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Colin Jones

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By Jeremy Igo,
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Well I mean look at Teddy Williams. He's so bad on defense that when we were desperate we signed Courtland Finnegan out of the retirement home instead of putting Teddy on the field.

Yet he also is a penalty machine on special teams and made some of the most boneheaded plays that cost us yards and points.

So I don't think you really need to be a superstar to be considered a special teams ace on this squad.

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The Colin Jones ST thing continually baffles me. The coaches say he is so good at it but I don't really remember him making any ST plays. He's not a gunner on punt coverage, right? Is he a gunner blocker on the punt return team? I don't give a damn if he is on kick coverage because every single one of those goes out of the end zone and a touchback is pretty much always going to be better on kickoff return. I have no clue what he does on ST and we repeatedly hear how good he is at it.

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46 minutes ago, Bartin said:

The Colin Jones ST thing continually baffles me. The coaches say he is so good at it but I don't really remember him making any ST plays. He's not a gunner on punt coverage, right? Is he a gunner blocker on the punt return team? I don't give a damn if he is on kick coverage because every single one of those goes out of the end zone and a touchback is pretty much always going to be better on kickoff return. I have no clue what he does on ST and we repeatedly hear how good he is at it.

Here's what I don't get; week after week I watch teams place their kickoff close to the goal line, encouraging the returner to bring it out. They almost always stop the return between the 15-20 yard line.

I don't think we have ever even tried this. Gano booms it through the end zone and the opponents get a no risk start at the 25 yard line.

We really are conservative to a fault.

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