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Charlton questions and ST's needed improvement


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With all the angst over our FG kicker I have kind of forgotten about Charlton.

After a pretty good rookie season (won NFC ST player of the week last year against WFT)...  I just assumed he would keep getting better.  But his kicks are consistently underwhelming so far.  Have I missed any news about him?

In 2020 he averaged 46.3 with a long of 67.

Thru three games he is averaging 38.2 with a long of 54

Against the Texans he had 3 punts with a long of only 42??

Some of that is field position and judging punters is a lot of math that makes me sleepy.  But...I hope I can start feeling better about our punter and our ST in general soon.

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It appears that field position doesn't hold up very well as an excuse / reason for the poor performance.

This season, he's punted 10 times when the line of scrimmage has been on the Carolina side of the 50.  Those 10 punts average 40.6 yards.   Which *still* ranks him last in the NFL in punting average.

As an interesting aside, that dude we got rid of a few years back, Andy Lee?  Still punting.  Averaging 51.5 per kick this year.

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19 minutes ago, BrianS said:

It appears that field position doesn't hold up very well as an excuse / reason for the poor performance.

This season, he's punted 10 times when the line of scrimmage has been on the Carolina side of the 50.  Those 10 punts average 40.6 yards.   Which *still* ranks him last in the NFL in punting average.

As an interesting aside, that dude we got rid of a few years back, Andy Lee?  Still punting.  Averaging 51.5 per kick this year.

I almost have to believe some of this is coaching because they don't want him to outkick the coverage and give up a big return. You don't just lose that much distance without some kind of catastrophic injury and we also haven't brought any punters in for workouts which indicates the staff doesn't see a problem and I have to imagine being last by far would normally be seen as a cause for concern. Swapping out the punter is like one of the easiest things to do in the NFL personnel wise. Further evidence is that we traded for that Buffalo DE right before the regular season and his biggest asset is supposedly covering on ST.

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