Should We Punt Groom?

you talkin about Novak?

Er....ah, yes......it's been a confusing start to the week.

At one point I even thought we beat Dallarse in their house on a night they were inducting 3 HOF'ers....and we were 13 - 0 down with less than 4 minutes to go!

I probably just need to lie down.......

ha i totally understand. i never quite knew why Punter and Kicker are usually separate guys? it's has to be that specialized??

ha i totally understand. i never quite knew why Punter and Kicker are usually separate guys? it's has to be that specialized??

Totally agree. In Europe we have a billion people that can kick a ball straight up, with a fade/slice ect playing Rugby (ok, slightly less than a billion) and I never understood why they weren't recruited into the NFL more often.

Has anyone esle seen the kicks in Rugby for the conversions from crazy angles?

I dont know what the kid has done wrong. We keep starting on our own 2, and thats just decent punting by the opposition. Then when we cant get anything going on offense, he has to punt from his own 20. I don't think he's been a liability... am I missing something?

ha i totally understand. i never quite knew why Punter and Kicker are usually separate guys? it's has to be that specialized??

And then you have those teams that have one kicker for field goals and another for kickoffs

hes not really booming punts, they arent that far, hes doing average

His last punt against Dallas was perfect he didn't allow them to field it, and kepr it in bounds which allowed us to run a lot more time off the clock, after the earlier return, and with enough time to drive for a fieldgoal, that was big.

Our special teams in general are letting us down. We have not gotten many good returns. Punter is marginal so far (at best). If not for the kicker, stopping the return in Dallas, we lose! Definately, an area of prime comcern

Groom has not hurt us much. He's young with a strong leg. I see no need to drop him unless he starts shanking off 20 yarders on us. the only way to get a good consistent kicking game is to develop someone young and stop running in retreads every year.

Special Teams has been average, because we thought A. Brown was the answer and he wasn't, so we are back to Thrash, who is real smart with the football, but not a blazer by any means. I am just glad that Hall's injury really did not play into Monday night. We could get anyone to kick XPs. If he wouldn't get hurt, I would love to see Moss return kicks again like he has elsewhere, but that is very dangerous duty! Maybe I don't really want to see that happen.