by shadowman » Tue Sep 17, 2019 9:57 am
If you watch replays of all of our place kicking woes, the majority of the blame can be placed on the blocking, snapping, schemes. 3 of the misses involved a bad snap and 2 more involved the defense jumping over the blockers and getting in the kickers lap (FYI, this is not a penalty if no leverage was used, you cannot jump on your teammates back or jump on top of a blockers back, but if you can hurdle a gap/low stance clean, it is legal).
Granted, a good kicker can overcome some of that, they can adjust to a bad snap, or they launch the ball so high that a player almost in the face of the kicker still cannot block it, but we need better snapping and blocking and changing up of the snap count to stop those hurdlers.
All of the above can be fixed, just have to dedicate the time to practice it, perhaps have more experienced players on the place kicking team.
Practice, Practice, Practice!
Probaly won't happen...BUT...maybe it will!!