Mike Nugent received a bit of forward advice a long time ago.

“You’re only as good as your next kick,” Nugent said. “Your last kick didn’t matter.”

Nugent, who has connected on 81.8 percent of his field goals this season, was wide left on his 33rd attempt last weekend at New England. In a game highlighted by missed Jets opportunities, Nugent misfired left from 35 yards out late in the fourth quarter.

“It was like the one time I kicked the ball in the last three years where I was too eager to see the outcome of it. I picked my head up,” Nugent said following Friday’s practice. “When you keep your head down, you keep you body straight and it doesn’t let your leg come across. When you lift your head up, your whole body can come across like that.”

But Nugent need not hang his head. The rare miss ended a streak of 15 consecutive makes and another run of 22 in a row under 50.

Sunday, he’ll look to begin a new streak down in Nashville when the Jets meet the Titans at LP Field. He’s played there once in his career — the 2006 season opener — and the Jets won despite a shaky performance from their placekicker.

After a successful PAT try early in the second, Nugent was unsuccessful on the point after the Green & White’s second touchdown later in the quarter. The second half began promisingly enough with an 18-yard field goal. But Nugent was never back on track, failing to cash in from 34 in the third and then from 30 in the fourth.

“I really think that first game was a real good learning experience. I had a rough warmup and I think I let that lead into the game,” he said. “I missed an extra point and after that extra point, it all kind of just crashed right there. I was thinking about that extra point so much, on every other field goal that I kicked. I would think about it before and during the series and stuff.”

But Nugent didn’t look back. He had a fantastic second season, hitting 23 of his 24 field goals to close the year, including 18 in a row.

The 25-year-old Nugent didn’t crash this year, either, after a poor practice session against the Browns on Dec. 9.

“I had kind of a rough warmup against Cleveland and then went out and kicked four field goals and had a solid day,” Nugent said. “Warmups are about warming up. Warmups don’t define what kind of day it’s going to be.”

It won’t be warm in Nashville for this weekend’s 4:15 p.m. EST kickoff. But mid-30s with a 10 percent chance of precipitation sounds balmy compared to last weekend. Nugent will be kicking off grass for just the second time this season, though.

“The coldest grass we’ve kicked off — besides here at practice — would be last year at Green Bay,” he said, recalling a blowout victory when he was called upon to kick five XPs and one FG. “You have to keep your body weight, your center of gravity, over your feet so you’re not slipping on that stuff.”

Also the spot gains more significance for Nugent and holder Ben Graham on the natural surface.

“When you’re on FieldTurf, you just kick wherever you want and you’re good to go," he said. "On grass, you want to make sure you have a good spot for your plant foot as well as your kicking spot. You don’t want to have little miniature hills where you can kick the ground.”

That next kick is already on Nugent’s mind.

“I’m not going to do any different kind of preparations just because the game [last year] didn’t go the way I wanted to,” he said. “I’m going to get out on the grass before the game and make sure I get all the kicks I can.”