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LS Jake McQuaide (Pro-Bowl 2x, Minnesota Vikings)

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Longtime long snapper Massey released
BY JIM THOMAS | Posted: Monday, August 22, 2011

Chris Massey, a seventh-round draft pick in 2002 who had been the Rams' longest-tenured player, has been released by the team, league sources confirmed Monday.

Massey, who turned 32 Sunday, had appeared in 135 regular-season games for St. Louis. Over the course of his NFL career, Massey had made clean snaps on 1,050 of 1,051 attempts.

But the Rams signed another long snapper, undrafted rookie Jake McQuaide of Ohio State, once the lockout lifted and the two have been competing in camp and alternating snaps during preseason games.

The job, obviously, now belongs to McQuaide who counts about $1 million less against the salary cap than Massey's $1.375 million cap count.
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Rams release long-snapper Massey
By BILL COATS
Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Jake McQuaide was at his locker Monday at Rams Park when Chris Massey approached him.

"Chris came up to me and said, 'Congratulations, good luck,'" McQuaide said. And that's how McQuaide found out that he'd earned the Rams' long-snapper job that Massey had held for nine years.

Massey, who turned 32 Sunday, was the longest-tenured Rams player on the roster. He came to the club in 2002 as a seventh-round draft pick (No. 243 overall) and appeared in 135 regular-season games, making clean snaps on 1,050 of 1,051 attempts.

Age and finances almost certainly were factors in the decision. Massey was due to make $1,375,000 this year. McQuaide, a 23-year-old rookie from Ohio State, will receive the first-year minimum of $375,000. The net salary cap savings will be $500,000.

Coach Steve Spagnuolo said Massey was "disappointed, but very, very professional" when given the news before Monday's practice.

"He's a quality person, great character guy. We'll miss him," Spagnuolo sad. "We just felt that if we were going to make the decision to go with Jake, it was best to do it now to get the kicker and the punter and the long snapper all on the same page."

The 6-foot-2, 219-pound McQuaide was a tight end at Elder High in Cincinnati. He could tell early in his college career that wasn't going to be an option for him.

"Coming out of high school I was 6-2? and weighed 210, 205. Our tight ends (at Ohio State) were about 6-6 and 260," he said. "So I found my niche at long snapper, and I've been doing it ever since."

He was the Buckeyes' long snapper for three years while also completing his degree in aeronautical engineering with a 3.6 grade-point average.

McQuaide said Rams special-teams coach Tom McMahon assured him he'd get a legitimate shot at winning the job. "Tom told me that if you come here, you're going to get half the reps and it's going to be an open competition between you and Chris," McQuaide said. "He held his word, and that's where we are now."

Spagnuolo said McQuaide "did all the things real well. He's got the speed you're looking for, he's a good-sized guy. He performed pretty well.
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Snap judgment inspired Rams' McQuaide
Elder grad McQuaide knew he had NFL future after encouraging words from Bengals kicker Nugent
Dec. 17, 2011
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Joe Reedy | [email protected]

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The Cardinals' Patrick Peterson returns a punt for a game-winning touchdown ahead of the Rams' Jake McQuaide (right) during overtime of Arizona's 19-13 win on Nov. 6. / AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin

During Jake McQuaide?s sophomore year at Ohio State, Mike Nugent was visiting campus and working out with McQuaide and Aaron Pettrey. After one workout, Nugent told McQuaide that he would have a future as a long snapper in the NFL.

Three years later, McQuaide, an Elder grad, is in his first year with the Rams, who play the Bengals today in St. Louis.

?Mike was one of the first guys to put in my head that I could make it in the NFL,? McQuaide said this week. ?You can hear it from a lot of people, but to hear it from someone who was in the league and knows what it takes gives you a lot of confidence.?

When Nugent was at Ohio State, he heard the same thing from former Rams kicker Jeff Wilkins, who had a connection with former OSU head coach Jim Tressel from their days at Youngstown State.

Said Nugent looking back at the first time he worked with McQuaide: ?I felt like it was good at the time for him to hear that, especially from someone who ... would tell him the truth no matter what. He had the things that a long snapper needs.?

McQuaide signed with the Rams two days after the lockout ended as an undrafted free agent and then beat incumbent Chris Massey for the job.

?St. Louis was always one of those teams that showed the most interest in me. They told me when they had me in for a pre-draft workout that if they signed me I was going to get an equal shot at the job,? McQuaide said.

