1. change the role of bryan gilmore role. He was a good gunner along with martay and he should return to being the gunner on punts. he should also be our #1 kickoff returner...he should not be starting at receiver (start boldin and kasper).
2. since I have moved foster out of the starting lineup - let him or bryant johnson return punts. too dangerous of a role for boldin...he is clearly our go to receiver.
3. hope justin lucas comes back healthy. he was a decent special teamer.
4. send our long snapper (nate hoedel) packing. Bush has snapped before and would be a better cover guy. hoedel was supposed to be playing safety today on punt coverage due to his injury....it is a waste of a roster spot if someone like bush (starkey is another backup) can do the job...this team is not one bad snap away from contending anyway...bush would be more of a factor on coverage anyway..
5. who takes hoedels spot on the roster? someone who can kick the balls out of the end zone on kickoffs...this killed us last year - and it is killing us again...grammatica is clutch on field goals..there has to be someone out there who has poor accuracy but can kick the football very hard on kickoffs..I want it at least 5 yards deep in the end zone every time..how we can say that this need is less than the need to carry a specialty long snapper (when others can clearly do this job - bush was a long snapper in cincy) is beyond me. keep 2 kickers...it has become too awful on kickoffs with gramattica.
6.. Bob kemp on kdus said kevin kasper can kick the ball on kickoffs into the end zone every time..and said he has outdueled grammatica at times after practice ( I have no idea if this is true) .if so - let him try..at least he could fly down the field and make 11 guys hunting the ball instead of 10.
short of going out and signing a new backup corner/safety, receiver or something that is also a special teams ace - we could at least try the above items and hopefully see some improvement.
2. since I have moved foster out of the starting lineup - let him or bryant johnson return punts. too dangerous of a role for boldin...he is clearly our go to receiver.
3. hope justin lucas comes back healthy. he was a decent special teamer.
4. send our long snapper (nate hoedel) packing. Bush has snapped before and would be a better cover guy. hoedel was supposed to be playing safety today on punt coverage due to his injury....it is a waste of a roster spot if someone like bush (starkey is another backup) can do the job...this team is not one bad snap away from contending anyway...bush would be more of a factor on coverage anyway..
5. who takes hoedels spot on the roster? someone who can kick the balls out of the end zone on kickoffs...this killed us last year - and it is killing us again...grammatica is clutch on field goals..there has to be someone out there who has poor accuracy but can kick the football very hard on kickoffs..I want it at least 5 yards deep in the end zone every time..how we can say that this need is less than the need to carry a specialty long snapper (when others can clearly do this job - bush was a long snapper in cincy) is beyond me. keep 2 kickers...it has become too awful on kickoffs with gramattica.
6.. Bob kemp on kdus said kevin kasper can kick the ball on kickoffs into the end zone every time..and said he has outdueled grammatica at times after practice ( I have no idea if this is true) .if so - let him try..at least he could fly down the field and make 11 guys hunting the ball instead of 10.
short of going out and signing a new backup corner/safety, receiver or something that is also a special teams ace - we could at least try the above items and hopefully see some improvement.
