You mean like between 40 and 60 yarders or 15 and 40 yarders?
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Special teams concerns
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You mean like between 40 and 60 yarders or 15 and 40 yarders?
Punting or place kicking?
How come Shay can't return punts? I think he'd be good at it.
I think Oliver may get a shot back there. The kid is too fast to not give him a good look back at KR/PR
You typically don't want your main weapons back there, unless absolutely necessary. Like with Spruce last year, he fair caught probably 95% of punts. HCMM needed someone he could trust to just catch the ball because we couldn't afford a muffed punt.
Yeah I get ya but we need to make a move in that area. I'm cool with Oliver though.
Honestly if Shay has good enough hands and vision to be a weapon back there we can use it, but if all things are equal I would rather not put a primary offensive weapon back there.
I think we have a couple of guys that could do it but, it's not for everybody. It's not an easy job.
Definitely, I have tried catching punts, and that ball is hard to read sometimes and it comes much faster than you would expect.
I was actually a pretty solid kick returner but I could never figure out how to run back a punt. I think I had more fumbles than yards gained.
Yep it definitely sucks in West Texas. I did both kr and pr, thing was you might have to run all the way across the field to catch the damn thing if the wind kicked up.
89BUFF89
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Neinas needs to show us he's worth a full time staff position this year. He has experience and depth coming back on the return and coverage teams. He has to get the new P and K up to speed and ready to roll. We can't afford to have the kicking game hurt us if we are shooting for a bowl game. I want to see solid ST play from Game 1 this season.
Maybe even Carr back there, freshmen always worry me though. If he's capable, I have zero issues with it. Crawley has returned some punts right? Place kicking, I have no idea who to use there.
At minimum I hope we see Carr on punt and kickoff return. Sounds like from the small reports we've heard of camp so far, that his speed and athleticism are real. I so hope he becomes the real deal.
This reminds me of the time a few years ago when BCS claimed to have shot a 72 on the first full round of golf he played only to never shoot better than a 126 after.
FlatironsBuff
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His first time was on the mini-golf course. And he only played the back 9.
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BUFFS14
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And you got your scholarship to play what position on what football team?
:lol:
None of you could beat me in putt putt, I'd kick that ass.
AlferdJasper
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A dependable kicker can make all the difference between winning and losing. But you know that already.
Which brings up another matter: did you know that UCLA has a football twitter account called "Punting is Winning?"
https://twitter.com/puntingwinning