Was kapinos really bad last year? ... I thought he did alright considering ya the previous year we had.
"Rockmolder" wrote:
Yeah, he was. Nothing chaps my ass worse than punting from the 40 yard (LOS) on 4 and 3 to have your dumb shit punter kick it for a touchback. For the job they have, hitting a quarter on the five yard should be virtually automatic. We are still suffering from what I call the curse of Craig Hentrich. We lost him because Wolf always had us up against the cap and Tennessee came in committed grand larceny. I'm not losing any sleep over replacing Kapinos.
"DakotaT" wrote:
I do remember all our touchbacks - but still thought he could kick em pretty far. I actually wasnt that saddened by the touchbacks considering how some teams would return on us.
"Dulak" wrote:
Good punting is about ball placement. I could give a rats ass if punter can really boom them because normally they then outkick the coverage. Everybody laughed at Crazy Al Davis when he drafted Ray Guy, but that guy was a valuable player because he could put that ball anywhere he wanted too. Kapinos would would be the opposite of that.
"DakotaT" wrote:
Al Davis might've gone senile these last few years, but he was one of the bets in the business for a very long time. And one reason for that was because he knew how important special teams are far before anyone else seemed to do.
Ray Guy, Shane Lechler, what he envisioned Janikowski to be... If you can get guys like that, it makes life so much easier for your offense and defense. If you can have the opposing offense start in bad field position, it'll help your defense immensely. If you can kick it in consistently from your opponents 37 line, it's a huge boost to your offense.
The interesting thing is that Masthay was out there all of last year. Yet, they thought that Kapinos was the best option. Now we all of a sudden have way more talent by signing a guy who wasn't on a team throughout last year?
"Dulak" wrote: