KaVontae Turpin clapping back at fans - Joke's on y'all

[Rayman70]

Eat my shorts Kavonte. The all pro designation is nothing more than a popularity contest. Means very little these days. Much like the pro bowl. We all saw what we saw. Go sit down, take your hush money, and award. Nobody loafs like y'all.

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

Everflop should have been fired after game 16 at the latest
ST coach halfway into the season

At that point probably kept him so they could improve their draft pick. I doubt it Cowboys don’t think like that smh.

 

[Coogiguy03]

Also for the love of gawd stop faking the fair catch and getting us penalized. Man we have dumb players. The audacity to suck and still troll fans is awesome though. I wish they'd take that same spirit of fight and use it against the leagues better teams.

The dumb started for me back when we had flozell Adams and then all the rest on the OL that would get penalties right as we're in the red zone, and Andre Gurodes snapping issues

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

Eat my shorts Kavonte. The all pro designation is nothing more than a popularity contest. Means very little these days. Much like the pro bowl. We all saw what we saw. Go sit down, take your hush money, and award. Nobody loafs like y'all.

I think the issue fans have is they don’t watch other teams. He may have been the best of a subpar group.

 

[Chasing6]

Turpin had the most kick returns because our defense gave up the most points. So he had that advantage going for him.

I think his challenges with punt returns this year, was due to the fact that our defense rarely forced a punt. He had 9 punt returns in a 15 games.

Turpin averaged 6.11 yards, while Jalen Cropper averaged 9.0 yards on 3 returns in 2 games.

 

[gimmesix]

Turpin had a down year by his standards, but the Cowboys didn't get good special teams coaching this year either. I'm hopeful we will get a new coach who understands the weapon he is and can create more opportunities for him next year. And do better at waiving for fair catches!

I think the fact that he made All-Pro shows how kickoff returns have changed under the new rules. The best returns that I saw (against us) was ones where the returner raced to the outside edges and the outside blockers pinned the coverage men to the outside and inside to create a lane.

Our return efforts seemed to rely on Turpin finding where the blocking was effective, which caused him to have to slow-play it until he found a seam. Obviously, his return game was about as good as (or even better than) the rest, but it didn't seem that we had a real plan that took advantage of his burst.

I do think he was unfairly maligned for what our ST called on him to do, but some fans tend to overreact to most things Cowboys. I'd prefer we had upgraded the ST coach because he hasn't proven that he can be a good one and our ST play slipped under him. But blaming that on Turpin is simply misplacing the blame.

 

[gimmesix]

Turpin had the most kick returns because our defense gave up the most points. So he had that advantage going for him.

I think his challenges with punt returns this year, was due to the fact that our defense rarely forced a punt. He had 9 punt returns in a 15 games.

Turpin averaged 6.11 yards, while Jalen Cropper averaged 9.0 yards on 3 returns in 2 games.

And it seemed like every time we got a decent return, we also got a penalty that wiped it out.

 

[Ironicalicon]

His jogs to the 20 yard line were hardly indicative of an All-Pro.

You don't think he's looking for blocks that don't develop?

 

[gimmesix]

I still can't believe our ST coach has not been relieved of his duties (fired). This was definitely a down year when it came to special teams. The kickoff/punt coverages were terrible. Is Sorenson best friends with Jerry and Schotty? smdh

He and No-Schott have worked together in the past, so I think there was definitely a pre-existing relationship there that got him the job here as ST coach. Based on his coaching experience (coaching the 32nd return team in Jacksonville in his only previous stop as an ST coordinator), he should not have gotten the job.

 

[gimmesix]

You don't think he's looking for blocks that don't develop?

This is why I blame the ST coach. There doesn't seem to be a plan other than, "Find a hole, Kavontae." In order to do that, he has to slow-play the returns until he sees a lane to try to run through. The better returns that I saw this season were return men running full speed to where blockers were set up to pin the coverage to either side and create a lane. It wasn't reactionary, it was purposeful.

