Doug LaMaurice

I actually don't think special teams coordinators have a whole lot to do with whether or not a kid misses or makes a field goal.

I'm sure he has an opinion about it, and you're right.

He should have been asked about it.

And I think, you know, you can, as best you can, create simulations and practice of those high-pressure situations or, I don't know, make your kicker.

It's like what you do in basketball, right?

Make them run until they can't stand up anymore and then go kick a field goal, right?

You do the same thing, like make basketball players run until they can't stand up and then make them go shoot free throws.

I think it's pretty similar.

Like kicking to me, it's like pitching in baseball.

Like if you haven't done it, you can't coach it.

So I don't know.

Robbie Disher was not a kicker.

I know Gunnar Daniel, who's part of the special teams operation at Ohio State, I think he does work a little more closely with the kickers, I think was a long snapper.

So it's like they're in the world of special teams, but it's a very specialized thing to kick a football.

So I think there are limits to what a coach can actually impart on those guys unless you are specifically a kicking trainer, which most teams pro and professional, excuse me, pro in college, I think don't have.

I've seen plenty of stories about that over the years, right?

Like why don't teams have kicking specialists in this money is probably the answer, but so I don't know.

That's the most obvious thing.

Their punt operation has not been good.

They're giving up too much in field position.