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I'm calling a Panther fan roundtable to order: Friends, why are we still so bad at special teams?

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I made a thread on the Huddle last year detailing how awful we've always finished in Special Teams DVOA. We've averaged something like 30th in the league under Rivera.

 

With a lot of hype for a new and improved special teams coming into this season, we were at 25th in DVOA coming in to today's game and I'm sure we'll be 29th at best looking at how these rankings go historically after a god-awful performance like this. How is that we're still so terrible at kick and punt coverage? How? Seriously, how? I have no answers or opinions for a change, I just wanna know HOW IS THIS STILL HAPPENING? THIS WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN CLOSE IF WE HAD PINNED THEM ON THE 8 INSTEAD OF A TOUCHDOWN THANKS TO MOTHERFUGGING TEDDY WILLIAMS MOTHERFUGGING BRAD NORTMAN MOTHERFUGGING COVERAGE UNIT

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We're not, that's just what you get when the refs call a BS penalty and the fresh legged returner gets to take on your tired punt coverage unit. If you remember the play before the penalty we nailed him at the 6. 

That was because he muffed the punt, we had nothing to do with that. And there were at least 2 other big returns they had, one was on a kickoff, both might have been 35/40 yard kickoff returns.

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