Special teams deep dive on KO returns

Doomsday77

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Did a deep dive for those of us who have down time when there is snow on the ground. I honestly thought the results would be worse but...it still indicates what a mistake it is returning a KO.

Taking a knee results in the ball placed at the 25 yd line. There were 28 returns over the course of the year. A positive return is when we started at least at the 26 yd. line. Negative would be less than 25. I did not include the 2 onside KO's.

18 negative returns
10 positive returns including TD
Total Net yards= (+34). This means without the TD = (-66) as it was exactly a 100 TD ret.

In other words DON'T try and return it. Penalties would be avoided as well as injuries.

One more item to include: Only 4 times did we score after receiving the opening KO. We scored 17 pts. on 3 positive opening KO's (one of which was the TD) and only 7 pts. on negative opening KO. It's not worth it.

That's all I got.
 

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