This Would Be Better Than Our Squib/Short Kickoffs

So we can't kick the ball in the endzone or Les/BDP thinks a squib or a short, high kickoff is a better tactic.

I was re-reading Dave Maraniss's biography of Vince Lombardi and there was this blurb on the 1962 NFL championship vs. the NYG:

Willie Wood kicked off for the Packers. He had the strongest leg, and Lombardi liked to have him back there as a sure-tackling last resort in case the runner broke clear.

Obviously, these were the final seasons before the advent of the kicking specialist. RB Paul Hornung and OG Jerry Kramer were Lombardi's placekickers.

But not a bad idea, having a HOF DB kick off and put another sure tackler on the field.

Maybe it's time to come full-circle and go back to the days of non-kicking specialists on kickoffs--at least for a team like us who can't get it into the end zone.

These guys are great athletes. Surely one of the good DBs or a fast LB can learn to kick off consistently and put it between the 10 and the 20--and you have another sure tackler on the field.

If we were consistently kicking it out of the endzone, then this is irrelevant. But seeing as we can't and are relying on squibs and high short ones, I think this is a better alternative.