Question about punting... (1 Viewer)

[17seconds]

Why is it that punters don't try to angle the ball out of bounds inside the 10 any more?

They all do a pooch punt to try to get a fair catch or for the coverage team to down it. This seems a more difficult way to pin the receiving team deep.

 

[bentley]

Why is it that punters don't try to angle the ball out of bounds inside the 10 any more?

They all do a pooch punt to try to get a fair catch or for the coverage team to down it. This seems a more difficult way to pin the receiving team deep.

Either you know more than every special teams coach in the NFL, or this is an untrue statement.

 

[jaemcy3]

Why is it that punters don't try to angle the ball out of bounds inside the 10 any more?They all do a pooch punt to try to get a fair catch or for the coverage team to down it. This seems a more difficult way to pin the receiving team deep.

The problem with corner kicks is that if the punter shanks the punt it goes out of bounds very near the line of scrimage. It is easier to punt the ball high than it is to punt the ball accurately.

 

[17seconds]

Doesn't it seem easier to accurately punt a ball in a given direction rather than rely on a good bounce?

 

[Tat]

IMO,

It was easier to place the ball out of bounds.

Most punters these days have a special technique for putting the ball high in the air with a "knuckle-ball" type spin making it harder for a return guy to catch inside the 20.

The coffin corner is a lost art which I would like to see come back.....

 

[Kleck.]

The coffin corner is a lost art which I would like to see come back.....

Me too.

 

[Dickie Dunn]

Why is it that punters don't try to angle the ball out of bounds inside the 10 any more?They all do a pooch punt to try to get a fair catch or for the coverage team to down it. This seems a more difficult way to pin the receiving team deep.

The problem with corner kicks is that if the punter shanks the punt it goes out of bounds very near the line of scrimage. It is easier to punt the ball high than it is to punt the ball accurately.

It's funny ... it seemed to me like half the time I see a team punt from the 40 or so, the punter practically nails a 60-yarder into the 10th row.But I just checked the NFL stats and they prove me wrong. Only one punter (Plackemeier, SEA) has as many touchbacks as punts inside the 20. Moorman from BUF has put 19 inside the 20 with only one touchback.I love to coffin corner and often wondered the same thing, but I guess the stats don't lie.

 

[Mike Herman]

LINK: Coffin Corner Kicks vs. Pooch Kicks

 

[pigskin pimp]

The opposing team cannot have a chance to muff the punt if you kick it out of bounds.

 

[Dickie Dunn]

The opposing team cannot have a chance to muff the punt if you kick it out of bounds.

True, but how often are teams fielding those punts anyway?

 

[ZzZ]

One of the reasons for death (pun intended) of the coffin corner punt is the recent (within the last 5-8 years) trend of punt returners to take fair catches as far back as the 10 yard line and sometimes drifting back to the 7-8 yard line. This NEVER happened pre-2000-ish where the returners usually held the 20 yard line as the furthest back they would take a fair catch.

Given the offenses of today are willing to start on the 7-10 yard line, there is no great benefit of using a coffin corner kick to pin them down to the 3-ish yard line (best case) but with the potential of kicking it into the endzone (start at 20 yard line) or shanking it (start at >20 yard line). The min-max for today's world seems to be the 1 yard line (min by downing it) and 10 yard line (max by fair catch made).

Z