It was driving me nuts earlier in the year. Our 2nd 3rd and 4th RB were on kickoff coverage at the same time. What is happening? You telling me we ran out of lb and safety? Am I taking crazy pills?
It was driving me nuts earlier in the year. Our 2nd 3rd and 4th RB were on kickoff coverage at the same time. What is happening? You telling me we ran out of lb and safety? Am I taking crazy pills?
I would like to know how many yards we would have gained on the Kick offs if we would have fair caught it as opposed to running it out?????
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Likewise on kickoffs, if we would have kicked it out of the endzone on each kickoff (I realize that's probably not possible, but of the 4 kickers we have, someone should be able to boot it that far fairly consistently), we likely would average 5-15 yards better having the opposition start on the 25 vs where they actually started. We scored a lot of points this year, so we kicked off a lot. I recall very few times, maybe twice, where we covered the kick and made a tackle short of the 20. It seemed like most of the time, the kicks were returned between the 30 and 40. The difference is one to three extra plays that the other team's offense has to run, and given our defense, we could have used those extra plays to force a turnover or, and this is a big one, have our LB's make a tackle for no gain.