Drew Steven’s question
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Yet they usually get a couple more shots with other teams. It's a position where I don't get why nearly all of them aren't getting league minimum. Every decent college kicker hits from 50 now. I get you can't take any guy off the street, but it sure seems like teams that pay kickers a couple million could get almost the same result from someone out of a very large pool of candidates looking to do it for a lot less.
Every college kicker can’t hit from 50 at a very high average. The occasional 50+ maybe, but not at a high rate. And I guarantee there are college kickers who can’t hit from 50+ in a game. Hitting from 50+ is icing on the cake. Coaches want someone who hits at a high average 40-49 and perfect inside 40.
As there should be. Kickers have one thing to be evaluated on. QBs are the most important players on the field. The game ( especially the way Iowa plays ) hangs in the balance on every decision he makes. First and foremost you need a total grasp of the playbook which only the coaches can evaluate. Us keyboard warriors are just speculating and if you’re positive's Ferentz isn’t trying to play the guy that he thinks gives us the best chance to win
Kickers and punters are almost as important to Iowa unfortunately with their style of play.
Maybe the backup quarterback’s are not practicing well. Coach isn’t going to blast them in the press.
Being a "gamer" is not a real thing, it's a tired meme.
If you can't be trusted to execute in an incredibly controlled practice situation, you can't be trusted in a live game where very little is controlled.
Injury replacement. 2 blocked kicks and 2 kicked OB in the first half. Change made at halftime.
Kirk probably isn’t making decisions alone for who starts. Special teams coach probably is less stubborn about substituting than Brian is.
Yes, but the snap was bad and Taylor barely got the ball in place. I would think meeder could make it from 40.
But I think if Stevens is not nagged by an injury he, the snapper, and holder will get their timing back.
It is incredibly real. I've seen it.
It's not that they didn't try in practice but it's that there wasn't anyone better. You expect them to perform at a below average level during the game and they consistently do well.
Unless you've "seen it" by watching someone consistently in practice and then also in a game, I don't believe you in the slightest, considering in all my years of coaching college football neither I nor my colleagues ever seen a "gamer", because they don't exist.
Maybe it isn't the other guy is a 'gamer' - maybe it is that the starter has the yips when under pressure that he doesn't see during practice. So the gamer stays cool as a cucumber in a pressure situation.
Something was definitely off the last 3 games. Ever since that Northwestern winner, he hasn't been the same.
Which begs to mind, I'm curious if the lousy turf at Wrigley had anything to do with any potential injury.
He's not going to magically kick 5 yards farther on Saturdays because he's a "gamer"
I have... I also coach. Different sport though.
My colleagues all agree that it is real.
Michigan has enough athletes on defense that they can keep an edge player "home" to jump the qb rollouts
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