But in Sunday's wild card playoff game against visiting Green Bay, this year's NFC Pro Bowl kicker missed field goal attempts of 34 (his first failure in 21 tries inside 37 yards all year) and 41 yards as the Eagles were upset by the Packers 21-16.
"I really feel badly for my teammates, coaches, the organization," Akers said. "I've made a lot of kicks in my day. Missing them, it hurts. (The wind) was really all over the place today ... (but) It's Lincoln Financial (Field) and I've played here a lot of years. You just go out and feel it how you feel it at that time.
"Sometimes you guess right, sometimes you guess wrong, and I did on the 41-(yarder), that's for sure. (The 34-yarder) didn't feel right. It came off a little weird. It doesn't really matter -- it didn't go through."
Added coach Andy Reid, who joined the Eagles 12 years ago Wednesday, the same day as the then-untested Akers, "We can all count. Those (six lost) points would've helped."
In fact, barring any other scores, they would've won the game.
Although Akers has made 93.3 percent of his career kicks inside 40 yards and led the league with 143 points this season, he made it seem after the defeat that Sunday's mistakes would be his swansong for the Eagles for whom he has played a franchise-record 189 games (not counting his 18 in the playoffs).
"Twelve years, it's been a nice run," said the 36-year-old Akers, whose contract is expiring. "It's not really the way I wanted to go out as an Eagle."
Way back in September 1998, Washington coach Norv Turner, in the midst of a game of musical chairs kickers that he had begun by cutting Chip Lohmiller three years earlier, tried a substitute teacher at the spot in a game in Seattle's Kingdome. The 24-year-old hit the upright twice and was cut.
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