Our kickoff team is officially...

knoxjacket

knoxjacket

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...the worst in the nation!

119. Georgia Tech 30 Ret, 864 yds, 2 TDs, 28.8 YPR

The fact that Air Force is the best team at defending Kickoffs in the country tells me our problem isn't athleticism or depth.
 
The fact that Air Force is the best team at defending Kickoffs in the country tells me our problem isn't athleticism or depth.
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It tells me Air Force has a good placekicker.
 
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we have ever before given up two kickoff return TD's in the same year?
 
Well you can't win them all can you??:laugher:

I have said this before, we either need to find a kicker that can kick touchbacks or just start kicking it out of bounds.

Strategy could also be to loft it high in the air to give our gunners more time to get down the field.
 
TechGator1066 said:
Strategy could also be to loft it high in the air to give our gunners more time to get down the field.
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We were doing fine with the chip shot KO. Starting FP was around the 30.
Owee-Yowee(sounds like) had to have been given the order to kick it deep. Wind might have been favorable. Of course he hits it like a skulled 1 iron.

I hope CG has had it. Every KO has to be a chip shot until we can find a kicker and a KO team. Ross did OK with the chip.
 
Having one of the best net punting averages and one of the worst kickoff coverage averages really points to the kicker.

Yahiouhi (sp?) has had a few kicks in the back of the endzone, but the cost of a low kick to the 10 is just too risky with this kicker for the reward of a touchback. We should drop all pretexts and just pooch it or do a chip shot if Yahiouhi can consistently to that.
 
Here's how you stop the returns for TD's. Just kick the ball out of bounds. The 35 yard line is better than any starting field position they had.
 
H-town said:
Here's how you stop the returns for TD's. Just kick the ball out of bounds. The 35 yard line is better than any starting field position they had.
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Ugh.

Receiving teams have the option of either taking the ball on the 35 or taking another kickoff from 5 yards further back. This rule should probably be push-pinned on all GT message boards this year, with the amount of times I've heard this suggestion.
 
Having one of the best net punting averages and one of the worst kickoff coverage averages really points to the kicker.
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Not playerbashing. Just saying. qft
 
Sorry. I forgot that you know more about stuff than I do. Please forgive me. :rolleyes:
 
AFA's kicker is only getting 2 yards per kick longer than Yahaeiou. Not a lot of touchbacks either.
 
AFA's kicker is only getting 2 yards per kick longer than Yahaeiou.
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Hangtime?

*I* can kick the ball into the endzone. But it'd get run back every time because my players wouldn't have enough time to get down and make the play. There are some times when the other guy returns the ball to the 25 before our players are even at the 30. That's a bad kick.
 
knoxjacket said:
AFA's kicker is only getting 2 yards per kick longer than Yahaeiou. Not a lot of touchbacks either.
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Line drives vs good high kicks giving the team time to cover. However, we do seem to be miserable about staying in our lanes on KO coverage. On the TD last Saturday watchin the replays it doesn't look like the returner had to slow down or avoid anyone until he got to about our 20 and noone touched him either. It looks like the outside guys just can't resist collapsing into the middle.
 
ramblinwise1 said:
It looks like the outside guys just can't resist collapsing into the middle.
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That is what happened against umd, and that is poor coaching. Of course they know that.
Seems like the lack of lane discipline is all about trying to make a big play. Inadvertently, they are doing just that.
 
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