A fifth-round pick out of Western Illinois in 2003, the 30-year-old Scifres has a 38.4-yard net average and placed 180 of his 445...
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September 07, 2011
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September 07, 2011
Bolts punter is back banging
Mike Scifres is healthy after a season in which he fought through double hernia.
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September 07, 2010
Scifres, Lechler friendly competition
*Chargers punter Mike Scifres and Raiders punter Shane Lechler are widely regarded as the top two players at their position. The two are fierce...
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September 12, 2009
Chargers, Mike Scifres agree to 5-year extension
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September 07, 2011
Chargers, punter Scifres agree to five-year extension
Punter Mike Scifres, hampered last season by San Diego's brutal specials teams breakdowns, agreed Wednesday to a five-year contract extension that will keep him with the Chargers through 2016.
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September 07, 2011
Cowboys digital board vs. Mike Scifres
At the beginning of the season Mat McBriar said San Diego punter Mike Scifres would be the likeliest candidate to hit the 90-foot-high digitial board at Cowboys Stadium.
So far, the digital board has been a non-story, just as the Cowboys predicted even after Tennessee's A.J. Trapasso hit it in the preseason. Since then, no one has hit it and I don't remember it being hit...
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December 10, 2009
Make it five blocked punts for San Diego
The special teams woes continue for the San Diego Chargers as not only did they have a punt blocked for the fifth time this season, but punter Mike Scifres took a shot in the process..
Only two minutes into the first quarter, Texans linebacker Stanford Keglar broke past the line and blocked the punt. In the process, Keglar hit Scifres in the leg, causing him to...
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November 07, 2010
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November 07, 2010
Chargers, Scifres agree on 5-year extension
Punter Mike Scifres, hampered last season by San Diego's brutal specials teams breakdowns, agreed Wednesday to a five-year contract extension that will keep him with the Chargers through 2016.
Via Seattle Times
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September 07, 2011
Chargers Fun fact: Kickin' It Chargers Style
Pilates -- That is what Chargers' punter Mike Scifres attributes to his amazing kicking abilities. He also credits weightlifting for his incredible leg strength.Scifres is the teams all time leader in punting average, 44.2 percent.In 2009, he only had five touchbacks in 51 punts and landed 19 of those within the 20-yard line. After Saturday's game against the Seahawks, he...
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September 28, 2010
Mike Scifres: Punting To Glory
So, as exciting as Darren Sproles was, this game was a game because of Mike Scifres. Scifres: "I don't know if you can dream a game like this." Me neither Mike, me neither.
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January 04, 2009
Chargers Win An Instant Classic
Darren Sproles and Mike Scifres won?t need to buy a drink in San Diego.
The Bolts gave the ball to Sproles, all 5?6? of him, and the guy ran past the Colts and led the way right to either Nashville or Pittsburgh. 328 total yards in a variety of roles. Fitting he took the rock into the ...
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January 04, 2009
Sproles Will Cash In This Off-Season!
In Saturday's game against the Colts, Sproles had 105 yards rushing, 45 yards receiving, and 2 touchdowns. He also added 178 yards off 7 total returns. For this effort, John Madden gave Darren the player of the game, along with Scifres, the Chargers' punter who had a few key kicks. While Coach Turner has been saying that Scifres deserves to go to the Pro Bowl, Sproles is...
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January 07, 2009
Chargers Drop The Ball
Source: YardBarker.com
Seriously this makes me SICK!!! Our record is 2-3 for the fourth straight year after 5 games! This was an easy start to the season and we should have been at the least 4-2 after 6 games. We already have 3 losses after 5 games and 2 of them are in the division. We now have losses to the Oakland Raiders and the Kansas City Chiefs. The team still has not won...
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October 11, 2010
Chargers display dangerous special teams combo
Chargers punter Mike Scifres and cover specialist Kassim Osgood pinned the Cowboys on consecutive punts. On the first one, from Dallas' 40, Scifres lofted his punt and Osgood sped down the field and caught it on the fly at the four. On the second one, Osgood had time to stand on the goal line and make a one-hop grab at the one.
The Cowboys were forced to punt their eight on...
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December 13, 2009
Texans RB Foster puts up 2 rushing TDs in first half
Chargers punter Mike Scifres' fifth-blocked punt of the season set up the first touchdown of the day for Texans running back Arian Foster, who ran the red zone gift 8 yards for a first quarter score and a 7-0 San Diego lead at Reliant Stadium.
Foster struck again with 10:23 remaining before halftime, scoring his ninth rushing TD of the season with a 2-yard plunge that plunge...
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November 07, 2010
Another blocked punt against San Diego
San Diego Chargers P Mike Scifres had a league-high fifth blocked punt during the first quarter of today's game at the Houston Texans.On the play, the eighth-year pro appeared to have been injured. His return to the game from an undisclosed injury has been listed as questionable.The Texans wound up scoring one play later on an eight-yard run by RB Arian Foster.-- Adam Caplan
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November 07, 2010
Fraudulent MVP Pey-Pey’s Long Hair Fails Him and Other Wild Kardkkake Moments
YOU CAN?T BEAT PEYTON WITH LONG HAIR! HE?S LIKE SAMSON! Well, after the first day of playoff games, in which the Colts are one-and-done yet again, Edgerrin James and Mike Scifres are quixotically your two standout performers. Yes, the two division winners from the weakest divisions beat out two ...
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January 04, 2009
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January 04, 2009
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