Who is in charge of watching for onside kick this week?

[KBFAN19]

nfm

 

[Obliviax]

Yikes. At least against Kent, our team wasn't 20 yards downfield already. Again, a perfectly executed onside kick. the replay wasn't conclusive but I thought the kicker touched the ball before our player and that it wasn't quite to the ten yard line. Having said that, it wasn't conclusive and not overturning it was the correct call.

 

[Madsol]

The first one? Ok, they got us. But the second one, in exactly the same fashion, two weeks later? Brutal. Not a highlight to put on the new special teams guy's video resume.

 

[steelrazor]

Steve and Jack both said in the radio broadcast that they worked on onside kick coverage last week. Really hard to cover a perfectly executed onside kick.

 

[LionJim]

Yikes. At least against Kent, our team wasn't 20 yards downfield already. Again, a perfectly executed onside kick. the replay wasn't conclusive but I thought the kicker touched the ball before our player and that it wasn't quite to the ten yard line. Having said that, it wasn't conclusive and not overturning it was the correct call.

Yeah, the video was an an angle. One would think that there would be a camera right down the line.

 

[LionJim]

The thing to do in this situation would be to have someone just nail the kicker.

 

[psuro]

The thing to do in this situation would be to have someone just nail the kicker.

Or be prepared for the kick.

 

[Madsol]

Steve and Jack both said in the radio broadcast that they worked on onside kick coverage last week. Really hard to cover a perfectly executed onside kick.

Sorry, I disagree. Not that kind of an inside kick. The person lined up in front of the kicker just can't bail out until the ball is kicked. This isn't a kick where the ball bounced perfectly or was kicked right at someone and bounced off him. Actually, I would think this type of kick is the easiest to defend. Just don't turn and run.

 

[LionJim]

Or be prepared for the kick.

I thought they were against Kent. Like Obli said, it was perfectly executed.

 

[Custerdome]

You could also, probably, not put rookies in the middle of the kick return team, you know...

 

[sluggo72]

nfm

hmmm it seems we had 11 guys watching the on side kick.

 

[Obliviax]

The thing to do in this situation would be to have someone just nail the kicker.

well, if the kicker is Holly Sonders....

 

[PSUSignore]

Yikes. At least against Kent, our team wasn't 20 yards downfield already. Again, a perfectly executed onside kick. the replay wasn't conclusive but I thought the kicker touched the ball before our player and that it wasn't quite to the ten yard line. Having said that, it wasn't conclusive and not overturning it was the correct call.

Agree it looked like Kent State was the first to touch it and that it was really, really close to not going 10 yards. The replay angles shown weren't very good so if that's all they had to go on I have no issues with the call standing as it was called on the field.

BTW, this was one of many plays that demonstrated the incompetence of the FS1 TV crew. Usually when I don't like an announcer it's because their voice is like nails on a chalkboard (see Beth Mowens). However these guys were just straight up incompetent. This was one of the worst crews I could remember.

• The acted like the onside kick replay was obvious and conclusive in terms of showing PSU touching it first. The replay angle shown was inconclusive at best.
• They referred to John Cappelletti as "Geno".
• When discussing an offensive pass interference call they circled the RG that was 3-5 yards behind the LOS as the offender. WTF?
• They incorrectly assumed that the punt in the endzone that was muffed by Kent State was a touchback just because the player touched the ball, even though he never caught it.