NEW YORK — All plaudits to Cairo Santos of the Kansas City Chiefs for making seven field goals Sunday. At least someone was able to kick the ball straight this week.

Santos’ club record in a 36-21 loss at Cincinnati — that’s right, all the Chiefs’ points were on field goals, not three touchdowns — stands out even more when compared with his peers.

Not only were field goals a chore, particularly in crunch time, but the longer extra points were problematic — four of them were missed. So far this season, four or more PAT kicks have been missed every week after not having more than three missed in any week from 2000 through 2014.

Unlike in college, where so many kickers are untested or simply not reliable, NFL coaches often play for the winning field goal. It is a risky approach, particularly now with the extra point moved back to about 33 yards.

“All the kicks are tough,” said Pittsburgh Steelers veteran long snapper Greg Warren, “and now that you’re taking (PATs) back, you’re taking the one you could always count on out of the equation. I think it does shake it up. I mean, it’s not just one kick you’re changing, it’s the mental makeup of everything.

“When that kick gets a little tougher, that job gets tougher. I think it’s definitely going to affect guys more than we anticipate, and it’s interesting how the league reacts to it, if it’s what they were looking to do, to achieve.”

According to STATS, 57 of 71 field goals (80 percent) were made in Week 4. That is not awful if most of the failures were from long distance, which they were not.

Only 81.8 percent of the kicks from inside 45 yards were made this week, a far lower percentage than the previous three weeks: 88 percent, 89.2 percent and 90.6 percent. That is the lowest in a week since the final week of 2012 (75.6 percent), when weather was a factor.

WR Smith frustrated with 49ers offense

San Francisco receiver Torrey Smith doesn’t believe things are as bad as they seem, despite his team’s 1-3 record and possessing the league’s lowest-scoring offense.

“I feel a lot better than I did yesterday,” Smith said Monday. “But it still doesn’t feel good, at all, losing. Still embarrassed about how we’ve been playing offensively.”

Smith made two catches in Sunday’s 17-3 loss to Green Bay on Sunday and was visibly frustrated on the field for much of the afternoon. The 49ers managed just 196 total yards, with 47 coming on a long pass to Smith in the fourth quarter.

“My body language was horrible at times. I should never let my frustrations show, especially to (reporters),” Smith said. “That’s not a good thing. I’ll work at that.…To be honest, we work too hard to go out on Sundays and play like that. (Coach Jim) Tomsula doesn’t deserve this. The fans don’t deserve to watch the way we play.”

Smith, who signed a five-year deal that could be worth as much as $40 million, has nine receptions for 185 yards in four games.

“When you work like we do, we work hard, success has to come,” Smith said. “It hasn’t been coming, but it just has to happen. Just stick by that belief and hope we can get this thing going.”

Dolphins fire coach Philbin

The Miami Dolphins fired head coach Joe Philbin on Monday and named tight ends coach Dan Campbell as interim coach.

Entering this season, optimism was the highest in four years under Philbin after the team acquired star defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh, but the Dolphins got off to a disastrous 1-3 start. Philbin was 24-28 in his three-plus seasons as coach of the Dolphins, who haven’t finished above .500 since he became coach in 2012.

“This was a tough decision for me to make knowing how tirelessly Joe worked in his four years here to make this a winning team,” Dolphins owner Stephen Ross said in a statement. “He is a man of the highest character and integrity that I developed a close personal relationship with. I am extremely disappointed with how we have started the season, but I feel confident that we can improve quickly with the talent we have on our roster.”

Campbell is in his fifth season as Dolphins’ tight end coach. He originally joined Tony Sparano’s staff as a coaching intern following an 11-year career as an NFL player.