Special Teams - Cover your eyes

[Tyrone Bigguns]

If the fault is Slocums, please explain the career of Bobby April.

He's been ST coach of the year twice and coached ST for 3 NFL teams and has a ton of experience.

If MM would hire him, we could blame some other factor for shitty ST play?

Nope. Missed the point.

Please explain his tenure with the Rams vs. Buffalo.

OK Ty.

Yer the genius and I, the dullard.

Did see April get a little too involved last night.

He was coaching like a madman when he got knocked flat on his ass on the sidelines.

Say what? I wasn't implying anything about smarts or dullards.

Nor was i asking or commenting on his coaching at this moment.

I'll spell it out. April's ST in St. Lou weren't good, and he was canned.

His special teams in Buffalo have been tremendous.

St. Lou had better teams record wise and worse ST. Buffalo has worse teams record wise, but better ST.

I'm merely pointing out that placing ST blame on Slocum may be misguided.

[SnakeLH2006]

Who cares about Slocum. Blame McFatty. He's the head guy who hired them. The ST is atrochious. PR, KR, Defensive PR-KR contain, punt net, FG's...This all goes on McFatty. He hired them.

McFatty's hires are very bad for coaches (he sticks with Campy for OL too) and the best hire for coaches was made by TT....Dom Capers. Damn glad he's our D-coordinater...

Heard some stat, where when he takes over the DC position, his teams are top 5 every year. Well, let Snake congrat TT, good 2009 draft, and good pick there with Capers as DC. Let's hope him or Cowher is our coach next year.

[Maxie the Taxi]

Who cares about Slocum. Blame McFatty. He's the head guy who hired them. The ST is atrochious. PR, KR, Defensive PR-KR contain, punt net, FG's...This all goes on McFatty. He hired them.

McFatty's hires are very bad for coaches (he sticks with Campy for OL too) and the best hire for coaches was made by TT....Dom Capers. Damn glad he's our D-coordinater...

Heard some stat, where when he takes over the DC position, his teams are top 5 every year. Well, let Snake congrat TT, good 2009 draft, and good pick there with Capers as DC. Let's hope him or Cowher is our coach next year.

This guy is available. One of the best ST coaches of all time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Avezzano

[Fritz]

In truth it's probably complicated. Maybe losing a guy like Swain messes up the special teams as much as losing Harris might mess up the D, but because it's "only" special teams, no one puts much stock into the loss of a guy like Swain.

Since it's so complicated, it's much easier - and much more fun - to just blame some guy you don't know.

We've narrowed it down to Jarrett Bush and Shawn Slocum.

Some people want to go up the ladder - not Slocum, the guy who hired Slocum - McCarthy. If you pursue this line, then who's the idiot who hired McCarthy? Thompson. But wait, who's his boss? Murphy? Let's shit can that dude - special teams is his fault!

Wait a sec. Let's take the next step - who owns this damn team, anyway?

Oh - we do. Damn - atrocious special teams play is our fault, people!

Let's fire us! Get some new owners in here!