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When you can't get the correct player packages on the field there is a problem. It's hard to worry about blocking and tackling when you can't even get your players on the field.

 
Thanks_Tom RR said:
ZRod said:
I would if I could, but I don't know how!

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The lack of punt returns is what shocks me the most. We have one of the best returners in the country but can't get a return from him. This is absolutely a needed weapon for us. Why we have yet to address/fix this is mind boggling.

 
Elements of our ST have been fine, but there's a serious problem when we routinely do not have enough players out there, or have like 10 offsides penalties on PATs, or revert to 2013 Pelini style punt returns, etc. It's totally inexplicable and stuff that never even happened on my high school team.

 
Barring some strange miracle, one extreme to the other m, 180 degreeturnaround, Read wont be back next season. The tone was set with Hughes. Do your job. This isnt pelini where we either keep underperformers arou d because A. Theyre buddies, or B. You dont garner the respect to be able to find anyone better. There urgency with this bunch. And Right now Read is not getting it done. You can see it in Rileys face with every special teams gaffe.

 
Fielding punts is the worst aspect of our 'special teams' game and has been for a bunch of years really. DPE broke a couple three but other than that, we have generally sucked and maybe have led the nation in 'fair catches' and or watch 'em bounce and pin us deep!

Lightborne needs to get a little more control as he booms the ones he needs to chip and roll on and then chips and rolls on the ones he needs to kick away. But he is slowly coming around. I don't know why it takes this long to learn to punt consistently when you are a scholarship kicker. I seem to recall he was a scholarship place kicker and not punter but IDK.

 
Made this for everyone to look at. This is a question for anyone who coaches or truly knows special teams, what is the goal in our punt coverage? Why release every Northwestern gunner and allow them to swarm our punt returner? Truly baffling.

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Thanks_Tom RR said:
Made this for everyone to look at. This is a question for anyone who coaches or truly knows special teams, what is the goal in our punt coverage? Why release every Northwestern gunner and allow them to swarm our punt returner? Truly baffling.

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Ya, I just don't get it. It's like Read thinks fake punts happen 90% of the time. He's so worried about them that we're not utilizing one of the most important plays we have, the punt return. If we didn't have a great punt returner it wouldn't piss me off so much.

 
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That link is the perfect example of how to give the ball back to the other team on a punt. DPE doesn't get enough credit for his Fair Catch skills. How stupid is it that's a thing?

 
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