10-14-2015, 11:15 AM
(10-12-2015, 09:39 PM)BFritz21 Wrote: Except not all kicks that go 8 yards deep are line drives.
Actually, very few are, even with the new rules of the ball being kicked from the 35. When you are kicking that far, line drives typically don't hang in the air long enough to get that far or, if they do, weren't low enough in the first place to warrant taking it out.
You have this completely backwards. There is a trade off between height and distance. Line drive kicks travel farther. That is why you will often here that longer field goals are easier to block. They are kicked at a lower trajectory in order to make them travel farther.
Kick returners are often told to count from the time the ball is kicked off. Their decision to return or not is based on how long the kick was in the air instead of how deep it goes into the end zone.
Maybe Tate's problem is that he counts to slow.
