Uh, that turned out excellent. We started MAKING field goals instead of missing them.
You obviously misunderstood me. He wanted to keep Gano. Instead, Shanahan brought it Cundiff, against the wishes of Danny Smith. That did not turn out excellent by any stretch of the imagination. When Danny Smith was insisting on keeping Gano, Kai Forbath wasn't available.
Speaking of kickers - it took him nearly a DECADE to find one worth half a crap.
Because for a decade, every kicker that wasn't crap was locked up by their team. Hard to get when there's nothing to be gotten.
And as far as distance is concerned - Danny Smith COACHED Forbath to directional kick on kickoffs.
When you have great accuracy, but a noodle leg, you have to do something. Coaches know more than we do, and if he was doing something wrong by making that decision, then neither you or I would know it. He got cut by two other teams because he could barely get the kickoff beyond the 35.
Extreme, I get your point of view, I really do. However, special teams is ALWAYS comprised of mostly the worst players on your roster - this is true for every team in the NFL.
Which completely validates my point. When you're the coach that gets the worst players from a ridiculously horrible roster full of practice squad players, how do you shoulder the blame for their epic failures? He had zero to work with. Nothing plus nothing is still nothing, no coach can make that work.
That's the ST coach's job - take the deep bench and bubble players and turn them into a unit.
There's where the problem lies Lanky. Our starters were ****, and our bench was below ****. You can't polish a turd.
And you keep saying how poor the talent was on special teams while he was here - I disagree. Not every ST coach has Lorenzo, special teams standout, for their entire tenure.
One guy? One guy makes an entire unit not worthless? That's the best joke you've ever told. And as good as Lorenzo is, he gets flagged constantly. Is that Danny Smith's fault too, or could it be that Lorenzo Alexander is just a bone head?
As far as that article you linked goes.......any other ST coach ranks 32 every year with what Danny Smith had to work with. I'd bet money on it.
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