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Fair catching all the punts might not win you a game but a guy that can house 1 or 2 punts a year but fumbles several times putting your defense in a bad place can **** sure lose you a few.
Want to see JT and maybe Harley on KR but to me Berrios is the perfect PR...catches everything,doesn't fumble and occasionally makes a big play.
If you say you'd rather see someone else back there, someone more explosive/dangerous, I feel you.
If you say Berrios sucks or is terrible as a PR then you're wrong.
We should only have South Florida players returning punts. They are genetically and mentally superior because they played Optimist youth football.
Fair catching all the punts might not win you a game but a guy that can house 1 or 2 punts a year but fumbles several times putting your defense in a bad place can **** sure lose you a few.
Want to see JT and maybe Harley on KR but to me Berrios is the perfect PR...catches everything,doesn't fumble and occasionally makes a big play.
Don't f*cking care. Still would rather have Jeff Thomas returning punts.
If you say you'd rather see someone else back there, someone more explosive/dangerous, I feel you.
If you say Berrios sucks or is terrible as a PR then you're wrong.
If you say that Berrios sucks as a PR and a WR, then you're right
BB is pretty much the conservative sure thing not to fumble and get you a few yards but he aint gona take it to the house or change the momentum of a game
Gimme JT$
Miami has been known for dangerous return men for decades. When a Hurricane return man catches the ball, the opposing team should be crapping their pants. Nobody fears Berrios. They never pooch kick it or kick it out of bounds because they're not scared of him. The only balls he doesn't fair catch are when he has at least 15 yards of space, thus the good average.
And can we please stop with the assumption that because a guy is a game breaker, he somehow can't field punts cleanly? Why do people assume that Jeff Thomas or Mike Harley or anybody else can't handle fielding the ball?
Playing it safe and being "good enough" is some Al Golden ****. This is Miami. Our guys are game breakers.
Miami has been known for dangerous return men for decades. When a Hurricane return man catches the ball, the opposing team should be crapping their pants. Nobody fears Berrios. They never pooch kick it or kick it out of bounds because they're not scared of him. The only balls he doesn't fair catch are when he has at least 15 yards of space, thus the good average.
And can we please stop with the assumption that because a guy is a game breaker, he somehow can't field punts cleanly? Why do people assume that Jeff Thomas or Mike Harley or anybody else can't handle fielding the ball?
Playing it safe and being "good enough" is some Al Golden ****. This is Miami. Our guys are game breakers.
Miami has been known for dangerous return men for decades. When a Hurricane return man catches the ball, the opposing team should be crapping their pants. Nobody fears Berrios. They never pooch kick it or kick it out of bounds because they're not scared of him. The only balls he doesn't fair catch are when he has at least 15 yards of space, thus the good average.
And can we please stop with the assumption that because a guy is a game breaker, he somehow can't field punts cleanly? Why do people assume that Jeff Thomas or Mike Harley or anybody else can't handle fielding the ball?
Playing it safe and being "good enough" is some Al Golden ****. This is Miami. Our guys are game breakers.
A lot of this is determined in practice by things the average fan doesn't see.
You can be sure of one thing, everybody gets a shot catching punts in practice and the special teams coaches pay attention. If you're dropping them or otherwise fūcking up in practice more than the other guy, the other guy will be catching the punts in real games. Why? Fumbled punts can change the momentum of a game in a heartbeat, and coaches aren't going to risk putting a guy back there that has a tendency to lose focus and get butter fingered.