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Special Teams Has Been A Win So Far

Varking

By Varking,
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Varking Grand Master

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Just happened to be scrolling through stats while I am supposed to be working and I clicked to the special teams and saw our placement on these:

  • Tied for 9th in Kickoff Return Yards Average ( Offense ) with 1 return for 26 yards. Most teams have 5 or less returns.
  • 7th in Punt Return Yards Average ( Offense ) with 10.7 on 7 attempts while being in the bottom half of the league with just 3 Fair Catches. 
  • 3/3 on Field Goals. Only 10 teams in the league are still at 100%. Our Long of 54 Yards is 5th in the NFL. 56 is the longest this season. We have 1 in 20-29 range, 1 in 40-49, and 1 in 50+. 
  • We are 8/8 in Extra Point Attempts. This means we are one of just 5 teams left to have made every field goal and every extra point it has attempted. 
  • Our Average Punt is just 45.9 yards, which is good for 19th in the league. This doesn't look good at face value but its because we are normally pinning punts vs booming them. 
  • Our Net Punting Average is 44.1 yards. This is good enough for 9th in the NFL. 
  • We've drilled 8 of our punts within the 20, which is tied for 3rd best in the NFL. 
  • While punting into the 20 we have only given up a single touchback. 
  • We are #1 with 8 fair catches against us. The next closest two teams have 6 and then everyone else is 5 and below. 
  • We are tied for 4th fewest punt return tries against us with 4. 
  • We are 8th in Return Yards Allowed with just 25. The teams ahead of us have punted less but you have to give huge props to Kansas City for giving up just 2 yards on 4 attempted returns for .5 yard per. 

All in all it looks like we are in the top 10 in the nfl across the board in the return game so far both offensively and defensively and as bad as our special teams play has been at times in previous seasons I think this is getting overlooked. 

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1 minute ago, Cracka McNasty said:

This is foreign to me.

I don't know what to do with my hands

Yeah I scrolled to two seasons ago just to take a look at immediately saw we were a like bottom 5-6 field goal kicking team and I think we were under 80% that season. Last year we were the most accurate on field goals but pretty horrific on extra points. 

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Then when Byrd is back next game, our return avg will be going up:)

Byrd was held back as precaution by RR imo and the same goes for Curtis. This gave DJ chance to make some form of impact in the return game. 

I have feeling our O will be different with Curtis and Byrd back. Hopefully, more DJ and less Torrey. 

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6 minutes ago, Captain Obvious said:

Love the stats but what happened when Amini blocked that kick. was that not counted as a miss? 

Goes down in the record books as an error.  The act was so atrociously bad, they had to borrow baseball statistics to accurately describe what took place as the NFL record book has yet to adopt officially terminology for Amini Solitolu's level of play.

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2 hours ago, Varking said:

We are 8/8 in Extra Point Attempts. This means we are one of just 5 teams left to have made every field goal and every extra point it has attempted. 

Technically on the stat sheets this is true. But there was the Amini leg block of the snap vs Dallas that ruined  a PAT attempt.  It shows up in the stats as a failed 2 point conversion attempt, but in reality it was a failed PAT - but not Gano or JJs fault.

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Thanks for all these great special teams stats.  We won the field position battle decisively vs Dallas and Cincy. A lot of that due to ST play. (Pinned Cincy back deep in 3 punts late in the game. Resulted in 2 INTs and a missed FG on those drives and 10 points for Panthers to ice the game )

Panthers W-L when they win field position is very strong. Don't have the stats handy, but will post later. ST matters and it's exciting to see such improvement.

Love what Ron is doing to honor ST guys too. Colin Jones a captain, and ST to be introduced every 3rd home game. Great stuff.

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2 hours ago, X-Clown on 1 said:

Goes down in the record books as an error.  The act was so atrociously bad, they had to borrow baseball statistics to accurately describe what took place as the NFL record book has yet to adopt officially terminology for Amini Solitolu's level of play.

LMAOOOOOOOOOOOO.....i believe it.

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35 minutes ago, KB_fan said:

Thanks for all these great special teams stats.  We won the field position battle decisively vs Dallas and Cincy. A lot of that due to ST play. (Pinned Cincy back deep in 3 punts late in the game. Resulted in 2 INTs and a missed FG on those drives and 10 points for Panthers to ice the game )

Panthers W-L when they win field position is very strong. Don't have the stats handy, but will post later. ST matters and it's exciting to see such improvement.

Love what Ron is doing to honor ST guys too. Colin Jones a captain, and ST to be introduced every 3rd home game. Great stuff.

Ron said they were going to put a renewed emphasis on ST, so it's nice to see good results. 

And for the Colin Jones hate, he is an integral part of this team. Just shouldn't be put in the position of having to start at safety.

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