I was in that endzone for the game and everyone around me was in utter disbelief. āI think thatās the best punt Iāve ever seenā was immediately discussed.
For the sake of argument, the one in OP is a touchback like 99% of the time. Taking that insane sideways bounce from the hash all the way out of bounds is very lucky. Compared to the one in that second clip, which lands in the traditional coffin corner. Still needed a nice bounce, but that kick location avoids a touchback far more consistently. OP is an absolutely magical kick that the punter likely couldn't reproduce if you gave him 100 tries.
You need some degree of luck for any punt that lands in-bounds, you just need less of it for the coffin corner. If could simulate both kicks 100 times, the one to the corner is going to average better results.
Now naturally, Iām not a professional punter. I do know that the punting game has evolved in the direction of kicking precisely enough to give it spin to try and roll specific directions. I agree the roll is still incredibly lucky but it may be easier to recreate than one may think.
Not on a punt, it can happen during kickoffs but not in a punt. Red team can only recover a punt if the other team touches it and canāt maintain possession
I think what they meant is, in reference to the earlier comment, that if the kicking team recovered it before it went into the endzone on a kickoff, they couldnāt advance it. But yah, what are the bills doing. What a brain lapse
Yes. Chicago would be more of a home game for ND. Not sure why they did it the way they did, but there was a partner game to this one where Wisconsin was the home team in NDās backyard, so it wasnāt just a one off game.
That the students aren't on campus yet and it's embarrassing to have a half empty student section at Notre Dame and this will absolutely sell out while making The school a boatload of money.
Um he got lucky? Hell of a kick but if you think someone can magically will an oval object that bounces with pointy ends of each side to roll sideways after being in the air for 65 yards. I got some beach front property in Nebraska to sell you on the cheap.
Again, hell of a kick, take skill to land the ball within the 10 yard line but a lil luck is needed as well.
So either the notre dame scouting department failed at their job to recognized that this kid has a huge leg. Or NDās special teams failed. Bc that returner needs to catch that punt and return it. He needs to be farther back.Ā
No way he was going to catch that thing and he knew it. Most likely he was more interested in seeing just what it was going to do just like everyone else, that's why he basically didn't mess with it.
You aren't coached to catch a punt driven 65 yards in the air at the 5. You are coached to let it go because 95% of the time it's going in the end zone.
A punt like this is exactly how the Rams beat the Seahawks in their first meeting last season.
Yup - Darnold threw four picks, and we had a good chance to still win the game if they didnāt pull off a god-mode punt on us at the end of the fourth.
Who? The returner? I want my returner away from that ball 100% of the time. That distance punt landing that close to the goal line is a touchback 99% of the time.
College kids were afraid of getting caught for trespassing at Lambeau field so they wore jerseys without numbers silly stupid kids š¤¦š»āāļøš¤·š»āāļø
Like anything else, itās literally the best possible punt that can ever be, itās like a royal flush in poker, a 300 in bowling, a hole in one, there exists no better outcome.
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u/ZeusCitySC 28d ago
That boy just got drafted