Quote Originally Posted by Thruster315 View Post
Special Teams this week stunk to high heaven on all counts. Those guys need to be buying the rest of the team some steak dinners. Name it- Ross semi-muffing a catch and handing the ball back to them, Prater kicking the dirt before the ball and getting 3 points yanked, and Stanford roughing their punter even thought they were kicking from the 40's. It was a train wreck of epic proportions on that squad this week.
Thruster315 pretty much nailed it on the head with the incidents that happened during special teams play. These guys aren't on the field much but they can make such a huge impact on the game.

Every time this Lions team stalls at midfield, one has a feeling that Sam Martin can confidently pin the other team back to their goal line- and who knows what can happen with this pressure defense at that point. So punting hasn't been a problem for this team as of late. Martin had one punt from the Detroit 48 in the first quarter and was never called upon to punt again.

Prater seemed to have steadied this team's woeful kicking dilemmas but missed one today- and it wasn't to be pinned on Muhlbach or Martin and his hold. This blocked kick's responsibility fell solely on Prater's shoulders.

The coverage aspect of this team had something to be desired today though. Jeremy Ross calling for the fair catch gave Chicago amazing field position and they scored off of it. Once he waved fair catch and was surrounded by bears jerseys, he should've made the catch or get far away from it as possible. His ill informed proximity to the ball was not a smart move. Also Julian Stanford's roughing the punter didn't do us any favors either. He needed to take a better angle to the punter and at that moment of the game really wasn't warranting such a hard rush with an intent to block.