 

[jwitten82]

Stupid fans. Turpin has to know those idiots aren’t real people. Can’t win. You got your all pro you got the last laugh let them talk.

He's not that good of a returner, easily replaced

 

[darthseinfeld]

Turpin had a down year by his standards, but the Cowboys didn't get good special teams coaching this year either. I'm hopeful we will get a new coach who understands the weapon he is and can create more opportunities for him next year. And do better at waiving for fair catches!

Almost every time a Cowboys under performs, you start the "its the coach!" drumming

 

[DoctorChicken]

Turpin literally led the NFL in kick return yards and fans are acting like he was complete garbage.

 

[blueblood70]

Turpin had a down year by his standards, but the Cowboys didn't get good special teams coaching this year either. I'm hopeful we will get a new coach who understands the weapon he is and can create more opportunities for him next year. And do better at waiving for fair catches!

In my opinion I don't think they're gonna change the special teams coach nor should they they just need to go back to the drawing board watch all the film find out where all the blocking was breaking down and why KT might have been a bit hesitant And I've said this before I think most of the problems is with all the injuries and you're constantly changing special teams every time you move a second or third on the depth chart guy to the starting roll now you're having new guys on special teams all the time like constantly changing and that's not always good.

Anyway you get consistent and have that consistent special teams group blocking with each other the entire year and the way we've had injuries the last couple of seasons we have destroyed like our depth charts using people off the street and off practice squads and those are not quality players now they're starting and playing special teams double duty I mean it may have just watered down our special team and I don't think they're going to fire the coach over it they'll just go back to the drawing board and say hey fix it..

Much easier to fix than the rest of the team so we need to concentrate and I know what they're going to get is a new DC a new scheme and they got to build the defense up because right now that's what's important and KT clapping back he should because people sit around behind their screens and criticize players all the time They hear it they read it especially on Twitter The media people are extra hard on guys and sometimes they don't see the big picture...

Apparently he didn't have enough big runs for you guys to really judge him with any positivity but apparently when you put together that many yards and he's also watered down because he ran every kick off and every punt return back and there was a lot of them And apparently he led the league in yards return yards and other things big explosive yards just not scores...

Yes we saw the problems but I can understand why a player would clap back hard because I get sick of reading about how fans are the experts media they don't even play the game they're supposed to know everything and they rip dudes apart and some of them take offense to it and they clap back...

 

[shabazz]

The brother seems a bit thin-skinned.

Criticism comes with the territory as long as it's fair.

He didn't mind the praise when it was deserved, so be a man and accept the constructive critique when it comes.

 

[starman22]

Turpin literally led the NFL in kick return yards and fans are acting like he was complete garbage.

I'm not going to look it up, but it seems to me that the teams with the worst defenses should have the most return yardage.

 

[DoctorChicken]

I'm not going to look it up, but it seems to me that the teams with the worst defenses should have the most return yardage.

No doubt that’s a factor.

He wasn’t awesome by any means but the people acting like he was completely buttcheek are off the mark imo. Our ST was straight up bad this season, including the blocking.

 

[Rayman70]

Turpin literally led the NFL in kick return yards and fans are acting like he was complete garbage.

Speaking only for me, he wasn't garbage. Not at all. But he wasn't all pro. I guess All pro has higher criteria in my mind. Guys like Devin hester, kelvin Martin, Dave meggette, Julian edelman. I'm thinking in terms of consistency not stats. Guys that tip the scales. Difference makers on special teams that affect wins and losses.Turpin isn't that IMHO. He's a tiny fast dude that is scared of contact. I'm still glad we have him. Better us than one of our division rivals.

 

[Cowboys5217]

Yep. Joke's on me. Year 31 of the "drought" underway.

Plus, it's always a good call to get combative with critical fans on social media.

 

[MarionBarberThe4th]

He's Jerry's toy. He isn't going anywhere.

Guys like that can’t take hits and teams know it. You can use them
As a decoy but at that point we’re playing hide the midget ? Just play ball