Why is the Coffin Corner...

[DAWGS1.sixpack]

NOT a thing anymore ?
Pisses me off to no end to see punters just punt it straight down the field and HOPE they can down it inside the 10.
Most times it goes into the EZ and comes out to the 20
Have a neighbor that he and I both say if you just kick the damn ball out of bounds it one, eliminates any returns and two, even if it goes out at the 19, hell you still gained a yard.
Used to be an art and a pride thing for punters to be able to kick it OB inside the 20

 

[forestdepth]

Because they would rather have in hang in the air for an eternity and get a fair catch.

 

[bruiser.sixpack]

Since they learned the art of kicking it high and short from inside the 45 by dropping the ball on their foot point first, that has made punting more of a weapon on a field too long for a FG.

 

[DAWGS1.sixpack]

But doesn’t work very often !!

 

[patdog]

Too easy to mishit it and get a touchback or a kick that goes out of bounds outside the 20. Punters these days can pretty consistently kick it high to about the 10 yard line. There won't be a return.

 

[dawgman42]

Swede needs to weigh in on this one.

 

[Puppychow]

Simple... The coffin corner kick eliminates the possibility of seeing a muff.

 

[Lawdawg.sixpack]

Someone tell our punters to stop doing this ^^^ from our own side of the field...

 

[She Mate Me]

Since they learned the art of kicking it high and short from inside the 45 by dropping the ball on their foot point first, that has made punting more of a weapon on a field too long for a FG.

Exactly. Logan Cooke was drafted partly because he's really good at this.

 

[RutherfordBHayes]

Yes!! Aim at the 5 yd line and kick as hard as you want to.
The downside is that you put the spot in the hands of the referees.

 

[thekimmer]

Because the current approach is more consistently effective....

NOT a thing anymore ?
Pisses me off to no end to see punters just punt it straight down the field and HOPE they can down it inside the 10.
Most times it goes into the EZ and comes out to the 20
Have a neighbor that he and I both say if you just kick the damn ball out of bounds it one, eliminates any returns and two, even if it goes out at the 19, hell you still gained a yard.
Used to be an art and a pride thing for punters to be able to kick it OB inside the 20

For short field punts its easier to sky it inside the 20 and 9 times out of 10 you get a fair catch around the 10 yard line. Attached is some debate about it.

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[Jeffreauxdawg]

It's just more effective. If you play golf you understand that hitting an iron off the tee is easy because you have a wide fairway. If you are hitting it at a green surrounded by hazards you have to control distance and accuracy. Same with punting. All you have to do do is focus on distance.

Statistics in the NFL back it up. In 2003 zero punters averaged more than 40% of their punts netting inside the 20. In 2018 17 NFL punters are over 40%. 2 of them are over 50%. It's considerably more effective to hit the wedge ball.

 

[thekimmer]

It's just more effective. If you play golf you understand that hitting an iron off the tee is easy because you have a wide fairway. If you are hitting it at a green surrounded by hazards you have to control distance and accuracy. Same with punting. All you have to do do is focus on distance.

Statistics in the NFL back it up. In 2003 zero punters averaged more than 40% of their punts netting inside the 20. In 2018 17 NFL punters are over 40%. 2 of them are over 50%. It's considerably more effective to hit the wedge ball.

There are many things that have changed over the years because of rules changes, equipment improvements, bigger, stronger, faster players.

In this case I see similarity to the rise of the 'soccer style' kicker in the 60s/70s that eventually made the straight-on style extinct and was a foreign import by soccer players from europ & later latin america. In this case punting is being fundamentally changed by australian imports from aussie rules football.

 

[HumpDawgy]

The downside is that you put the spot in the hands of the referees.

This! I'm not sold on refs spotting where the ball went out correctly.