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<blockquote data-quote="Magooch" data-source="post: 1085120" data-attributes="member: 17987"><p>I think that's pretty much exactly it.</p><p>1. Whelan has a HUGE leg. He's tied for the longest overall yardage in the league per punt. His "long punt" in each game this season has been 65, 55, 63, 43, 56, 63, 56, 59, 61, 63, 72(!), 55, 57 yards. Distance is no issue. </p><p>2. He probably does put a few too many in the end zone, but to some extent I think this is the result of both A.) his leg power and B.) our field position</p><p>3. We just don't punt that much to begin with. As mentioned above we are 27th in total punt attempts.</p><p>4. By extension, Green Bay is the most effective team in the league at converting 3rd downs</p><p>5. We are also generally an above-average team when it comes to converting 4th downs</p><p>6. We are often not punting in "plus territory" with many of our punts coming from DEEP in our own territory. IMO this makes it so there is not always a super feasible window to down a punt inside the 20. </p><p></p><p>For example, in the first game against the Bears, we punted from our own 26, 34, 24, 33. That's an average position of GB29, so to get it inside the opponent 20 it needs to be at minimum a 51 yard punt (which is, incidentally, right at Whelan's average. Note also that the league average yards per punt is 47.0), or at maximum a 70 yard punt, and then needs to be downed or go out of bounds somewhere in this window. </p><p></p><p>What this suggests to me is that Whelan is either "outkicking his coverage" and our coverage units aren't getting onto the ball in time to down it in that window, or he needs to work a little bit on refining placement vs power. Overall I think Whelan is a great punter, and to be honest on the whole I am not super concerned about our punt *coverage* teams. But our punt return teams are totally disgusting <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/biggrin.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":D" title="Big Grin :D" data-shortname=":D" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Magooch, post: 1085120, member: 17987"] I think that's pretty much exactly it. 1. Whelan has a HUGE leg. He's tied for the longest overall yardage in the league per punt. His "long punt" in each game this season has been 65, 55, 63, 43, 56, 63, 56, 59, 61, 63, 72(!), 55, 57 yards. Distance is no issue. 2. He probably does put a few too many in the end zone, but to some extent I think this is the result of both A.) his leg power and B.) our field position 3. We just don't punt that much to begin with. As mentioned above we are 27th in total punt attempts. 4. By extension, Green Bay is the most effective team in the league at converting 3rd downs 5. We are also generally an above-average team when it comes to converting 4th downs 6. We are often not punting in "plus territory" with many of our punts coming from DEEP in our own territory. IMO this makes it so there is not always a super feasible window to down a punt inside the 20. For example, in the first game against the Bears, we punted from our own 26, 34, 24, 33. That's an average position of GB29, so to get it inside the opponent 20 it needs to be at minimum a 51 yard punt (which is, incidentally, right at Whelan's average. Note also that the league average yards per punt is 47.0), or at maximum a 70 yard punt, and then needs to be downed or go out of bounds somewhere in this window. What this suggests to me is that Whelan is either "outkicking his coverage" and our coverage units aren't getting onto the ball in time to down it in that window, or he needs to work a little bit on refining placement vs power. Overall I think Whelan is a great punter, and to be honest on the whole I am not super concerned about our punt *coverage* teams. But our punt return teams are totally disgusting :D [/QUOTE]
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