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

[Sam Mills Fan]

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

[PantherPhann89]

Considering all that we've changed, I'd say coaching...

[London Loves Luke]

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. 

[FearTheCats]

How was it Nortman's fault? Looked like Williams and the coverage units fault to me.

[Sam Mills Fan]

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.

[the butch]

It is bullshit. Year in and year out. How many people do we have to fire to get it right? It was a bs penalty though. 

[Doyle]

If not for that play the game wasn't really close.  So we've got that going for us.  

[KillerKat]

The Teddy Williams call was bullshit. He was pushed out of bounds, came back, was pushed out again, then came back in.

[Smithers]

Coverage unit was tired...

Had Dickson caught that wide open pass, we probably would have never had to punt the ball away.

With that being said...I am tired of giving up big special teams plays.  

[Sam Mills Fan]

How was it Nortman's fault? Looked like Williams and the coverage units fault to me.

Nortman belly flopped on the attempted tackle. I know he's a punter, but bruh come on. We could have sent Brett Jensen's bitch ass out there for a better tackle attempt.

[KillerKat]

It is bullshit. Year in and year out. How many people do we have to fire to get it right? It was a bs penalty though. 

It's because we promote from within.

[Jangler]

I want to sit at a corner facing the door.

[Future of the Funchise]

ignore... posted in the wrong thread. 

[ItsNotGonnaBeAlright]

I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that we apparently train our coverage units to tackle by launching themselves bodily at a runner with limbs flailing and hoping to stop them once enough of our players have bounced off.