🏈 Not having a good kicker.......

[Southern Bama]

Is going to really come back and bite us in the azz one day.......How is it that Bama cant recruit decent kickers

 

[bamatommy]

That's a good question. Bama keeps getting Top 5 recruiting classes, but a kicker of punter can win---or cost--the game in a tight contest.

 

[russb8903]

Supposedly we have the best kicker ever in the whole entire world committed, so that probably won't work out.

 

[BamaFan615]

Maybe Terry or someone can either confirm this or shoot it down. I have read that Cade Foster is lights out in practice, but it doesn't translate to the playing field. I remember seeing film of him coming out of HS that seemed to portray a guy that put it in the back of the end zone every single kickoff, and had a leg that was out of this world. The knock on him was his accuracy, not his leg.

Can anyone confirm or deny this? It seems kinda odd to me.

 

[bamatommy]

How could you kick great in practice but not in the game? Is it getting nervous, leg getting tense, etc?

 

[Southern Bama]

To muddy up the water even more.....did yall notice that after Foster got hurt and Shelley was doing kickoffs......that he was kicking longer than Foster.....our "long distance" kicker......:headscratch: If we have a kicking game like that against LSU.....giving them the ball on the 35 to 50 yard line after every kickoff, will make for a very long day. Special teams tackling was poor also.

 

[bamafan9201]

I'm equally disturbed by this problem. I was also under the impression that Cade was a booming kicker, but it seems that he's been working too much on upper body strength and none on lower body and is so lax that is affecting his kickoffs. I wouldn't be terribly surprised if CNS doesn't bring the hammer down on him to step it up or he'll find someone who can.

 

[bamaupsman]

I wouldn't blame CNS of he brought the whole soccer team out to practice during the bye week. Our kickoffs are sorry.

 

[EuroTide]

. I remember seeing film of him coming out of HS that seemed to portray a guy that put it in the back of the end zone every single kickoff, and had a leg that was out of this world.

i´ve been asking myself the very same question on most of the kick offs too as i remember those videos aswell

 

[BamaFan615]

Just found that video on youtube and it appears that he was kicking from the 40 yard line, as opposed to the 30 yard line that they kick from in college football.

As good of a football team that we have, this could really come back to bite us at some point. LSU comes to mind with the "Honey Badger" back there returning kicks. Speaking of which, that boys jaws do about 1000RPM, I hope he doesn't get a chance to get them moving against us. Either that or the refs pop him with a taunting penalty early on.

 

[TerryP]

Did anyone pay attn. to how often we were out of our lanes?

 

[LBS]

Just found that video on youtube and it appears that he was kicking from the 40 yard line, as opposed to the 30 yard line that they kick from in college football.

As good of a football team that we have, this could really come back to bite us at some point. LSU comes to mind with the "Honey Badger" back there returning kicks. Speaking of which, that boys jaws do about 1000RPM, I hope he doesn't get a chance to get them moving against us. Either that or the refs pop him with a taunting penalty early on.

Tackling after the kick, good defense, and a running game that is on track should save the day. It only comes into play if we fail at the big, important things. Its akin to losing because your place kicker can't kick a 55 yard FG...the game was lost before the kicker took the field.

 

[Southern Bama]

Did anyone pay attn. to how often we were out of our lanes?

I didnt notice it as much....( prolly cause I was bitchin about the kickoffs landing on the 20 yard line ) but do recall a few issues with that.

 

[BAMA JAMMA]

Running down the lanes has nothing to do with the kicker being inept at anything further than the 20 yard line. When both of those aren't working right we see what the result is.

I'm just stumped as to why a) nobody on our team can kick it past the 20 yard line b) we don't recruit kickers like other SEC teams do.

 

[russb8903]

I'm not sure the honey badger isnt a little overrated as a DB. When they were talking about how he tweeted #21 wouldn"t catch a ball all day, and then 21 did just that while dragging said honey badger around for 15 yards was pretty amusing.

 

[Southern Bama]

I'm not sure the honey badger isnt a little overrated as a DB. When they were talking about how he tweeted #21 wouldn"t catch a ball all day, and then 21 did just that while dragging said honey badger around for 15 yards was pretty amusing.

He runs his trap but hes a playmaker....he goes after the ball and makes things happen.

 

[Bo]

Did anyone pay attn. to how often we were out of our lanes?

Yes, I did. And that bothers me as much or more than the shallow kicks. With good coverage, high kicks that are recieved inside the 10 can be a positive, but the tackle has to be made inside the 20, and that is not happening very much.

 

[bamafan9201]

Honestly, wouldn't need to worry about kick coverage if we can get someone to put it out the back of the end zone. High kicks are killing us right now, the coverage is decent enough, but the kicks being so far up means the other teams return for 15 yards and they are almost at the 40. It's not so much coverage issues as it is kicking issues. The only game where the coverage broke down completely was the Ole Miss game. They all washed to one side on one and got burned. I think we're going to have to squib it or something to get it where we want it.

 

[BamaDelta]

BTW did Foster lose his job for the rest of the game the other night or was he hurt from that one hit?

 

[doemasters]

i believe he was hurt, have yet to see a report though