NFL Week 15: The Cowboys are in prime time again

Kickers. Some life. I wonder if Bullock brought the Steelers' extra point playbook with him.

 

That thought crossed my mind as well, though I think health up front will be a larger concern for the Steelers Sunday. Starting left guard Ramon Foster is not a sure thing to return from the chest injury that kept him out last week. B.J. Finney filled in capably, but he is in the concussion protocol. The only other guard they have is Chris Hubbard, but he has been playing nearly 30 percent of the time as an extra tackle/tight end over the last few weeks.

Defensive tackle Javon Hargrave is also still in the concussion protocol.

 

If Thursday games stay when the next CBA is done, then I don't want to hear any bitching from players. You have the ability to stop it, then do it. Yes, part of the problem is that the NFL insists on showing teams no one has any interest in seeing.

 

Serious Q, do kickers/punters get a playbook? Or is it just four pages of trick plays and that's it?

 

I hear his mother's dog is active in many ways.

 

Probably depends on the team. In some cases, the punter is the emergency quarterback, so he might have one for that reason.

 

Teams have plays for different kinds of kick coverage and different situations -- for example, forcing a return to the left or right, pooch kick, onside kicks, etc. -- so I assume they get some sort of playbook.

 

A while back, I was curious about the same question you had after, I think it was Oklahoma, gave their kicker a playbook with one page that said "kick the ball through the uprights" and nothing else.

So I did some googling, and found a couple old NFL special teams play books from the 90s (Bucs and Bengals, as I recall. There was also a Steelers one from then on sale on Amazon) They were playbooks for all special teamers, so I'm assuming kickers and punters got them. They went over all aspects of special teams, kicks, punts, returns.

They were about 75-100 pages long or so and didn't look that difficult to learn, as opposed to a regular offensive and defensive playbook with a bunch of code words. A lot of pages on having good attitude, stats and rankings on yards, goals for each unit, etc.

 

After never having won in four years of trying, I've suddenly proven victorious the last two consecutive weeks in my 20-person, straight-up office pool. Thanks to my hidden advantage, Cortana:

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Bing and Cortana’s picks – Week 14 results
81% – or 13 out of 16 games were predicted correctly by Bing and Cortana which brings their record to 128 – 80 (61.5%) on the season. With matches over 70% chance they were 100% correct and with matches over 60% it’s 7 out of 8 games predicted right.
Interestingly enough, as of the Week 11, Bing and Cortana got 48 out of 61 matches correctly – 78.6%!
It’s difficult to say why but it’s great to see such success rates.

 

I find his delivery to be concise and his logic to be impeccable.

Steve Smith Tells Patriots Fans During Game Their Moms Can Suck His Dick - Daily Snark

 

I am at 137 and 134 for the two straight up pools I am in. 128 would put him in a tie for 126th.

I am near the bottom in the spread pool I am in.