Kick off strategy?

[I-M-UR]

It is hard to question anything about that great win. I am wondering what was up with the kick offs we gave them great field position a number of times. (That said the onside kick was a major turning point)

 

[WebSpinner]

umwcah is loaded with speed and as we discovered at maryland, we do not cover speed very well, sooooooooo, rather give them better field position than touchdowns

 

[I-M-UR]

Then kick it out of the endzone or even out of bounds (the 35 isn't that bad). That way you have no return at all.

 

[Stonewall D]

Both are good points. I am not sure we have the leg to kick it out of the end zone. A couple of times we kicked a pooch kick and almost recovered it. Several times the announcers pointed out that the kicks just died.

 

[CarolinaSpider]

I think we were mixing up so much what we were doing on kickoffs that JMU did not know what to expect. I think Yoder can kick now down to the goal
line a majority of time, but maybe there is not enough confidence that we are going to stop them within the 30.

 

[72Spider]

Kickoffs are kind of a head scratcher. Think it was the VMI game where Yoder kicked every kickoff into the endzone with ease (not wind aided). Haven't seen that since.

 

[DTSpider]

I thought the kickoff strategy was pretty outstanding yesterday. We had JMU confused as to what to expect.

The biggest issue with kickoffs is that there are not enough players that want to be kickers to fill up the rosters. Even the power 5 conferences struggle some in this area. Yoder is a very good kicker, let's just be happy to have him.

 

[Stonewall D]

I thought the kickoff strategy was pretty outstanding yesterday. We had JMU confused as to what to expect.

The biggest issue with kickoffs is that there are not enough players that want to be kickers to fill up the rosters. Even the power 5 conferences struggle some in this area. Yoder is a very good kicker, let's just be happy to have him.

Yoder is outstanding.

 

[WebSpinner]

again, don't think it is so much the kicker as it is covering speed

 

[urfan1]

I think we are very fortunate to have Yoder. I like him a lot. That said his long kicks don't have a great deal of elevation, compare it to their kicker yesterday, he could kick inside the 5 with the ball so high their defenders were at the 10 before the ball got to our receiver on several occasions

 

[SpiderRick]

Yoder has been consistent, thank God I no longer close my eyes during extra points. But minus the VMI game Yoder has had very few touchbacks. And it seems like everyone we play has a guy that can kick it into the endzone. Yoder certainly has good size for a kicker. Whatever happened to that McCall kid?

 

[SpiderFan26]

McCall quit, as did Kassebaum

 

[I-M-UR]

Yoder is a good kicker, probably one of the best we've had and I've seen it kicked through the end zone so I was just wondering about the strategy.

 

[spiderjpo]

Situational kicking on most kickoffs. Got to give him a lot of credit for that 48 yard FG in the 4th into JMU student section to put us up two scores. A far cry from where we were three years years ago when everybody was wondering why we had no kicker.