BOL Round Table

I'd rather have a kicker who put them all through the endzone (like arkansas kicker???) but Foster is the kicker we got and the angle kick seems to be a reasonable strategy for him. Coverage is much better than past couple of years but I still get nervous each time he kicks off and suspect we'll have a runback in a critcal game that will really hurt us. He did have a great tackle as I recall though (game saving?).

I'm really more concerned with punting. seems it takes a long time to get our punts off. Roughing kicker yesterday was close (and what was that clobbering the returner about--though it didn't appear to be a very visible fair catch signal he put up)

Working for the year? Yes.

Working last night? Not so much. See my previous post. Average starting point after kickoffs, for Florida last night...33.5 yard line.

Great strategy...sometimes needs better execution.

You make some fantastic points. It all comes down to execution either way. RTR.

Right... so what exactly are you disagreeing with? I've said the same thing two or three times. If he had the leg to get it deep, we wouldn't have to worry about it.

He doesn't, so we have to plan accordingly.

I choose to believe that it's a coaching decision.

Some others would rather believe that our kicker just sucks.

Holy frick... have you read through this thread? Obviously if Foster was able to kick it through the endzone, that's what we'd be doing. I'm not sure what you're trying to argue about there.

Secondly, Florida is the ONLY team we've played that has started their drives with "good field position". Before last night, our opponents were starting their drives at the 24 yard line on average - as another poster pointed out. Coincidentally, the only team we've played or will play that has two return guys who run 4.3 forty yard dashes is Florida....

It is what it is. It has worked incredibly well until last night.

And this statement is ridiculous. There are only a handful of people in the entire country that can do this on a regular basis. You don't just "go find someone" who can do that.

Uh you do realize Maze was catching the ball in the endzone last night and we were getting better field position than UF. In fact Maze returned one 70 yards and another 40 yards. After the first 2 kickoffs to them we were stopping them before the 30. Our kickoff strategy worked better than their kick it in the endzone strategy.

They were catching the ball on the 10 and returning to the 30 and the 40 once. We were catching it in the endzone and returning it to the 30 on the opposite side of the field. Sabans got this under control.

Well dang man why didn't you just say so. A D2 or lower football player who coaches junior high or high school football............can't find many of those around can you? You really are a football genius!

its supposed to go to the goaline not the 10

Apparently not many in this thread. Particularly this Roll_Tide_55 guy who enjoys getting defensive over stupid crap. You don't have to like it.

There are people on this message board that have forgotten more about the game of football than I'll ever know. But I know enough about the game and enough about our coaching staff to make a pretty damn good guess.

You've brought nothing to this thread but back handed insults and sarcastic bullcrap.

According to some others in this thread, our staff here has confirmed the strategy. What is your opinion about that?

Do you think Saban is just a raging idiot that doesn't understand tacking angles and kickoff procedures?

Thanks in advance for the well informed, thoroughly thought out response you are sure to give.

I have brought nothing but backhanded insults and sarcastic crap? Let us revisit much of this thread:

QUOTATIONS FROM BLEEDSCRIMSON:

“Thanks for adding something to the thread.
To those of you choosing to downvote this thread, I can guarantee you that Coach Saban would tell you the exact same thing I just did.
Some of you screaming "WHY CAN'T WE JUST KICK THE DAYUM BAWL DEEP?!?" need to relax and realize it's being done for a reason.”

“Probably so, but it bugs the hell out of me.
Some of the folks in this thread are the same ones we sit by on Saturdays who scream and yell and cuss and complain the entire game because they think we just have the worst kicker in the SEC.
That's actually why I started this thread. I sat by TWO men last night who would do that after every single kickoff...
"WHY CAN'T WE GET A DAYUM KICKER TO KICK THE BAWL?"
"DAMMIT! KICK THE DAYUM BAWL BOY!"
"WHY THE HELL CAN'T WE GET A DAYUM KICKER THAT CAN KICK THE DAYUM BAWL HARDER THAN THAYAT?
You get my point lol...”

“If he had the leg to kick it out of the endzone, that's what we'd be doing. He doesn't, so we aren't.
How difficult is that to understand?”

END OF QUOTATIONS FROM BLEEDSCRIMSON

Look it's your "I know more about football than the rest of you" and the "I know the coaching staff" attitude that has gotten you the flack and downvotes. You are the one who got way too defensive. You played some football at a D2 or lower level.....guess what so has thousands of other kids thousands of other kids. I am sorry but that doesn't make you special. And I don't know what the staff has said on the topic but I have a hard time believing that Cade Foster is purposely kicking it to the 15 and especially after watching our kicker make 2 touchdown saving tackles last night,