What is this Special Teams?

Psssht. Whatever, man. There’s no way you can convince me that Garrett wouldn’t have exploited the clock/rules like Vrabel did in the 4th qtr.

If there’s one thing I know about Jason it’s that he’s adaptive, clock saavy and aware of rule exploitation. Garrett could’ve coached that Titans team past the Patriots in a close game, no doubt.

He probably would’ve dunked 40 on the Pats since the weather wasn’t so bad at Foxboro tonight..
 
As you know their are three parts to a team. Offensive, defensive and special teams. Ideally you win in all three phases to be a dominate team. But you asked about special teams specifically. Special teams give up as little as possible on kick offs and punts while maximizing yardage on returns. Turnovers are paramount to your success while not turning over the ball yourself. Situational football is also key to maintaining a good special teams unit. The special teams coach should know situational football verse and chapter and be thinking on his feet as the game progresses. He should also be able to identify any opponents weaknesses with their scheme and blocking and make appropriate adjustments. I'm sure I'm not accurate as to all of the nuances of special teams but this is all I got for ya. Just watched TN play a good game and special teams played a huge role in the outcome.
 
Kaiser said:
I'm intrigued, this third part of the team that can help you win. Tell me more about "special teams".
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Our special teams looks like this.
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Yeah, it still pisses me off how poor that unit was at every phase this year. There is no excuse for a team with high expectations entering the season to totally take their eye off the ball, miss evaluate, or be totally incompetent on our special teams.
 
chicago JK said:
Yeah, it still pisses me off how poor that unit was at every phase this year. There is no excuse for a team with high expectations entering the season to totally take their eye off the ball, miss evaluate, or be totally incompetent on our special teams.
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Exactly my rage. If we could’ve had just one of the two non-Offense phases firing on all cylinders for a majority of the season, we would’ve won 10 games with ease with how our offense worked.

Where the Offense stalled-out in the redzone, it would’ve been nice to covert 3 points like a normal team. Also would’ve been nice to have a competent return game without fumbling blunders/block in the back fouls continually hamstringing our initial field position. That alone would’ve kept us from having to continually drive 90+ yards each drive to score. That’s just such an unreasonable burden to put on your offense. But for Garrett...it’s all about “execute...fight...claw...one play at a time”...

Then you look at the defense? Woof!!! They only played up to their full potential 3 or4 times this season. If anything, they never truly played to their potential because of coaching so weak that it rivaled Garrett’s offerings.

Now I’m getting worked up. Thanks!
 
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RJ_MacReady said:
Psssht. Whatever, man. There’s no way you can convince me that Garrett wouldn’t have exploited the clock/rules like Vrabel did in the 4th qtr.
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I'm not sure how that helped the Titans when they were only up by one point. IMO the only thing that could potentially accomplish is giving the Titans less or no time to come back had the Patriots got a FG.
 
Flamma said:
I'm not sure how that helped the Titans when they were only up by one point. IMO the only thing that could potentially accomplish is giving the Titans less or no time to come back had the Patriots got a FG.
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The Patriots' playbook would've been different, had they gotten the ball from where the Titans failed to convert, instead of from the 9 yard line.
 
Kaiser said:
I'm intrigued, this third part of the team that can help you win. Tell me more about "special teams".
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Its the thing The Princeton Politician talks about in every press conference. You never heard him say in that stern voice "all 3 phases of the game, offense, defense, and special teams"? Garrett told us all about special teams. He just didnt tell the players
 
Flamma said:
I'm not sure how that helped the Titans when they were only up by one point. IMO the only thing that could potentially accomplish is giving the Titans less or no time to come back had the Patriots got a FG.
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The Titans’ game plan from the outset (presumably) was to chew the clock (shorten the game), impose their will on the Pat’s defense while resting their own, not give up turnovers and to use their punter (weapon) to continually pin the Pat’s into facing ~90 yard drive territory.

Basic concept but took coaching and execution to achieve. This was the 2014 Cowboys’ newly founded identity discovered but they lacked one of the two crucial elements..
 
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RJ_MacReady said:
The Titans’ game plan from the outset (presumably) was to chew the clock (shorten the game), impose their will their will on the Pat’s defense while resting their own their own, not give up turnovers and to use their punter to continually pin the Pat’s into facing ~90 yard drive territory. Basics concept but took coaching and execution to achieve.
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Yeah. I guess now that I think about it, it made sense if you think you'll be getting the ball back. Less time to run out.
 
RJ_MacReady said:
Psssht. Whatever, man. There’s no way you can convince me that Garrett wouldn’t have exploited the clock/rules like Vrabel did in the 4th qtr.

If there’s one thing I know about Jason it’s that he’s adaptive, clock saavy and aware of rule exploitation. Garrett could’ve coached that Titans team past the Patriots in a close game, no doubt.

He probably would’ve dunked 40 on the Pats since the weather wasn’t so bad at Foxboro tonight..
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This is brilliant, a Kaiser flat.
 
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