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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BrokenArrow" data-source="post: 795322" data-attributes="member: 12225">And why are you only looking at 7 of his 89 returns?  Cobb's career average is 9.3.  He's only 28 years old.  It's not as if he's over the hill.As for this year, a few of those returns were when he had guys bearing down on him which results in a lower yard per attempt.  Davis probably wouldn't have even tried to return more than 4 or 5 of those punts.  He cherry picks his return attempts.  I also doubt he would have even touched 12 punts.  He likes to let them go over his head if there is a defender within 5 yards of him.  There were several times last year he would call for a fair catch and then abort the catch to let the ball hit the ground because he had someone in his face.  If he improved his decision-making and fielded those punts and actually tried to return some of the ones where he could help the team by picking up 3 or 4 yards, his average would go down.  But he only returns them if he has a big hole.</blockquote>

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