You could put vintage Tim Brown or vintage Rocket back there and it would make very little difference.There is never a seam they can exploit. The blocking scheme, if there is one, is terrible. Tyree had one return last night, he fielded it on the 3 and was nearly decapitated on the 10; that’s not on the returner.
Kelly spends no practice time on special teams because he doesn’t think they are important. Until he does, it’s not going to change.
I’ve read that Lou devoted 1/3 of practice to them. Not coincidentally, he had great STs. Look at Bama’s kickoffs last night. They kicked off 6 times and every one of them went to the same spot in the field. They had a plan.
New returners won’t change anything.
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