Kicking Game and Special Teams

[Panthers to the Bone]

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Great improvements today on special teams. Nice job Panthers!

[Chitown Panther]

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Great improvements today on special teams. Nice job Panthers!

Because we kicked it DEEP

[Pirateye]

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Brook had em in his face all day, It's a miracle they only blocked one punt!

[Panther-at-Arms]

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Anyone else hear Gary stumble a bit and call him Brook Block just before a punt? I had to turn around 3 times and spit.

[unipanthers8907]

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I'm not sure about that. Seems to me he could use a few pointers about clock management.

ok yes there may be times that we dont agree with some coaching decisions, but come on, honestly? Farley is 66-27 (if i am correct?) and has led us to 2 quarterfinals, a semifinal, and a national championship runner-up; i dont really know how much you can question his coaching... he wins, thats all that matters. it would be a different story if he was 27-66, then maybe we could question his coaching, but i think he is doing just fine. GO PANTHERS!!!!!

[jegbomb52]

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Because we kicked it DEEP

IF, you can cover obviously kicking it deep is the best bet. The improvement wasn't made because we made the decision to kick it deep, the improvement was made because we made some personel changes and spent more time on coverage.

[GonzoCat]

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Then we should have done that a long time ago. Not being able to kick deep and cover cost us one game and made all the rest closer than they needed to be.

[jegbomb52]

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Agreed

You won't find anyone whe believes in putting starters on Special Teams more than I do. Coach Farley's pride and joy is his punting unit. If you look at that it is filled at least with 1/2 defensive starters. This is possibly why they have some trouble blocking.

I can assure you that this will not be an easy week of practice for the members of our punt team. Farley will 13-14 guys rushing the punter all week.

[clenz]

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Agreed

You won't find anyone whe believes in putting starters on Special Teams more than I do. Coach Farley's pride and joy is his punting unit. If you look at that it is filled at least with 1/2 defensive starters. This is possibly why they have some trouble blocking.

I can assure you that this will not be an easy week of practice for the members of our punt team. Farley will 13-14 guys rushing the punter all week.

You might get a challenge out of me for that title.

Part of that is growing up I was always told the best players should always be on the field, well if that means that a starting LB is in on a coverage unit a head of a freshman or soph 3rd stringer, I'm ok with it.

[Panther-Sheik]

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You might get a challenge out of me for that title.

Part of that is growing up I was always told the best players should always be on the field, well if that means that a starting LB is in on a coverage unit a head of a freshman or soph 3rd stringer, I'm ok with it.

I hear the argument, but there are also a lot of injuries that happen on kick coverage. Those guys are flying at each other with the most wide open speed of any other time during a game, and it would REALLY suck to lose DeVeon Harris or another key starter on a kick coverage...like Greenway going out for the season last year for the Vikings on a kick coverage. Just saying, that is the reason that you rarely see starters on kick coverage.

[dustin86]

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lets just kick it out of bounds everytime so we dont have to make are players tired and also dont have to worry about the big return

[06panther10]

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Anyone see Darrell Loyd's big hit in the game on saturday? Good players on kick coverage yields good results.

[UNIBear]

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I'm not sure, but I think in today's game, Billy kicked it deep every time. They were all inside the 10 and at least one was fielded inside the 5 yard line. I think the best field advantage they had was on the 30. Anyone concur?

[JayJ79]

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Here are the Missouri State possessions that started via kickoffs:

                 Drive Started             Drive Ended             Consumed
Team     Qtr Spot Time   Obtained      Spot Time   How Lost      Pl-Yds   TOP 
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MSU      1st M27  15:00  Kickoff       M28  14:07  Punt           3-1    0:53
MSU      1st M36  05:53  Kickoff       M45  03:47  Punt           3-9    2:06
MSU      1st M22  00:27  Kickoff       M42  13:30  Punt           4-20   1:57
MSU      2nd M20  02:10  Kickoff       M21  00:55  Punt           3-1    1:15
MSU      3rd M29  06:18  Kickoff       M35  03:50  Punt           5-6    2:28
MSU      3rd M08  00:53  Kickoff       M00  00:05 *SAFETY         4--8   0:48
MSU      4th M31  07:29  Kickoff       M36  05:58  Punt           3-5    1:31

They had one return out to the 36.
But their average starting position after kickoffs was their own 25 yard line.



And another interesting note: MSU only had FOUR offensive plays on the UNI side of the 50. And all of those came on one drive in the 4th quarter (which ended with the Craig James pick-6)

[Mountain Panther]

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And another interesting note: MSU only had FOUR offensive plays on the UNI side of the 50.

Geez...would have liked to see it but I was watchin' the Iowa game at a PSU bar in Denver. Then we went to the Sport Column to hang out with the Iowa homers.

Anyway, TWO missed extra points?????????