Posts tagged Special Teams

Special teams math seems like it should be easy, yet mistakes continue to abound. Chuck Zodda examines all the angles of special teams, including how even a point …

Special teams often do strange things, and so much can go wrong even on routine sequences. Stupid decisions on trick plays certainly don’t help. The …

Although the Florida State Seminoles emerged victorious against the Florida Gators, they committed egregious errors on special teams. In Part 1 of this two-part ST …

Football is a game played with eleven players on each team. All NFL and college football fans know this. Aunt Sally knows this. So how …

Measuring special teams effectiveness with the stats can be tricky. There’s only one way to know which units are consistently performing at a high-level and which …

Most kick returns for a touchdown are big plays, changing the momentum in the game. This is not one of those plays. The Chicago Bears …

Darren Sproles punt return for a Philadelphia Eagles touchdown against the Carolina Panthers helped lift his team to a 7-2 record. Special teams have been …

Football Central University covers everything in college football ‒ Ivy League rivalries in the rain, games with an impact on the national title race, Heisman …

Punters are weird, weird people. Often employed as the holder for field goal and point-after attempts, they handle the ball more than most NFL players. …

Julian Edelman of the New England Patriots is one of the best punt returners in the NFL. Not the best of all-time ‒ that’s still Devin …