🏈 JK Scott Snubbed...

[TUSKtimes]

Ray Guy Award addresses omission of Alabama’s JK Scott

 

[sean]

two of the criteria they listed don't really fall on the punter:

number of punts and % of punts not returned.

if the head coach doesn't call for a punt, or if the offense is good at driving the field, then there's no reason to punt.

and if the returner decides to return the punt, even if he's stopped for a very short gain due to excellent kick coverage, then that isn't on the punter either (maybe indirectly due to height/distance of punt).

one of the others, % of punts downed inside the 20, is kind of misleading to me. if the punt goes through the end zone for a touchback, is that considered being downed inside the 20; seeing as how the ball is placed at the 20?




i know none of this matters since they didn't put him on the finalist list, but it's still a bs reason.

 

[BamaFan334]

Sounds like some serious bullshit to me. Pisses me the fuck off when they look at black and white numbers without taking into consideration a dominating team and other aspects of football. "He outkicks his coverage"? This a serious comment. Since when was it a punter's job to kick it short enough to be covered, yet not too far? Just bone up that your panel fucked up and didn't add a Top 5 punter.

 

[RollTyd98]

He's definitely one the best punters in the nation and it is a travesty that he's not a finalist for the award. I do have a couple of observations I've made from this year.

Our punt coverage team has to take some of the blame. Several times this year the ball has landed inside the five and we never have someone to down it. They always fall for the fake fair catch running upfield.

Aside from that, JK booms his punts but he has trouble with ball control. If the ball lands inside the five it bounces hard toward the goal line. Tough to react to. Like blasting a four iron instead of the settling seven iron.

Early in the year it appeared he was trying to use the corner and angle some out of bounds on shorter kicks, but after one was way off target and crossed the side line way up field that game plan was scrapped.

 

[bamachine]

Worse was him losing in 2014. He averaged 2 yards per kick higher than the winner and more than any punter in the NFL that year.

They seem to have an unnatural love for Utah punters.