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http://www.footballoutsiders.com/extra-points/2009/wedge-really-gone
In this interview with WQXI in Atlanta, Dallas special teams coach Joe DeCamillis notes that the rules attempting to ban the wedge may not have done very much.
“I mean they say no wedge but I just watched. I go back through all the games every week and that’s what I just got done this morning and all they have done is made it two yards apart. There is still people sing two man wedges that are three yards apart and it’s the exact same returns they are running. I mean there is no difference to be honest with you. You know I think a lot was made about that and I think just like we thought, it’s not going to change much at all. What they tried to do is get the big people off the field. They tried to get the big lineman off the field but what they didn’t do is change the actives at all. You get 45 players during the game. So they can’t be linebackers and DB’s out there every single time. You have to use those big guys in certain respects and it hasn’t changed anything at all in my opinion. If they were trying to eliminate collisions I don’t think they are going to do it. Its going to be the exact same thing.”
Thanks for FO commentator Travis for the following info on NFL returns:
2009: 499 returns, 11329 yards, 22.7 avg, 1 TD, 318 20+ yard returns, 23 40+.
2008: 480 returns, 12076 yards, 25.2 avg, 5 TD, 332 20+ yard returns, 41 40+.
2007: 472 returns, 11187 yards, 23.7 avg, 1 TD, 320 20+, 26 40+.
2006: 450 returns, 10466 yards, 23.3 avg, 3 TD.
In this interview with WQXI in Atlanta, Dallas special teams coach Joe DeCamillis notes that the rules attempting to ban the wedge may not have done very much.
“I mean they say no wedge but I just watched. I go back through all the games every week and that’s what I just got done this morning and all they have done is made it two yards apart. There is still people sing two man wedges that are three yards apart and it’s the exact same returns they are running. I mean there is no difference to be honest with you. You know I think a lot was made about that and I think just like we thought, it’s not going to change much at all. What they tried to do is get the big people off the field. They tried to get the big lineman off the field but what they didn’t do is change the actives at all. You get 45 players during the game. So they can’t be linebackers and DB’s out there every single time. You have to use those big guys in certain respects and it hasn’t changed anything at all in my opinion. If they were trying to eliminate collisions I don’t think they are going to do it. Its going to be the exact same thing.”
Thanks for FO commentator Travis for the following info on NFL returns:
2009: 499 returns, 11329 yards, 22.7 avg, 1 TD, 318 20+ yard returns, 23 40+.
2008: 480 returns, 12076 yards, 25.2 avg, 5 TD, 332 20+ yard returns, 41 40+.
2007: 472 returns, 11187 yards, 23.7 avg, 1 TD, 320 20+, 26 40+.
2006: 450 returns, 10466 yards, 23.3 avg, 3 TD.
