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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HardRightEdge" data-source="post: 837040">If a team's running backs carry the ball 400 times for a 4.5 yard average, that would be considered pretty darn good.  If the average was 4.0 it would be considered mediocre.  Yet over the course of a season, the difference is only 200 yards, or 12.5 yards per game.A punt returner who actually returns punts instead of fair catching, and in particular doesn't let the ball hit the ground except at the goal line and tight to the sidelines, can easily equate to the difference between a mediocre and a good running game.  He can't be fumbling those kicks, however.  A good returner who fumbles away the ball a couple times per season negates the advantage.  That's not to say the fair catch experts don't fumble the ball themselves anyway.So, yes, there is no reason to consider the return game an irrelevancy no matter how many teams may appear to treat it as such.</blockquote>

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