US Egg Posted 12 hours ago Share Posted 12 hours ago There’s always room for improvement, but Martin had a good season last year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave mcbride Posted 2 hours ago Share Posted 2 hours ago On 10/21/2024 at 10:11 AM, DabillsDaBillsDaBills said: As you said, T Bass's struggles have been well documented. Sam Martin has been flying under the radar as a pretty bad punter. His 47.5 yard average punt is 18th in the league, but his 40.3 average net punt is 27th. His kicks tend to not go very far and are in the middle of the field with poor hang time. That's a bad combination. Coverage has been spotty as well, we were the first team to allow a kickoff return for a TD in this new format back in week 1. Coaching is also suspect. Remember when we had a kickoff from the 50 yard line towards the end of the Jets game? Had we kicked the ball out of bounds the Jets would've started their drive at the 25. Instead we kicked for a touchback and Jets started at the 30. Either Bass meant to kick it out and butchered it (entirely possible), or our coaches don't know the rulebook. https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/41908327/houston-texans-kickoff-loophole-green-bay-packers-kaimi-fairbairn-week-7 Re Martin, he's had to kick in two high wind games (AZ and TN) and had punts of 27 yards and 34 yards into the wind. No other punter has to regularly deal with the windiest stadium in the league. That should be factored in. In Houston - a controlled environment - he punted 8 times and averaged 50.1 yards per kick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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