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P A.J. Trapasso (Official Thread)

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Trapasso hit the board three times in pre-game warmups. So far, Cowboys punter Mat McBriar hasn't come close to making contact. I'm sure he's a little embarrassed to be overshadowed by the little-known Trapasso.

AFC South blogger Paul Kuharsky is now trying to find out what would happen if one of Vince Young's passes floated into the video board.
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I don't think I've ever seen a punter get this much publicity. :lol:

Scoring a TD on one of the best fakes I've ever seen.. check.
Hitting the biggest flatscreen TV in the world with a football in a live game.. check.

Curious what he has up his sleeve next preseason game.
 
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Updated: August 22, 2009
Punter kicks into HD screen over field
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By Paul Kuharsky and Matt Mosley
ESPN.com

ARLINGTON, Texas -- The Tennessee Titans felt they exposed a major flaw in Cowboys Stadium during the first football game played in the building when reserve punter A.J. Trapasso hit the gigantic HD screen that hangs over the field.

But after a 30-10 Dallas win, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said he doesn't think it is an issue. The NFL signed off on the 60-foot long, 90-foot high video board, Jones said, and he does not plan to alter it.

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The Cowboys' new stadium has a gigantic TV screen suspended above the field.

After Trapasso's punt with 8:07 on the clock in the third quarter Tennessee coach Jeff Fisher threw his red challenge flag and talked to referee Walt Anderson before fourth down was replayed.

"It's an issue, yeah," said Fisher, who serves as co-chairmen of the NFL's competition committee. "I'm sure the Cowboys or the league will tell you, I shouldn't have to throw a flag out there because [the officiating crew] didn't see the ball hit the scoreboard. Now, it's not necessarily their responsibility. Once a fair catch signal is given, then there are no eyes on the ball anymore. So they don't see it. So something has to get worked out. It can become a problem."

Said Jones after his team's debut in the $1.2 billion stadium: "You don't need to move it. You gotta be trying to do it. The rule is very clear. You just kick it over."

Jones implied that having the video board in play provided an "entertainment value" and that both teams would have to deal with it. But the owner repeatedly said that the normal trajectory of an NFL punt would not bring the video board into play. He could move a Mitsubishi Electric sign that hangs off the bottom edge of the board.

Both Trapasso, an undrafted rookie out of Ohio State, and veteran Craig Hentrich hit the video board in warm-ups and marveled at how engineers, architects and ownership failed to anticipate the issue.

"I hit it probably a dozen times in pregame," Hentrich said. "Probably somewhere around a five-second punt is going to hit it and some of the guys in the league wouldn't be able to punt here if it's not raised, they'd just be non-stop hitting it. I don't know what the people were thinking. I guess they should have tested things out before they put that thing in place. It'll have to be raised."

Jones said a punter needed to kick the ball "straight up and hard" to have any chance of making contact with the board. He didn't understand why anyone would take that approach.

Trapasso said he didn't try to hit the board during the game, but admitted warm-ups were different.

Cowboys punter Mat McBriar never came close to hitting the video board. It was his first time punting at Cowboys Stadium and he said he doesn't think it will be an issue for him.

Trapasso's not in line to be part of the Titans' roster after cut downs. But he's made a mark in just three preseason games, scoring a 40-yard touchdown on fake punt in the Hall of Fame Game on Aug. 9 and qualifying as the first player to put the Cowboys' scoreboard in to play.
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Titans kicker exposes problem in Cowboys Stadium - ESPN

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjx6vsR71sg]YouTube - Titans punt hits Cowboys Scoreboard[/ame]
 
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Jerry Jones wasn't happy with the kick, not so much because he felt that somebody on his engineering team screwed up by placing the video boards too low, but because he seems to think that Trapasso was trying to hit the board on purpose. When asked whether he thought the scoreboard should be raised higher, Jones snapped:
"That's not the point. How high is high if somebody just wants to sit there and kick straight up?
"If you look at how you punt the football, unless you're trying to hit the scoreboard, you punt the ball to get downfield. You certainly want to get some hangtime, but you punt the ball to get downfield, and you sure don't punt the ball down the middle. You punt it off to the side."
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FUCK Jerry Jones, and FUCK the cowboys.

Yeah, I'm sure he was intentionally trying to hit your giant TV screens, dick face.
 
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BuckeyeTillIDie;1520864; said:
FUCK Jerry Jones, and FUCK the cowboys.

Yeah, I'm sure he was intentionally trying to hit your giant TV screens, dick face.
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AJ was definitely trying to hit it in practice, just like the soccer players a few weeks ago. Whether he was doing it in the game only he knows, and I really don't care either way. If he doesn't stick with the Titans I think he'll get a job somewhere, which is a lot more important than any of this shit.

Oh, and FUCK the redskins.
 
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Atta boy AJ, way to make Jerry Jones look like the dumbass that he is. That scoreboard is an EPIC FAIL. And Jones the whiny crybaby wants to blame it on Trapasso for hitting it? How about you do some research before you build a $1.2 billion stadium, douchebag.
 
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BuckeyeTillIDie;1520864; said:
[censored] Jerry Jones, and [censored] the cowboys.

Yeah, I'm sure he was intentionally trying to hit your giant TV screens, dick face.
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If you watch the punt, I wouldn't be so sure. Looked a bit strange to me. Granted, AJ occasionally has a strange punt in him anyway that doesn't go where it's supposed to so it could have been an accident, but if so, it was not a good punt considering where they were on the field.
 
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Jerry, if someone kicks a bad punt and it hits the TV (whether it's on purpose or not) they apparently get to re-kick. That hurts your team if they get a better punt off.

Don't blame it on AJ. He didn't build it. :shake:
 
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