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Shooter McGavin

Shooter McGavin

I Eat Pieces Of Sh*t Like You For Breakfast
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Is Mario finally going to bring in someone who could ******* help with special teams? The punter sucks, coverage sucks, the returners suck, and Miami is losing one of the best kickers to come through this program so we don’t know what we are getting in Murray.
 

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Damiencane86 said:
I can't recall even 1 punt being shanked but the rest I 100% agree with you
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I guess we were spoiled having Lou for all those years. Joyce might have not shanked punts but there were a lot of short punts. Didn’t make a difference tho because the defense couldn’t stop **** so he could have pinned the other team inside the 10 every punt, the d still would have gave up tds.
 
Looks like the plan is to kick out of the end zone more with the added kick off specialist. Now, having that plan and Mario adhering to that plan in lieu of the voices in his head to test the toughness of “his” ko coverage unit, is to be determined.
 
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Are we still limited in the number of on-field staff we can have? If so, i believe Hetherman could coach LBs, freeing up a spot for a dedicated ST coach, no?
 
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Did we punt at all last year? I barely remember seeing that unit.

You’re right though, we need a special teams coach to focus on special teams and whatnot. Kick return coverage most especially
 
ghost2 said:
Are we still limited in the number of on-field staff we can have? If so, i believe Hetherman could coach LBs, freeing up a spot for a dedicated ST coach, no?
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You can still only have 10 on field coaches who are allowed to recruit off campus. However, analysts are allowed to coach now. Miami does have a ST analyst. Now we could very likely improve by hiring a new ST analyst but I doubt Mario is going to spend 1 of his 10 on field who can recruit off campus coaches on ST. It doesn't make sense since the analyst can coach anyways.
 
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RightSaidFred said:
Did we punt at all last year? I barely remember seeing that unit.

You’re right though, we need a special teams coach to focus on special teams and whatnot. Kick return coverage most especially
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26 times I believe. Joyce’s net average was like 94th in the country. I think I’m being overly critical on him. Lou was great for us all those years so I had high expectations.
 
I couldn't agree more. Our special teams were embarrassing between them and the Dolphins I don't know who is worse.
 
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Glad someone mentioned the punter. He wasn’t talked about enough because the defense was so bad and the offense was so good. But the guy is average at best and really hope he takes a step next year while the offense likely returns back to earth
 
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Punt unit was horrendous. Operation time between snapper and punter was garbage and so was the coverage. It wasn’t on full display because we didn’t have to punt much with our offense.

A lot of special teams is just effort it’s not hard to coach up. I saw some players make businesses decisions on coverages and tackles.
 
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