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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
The new guys have played 18 football games to this point - if they're not 'good special teams players' to this point, that's on the coaches who either A) Haven't done a good job coaching them up or B) haven't acknowledged physical or mental shortcomings prevent these guys from playing sound STs.
If your STs coach needs 5-6 dedicated 'special teams aces' to have even an average STs unit, then he ain't doing shit.
Let's not pretend like STs is offense or even defense. The degree of difficulty is substantially lower than playing O or D.
Figure it the !@#$ out or take steps designed to mitigate it. If your coverage units still suck, have your All Pro punter directionally kick the ball to cut the field in half (or put it OOB). Have him hang it way up there, sacrifice 2 yards of net but make it easier on your punt coverage unit. On kickoffs, drill the ****er out the back of the end zone.
Even if you want to make excuses for Toub having 'bad special teams players' at this point in the season, there are no excuses for the fact that he continues to put this unit in positions to fail. He can take so much of this risk of the table but he flat refuses to do so.
He's done a piss poor job this year - full stop.
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Again, the Skyy Moore situation perfectly illustrates this. If it was obvious to all of us that he wasn't comfortable fielding punts why did Toub keep trotting him out there? From a fans perspective there never even seemed to be an improvement or a moment that made anyone believe he could get it.