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<blockquote data-quote="Bruce Wayne" data-source="post: 82847" data-attributes="member: 231"><p>I will take this opportunity to make my observation on Butker. Getting into a second year now he is incredibly consistent in what he does well and what he does poorly. He is a distance kicker, has an incredibly strong leg. But he cannot kick from hash marks unless he is very deep as well. It seems like he has so much power in the kick that they will stay straight way too long to be accurate from close in unless he is straight on in the middle of the field. I think he can't get the curve needed in his kicks unless the ball has enough space to fly and gently get into its cut. Probably due to leg strength again.</p><p></p><p>In a similar fashion he cannot angle kickoffs. Given the distance and his strength they end up out of bounds so far. In the GSU game I think he was at first being intentionally asked to try and angle some kickoffs or effectively kick them short enough to entice a return so our kick coverage team could get some work in. The first one went out of bounds. Then after that his short kicks to get a return were not that effective plus the kick coverage team looked real weak. Therefore, ever since he seems to have been told to just kick the ball out of the endzone. He is great at that, again tons of leg strength and distance.</p><p></p><p>So unless he can develop more in the areas he is not great at then I think CPJ needs to play to Butker's strengths and avoid his weaknesses. Or possibly even see if one of the backup kickers can prove to be consistent in the two areas Butker is weak in (angled or intentionally shorter kickoffs and hashmark fg attempts back to the 35).</p><p></p><p>I was not at all worried about if Butker was going to make the game winning FG because the offense was intentionally running to the exact middle of the field to set it up for him. I think the offense may need to run 3rd down plays with getting to the middle of the field in mind if it is a situation based on distance for the first down where a FG attempt on 4th down is highly likely. Otherwise go for it on 4th and short if we are stuck on a hash closer than 35 yards to the endzone.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bruce Wayne, post: 82847, member: 231"] I will take this opportunity to make my observation on Butker. Getting into a second year now he is incredibly consistent in what he does well and what he does poorly. He is a distance kicker, has an incredibly strong leg. But he cannot kick from hash marks unless he is very deep as well. It seems like he has so much power in the kick that they will stay straight way too long to be accurate from close in unless he is straight on in the middle of the field. I think he can't get the curve needed in his kicks unless the ball has enough space to fly and gently get into its cut. Probably due to leg strength again. In a similar fashion he cannot angle kickoffs. Given the distance and his strength they end up out of bounds so far. In the GSU game I think he was at first being intentionally asked to try and angle some kickoffs or effectively kick them short enough to entice a return so our kick coverage team could get some work in. The first one went out of bounds. Then after that his short kicks to get a return were not that effective plus the kick coverage team looked real weak. Therefore, ever since he seems to have been told to just kick the ball out of the endzone. He is great at that, again tons of leg strength and distance. So unless he can develop more in the areas he is not great at then I think CPJ needs to play to Butker's strengths and avoid his weaknesses. Or possibly even see if one of the backup kickers can prove to be consistent in the two areas Butker is weak in (angled or intentionally shorter kickoffs and hashmark fg attempts back to the 35). I was not at all worried about if Butker was going to make the game winning FG because the offense was intentionally running to the exact middle of the field to set it up for him. I think the offense may need to run 3rd down plays with getting to the middle of the field in mind if it is a situation based on distance for the first down where a FG attempt on 4th down is highly likely. Otherwise go for it on 4th and short if we are stuck on a hash closer than 35 yards to the endzone. [/QUOTE]
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