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I wanted to add this to the - Is it time to draft a kicker in this years draft? - thread but its locked.
While bringing in a young kicker for TC certainly might happen in near future - the last Ghost's season should not be a call for it. It was a challenging season due to the new rule BB wanted to take full advantage - but a solid season despite hiccups (blown quickly out of proportion by some).
In another great Sunday quick-hit column he puts Ghosts value in the context of possible rule change - The rule would reward kickers who boot kickoffs through the uprights by spotting the football at the 20-yard line for a touchback instead of the 25
Plus some nice other nuggets as well on Gilmore-Butler-Bruschi, Ealy, Cyrus and BB's lacrosse coaching daughter
full article:
Want to make touchbacks a more exciting play? Consider this change
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@GostkowSKI
One leftover from Belichick’s interview with Duke men’s basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski on Sirius XM College Sports Nation last week was on the importance of Gostkowski’s pop-up kickoffs and how they forced teams to return them. Krzyzewski was impressed with how Gostkowski and the coverage unit pinned the Atlanta Falcons deep in their territory late in Super Bowl LI, with Belichick agreeing and pointing out that the team’s season ended the way it started because Gostkowski’s skill in that area also showed up in the season opener against the Arizona Cardinals. Had Gostkowski not executed similarly in the opener, when Arizona's final drive started at its 8-yard line, a 47-yard potentially game-winning field-goal attempt that was no good could have instead been from around 30 yards. The biggest takeaway: Every yard counts and Gostkowski’s ability to place kickoffs between the goal line and 5-yard line with hang time had great value to the Patriots in 2016 -- from the opening game to the last game.
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@ lacrosse coaching daughter
Belichick’s presence at college pro days generally draws a significant media response given his standing as the NFL’s top coach (e.g. Ohio State on Thursday; Michigan on Friday), but it was the final trip of this past week that undoubtedly meant more to him than anything else. On Saturday, which was also his son Stephen’s 30th birthday, Belichick was in his native Annapolis and watched Navy take on Holy Cross in women’s lacrosse action. Holy Cross, of course, is coached by his daughter, Amanda. It wasn’t the result Holy Cross was hoping for (17-6 loss), but one has to imagine it was still a special day for Belichick because it combined two of the most important things in his life.
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@ Cyrus
Cornerback Cyrus Jones, the Patriots’ top 2016 draft choice (60th overall) who had a rocky first year, is hoping to spark a turnaround in 2017. To do so, I’m told he has been training hard in New Jersey, with the goal to return to the club’s offseason program next month and, as someone close to him explained, “getting back to what the Patriots drafted him to be, a significant part of the team.”
Id prefer to hear news about Cyrus training his mind. This “hard on myself“ attitude can be such a boomerang. Of course mental training is much more difficult to do ..
While bringing in a young kicker for TC certainly might happen in near future - the last Ghost's season should not be a call for it. It was a challenging season due to the new rule BB wanted to take full advantage - but a solid season despite hiccups (blown quickly out of proportion by some).
In another great Sunday quick-hit column he puts Ghosts value in the context of possible rule change - The rule would reward kickers who boot kickoffs through the uprights by spotting the football at the 20-yard line for a touchback instead of the 25
Plus some nice other nuggets as well on Gilmore-Butler-Bruschi, Ealy, Cyrus and BB's lacrosse coaching daughter
full article:
Want to make touchbacks a more exciting play? Consider this change
___
quotes:
@GostkowSKI
One leftover from Belichick’s interview with Duke men’s basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski on Sirius XM College Sports Nation last week was on the importance of Gostkowski’s pop-up kickoffs and how they forced teams to return them. Krzyzewski was impressed with how Gostkowski and the coverage unit pinned the Atlanta Falcons deep in their territory late in Super Bowl LI, with Belichick agreeing and pointing out that the team’s season ended the way it started because Gostkowski’s skill in that area also showed up in the season opener against the Arizona Cardinals. Had Gostkowski not executed similarly in the opener, when Arizona's final drive started at its 8-yard line, a 47-yard potentially game-winning field-goal attempt that was no good could have instead been from around 30 yards. The biggest takeaway: Every yard counts and Gostkowski’s ability to place kickoffs between the goal line and 5-yard line with hang time had great value to the Patriots in 2016 -- from the opening game to the last game.
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@ lacrosse coaching daughter
Belichick’s presence at college pro days generally draws a significant media response given his standing as the NFL’s top coach (e.g. Ohio State on Thursday; Michigan on Friday), but it was the final trip of this past week that undoubtedly meant more to him than anything else. On Saturday, which was also his son Stephen’s 30th birthday, Belichick was in his native Annapolis and watched Navy take on Holy Cross in women’s lacrosse action. Holy Cross, of course, is coached by his daughter, Amanda. It wasn’t the result Holy Cross was hoping for (17-6 loss), but one has to imagine it was still a special day for Belichick because it combined two of the most important things in his life.
_
@ Cyrus
Cornerback Cyrus Jones, the Patriots’ top 2016 draft choice (60th overall) who had a rocky first year, is hoping to spark a turnaround in 2017. To do so, I’m told he has been training hard in New Jersey, with the goal to return to the club’s offseason program next month and, as someone close to him explained, “getting back to what the Patriots drafted him to be, a significant part of the team.”
Id prefer to hear news about Cyrus training his mind. This “hard on myself“ attitude can be such a boomerang. Of course mental training is much more difficult to do ..
