Special teams

[Matt Foley]

Aside from the mistakes we have already seen, consider this...the Panthers have a new long snapper. What are the odds that it bites the Panthers in the butt at least once before the season is over?

Signed, Jason Kyle

[rayzor]

you had two punts blocked last year.

signed,

jjj

[PanthaSan]

[Mother Grabber]

We're on schedule to have 8 this year...

[CLTPanther]

Let's hope Baker doesn't flip the ball over, then rotate, all while waiting for the Dallas D to get there to block.

[Khyber53]

We really are putting the special into special teams this year.

Hoping Diggs and Hoover are back for Monday night, they are a big part of our special teams.

[pantherfool]

The Special teams unit should be introduced by getting out of one of these.

[rayzor]

i'll be happy if lloyd can actually do what he was brought in to do...keep the other team from being able to return kicks.

i'd also be happy if we could keep punts from being blocked....news flash! teams know that if they blitz our punt they don't have to have anyone back there to return the ball! they might just try it again.

i'm still waiting on goodson to show his stuff. the captain needs to show up as well.

[SMACKDAB]

I said it last year, and I'll say it again now that Baker actually proved(again) he takes his ******* time to kick the ball.

I don't care if you can punt it 800 yards, it does no good if you don't get it off before being blocked.

[Matt Foley]

The Special teams unit should be introduced by getting out of one of these.

Those things must not be very safe. I saw Zod and Husker getting out of one with helmets on the other day.

[SMACKDAB]

Those things must not be very safe. I saw Zod getting out of one with a helmet on the other day.

Were there dents that appeared to have occurred from inside the bus apparent along the side, and back door?

[rayzor]

i was looking at how well the cowboy special teams have done. they have a kickoff specialist as well. he had 3 touchbacks against the Bucs but only 1 against the giants. it turns out they are just as bad about stopping returns as the panthers are.

something that is also pretty good is that we are actually a little better at returns so far this year, esp. punt returns. the captain is 6th on avg punt return yardage with 12.5 and 11th on total yardage. not bad, imo. meanwhile dallas is getting 2.3 yards per punt return. they have also fumbled twice on returns, once on a KR (felix) and the other on a PR.

both teams have blocked a FG attempt.

this is one part of the game where we might have the advantage. advantage may be due to us just not being as bad as the cowboys but i'll take it.

[rayzor]

I said it last year, and I'll say it again now that Baker actually proved(again) he takes his ******* time to kick the ball.

I don't care if you can punt it 800 yards, it does no good if you don't get it off before being blocked.

i would love to see us replace him next year. get someone who is going to have a lot of hang time and put it inside the 20.

i place most of the blame on that punt return for a TD on baker. there was no hang time on that just straight and long.

[GRWatcher]

Which is dismaying because Baker usually has excellent hang time, long punts, and he can pin them inside the 20.

I agree about Lloyd. He needs to get his "kick" back. Then again, the last time Kasey had a kick off I think it was to the 10 only.