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I’ve been so impressed with the punting unit this year. Our punter is EVERY bit as good as Iowa's. Coverage is excellent. Being able to make field goals out to 45+ yards is a nice change. The only bad part about yesterday was the kick return squad. Nearly gave me a heart attack TWICE by misjudging the depth of kicks. The first luckily bounced into the end zone. The second lacked 3” of being 1st and goal Iowa. The other downside (and this is part due to Iowa's excellent coverage) was the lack of punt return yardage.
 
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acoustimac said:
I’ve been so impressed with the punting unit this year. Our punter is EVERY bit as good as Iowa's. Coverage is excellent. Being able to make field goals out to 45+ yards is a nice change. The only bad part about yesterday was the kick return squad. Nearly gave me a heart attack TWICE by misjudging the depth of kicks. The first luckily bounced into the end zone. The second lacked 3” of being 1st and goal Iowa. The other downside (and this is part due to Iowa's excellent coverage) was the lack of punt return yardage.
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Agree 100%. Huge improvements on ST this year. I’d like to see a different return man as we continue to make poor decisions to catch or let it go.
 
One of the consistent troubles from last year has been Jaylin Noel's performance as both a returner and a WR. Lots of drops and bad decisions. When he does things right, he's really good. But he does things wrong often enough that I'm not sure he's a net positive. Seems to get in his own head and make a series of bad plays in a row. Disappointing for a junior with as much game experience as he has. I hope he can turn it around.
 
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So, when Iowa lines up 10 players expecting an onside kick and their 11th player is 50 yards behind them, why not consider a short kick behind them. We recover that kick and we score no one to stop us. Did anyone else notice that?
 
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hiltonisheaven said:
Agree 100%. Huge improvements on ST this year. I’d like to see a different return man as we continue to make poor decisions to catch or let it go.
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In two games we’ve muffed a snap on an XP and had a FG blocked.
 
besserheimerphat said:
One of the consistent troubles from last year has been Jaylin Noel's performance as both a returner and a WR. Lots of drops and bad decisions. When he does things right, he's really good. But he does things wrong often enough that I'm not sure he's a net positive. Seems to get in his own head and make a series of bad plays in a row. Disappointing for a junior with as much game experience as he has. I hope he can turn it around.
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There's a damned if you do/damned if you don't to returning punts.

All we've heard for several years is wanting someone back there to at least field the punt so it doesn't roll another 15 yards.

So, Noel catches bouncers to limit the extra roll, and gets tagged for it. Then the complaint turns to why can't he get any positive yards.
 
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Clone95 said:
To be fair, Noel did great returning punts against UNI. I’ll cut him some slack returning Taylor’s punts.
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I’d argue those punts vs UNI were extremely well-blocked and a different returner could have made someone miss to get more yards instead of running out of bounds.
 
Taylor for EIU is an NFL level punter, great hangtime and distance. He had a poor day with a couple off the side of his foot but there is a reason he was on some preseason All-America lists.
 
Perkins and Contreraz have both been great, but I’m not sure that I would say much improved. Field goal blocked, along with Noel looking completely lost on kick/punt returns, it was a complete regression from everything positive we saw against UNI
 
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theshadow said:
There's a damned if you do/damned if you don't to returning punts.

All we've heard for several years is wanting someone back there to at least field the punt so it doesn't roll another 15 yards.

So, Noel catches bouncers to limit the extra roll, and gets tagged for it. Then the complaint turns to why can't he get any positive yards.
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No, that was fine. I'm not as worried about the punt returns because they are just really hard. But letting a kickoff land on the goal line is terrible.
 
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Towards the end of the game I think #14 returned a punt. Not sure if it's indication of anything larger. Looks like Stanley, wasn't sure who 14 is on defense
 
acoustimac said:
I’ve been so impressed with the punting unit this year. Our punter is EVERY bit as good as Iowa's. Coverage is excellent. Being able to make field goals out to 45+ yards is a nice change. The only bad part about yesterday was the kick return squad. Nearly gave me a heart attack TWICE by misjudging the depth of kicks. The first luckily bounced into the end zone. The second lacked 3” of being 1st and goal Iowa. The other downside (and this is part due to Iowa's excellent coverage) was the lack of punt return yardage.
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Hope we make an adjustment there and the returner doesn't step out in front of the endzone. Shows we're definitely not being aggressive on returns at all .
 
I’m not sure how you field that kickoff to right at the goal line and then a bounce out properly. I’ve never seen anything like what might have happened, happen.
 
Kinch said:
So, when Iowa lines up 10 players expecting an onside kick and their 11th player is 50 yards behind them, why not consider a short kick behind them. We recover that kick and we score no one to stop us. Did anyone else notice that?
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If you mean recover and score you wouldn't be able to advance the recovery.
 
besserheimerphat said:
One of the consistent troubles from last year has been Jaylin Noel's performance as both a returner and a WR. Lots of drops and bad decisions. When he does things right, he's really good. But he does things wrong often enough that I'm not sure he's a net positive. Seems to get in his own head and make a series of bad plays in a row. Disappointing for a junior with as much game experience as he has. I hope he can turn it around.
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Noel had one turd of a performance against the Squawks.
 
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