Gophers Special Teams against Purdue

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Overall, a great job by special teams today. Below is Purdue's starting field position on each drive. Their best starting field position was the result of touchbacks.

Own 25 (Kesich touchback)
Own 25 (Kesich touchback)
Own 9
Own 20
Own 15
Own 25 (Kesich touchback)
Own 9
Own 15
Own 22
Own 2
Own 25 (Kesich touchback)

Average starting field position: Own 17
Removing the touchbacks: Own 13

Nice job.
 


Kickers across the board had a phenomenal day. Trickett made both field goals, Stephenson got off some beautiful punts and Kesich did his job as the kickoff speialist.

In way less than ideal kicking conditions those guys all played awesome.
 

Best special teams play from them that I can remember. Props to them after all of the heat they have been getting lately.
 

mkAz said:
Best special teams play from them that I can remember. Props to them after all of the heat they have been getting lately.
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Long Snapper, Holder and all 3 kickers deserve game balls after this one. This is the kind of game where special teams can kill you based on the conditions and those guys went out and played far and away their best game of the season.
 


Excellent thread!

Special teams did an amazing job under conditions that are not conducive to the kicking game.
 


MNVCGUY said:
Long Snapper, Holder and all 3 kickers deserve game balls after this one. This is the kind of game where special teams can kill you based on the conditions and those guys went out and played far and away their best game of the season.
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I didn’t watch the game but Grimm said the missed Purdue FG was a poor snap
 




Let's acknowledge Mark Crawford, Aussie Sophomore, is our punter and deserving of BIG Special Teams POW. And punt coverage was great. Phillip Howard downed one at the 2.
 

Our special teams were huge contributors to this hard fought win. Purdue never got the ball with a short field. (And our offense never turned it over, either.) A great special teams effort usually shows up in the final result. Crawford had an amazing day, both as a punter and as the FG holder. Hope he has come into his own. One of the best ways to dampen an explosive offense, such as Purdue’s or Nebraska’s, is to make them always start drives deep in their own territory. Hope ST’s have a similar day when we play Nebraska.
 

The only thing missing was a couple targeting calls against Trickett.
 

Special teams has gone from DUD to STUD in one year.

They're getting us wins even.
 




Small potatoes at first glance, but major kudos to Annexstad for fielding at least two different bouncing punts after calling for a fair catch, rather than letting them roll even further. Saved us at least a handful of yards on each time. Kinda would like to see him field a few more of those shorter punts but fielding a few of those on the bounce definitely saved the Gophers some yards.

It's a game of field position! Nice job Brock!
 

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