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This is turning out to be quite the off-season. Still, no idea who we’re gonna replace him with, but our special teams were consistently average to bad with him, long before Hue showed up. We needed a change here.
A lot of people wanted this. I’m not gonna celebrate until I see who we hire and if that’s actually an upgrade. Tabor is very well thought of as ST Coordinator around the league. That’s how he survived 3 or 4 head coaching changes. It’s undeniable that this year special teams sucked and cost us games. It’s also undeniable that he was handed a shit sandwich this year and asked to make steak and lobster. When Sashi plundered all those mid-level vets off our team, he was selling off the core special teamers. The guys who ended up filling out our special teams were guys with a year or two of NFL experience, most of whom hadn’t played special teams since freshman year of college if that.
I’m not making excuses for Tabor and it was probably time to leave, but the next guy is gonna suck just as bad if we give him the same shit sandwich.I’m indifferent on it, and agree with Ice. Just like the rest of the team, the special teams units have been filled with a large number of future Walmart greeters and it’s just too tough to judge anyone with that kind of talent in front of them.
His rankings we’re on Cleveland.com and I can’t find it again. Were average to terrible. Time to move on from him.
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I’m not shocked by that ranking though. If you have terrible players you’re going to have a pretty terrible unit with terrible rankings.
I wish him well, and I hope that his replacement has exponentially more success with the Browns.
Am I going mad, or did the word THINK escape your lips? You were not hired for your brains, you hippopotamic landmass!
Awesome. He will magically turn our crapfest of players into the greatest special teamers in the league!
I have to be honest here for a second.
I know that many will disagree with me, but I just don’t ever really see what the value of the specials teams unit is outside of being able to properly block for a field goal.
I’m serious too. Really, what is so difficult or important about special teams? It’s kick coverage, and it’s always only one play. It’s not a series. It’s not a unit out there trying to perform for an extended period of time. You’re either kicking the ball, or the ball is getting kicked to you. On one play.
Who gives a shit? There’s very little skill involved to the entire thing. You know who plays on kick coverage? Guys that aren’t good enough to get in the game. If it’s such an important element, then why are all the no-names the ones out on the field for it? I’ll tell you why. Because it’s not important.
I know some of you are gonna throw up examples, and situations, but it’s just not gonna work for me. I don’t care. They could send out beer vendors and the parking lot crew out there on kick coverage and I honestly wouldn’t give a shit because it doesn’t matter.
The only time I even consider special teams important is on a field goal. But again though, even that is for one play. You either do it or you don’t. Is it really that fucking hard to snap a ball and give 1 guy lined up 15 yards behind the line of scrimmage a chance to kick it? Is it? Is it really?
No. It’s not.
Lol shit is made into way too big of a deal if you ask me.
The year we went 10-6 we lead the league in FP due to Cribbs. Our final game this year, we lost 28-24. The biggest play of the game that cost us? Steelers return of a kick FOR a TD.
IN THE 90S Metcalf single handed beat the Steelers with two returns. We also lost another game this year due to poor punt coverage. Losing games due to missed FG.
ST is wildly important as it controls overall field position. It’s highly undervalued.
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