Bill and Special Teams Binkies

slam said:

I've now looked at the snap counts of every team in 2020, and can conclude that only two teams had fewer than 3 players who were Special Teams Only position players. I defined that as players who had significant ST playing time (150+ snaps) but whose median snap count in his nominal position was 3 or less. The two teams were GB and NYJ. 11 had 3 ST only players. The rest had 4 or more, up to 7 for Denver. NE had 4 last year.

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This whole discussion is based on false assumptions, that Belichick is some outlier. He is not.

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Kasmir said:

13% of 53 = 7, so besides the P and K, you'd expect about 5 players whose primary value is ST.

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MoreBellhorn said:

Nordin is my binkie.

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patfanken said:

Hey, listen, I hate that the NFL emasculated the kicking game. It was one of those areas, that Bill could out coach other teams. But the NFL in its infinite idiocy felt that they had to dumb down the game to keep Bill from embarrassing them too often.

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