Clyde Gates, if you get a kickoff anywhere within the end zone, can you just take a knee please?
My standards for success have dropped...so this is where I am at.
My standards for success have dropped...so this is where I am at.
I have to say I'm disappointed that all that speed is going to waste....was hoping he was going to get behind the defence and make some plays but so far he has not. Not calling him a bust yet as he's only played 5 games. Just wondering if he'll become a playmaker at some point or is he another project on a long list of projects that have failed for us.
Ozzy rules!!
itt really has been a sad year for our team.I think we all have to take this season's performances and throw it out the window.
The fact that our coach is on death row, the season is lost so players tend to quit a little bit...... it skews the results.
I have no idea why so many returners in the league are returning kicks from deep in the end zone when 1) the rules have changed to disallow wedges, and 2) the kicking team is five yards closer.
Taking a knee and getting to the 20 should be done MORE, not less.
Really if kicking teams were smart and returning teams were doing what they should (taking more knees in the end zone), kicking teams would try to make kickoffs land at the goal line so that the returner couldn't down the ball.
Then they'd be facing a returning team without a wedge, five yards closer to the returner.
As it is, though, the returning teams are making life easy for them. Just kick it into the back of the end zone -- they'll return it anyway.
I swear I've seen more returners tackled inside the 15 this year than I've ever seen in my life.
Really it makes me wonder about the intelligence level of the average NFL special teams coach.
I have no idea why so many returners in the league are returning kicks from deep in the end zone when 1) the rules have changed to disallow wedges, and 2) the kicking team is five yards closer.
Taking a knee and getting to the 20 should be done MORE, not less.
Really if kicking teams were smart and returning teams were doing what they should (taking more knees in the end zone), kicking teams would try to make kickoffs land at the goal line so that the returner couldn't down the ball.
Then they'd be facing a returning team without a wedge, five yards closer to the returner.
As it is, though, the returning teams are making life easy for them. Just kick it into the back of the end zone -- they'll return it anyway.
I swear I've seen more returners tackled inside the 15 this year than I've ever seen in my life.
Really it makes me wonder about the intelligence level of the average NFL special teams coach.
Gates is not a returner. He cannot run it out and does not seem to know it. He does not seem to know when it is a good time to bring it out of a bad one. What is more amazing is that none of our coaches seem to be coaching him.
The simple fact is that Gates falls from a touch (returners do not really break tackles, they AVOID them) and when he brings it from even the goalline he barely makes the 20 yard line.
This is part of the same reasons we are still trying to pass the ball, we are doing anything to make a "big play". Even with the higher risk of a minus play.