One of my favorite aspects of football is watching the linemen and receivers running downfield to make play-extending blocks. It's such a stat-less component of the game--but so fun to watch.
What they do is such a huge part of the game. They need to make up a statistic for it so that casual fans can appreciate it more and so they have more coverage in analysis. Could maybe increase their pay too someday.
I dont know about "disrespectful", but I am curious what the point was of a sneak punt on 3rd and 10 with 3 mins in the game while holding a 5 score lead
i dont understand how do the chasers end up on the other side of the field compared to the ball, like surely youd be watching the ball rather than receivers?
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I’m Australian…I’ve been watching these nfl punts for about three weeks now and I STILL don’t see what the big deal is with the deep punts. Aussie Rules thus occurs about every three minutes
I'll never understand how the punting team falls for that shit. Don't they have at least a brief huddle and say "I'm punting to the right (or left) side of the field this time" I mean...the kicker has _some_ control over it.
Think of it this way. When you’re punting, you’re switching to defense, yeah? Ans you want to make a tackle as far back as possible, or secure the ball, with blockers on the field you have to watch out for. Would it be smarter to run slower, looking in the sky for a ball you can’t see well because it’s sky high, and then get blasted by a blocker, or run full speed towards where the kick returner is, where you know that ball is going 99% of the time
@@Prsethsun Yeah, I get you dont wanna be looking up in the sky while your running downfield. And that without some other instructions, you're most likely gonna react to what's happening in front of you. So if the receiving team starts drifting left, you would go left too (or vice-versa). That's exactly why I would huddle up briefly and tell my guys, "I'm kicking it to the right", so matter which way the blockers set up, my guys are going to go right. That way we dont fall for that stupid shit. And if they do try it, they'll be screwed. It wouldnt be that hard to do a quick huddle first.
Since I never punted a football in my life, it makes me an authority on the internet to raise this question: Why doesn’t the punting team call the side the ball is punted? I wonder every time I see one of those plays where the tacklers are chasing the guy on the wrong side of the field.
They do, but it’s always possible that your punter fucked up, and watching and focusing the returner is the best wag to efficiently get down field and make a tackle
@@zrtgvbnjkop Yes, exactly, which is why 1% of the time it can backfire, but statistically, plays like the ones in the video have only happened like 3 times ever
Same as in 1:06 play. Punt returner goes to opposite sideline as the punt, draws opponents attention to him, while his teammate runs below the ball, catches it and makes a return.
1:45 I know for a fact the announcers did not just call that a smart move. Why kick a medium distance field goal and tie the game when you could kick it away, get 0 points to make your opponent only have to go an extra 20 yards. That is the most disgusting punt decision I have ever seen.
I dont understand why you dont wanna take those esay 3 points and then kick the ball inside the 20??? especially if you are only in 2nd quarter and down by 3???
They’re not super common, but sometimes (especially in games youre winning” forgoing the 3rd down on 3rd and long and doing whats called a “quick punt” is an effective way of pinning your opponent back, because there won’t be a punt returner.
How do you not look up while running down the field on a punt and see where the ball is heading, even my fucking dog notices the ball when its in the peak of the arch while were playing fetch
To anyone else who ever sees this video, and thinks “hOw do tHe plAyErs gEt fAkeD ouT bY the pUnt, whY doNt thEy loOk whErE tHe bALL iS flYinG?” Think of this scenario with your big boy brains. Does sprinting and looking 200 feet into the air for a ball you can’t see well, while having super athletes sprinting at you to clock you into another dimension sound like a good idea? Or running to where the returner is, where the ball is going 99% of the time?
I'd spend 10 seconds first making sure I told all my guys which side of the field I'm gonna punt the ball to. And I'd do that 100% of the time. Cuz champions don't do 99%.
@@joeroscoe3708 Well dude, no shit they know where the ball is SUPPOSED to go, but punters make errors and occasionally boot it to the wrong spot, which is why they know where its going 99% of the time. Thats why this fake is effective, it relies on the possibility of human error
@@Prsethsun Well, obviously you can't _plan_ on a punter fucking up, right? You have to _plan_ on him doing his job. So, when this play happens (and it works out for the rec'v team)... Do you think it's due to human error by the punter? Or... Do you think the receiving team _plans_ to do it? Since it can't be both. Which is it? Obviously the answer is...the recieving team plans to do it. But it wouldn't work if everyone on the kicking team _knew_ exactly where the ball was going. Would it? No, it would not. So why not take 10 seconds to make sure everyone knows where youre gonna kick it? And if you don't think nfl punters can kick the ball exactly where they want to, you should check out some nfl punting practices. Those guys can drop it in a garbage can from 65 yards away. And if they do happen to shank it, the whole rec'v team isn't gonna know to automatically sprint into the fake play. They wouldn't really know he shanked it til after anyway.
