How about some love for Special Teams

[SCMunnerlyn1]

I'll start by saying what the hell at Nortman.

 

I was sitting with my room mate watching the game and his first punt made us both go, how the hell did he just do that?

 

He was booming them all night.

 

Surprised by GG as well been solid all Preseason

 

Some love for both coverage units as well as Ted ginn obviously.

 

Kick returns are the only thing I think are meh right now.

 

Hopefully we get better going forward.

[fieryprophet]

Very good point with Nortman, he had some great punts. Gano has also been a pleasant surprise with his dead-on kicking. The big coverage breakdown from the 2nd string unit was annoying but otherwise coverage was good all around.

[BelgianPantherFan]

Ginn really gave us some momentum, we were still sleeping before that TD return.

Punts and FG were perfect.

[Jakob]

You want me to show special teams love? I'm still trying to get over the fact Kuechly looked like the return of christ playing football.

[osd22]

You have my votes. Ginn was great, Nortman was great, Gano was great. What else can we ask for? That is triple improvement from last year. Also, Gay`s punts were good. As for the KR we must get better there. But that is my least concern.

[redbuddha]

Still would like to see us block a kick or punt.

[CarolinaNCSU]

How amazing will it be for this team if we can even have a respectable ST for once? Seems like anytime over the past couple of years the offense and defense both had good games, the ST killed us. Consistency on ST, while mixing in some game-changing plays from Ginn and Co. will truly be amazing for this team. 

[Salvo]

Still would like to see us block a kick or punt.

 

Got close a few times last night...both on punts and FGs. Give it time...they'll come.

[redbuddha]

Got close a few times last night...both on punts and FGs. Give it time...they'll come.

Been waiting 3 years

[CWalker4205]

I did give them some love, it even got on tv!

[Gabeking]

Bruce dehaven guys

[PhillyB]

i'm impressed.

 

honestly the reason i'm not worried about the team is because we finally appear to have a dominant defense and a dangerous ST unit, both of which have been our undoing the past two years and forced our offense into having to make a play every single time they're on the field. we finally have a team that can win - and do so in dominant fashion - even when the offense looks horrible.

 

and it won't look horrible all the time.

 

i can't wait to see us put together complete games as a team this season.

[bigdog10]

ST's looked really well.

 

I'd say our coverage teams are very solid right now.  I'd like to see them do a little better on Kickoff return blocking and punt return blocking.  Ginn made that punt return almost by himself.

 

With that said, it's hard to guage consistency with the blocking due to them trying so many different guys out in that situation.

[Care-Oh-Linuh]

Agree 100% with you on kick returns still being a little shaky. The return talent is there but the blocking/scheming still isn't. Hopefully Ginn's return last night will convince the coaches to focus atleast a little energy on our ST.