Why is Tyler Evans returning punts?

demjackets said:
Your right I am not knowledgeable of the game? CJ is a threat, but hasn't broke anything, Tyler is a threat but hasn't broke anything. CJ is a bigger threat but he hasn't showed it on punt returns, sometimes its about instincts and finding the crease. We also don't have a CJ Spiller on our team, the most elusive guys have hard time catching punts on our team for some reason. If anyone got to catch Tyler play in high school he wasn't a slouch, he had some of the best numbers in GA, and his forty time is 4.4. You might see someone else back there next year but don't say he isn't doing a good job because he is doing what he is supposed to. Maybe look at the formation on the punt return, were not setting up walls for him to have a big return, its all up field and in the middle, for some reason we are always doing a safe return, if we created a wall for him I have no doubt he could take it back.
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he is doing a good job for what he is asked to do. Which is catch the punt and whatever else he can get gravy. What we are saying is, want someone who can catch the punt, but return it more prolifically. We don't punt block every time we return a punt. We set up many punt returns....now whether the downfield blocks are executed is one thing, but we only do punt block a couple times a game the rest are punt returns.

Point is....the proof is in the pudding. We haven't had a punt return for a TD since Freddy Smith was here 5+ years ago.
 
Man, maybe I have been watching the wrong team all season. The team I have been watching sells out on blocking punts. That makes the return guy a sitting duck. Give me the sure handed guy and let him pick up a few yards. I think Evans has done a decent job. He runs north-south mostly and his numbers look respectable. I think he even had one long return brought back because a block in the back away from the play (BC maybe).
 
Thanks, Wracer.....good to see someone ELSE (besides the obvious FEW) GET IT!!

This thread has made one decision easy for me, now....

The Eric Zeier quote is coming out of my sig. It simply drips with irony anymore.

How sad.
 
demjackets said:
If anyone got to catch Tyler play in high school he wasn't a slouch, he had some of the best numbers in GA, and his forty time is 4.4.
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He doesn't seem to play with 4.4 speed. I think the issue here isn't one player but our whole strategy on returning punts. I think we play it safe (:eek5:) in our Punt returning game instead of trying to get big returns. Once again, another example of "not losing" games instead of winning games.

Overall, special teams have been a very pleasant suprise.
 
We either set up a safe return or go after it, never have we had a whole side of the field ready for a return that could create a wall. I would love to see it but Kelly hasn't done it yet.
 
Hey after all this talk maybe Tyler will take one to the house tomorrow!!!:biggthumpup:
 
IF I WERE COACH, I WOULD START CJ SPILLER AT PUNT RETURNS.


beej67,
can't find CJ Spiller on our roster
 
Tyler Evans has given us nothing to complain about. He's been VERY productive.
I'm not buying what some of you are trying to sell here.

CASE CLOSED.:rant:
 
33, well I don't have every game on tape but I know that Smith didn't make the catch on the fade against MD for example. The ball hit his hands and he dropped it before contact. He also didn't even get his hands on the long one in whichever game all our receivers had the dropsies. I'm not waying he can't catch, just that none of our receivers have been that sure handed yet.
 
I don't see why we don't use different people depending on the situation. Tyler does a good job but he's not going to break one for a TD unless locust descend on the field with the punt.

If you're trailing and you need to get some yards and maybe need a TD on the return to stay in it, then by all means try someone else with a little more HP in his engine. Roll the dice. Take a chance cause you're already losing and we don't have the passing game to win it all on a Hail Mary.

BTW, I believe that Kelly Rhino was fierce and I didn't see him fumble the punts in the Peach or otherwise. But I believe he was a good bit slower at top end speed than his Daddy. And Randy could run just as fast sideways as he could forward.
 
beej67 said:
Except for one game, in which he did fumble two punts, and we got BUTCHERED BY LSU IN THE PEACH BOWL. Oh yeah, and what was the primary reason we got blown out 50 something to essentially nothing by UGA that year?
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I thought that Peach bowl was in 2000? We lost that bad to UGA in 2002.

As for the punt return think, I think you guys are expecting Reggie Bush, Deion Sanders or Raghib Ishmael to suddenly show up returning punts (or today that guy at Cal). Unless you have those kind of playmakers, you go straight for your surest hands.

You have more leeway on kickoffs as far as fumbling the kick, but even then coaches have to pick guys who won't fumble the ball running. Better to have died a young boy than to fumble the football.
 
Our special teams ain't broke, so let's don't try to fix it.
 
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