@@joeroscoe3708 Trust me, I have crazy respect for punters, those dudes are nuts with what they can do with a football, and you’re absolutely right, receiving teams purposefully plan this fake. The reason this fake works, is of course the punting team knows “Okay, it’s punt right so the ball is supposed to go right” and in practice, they’re going to practice blindly sprinting to where the returner is or where the ball is supposed to go. They PRACTICE watching where the returner goes, regardless of the play call because they know thats where the ball has to be going 99% of the time, that way even if the punter manages to somehow fuck up, they still have an idea of where the ball is going. They practice following where the returner goes. So when the returner goes the wrong way on purpose, the punt team is gonna figure thats where the ball is going regardless of what they originally play called
@@joeroscoe3708 And if you still think thats wrong, the proof is in the pudding of these fakes that these return teams ran, they all flow to where the returner is regardless of the playcall, which is why they worked. Of course a few players, generally the punter and long snapper were like “Oh shit, its a fake!” But not the guys sprinting down field
Think of it this way. When you’re punting, you’re switching to defense, yeah? Ans you want to make a tackle as far back as possible, or secure the ball, with blockers on the field you have to watch out for. Would it be smarter to run slower, looking in the sky for a ball you can’t see well because it’s sky high, and then get blasted by a blocker, or run full speed towards where the kick returner is, where you know that ball is going 99% of the time
@@Prsethsun I guess this is an American Football thing with the blockers tackling off the ball. Because in Rugby the same can be said about moving to defence and wanting to tackle high up the pitch but you watch the ball because you don't need to worry about getting blasted. Interesting how very similar sports are so different.
I don't understand how one guy can pretend to catch the ball on one side of the field when it's actually going to completely the other side of the field. Don't they know where the ball is going?
Yes, but you never know if your punter fucked up, and you can’t be looking 200 feet in the air with other super athletes running at you to deliver the pain train
I live in a country where we don't play American Football, as it is known outside of the USA, but I enjoy watching highlights from time to time. However, I can't wrap my head around the fake out under a punt, where the defending team makes the chasing team think the ball has gone to one side of the field, while the ball is actually going the other way, leaving the receiver with an open run back downfield. It means the kicking side's players are all bloody idiots, because they just blindly run upfield. None of them actually looks at the flight of the ball to see where they're supposed to go. No wonder receiving teams have cottoned on to the fact that it's easy to trick them into going the wrong way! I'm sure football fans could go into detailed explanations as to why this is clever, but to an outsider, it just makes football players look stupid. Or gullible.
Thats okay, this is a misconception a lot of people who don’t know football have, and as someone who does play American Football Ill explain. When you punt the ball to the other team, your goal is to tackle the punt returner (the guy who catches the ball and runs) as far back as you can, or secure the football. The other team is going to have blockers trying to block for said returner. So if you’re running, trying to keep track of a ball thats like 200 feet in the air, you’re running slower probably for one, and you’re likely to get absolutely blasted by someone on the opposing team. Whereas its much easier to sprint full speed ahead at where the returner is, because you know thats where the ball is going 99% of the time. It’s the same as say, walking across a road, at a non-crosswalk, looking into the sky with oncoming teaffic
1:42 why are the announcers gushing over this like it’s some sort of genius call. 48 yards is a makeable field goal and gets you 3 points A punt gets you nothing and gives your opponent the ball for free. This is braindead football
wtf is up with the texans faking a 44 yd field goal and instead punting it, is 44 yds to much to ask from an NFL kicker, they were down 3-0 in the second quarter, what i dont get even more is why the announcers see that as a good move????? its not like the game was on the line if they miss the kick, like there is literally absolutely no logic in that play call
@@Prsethsun it isn’t as if your head is on an articulating joint is it. What a load of bill shit. Rugby League and Union manage it. Just the padded ones can’t manage it? Bollocks.
Not seeing the exact angle it comes off the foot, especially if youre engaged with another beefy 300 pound lineman, isnt too unreasonable. Add on that wind could make a kick move in the air too and its reasonable most players wouldnt be able to directly tell where the ball is overhead
The kicking team won’t be looking at the sky to see where the punt is, It would be hard to just look up in a split second, i’d they look up to look for the ball, they’d lose speed or focus on the game. The only one who really knows is the kicker and the returner. The rest are just following the people they think know.
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