Special Teams is a Third of the Game

Good point. I felt our special teams last year was adaquete. People scoff at our bargain-level moderate talents, but guess what? Our special teams is gonna be highly improved with these three alone; imagine what the draft yields.

 

ST is vastly underrated by the average fan. Also, in a market where you have to pay star-level salaries for above average players and break the bank for really good ones, a team cannot reasonably add a bunch of established starters. So the Titans have been adding young players who are about to enter their primes, so as to upgrade the bottom of the roster instead of the top. I like the moves. So far, though I wish we had found more guys on the DL.

 

Lavar woods..

Another guy who is good in kick coverage and was signed mainly for that..

edit: I'm wondering about waddell and his contribution this year. He was great in coverage in 05 but we'll see with the knee. If we lose pac for a while at least we can make up for it with good cover teams.

 

i think our punt coverage these past two years has been great. waddell in 05 was a terrific gunner as was finnigan in 06.

our KO coverage has been pretty average the past.....probably since 2000. in 05 it masked because bironas had so many touchbacks, but it seemed this year he would kick it out of bounds at least once a game towards the end of the season.

 

Overall, we were 11th in return coverage, I wouldn't say we've been ignoring special teams. I think one of the reasons we were so successful last year was clearly that our special teams were working hard. The guys believed in Pac, Bobby seemed to always at least get it to the 25 if not the 30, and we had some Gunners who were clearly working their tails off. I'd love to see us have top 5 special teams, but as long as we maintain what we had last year I'll be happy.

 

The squib kick gave me goosebumps. For that alone I pay my cable bill.

 

Good bump.

Griffin is a god on Special Teams