PatsWickedPissah

When a reporter criticized Hanson for not kicking coffin corner, BB replied at length saying nobody punts coffin corner anymore and they haven't done so in the NFL for several years. ALL the punters do some Euro style kick where they kick the ball high and in a way that it's supposed to bounce flat, straight up on landing so that the gunners can keep it out of the EZ.

(Problem being that Hanson has been kicking those kicks too far)

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Patriots 27, Ravens 21: Punters have buried the 'coffin corner' kick, and it hurt the Pats twice on Sunday | New England Patriots | projo.com | The Providence Journal

"You hardly see anybody go for the sidelines any more," Patriots coach Bill Belichick said. "Show me a punter who 'coffin corners.' You don't see it. They don't do it.

"When we had (Dave) Jennings at the Giants, we did a lot of it. Dave was very good at it. Brian Hansen at Cleveland was good at it. So was (former Patriots punter) Tom Tupa.

"But everybody's doing that 'rugby' punt now and it's been effective. When the ball goes end over end, most of the time it doesn't bounce much. It either hits and bounces back – a lot of times those ball backspin — or it kind of sticks."

Like a golfer flying the green with an approach shot, Hanson hit both punts too hard, sending the ball into the end zone, rather than having it land where a teammate could down it near the goal line.

"The higher you get it up there," Belichick said, "the less chance of it bouncing into the end zone. You just have to make sure you don't kick it too far.

"It looked like both of them were pretty close. They rolled in by only a yard or two."

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I hope BB said "Almost" nobody punts that way, because Jeff Feagles, for one, still does coffin corner kicks.

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PatsWickedPissah

It's just recall but I thought he insisted to the reporter something like nobody does it and nobody has done it for years. What does he know?

There's some dark perverse secretive thing about BB and punters.

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If he meant "nobody" literally, he apparently doesn't know the punter he went against in the 2007 Super Bowl. I've got to think that he was just generalizing. I refuse to allow my faith in his knowledge to be lessened by what would be such a glaring oversight.

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Mike the Brit

Too bad we can't use quotes from other posters in our sigs -- that would have been a worthy one! I always suspect that part of the issue is that Special Teams coaches are, first and foremost, general football coaches. They know about blocking, tackling and drawing up schemes. Kicking is such a different skill and it astonishes me that they don't have a specialist kicking coach (someone who used to play for the Pats was coached by a kicking specialist in a wheelchair, if I recall correctly).

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Deus Irae

I believe that Ian was fine with using quotes from other posters as long as you got their permission and they weren't "I bet he throws for 2 touchdowns!" types. You might want to ask a mod about it.

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BradyBranch39

finally got around to reading the whole thing. Previously had only read snippets.

I really like what he says about Cassel, and for some reason the Philly–McNabb comments.

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BradyBranch39

It also made me think that he must love facing J'Marcus Russell.

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livinginthe past

Thanks!

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