Crossman gone

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/spt/stories/021410dnspospecialteams.3df2052.html

 

It doesn't seem like having a roster spot for a place kicker is helping all that much, either.

 

Sadly, as long as Kasay is here we have to have someone else to KO.

 

I think the appeal of having the next guy on-roster is there, too. I think the appeal lessens when teams will still bring balls out from five yards deep, but there's no rational reason that something that is affected by literally nothing other than the player would vary from 2008 to 2009. But he didn't have more kicks in the endzone than others, even though he was high on the list.

FWIW, we tied for 12th in 2008 in the same rankings. I know people dismissed it out of hand, but we really didn't have but the one special teamer for part of the year- Wesley. Even Jake Delhomme said they needed a guy like Curry, and obviously we missed Goings out there too. Guys like Culbertson came in and had around ten tackles in five or six games because what else we had was terrible.

I don't want to give the guy too much credit, we haven't been that good at special teams in years. A few extra gunners and one less KR specialist wouldn't make our return blocking or the mental errors better.

 

we were 20th in 2004, his last year. Couldn't find rankings before that.

 

whatever years he was here, combined the panthers rank dead last

 

Under O'Brien?

 

I think he means Crossman since that would be true.
I actually don't know that it is, but I remember us being dreadfully bad in many cumulative areas over the last five years.

 

Agreed, but I'd feel a lot better if Lloyd started kicking FGs in pre-season or something.

True, and much to Lloyd's chagrin, I'm sure. On the upside, I think if our coverage improves to an acceptible level, we should see a LOT more kneel-downs.