McQuaide can see Nugent today and thank him.

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June 14, 2012 by Ron Clements

LS Jake McQuaide on position battles: ?I'm out here trying to win my job again. I always hear people say, ?Think about your locker. It's not yours, you're just renting it.' Every year there are new guys in and new guys out. You try to hang onto it as long as you can.?
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June 14, 2012 by Ron Clements

Special teams coordinator John Fassel has worked with LS Jake McQuaide to make him more of an impact on punt coverage. ?As I progress in my abilities, I need to get more involved in the coverage game,? McQuaide said. ?I know I can do it. ?Bones' [Fassel] and I have been working on a lot of tackling stuff. That's something we didn't do any of last year. We'll see how it goes, but that should alleviate some stress on the other guys."
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June 14, 2012 by Ron Clements

LS Jake McQuaide, undrafted last year, beat out nine-year veteran Chris Massey to win the starting job. McQuaide is faced with a similar situation this year where he's the incumbent and undrafted rookie Travis Tripucka is on the roster. McQuaide has adopted the mentor role and said he and Tripucka have a good relationship. ?I don't worry about other people. I only worry about what Jake McQuaide can do,? he said.
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McQuaide Embraces Veteran Role
Posted Aug 5, 2012
Alison Wittels Special to Stlouisrams.com

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What does it really mean to be a rookie in the National Football League? That is a question every player is bound to discover in their first year. Luckily for Rams long snapper Jake McQuaide, he discovered the answer quickly with the help of a group of special teams veterans and coaches.

Former Rams veterans Josh Brown (kicker) and Chris Massey (long snapper) were vital in transforming McQuaide into the player he is today.

?They helped me a lot last year,? McQuaide said. ?Just being around those guys and learning about what it is to be a pro, and how to carry yourself and take care of your business.?

For him, last year was all about ?learning how to be a pro.?

?Being a rookie, when you are asked to do the rookie stuff, like when you are asked to sing and when you are asked to carry someone?s helmet to the field, do it,? McQuaide said of advice given to him from former Rams special teams coach Tom McMahon. ?You are a rookie you should do those things.

?When it comes time for football or for meetings you are not a rookie, you are just like everyone else. You are here to make the team and to contribute. So when you are on the field do not act like a rookie, when you are in meetings don?t act like a rookie, you are paying attention, you are taking care of what you have to do.?

The invaluable advice and support from the group of veterans has stuck with McQuaide through his second season with the Rams. McQuaide?s support network was so effective that he became the Rams? long snapper before the first game of last season.

This year is a different story.

Going from rookie to longest tenured specialist has added the responsibility of mentoring the new class of rookies?punter Johnny Hekker, long snapper Travis Tripucka and kicker Greg Zuerlein.

?I help them out a little bit, but they kind of know what they are doing,? McQuaide said, ?but if they have any questions I try and answer whatever they ask me.?

Knowing where the rookies are coming from has helped McQuaide look out for and teach them.

?You come in here and it?s like everything is a thousand miles an hour and you are just trying to keep up,? McQuaide said.

The Cincinnati native does his part to talk the rookies through things in hopes of slowing everything down.

McQuaide has certainly matured into his role as a veteran. While he is no longer a rookie, he is still just as excited as he was on day one.

?I am really excited for this season. I am excited for our team and for our fans, for the city of St. Louis.?
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Rams long snapper Jake McQuaide gets a contract extension
Posted by Josh Alper on July 1, 2013
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The questions of whether or not contract extensions are coming for players like Buccaneers quarterback Josh Freeman and Giants wide receiver Victor Cruz have been popular ones to discuss this offseason.

Not so the contract status of Rams long snapper Jake McQuaide, but Freeman and Cruz are still looking for new deals while the ink is drying on a four-year pact for McQuaide with St. Louis. The Rams announced the deal, without any financial details but with a picture of McQuaide putting pen to paper, on Monday.

McQuaide has played all 32 games for the Rams over the last two seasons after signing with the team as an undrafted free agent out of Ohio State and beating out incumbent Chris Massey. He?s made three tackles on special teams over that period.

Long snappers don?t tend to bask in much limelight if they avoid blunders, so McQuaide doesn?t have the biggest profile. He does make an appearance in a trick kicking video that Rams kicker Greg Zuerlein and punter Johnny Hekker made with a group called Dude Perfect and snaps a ball into a basket from a great distance, though, so perhaps he?ll have a higher profile by the end of his new deal.
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