11 June 2014
Quote of the Day: Chris Kluwe
Former NFL punter wrote a piece for ProFootball Focus called Punt Game: Sportsballing Really Hard With Your Foot, discussing his suggestions on how to statistically measure punting:
[Currently the NFL keeps track of five measurements.]
5) Punts out of bounds – Pretty self explanatory. The punt went out of bounds. These are either really good and tough to do, if the punter hit the ball the way he wanted to and prevented a return, or REALLY bad, if he shanked it off the side of his foot and it killed some poor child in the fifth row. Unfortunately, the way the NFL tracks it, you just don’t know. All you get is that the ball went out of bounds at some point.
[Currently the NFL keeps track of five measurements.]
5) Punts out of bounds – Pretty self explanatory. The punt went out of bounds. These are either really good and tough to do, if the punter hit the ball the way he wanted to and prevented a return, or REALLY bad, if he shanked it off the side of his foot and it killed some poor child in the fifth row. Unfortunately, the way the NFL tracks it, you just don’t know. All you get is that the ball went out of bounds at some point.
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# posted by mamurd @ 8:55 PM 
