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mtramfan
God forbid that we effectively reduce the roster to 52 by having a designated holder. That must be McVay's thinking - and we all, including McVay, must be pretty happy with Evans punts and he's is staying. That means Evans is the holder - period.
In order to keep Evans' booming punts, we'll engineer around him.
Many holders are capable of spinning the ball if need be to get the laces straight. They don't have to do it every time, maybe just one time out of three,or two out of three. Evans can't do that.
Many holders get the ball down on spot, that is, the point of the ball hits a piece of turf the size of a fifty-cent-piece, immediately - the ball tilted at proper angles to compensate for distance, right or left hash, and/or wind. This is in anticipation that the kicker has already started his approach and will get the kick off at exactly a predetermined amount of time, measured in hundredths of seconds.
In the Eagles excellent video posted elsewhere. their target time time, snap to kick, is 1.3 seconds.
Karty's timing, his internal clock, was set at 1.26 to 1.28 seconds. That's before Blackburn messed it up, coached him to wait until Evans got the ball down motionless.
Karty says in interview that the quick 1.28 or faster time is intended to elapse before an unblocked edge rushr can arrive, and before penetration up the middle can get close enough top block a kick. Apparently Blackburn doesn't know that.
Blackburn throws shade at Karty, saying in interview that he coached Karty to buck up and just play the next game, don't get upset, all that BS, without addressing the snap or the hold. That's dirty - and as Staffored said in another context, "I've seen it on tape."
A vet snapper will no doubt get the ball to the holder more often than the previous one with the laces up. If Evans can spot it without having to spin it that will help - although spinning the ball to position thelaces should be par tof the hgolder's job description.
At this point, who has the advantage? New kicker whose game hasn't been altered, or old kicker whose game has been disrupted by poor performance on his kicking unit and abysmal coaching??
Karty is in the impossible position of getting his game back together on virutally no notice at all.
A kicker thrives on consistency. He practices to become more consistent daily. Tell him to mess up his timing, and the tell him to adjust his leg swing to compensate for whatever is going wrong with the hold messes up his continuity further.
McVay, meanwhile announced that Mevis will kick against the 49ers - with a new snapper delivering the ball laces forward to Evans. At least that "solves" part of the problem. Blackburn hasn't had two camps and a year-and-a-half of his brand of destructive coaching to pile on Mevis.
Good bye, Josh. Some of us appreciate what you are capable of, what you could have - should have - done for he Rams if you'd had a normal amount of help.
If I were Josh, I's ask for a trade - that, or be cut at the end of the season so I could find a team with a good holder.
Nailed it.
These are coaching issues, and we can change the faces, but this garbage will continue. Blackburn hasn't developed the kicker, his line is a mess, holder issues, and now kicker merry-go-round. It's frankly embarrassing.
Won't be expecting consistency on ST until Blackburn is gone.
