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A guarenteed way to improve our special teams

Slim said:
I didn't want to post this but Sparano actually had the nerve to praise Trusnik the other day. Said he gives 100% all time and wished he had 10 other Trusniks.

GOD i hate that man.
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But we DO HAVE 10 other Trusniks & THAT'S the PROBLEM!! Maybe even 15 or 20.

We have too many guys who can play, but honestly just aren't that good. They can't consistently make good plays & seldom ever making a big play to even HELP turn the game around ... let alone turn the game around with THEIR BIG PLAYS.

EVEN Dolphin's players & coaches keep saying it ... we just keep making too many mistakes & shooting ourselves in the foot. Kills OUR drives .... EXTENDS opponents drives.

Cripes, our draft picks always make the team because they don't have to beat-out anyone good. Then in a future draft, another average-Joe comes along & makes the team & we drop the previous average-Joe.

Been going on BIG TIME over a good 10 years!!
 
It doesn't really matter if we start EVERY drive at at least the 20 yard line. Because you know there will be a false start penalty on the next snap anyway.
 
BenchFiedler said:
Ridiculous statement... Livas only had 1 good play and I was not impressed with what I saw from him during the next 3 preseason games...

We have the weapon (Reggie Bush) we need on special teams, we have to use it...
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You have to get a little deeper into the game of football. It is not just about the returns, it is also about how the other team approaches the player they are kicking to. If you watch the games again and pay attention you will see that the teams we played made certain that they kicked short, kicked away, kicked long or kicked out of bounds when P Livas was in the game. We gained hidden yards on every exchange of punts and on kick returns. The teams we played had a scheme in just because we had P Livas as our returner. When we took Livas out, they started kicking normally again.

Now look at us, we have the worse drive starting position in the NFL and we are almost last in Kick returns and punt returns. If a team cannot do the little things how are they every going to do the big ones?

On the other hand, has that TE Rosaro even played in a game? How many snap per game is he averaging? Does he have a catch or been throw to?

Phillip Livas would play 20 snaps a game, that is 20 less snaps that D Bess and C Gates do not have to play per game. IMO, P Livas is also a very quick, very fast slot WR. He caught the one pass threw to him and turned a 8 yard catch into a 16 yard one.

The simple fact is that whatever you might think of P Livas, he is still better then D Bess and C Gates are in punt and kick returns. In 3 years, D Bess has never come close to returning a punt, in preseason or regular season. And C Gates, who has more kick off returns then any other player in the NFL, is almost last at 29th in the NFL.

When we get a much better offense maybe I will not worry so much about these "little things" like field positions and making plays in special teams.

As for R Bush, when we see him on kick offs or punt returns we will know our coaches have said 'fuxk it, we have no ideas".
 
Akronfinfan36 said:
It doesn't really matter if we start EVERY drive at at least the 20 yard line. Because you know there will be a false start penalty on the next snap anyway.
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thats better than starting drives at the 10/15 yard line, then having a false start ... thats just being set up for us 2 fail !
 
LikeUntoGod said:
You have to get a little deeper into the game of football. It is not just about the returns, it is also about how the other team approaches the player they are kicking to. If you watch the games again and pay attention you will see that the teams we played made certain that they kicked short, kicked away, kicked long or kicked out of bounds when P Livas was in the game. We gained hidden yards on every exchange of punts and on kick returns. The teams we played had a scheme in just because we had P Livas as our returner. When we took Livas out, they started kicking normally again.

Now look at us, we have the worse drive starting position in the NFL and we are almost last in Kick returns and punt returns. If a team cannot do the little things how are they every going to do the big ones?

On the other hand, has that TE Rosaro even played in a game? How many snap per game is he averaging? Does he have a catch or been throw to?

Phillip Livas would play 20 snaps a game, that is 20 less snaps that D Bess and C Gates do not have to play per game. IMO, P Livas is also a very quick, very fast slot WR. He caught the one pass threw to him and turned a 8 yard catch into a 16 yard one.

The simple fact is that whatever you might think of P Livas, he is still better then D Bess and C Gates are in punt and kick returns. In 3 years, D Bess has never come close to returning a punt, in preseason or regular season. And C Gates, who has more kick off returns then any other player in the NFL, is almost last at 29th in the NFL.

When we get a much better offense maybe I will not worry so much about these "little things" like field positions and making plays in special teams.

As for R Bush, when we see him on kick offs or punt returns we will know our coaches have said 'fuxk it, we have no ideas".
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And Reggie Bush just took his first Punt Return.

That mean we have zero faith that D Bess or C Gates can make a big play on punt returns. And as we have seen again today, C Gates is also not a Kick Returner.
 
dolpns13 said:
I take it you didnt know he was released on Thursday
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That was part of my point. I find it semi nteresting what you took out of my post.........

Notice also that the Browns saw that R Bush is returning punts so instead of kicking to him they kicked it out of bounds.

POP QUIZ: Since R Bush did not return the Punt since it was kicked out of bounds (or short etc), did R Bush "make a play". Did having a dangerous return man change the way the Brown's punted or is R Bush just being a waste of space?
 
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