Rob Davis re-signed

[gbpackfan]

If you can learn how to effectively long snap and be some what athletic, you can make a damn good living doing very little. Rob Davis has a great, great gig!

[swede]

So...is Rob Davis a HOF LS?

There ought to be at least one in the Hall, eh?

[falco]

Hey I wasn't saying anything bad about Rob Davis, I'm glad he's coming back. I still would argue, however, that if he wasn't it wouldn't be the end of the world (ala Longwell).

I have a right to make uninformed statements, based on the fact I don't have time to carefully examine the depth charts for all 32 teams to make a point.

[prsnfoto]

I am very happy with this signing Rob is a total class act. Last year when he DD,Bubba and Harlan were on the bus tour they stopped at my local pub and I bought Rob a beer he talked to me and my buddy for 15 minutes and was a hoot. He told us he was lucky to have the greatest job in the world, he lives in a house like you and me and loves Greenbay. He laughed and said look at the bling around Bubba's neck and DD two 5 carat earrings and said thats the difference between 5 million a year and 900,000 and said he was never really into men wearing jewelry and Donald threw an empty beer cup at him. Pretty cool guy other than Jerry Kramer and Hornung that was the longest time I have ever spend with a Packer. Oh ya and he predicted they would be 500 or a little better and he thought Brett would play last year and one more we'll see he's got the first half right.

[red]

well, due to patler sticking his nose in yet another disscusion and screwing it all up with FACTS

i guess theres really nothing you can say against this move. if LS truely has become a position, i guess you keep the best. so it looks like a good move. and he is a class guy and a good leader

on to the next topic

why can't kickers also be punters? or punters be kickers? why do we need two guys to kick the ball? they have more then enough time to practise both conditions, and kicking is kicking, there isn't that much of a difference in a punt and a kick. in fact some punters are the kickoff guys on their team.

i want that extra roster spot, i want to have more then 3 WR's or 2.5 cb's when week 9 comes around every year

[Patler]

why can't kickers also be punters? or punters be kickers? why do we need two guys to kick the ball? they have more then enough time to practise both conditions, and kicking is kicking, there isn't that much of a difference in a punt and a kick. in fact some punters are the kickoff guys on their team.

For the same reasons that you have "third down" backs, linebackers who play on first and second down, maybe, but never on third down, pass rush specialists, and all the other reasons that the teams have about 15 "starters" on both offense and defense.

To get to your point more directly, there was an article by a kicking coach who argued that the leg movements are substantially different for placekicking and for punting. Each, he said, puts different demands on different muscles, etc. Accordingly, to do both the player compromises his abilities in each. Not saying that I agree with it, but it the is the logic applied in pro sports today.

I fully expect to see QB platooning in the future, with a "handoff specialist" and a "throwing specialist".

[Zool]

Lets say you have a combo punter/kicker on your team and he gets hurt. Having 2 on your roster would be necessary anyways for a backup, so essentially they are backing each other up.

[red]

applied in pro sports today.

I fully expect to see QB platooning in the future, with a "handoff specialist" and a "throwing specialist".

like what atlanta should be doing?

we're going to have guys just on the roster to be the holder soon. dallas might be the first to try this

[K-town]

we're going to have guys just on the roster to be the holder soon. dallas might be the first to try this

I seem to remember a sem-Pro team in the 70s or 80s that had the first woman to play for a men's Professional football team. She was the holder for all PATs and FGs. The kicker was her husband. When the husband was cut, she got the chop as well.
Now, if we're going to have specialist holders, we might see this possiblity in the NFL. If I'm the long snapper, sending the ball back to holding specialist Evangeline Lilly would be a nice little perk.

BTW - didn't the Iggles bring back Koy Detmer for their playoff game SPECIFICALLY to hold?