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Touchbacks on kickoffs
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(04-14-2022, 04:27 PM)fredtoast Wrote: I was looking at "Touchbacks percentage" on kickoffs. At first I was surprised that MacPherson was only 13th in the league. I assumed he had the leg to kick it deep into or even out of the endzone everytime. Then I saw that Justin Tucker was 20th.

I realized that teams are actually trying to avoid touchbacks on kick offs. Instead they want high hanging kicks inside the 10.

There is a stat for teams "starting field position" but it includes every drive instead of just kickoffs. Seems like there should be a stat like that to rank both kicking and return teams.

A lot of bad things can happen to the Return team if you make the Returner return it if he has had issues in the past.

Some times it is a good idea to gamble on this fact with certain Returners instead of just going for the touchback all the time.
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Touchbacks on kickoffs - fredtoast - 04-14-2022, 04:27 PM
RE: Touchbacks on kickoffs - michaelsean - 04-14-2022, 05:32 PM
RE: Touchbacks on kickoffs - pally - 04-14-2022, 05:54 PM
RE: Touchbacks on kickoffs - ezekiel23 - 04-14-2022, 07:59 PM
RE: Touchbacks on kickoffs - Sled21 - 04-15-2022, 08:24 AM
RE: Touchbacks on kickoffs - fredtoast - 04-15-2022, 10:35 AM
RE: Touchbacks on kickoffs - Nate (formerly eliminate08) - 04-15-2022, 02:38 PM
RE: Touchbacks on kickoffs - BFritz21 - 04-15-2022, 03:06 PM
RE: Touchbacks on kickoffs - Tomkat - 04-19-2022, 11:41 AM

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