The season didn’t finish as well as it started.

Hopkins made 81 percent (34 of 42) of his field goal attempts in his third season, which ranked 21st among qualified place kickers, and 92.3 percent (36 of 39) of his extra point tries, tied for 20th among qualified place kickers. He missed seven field goals and two extra points during the final 12 games.

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“I was happy with the way I started but not happy with the way the season went overall,” Hopkins said on Monday, a day after the Redskins lost, 19-10, to the New York Giants to end their season. “I expect more of myself. I know the team expects more of me, and the fans as well – rightfully so. I’ll take that, use as fuel this offseason and try as be as best as I can be.”

It’d be easy to pinpoint Hopkins’s struggles beginning in Week 9 against the Cincinnati Bengals when he missed two field goals, including a 34-yarder in overtime that would’ve won the game for Washington but resulted in a tie instead. Hopkins said he was disappointed with how many close misses he had throughout the year, which started in Week 5 against the Baltimore Ravens when the 26-year-old hit the left upright on an extra-point attempt in windy conditions and on a low snap.

It was one of four attempts that bounced off the uprights, which Hopkins said was abnormally high. In Week 7 against the Detroit Lions, Hopkins missed a 45-yard field goal that hit the top of the left upright. In Week 11 against the Green Bay Packers, the Florida State product hooked an extra point off the right upright in windy conditions and on a high snap. In Week 14 vs. the Philadelphia Eagles, Hopkins’s 38-yard field goal attempt drilled the left upright.

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“I think when sometimes something is drastically wrong, it’s easy to pinpoint it,” Hopkins said. “But when it’s something like that, when you’re so close to where it’s not like I was off by much, then I think it’s harder to put your finger on what exactly it was. For the most part, I was striking a clean ball minus two or three balls all year.

“I didn’t want to overreact knowing that some of my misses this year were off the post or a yard a side. You don’t want to overdo it and then you’re all messed up. I’m trying to just change something but not too drastic, you don’t want to overreact. It’s not the year I wanted to have, but I’m gonna try and come back stronger.”

Hopkins said he intends to see his kicking coach more often than he did last year in order to find a solution to the problem. Last season, Hopkins made 89.3 percent (25 of 28) of his field goal attempts with just one miss from 30 to 49 yards. This year, he missed four from that range.