Jason Baker is Terrible

[Kevin Greene]

Our Special Teams suck.

Completely agree, but I would point the finger more at the coverage units as opposed to the punter.

[raleigh-panther]

I did like the idea of henery, was actually hoping we'd grab him at the top of the 4th

Why do that, when hey, you can draft a CB with a known serious knee injury who has not seen the field this year.

...but, hey, he had promise and we had so few holes to fill we could afford to take the chance.

[Delhommey]

Good until this year. How could we know?

He's been terrible for years.

[csx]

The least of the teams worries. He's pretty average.

[Kramerica]

It's like he went completely sour after the jersey number (supposed) controversy. I sit right in front of where he practices during the games, and he just looks disinterested and aloof. Perhaps it's a lack of confidence in the coaching, but he's just mailing it in at this point.

[Seal (SmittyIsOurSavior)]

"He's last in net average blahhhh lol"

How can you blame that on the punter? We're probably last in net average on kickoffs as well, but nobody is blaming that on Mare. Every aspect of our ST sucks, but Baker is the best player on ST other than JJ Jansen.

[Firefox]

"He's last in net average blahhhh lol"

How can you blame that on the punter? We're probably last in net average on kickoffs as well, but nobody is blaming that on Mare. Every aspect of our ST sucks, but Baker is the best player on ST other than JJ Jansen.

He's 18th out of 19 punters in the NFC too in gross avg. 9 yards less per punt than the leader.

Who you gonna blame that on besides his foot?

http://www.nfl.com/stats/categorystats?tabSeq=1&season=2011&seasonType=REG&d-447263-n=1&d-447263-o=2&d-447263-p=1&conference=0015&statisticPositionCategory=PUNTER&d-447263-s=PUNTING_AVERAGE_YARDS

[Seal (SmittyIsOurSavior)]

He's 18th out of 19 punters in the NFC too in gross avg. 9 yards less per punt than the leader.

Who you gonna blame that on besides his foot?

Field position. Our offense gets us up the field, but not far enough to score. So he has to punt closer to the endzone, which results in shorter punts...

I'm just bullsh*tting my way through this, but I don't think 9 yards per punt really matter when the coverage unit lets the return man take it to the house.

[ladypanther]

He's been terrible for years.

#3 last year

http://espn.go.com/nfl/statistics/player/_/stat/punting/sort/puntYards/year/2010

[ladypanther]

Some of us knew

#3 last year

http://espn.go.com/nfl/statistics/player/_/stat/punting/sort/puntYards/year/2010

[Cyberjag]

Jason Baker has a decent leg. Not great, but good enough. Our Punting unit is terrible. All of our Special Teams units are terrible. If Baker was in Chicago, he would look a ton better than he does in Carolina.

[Delhommey]

Gross. He was 25th in net. Constantly outkicks his coverage, and is one of the reasons our coverage team is horrid.

[jtnc]

Why the he'll can't he ever kick it out of bounds? I don't get it.

[weyco2000]

Lack of depth is the problem, not Baker. Years of keeping guys around that can't play at this level has put this team behind the 8 ball.