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Matt Barnes (DC Memphis Tigers)

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I've read from a Maryland fan and a Maryland beat writer that Barnes was actually calling the D for the Terps this past season, behind the scenes. That's really surprising but at least encouraging to some degree--when coupled with his defensive analyst background--about what kind of schematic and research support he might offer Hafley while he's hopefully coaching up our special teams. So there's a two birds with one stone factor, and possibly a chemistry/big-picture factor in terms of trying to let Hafley create cohesion in the backfield and having sole control of the safeties and corners, but still giving him an assistant to help with some of those responsibilities. The thing that sticks out on paper as disappointing with Barnes is not much of a track record with recruiting (a lot of people hoping that the final hire would be an ace recruiter or at least someone with good connections in the South), but hopefully he takes to it and does well in that department, I think Hafley could use some help given that he's been in the NFL the past 7 years (but supposedly was a good recruiter at Pitt and Rutgers).
 
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sg86 said:
The fair catch option made this not worth the out of bounds risk IMO.
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I thought all year that we would start seeing more low, line drive or squib kicks than we have. They are low risk and high reward. Fair catches automatically put the ball at the 25 and typically a squib kick rolls around on the ground with a chance of someone missing the ball or KO team recovering.

I just feel like this could be more effective than just giving it to the other team at the 25.

 
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lvbuckeye said:
It works. But it doesn't work as well as kicking the damn ball out of the back of the end zone every time. Two yards is two yards.
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Unfortunately that stat includes punts which could skew the # a lot either way... depending on how far back in our own territory the avg punt came from vs. Chrisman pinning opponents in the 20.
I'd be curious what avg field pos was on just kickoffs.
Teams will eventually use their brains and just fair catch all those balls while taking the OOB freebies... or so i assume.
 
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kujirakira said:
Unfortunately that stat includes punts which could skew the # a lot either way... depending on how far back in our own territory the avg punt came from vs. Chrisman pinning opponents in the 20.
I'd be curious what avg field pos was on just kickoffs.
Teams will eventually use their brains and just fair catch all those balls while taking the OOB freebies... or so i assume.
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Or step out of bounds after catching the ball at like the 12...
 
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