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Bubbles needs to be popped

madinsomniac said:
If you check those charts every year we are a meh special teams with him, which I wouldn’t care about if we didn’t always keep so many guy’s specifically because of special teams…
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THIS ^^^^^^^

How many special teams “ace” do we have? Waste of roster spots and depth. I never hear of other teams having more than one “ace”. Afforded the most but delivers the least.

Bubbles can be replaced in season and not miss a beat. I think his ties personally to HC helps !!!


Salute the nation
 
Ozzy wanted bubbles popped too.

"Bubbles? Oh come on Sharon! I'm ******* i n g Ozzy Osbourne, the Prince of ******* Darkness"

I vaguely remember this on TV. If I'm not mistaken Ozzy was gonna be interviewed and the backdrop screen had a bunch of bubbles floating upward.
 
Drink IRON City said:
THIS ^^^^^^^

How many special teams “ace” do we have? Waste of roster spots and depth. I never hear of other teams having more than one “ace”. Afforded the most but delivers the least.

Bubbles can be replaced in season and not miss a beat. I think his ties personally to HC helps !!!
Zeppo Watt, the other Watt brother.
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ST’s have sucked for most of Bubbles’ nine years here. He’s another assistant who gets to stay and draw a paycheck just because Shades is comfortable with him.
 
Stewey said:
Ozzy wanted bubbles popped too.

"Bubbles? Oh come on Sharon! I'm ******* i n g Ozzy Osbourne, the Prince of ******* Darkness"

I vaguely remember this on TV. If I'm not mistaken Ozzy was gonna be interviewed and the backdrop screen had a bunch of bubbles floating upward.
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My favorite was when they moved to a new house, the satellite dish guy was setting up the TV, and Ozzy says “Ow you work the bloody effing remote?” I still say that to the wife once in a while in a British accent.
 
Drink IRON City said:
THIS ^^^^^^^

How many special teams “ace” do we have? Waste of roster spots and depth. I never hear of other teams having more than one “ace”. Afforded the most but delivers the least.

Bubbles can be replaced in season and not miss a beat. I think his ties personally to HC helps !!!


Salute the nation
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Go to this site and sort by special teams snaps… then look at the leaders… Watt is first in special teams snaps, but as a fullback he was only in a bit under 7% of offensive snaps…
Killebrew only played 1% of defensive snaps…
I will give them Snell and Heyward… these guys were drafted as potential backup players and played special teams on the side… they were not pure specialists… but Allen? boykin.. Gunner? Even Sims to an extent…

They put Gunner on the field for 18% of Offensive plays that got us 5 catches and 8 rushes for under a hundred yards and 4 first downs… heyward, a rookie, played fewer snaps at more positions and had 12 catches and 2 rushes for about double Gunners yardage and 8 first downs plus a td… Gunner was a pure special teamer taking offensive snaps away from someone worth it… and Boykin was no better … 2 catches for 11 yards … bear in mind that we also had Sims, who was a better receiver than either of those guys but still is primarily a special teams guy…
Ant that isn’t even counting the LS,K, and P
For the amount of special teams specialists on this squad… the special teams should be much better than it is…
 
SteelerInLebanon said:
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While our punt return coverage is excellent our KO return coverage is bad not sure why such a discrepancy. Return game is also bad on KO and below average on punts.
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My "perception" has been that, on kickoffs, we kick returnable balls more often than other teams. My perception could be wrong though as my sample size is limited to Steelers' games and a few others here and there (my old football obsession has retired, all that is left is the Steelers and occasional other games for me). But, if we are kicking returnable balls more than it stands to reason we'd likely end up worse in the stats. I really don't understand why we don't kick it through the endzone more as we clearly lose more yards with our returnable kicks.

Not sure if we like kicking short because Tomlin isn't living in his fears or Smiff doesn't give a ****.
 
Steel Reign said:
My "perception" has been that, on kickoffs, we kick returnable balls more often than other teams. My perception could be wrong though as my sample size is limited to Steelers' games and a few others here and there (my old football obsession has retired, all that is left is the Steelers and occasional other games for me). But, if we are kicking returnable balls more than it stands to reason we'd likely end up worse in the stats. I really don't understand why we don't kick it through the endzone more as we clearly lose more yards with our returnable kicks.

Not sure if we like kicking short because Tomlin isn't living in his fears or Smiff doesn't give a ****.
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They kick it short to save five yards of field position.
 
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I'm not sure if it's the ST's coach or Tomlin who continually has Boz kick short on kickoffs. The opposing team gets past the 25 or even 30 almost every time they do that. Just have Boz line drive it deep into the endzone. He has plenty of leg to do it. The opposite happens when teams kick it short to us. We rarely get past the 25 or even the 20. It just makes absolutely no sense.
 
The issue is bad risk assessment and not understanding analytics… it’s dangerous…

So typically in the course of a season, if you kick it off short, you do end up with a lower starting field percentage than a team that kicks it into the end zone. Here is a breakdown from 2018… there are lots more out there advocating the same thing from various years, but its an incorrect conclusion…

www.catscratchreader.com

Sending kickoffs through the back of the end zone is an example of poor decision making

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Here is the issue… the best case scenario here is that a few times a season you get the opponent inside their fifteen… that is almost always because the opposing returner misplayed the ball. Almost all the returns end up between the 20 and the 30, and in this day and age of hyper offense, that’s really insignificant statistically
The issue is to potentially get a low chance at saving 10 to fifteen yards, you are risking a much higher chance that they will get the ball over the 40… and potentially risking a return td…

In horse racing terms, it’s basically a “show” bet on the favorite… overall if you always bet on the favorite to at least finish 3rd…you absolutely will win that bet far more overall, but you have to bet a lot to get anything significant as a return and one bad loss can wipe out all the winnings you had before and put you behind

By allowing a return you are risking 75 yards and potentially a td…
 
not that I disagree, but if we are going by statistical analysis and the OC is still employed that is a much much bigger issue.
 
SteelerSask2 said:
not that I disagree, but if we are going by statistical analysis and the OC is still employed that is a much much bigger issue.
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In both the case of Bubbles and Canada, the signs point to each simply following the orders of the higher ups.. if the boss tells you to go gather cow manure, he doesn’t fire you when your results are a giant pile of ****…
 
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