09-13-2022, 10:56 AM
(09-13-2022, 10:49 AM)leonardfan40 Wrote: Long snapper is a different skill. I get having separate guys do both.
What I hope happens after Sunday’s debacle is that the team gives backup LS jobs to two different guys. Wilcox managed to do the really long punt LS we’ll enough to get by. He was trash on multiple attempts at the much shorter FG snap. I would think a center could learn that without too much difficulty.
Maybe they don’t want to waste time with their starting center learning that but a backup center should try to be as versatile as possible. Give Hill a look at backup FG snapper. No reason Wilcox should ever try another FG snap.
I am sure Mitchell Wilcox is fine on the sideline or in practice when there aren't guys lined up over him that smash into him after he snaps the ball. There aren't enough practice reps to get the starter and two backups a chance to get live reps and none of those reps are high pressure game time reps. Teams have one emergency person at each specialist position, thats the way the whole NFL does it because it just doesn't make sense beyond that.
We are wasting way too much time worrying about this. It's a once in a decade issue that we experienced and we now move on.
