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Ok, I'm throwing down the annual gauntlet in honor of the original "There is no way David Patten makes this team" thread... for those who remember.
Unfortunately, I'm targeting the punter and who cares about punters?
Still, here are my arguments for dumping Hanson:
With our offense, we don't punt very often. But when we do, it is usually from around midfield or so... where you are trying to pin the opponent inside their 20 yard line.
Hanson is not good at this (in fact, only 4 punters in the entire league were worse than him at this.
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Inside the numbers:
At first glance, you see that 40% of his punts resulted in the opponent left inside their 20 yard line and it appears impressive. Then you realize that 60% of his punts where these sort of punts and he screwed up 10 of them, resulting in TBs (or 33.3% failure rate).
Most punters aren't lucky enough to be in that position on 60% of their punts. If they were, then the statistics show that almost all of them would have better "inside the 20" numbers than Hanson.
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Due to our offensive success, I think we should bring in someone else to compete with Hanson other than Malone... maybe a low draft pick.
Preferably someone with better skill at pinning the opponent down inside their 20 yard line.
Raw distance is probably of less importance to us... an area where Hanson is only mediocre anyway.
Unfortunately, I'm targeting the punter and who cares about punters?
Still, here are my arguments for dumping Hanson:
With our offense, we don't punt very often. But when we do, it is usually from around midfield or so... where you are trying to pin the opponent inside their 20 yard line.
Hanson is not good at this (in fact, only 4 punters in the entire league were worse than him at this.
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Inside the numbers:
At first glance, you see that 40% of his punts resulted in the opponent left inside their 20 yard line and it appears impressive. Then you realize that 60% of his punts where these sort of punts and he screwed up 10 of them, resulting in TBs (or 33.3% failure rate).
Most punters aren't lucky enough to be in that position on 60% of their punts. If they were, then the statistics show that almost all of them would have better "inside the 20" numbers than Hanson.
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Due to our offensive success, I think we should bring in someone else to compete with Hanson other than Malone... maybe a low draft pick.
Preferably someone with better skill at pinning the opponent down inside their 20 yard line.
Raw distance is probably of less importance to us... an area where Hanson is only mediocre anyway.
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