Mathieu's returning kicks

PP7 last year?

I completely agree. I want to even take it a step further than what you propose. I don't want any starters to get hurt.

Therefore, I think we should play all the second string players and let the starters all sit. If we did this there is no chance they could get hurt on the field of play and would be super healthy and fresh for the MNC. What do you think?

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If people like you had their way,

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If people like me had their way? Not so sure you can gleam my way or what I want from the OP. I am simply asking if the reward outweigh the risk. I was nervous for Patrick Peterson too. This isn't high school football, it's the SEC and it's a tough job for a returner. I think the punt returner is potentially exposed more than anyone on the field.

But perhaps I am wrong for simply asking the question. Maybe I should be thrown into a camp of soccer loving Prius driving pansies. Or perhaps I can ask a question I am thinking since this is, after all, a message board, and it is, after all, an analysis that coaches should and do consider at every level of the game.

And for the record, I think Priuses are ugly.

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Thoughts?

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1. No coaches think this way.

2. Where is the history of injuries on returns?

Punt returns are for your players that have the best hands and judgement on the team. Huge turnover risk and can be a game changer with field position. Kick off returners are a much higher risk of injury. HB wants the ball in his hands and is obviously a play maker. No worries.

As I see it, you:

1) WORRY about TM7 returning punts

AND

2) WORRY that you may be the ONLY one WORRYING about it.




Dude, you need to stop WORRYING so much

Nervous Nelly,

Not to dismiss the possibility of injury in this sport, but these are young, finely-tuned athletes. Most, if not all, thrive for the contact and physicality of the game, certainly TM does. To take away this apsect of his game would be taking away something that motivates him.

Personally, I think the TM you see now is operating at or near ideal and would not change one thing. I also hope he's immune to the hype and heisman talk. But he seems like a very grounded person, so that hopefully won't be an issue.

Let it go.

Im fine with Mathieu

But wasnt J.Gore all the talk in the offseason about being the PR guy?

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How many star players, that are also PR, have suffered serious injury over the last few years?

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GAME OVER /thread