Importance of Special Teams

[Essex Johnson]

(01-08-2016, 05:46 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Even if you say "out of 40", that still means he's below 16 people, which means below 16 teams, which means bottom half of the league.

Besides, that's just for total return yards. If you look at the top 20 yardage KR guys, Brandon Tate has the 19th average.

Just like how out of the 24 qualified PR, Branton Tate has the 22nd average at 6.6 yards. Adam Jones has more yardage in 16 PR than Tate does in 27 PR.


Every year people try to use accumulative stats to make Tate look better, but he only gets those stats because no other team would keep running him out there so he can muff catches, make freaking awful decisions, and run backwards. Tate is Turrible.

Totally disagree.. I have seen good kick and punt returners fumble their team out of a game or almost out of a game.. Tate is not terrible but he is not great either.   i guess it depends on what you want the returner for.. with this team, I would much rather have a good safe punt returner than someone that could fumble the kick away. Tell me the last time he fumbled and cost us a game or chance at losing a game ?    

I would rather have him catching punts tomorrow nite  than Gio  when we need it caught.