Our kickers routinely kick 75+ yard kicks, it wouldn't be miraculous, it would be common. They kick to the 1 by design, they can kick further, and do so often. On a regular kickoff, you are right, there is no risk if it goes over your head.

On a kick, your first instinct isn't to charge up, it is to step back, just like fielding a pop fly. Even though you don't believe the possibility is there that the ball lands between the goal line and 15, it is there, and that area is the back man's responsibility, so he has to respect that, while also being the safety for the next line up. Simply put, he can just charge up if the kick looks short because if he misjudges the speed and has to backtrack, the ball is certainly ours.

I know you are not actually dumb, you are clearly intelligent, I just don't understand what you don't get that there is more space to cover. We both know that's not even really the point here, so why so get so hung up on it.

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Posted by lsupride87

Member since Dec 2007

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Posted on 10/21/14 at 1:10 pm to OceanMan

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Our kickers routinely kick 75+ yard kicks, it wouldn't be miraculous, it would be common. They kick to the 1 by design, they can kick further, and do so often. On a regular kickoff, you are right, there is no risk if it goes over your head.

On a kick, your first instinct isn't to charge up, it is to step back, just like fielding a pop fly. Even though you don't believe the possibility is there that the ball lands between the goal line and 15, it is there, and that area is the back man's responsibility, so he has to respect that, while also being the safety for the next line up. Simply put, he can just charge up if the kick looks short because if he misjudges the speed and has to backtrack, the ball is certainly ours.

I know you are not actually dumb, you are clearly intelligent, I just don't understand what you don't get that there is more space to cover. We both know that's not even really the point here, so why so get so hung up on it.

The returners are on the 15. Anything over their heads and before the goaline they will easily be able to catch. Easily. The kick would have to go 80 yards before they were able to cover 15, that is my point. Look how easily the players cover the 10 yards of the endzone depth

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Posted by LSU Groupee

Member since Oct 2012

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Posted on 10/21/14 at 1:44 pm to OceanMan