Snowflakes Thread: Special Teams Vs. Cincinnati

Hopefully they are coaching special teams.

Can't shank multiple punts

Everything punting:

 

and then Will Hart said 'hold my beer'. Those two shanks could've been killer

It went downhill with juste and snowballed from there.

Kickoffs and field goals are very consistently a strength.  Punting is hit and miss -- coupla shanks today could have been bigger issues than they were.  Punt returns needs consistency -- know what to do and do it.  Should get better.  Coverages are pretty good

Please coach DPJ to not field a bouncing ball in traffic thanks

DPJ has to be more demonstrative - we got lucky the first punt when it hit a Cincy player then next punt hit St Juste. Also has to call fair catches. Nordin is the real deal - looks like an NFL kicker with his grace and power - precision will get there.

Grant Perry in the 2nd half to field punts was the right move.

But Crawford looks very slow and the opposite of dangerous on kick returns.

Maybe he is just a long strider but he looks slow, hesitant, or afraid to run it hard and take a wallop.

I'm sure we'll see DPJ back there again soon enough. He seems to have excellent ball skills. Just needs to be more vocal when the ball is on the turf (yelling "poison" or whatever Spielman says). He's more of a home-run threat than Perry, and I like putting that added fear into a punters head.

I blame DPJ for treating the fooball like a whimsical lawn toy but I can't really blame him for not making St.-Juste, who had his back turned and was engaged with a coverage man, not accidentally hit a shitty punt with his foot.

a bad one sided ref job.

I admire DPJ being as gutsy as he was, and I know he's just a freshman, but he was playing with fire quite a few times today. He fielded punts he should've had no business fielding. Better special teams units would've killed him today.

And our punter is pretty bad. The only real positive today was Nordin.

We really like for DPJ, so we're not going to talk too negative about him. Though the fact of the matter is... he wasn't very aggressive at running up and catching certain punts.

Maybe he doesn't trust his hands like Peppers did last season. I think he let one too many balls bounce on the ground and that made him do a lot of traffic control afterwards and do risky pick ups.

Special Teams is fine. DPJ is fine. Wild Thing is fine. We just need special teams to continue developing and gaining experience, and they will consistently improve.

Didn't we recruit a really good punter??   WHere the hell is he?   The punter today was attrocious.  3 shanks 

The punt before the St-Juste deal was also almost a similar issue. That's what was frustrating to see nothing was taught there.

Today youth and inexperience showed. Best to get these issues and mistakes out of the way now and give the kids a chance to improve.

Im a bit confused about Crawford on kick returns too. He doesn't have much wiggle or vision and seems to run straight into the first defender he can find.

I hope we try a couple more guys back there. It looks like neither Samuels or Thomas are going to redshirt, perhaps they could find a home as a kick returner.

Ugh. Some teachable moments in practice this week.....