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Special Teams props

Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 8:22 pm
by TG1996
The two young kickers have taken a shelling here, but today they earned quite a bit of love, IMO. Rojas with a 37 yard average, a 63 (!) yarder and four of five punts fair caught and four of five inside the 20. Great job Alonso!

Big Bird also came on and nailed the short FG attempt and hit all the ones he was supposed to. Good work guys!

Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 8:35 pm
by Peregrinner
Before the game I heard a kid behind me talking trash about Rojas. I quickly told him so stuff it because he had no clue what he was talking about. It was good to be able to turn around and give him a 'told you so' look after that monster punt down to the 5.

Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 8:37 pm
by Tricky_Falcon
Coach said after the game it was nice to finally be able to allow Rojas to boom it down the field and not have to worry about the return men.

Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 8:42 pm
by TG1996
Tricky_Falcon wrote:Coach said after the game it was nice to finally be able to allow Rojas to boom it down the field and not have to worry about the return men.
And I think another note is in order that one of his punts was from the EMU36 and another from the BG49, so there was no "booming" necessary... and he handled the job excellently!

Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 8:49 pm
by FliccGirl
Peregrinner wrote:after that monster punt down to the 5.
That was a thing of beauty, no doubt about it.

Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 9:45 pm
by The Niz
I'm pretty sure that one inside the five is the only time I've seen that happen in the three years I've been here. AWESOME!

Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 9:55 pm
by Jacobs4Heisman
I see us having the best kicking duo in the league for the next few years.

Yay for Florida.

Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 10:08 pm
by hammb
Rojas was awesome today.

Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 1:01 am
by svillefalcon
Rojas had a great game. And i think we are seeing a part of the game that we have struggled all of last year, develop into a helpful strength which is the special teams.

Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 8:55 am
by BGSU33
No doubt it, in this game, our special teams were....SPECIAL!!! Great job by all ST units and both kickers, you guys did a great job.

Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 10:16 am
by orangeandbrown
Rojas had a great game. That last kick inside the 5 really made it difficult for EMU to come back. If we continue to protect him, he is going to have a great career here.

Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 11:20 am
by able1
When the punters were warming up right in front of us before the second half, I was thinking Wright was looking better than Rojas. He was getting some nice spirals and his punts were deeper and higher than Rojas' were. Then it suddenly became clear that Rojas was practicing going for the corner with his first kicks when he suddenly kicked the heck out of the next several in a row.

What I'm still trying to find out is, who made that SWEET hit on one of our kickoffs? I haven't seen it mentioned here yet, and I couldn't tell who it was from where we were sitting.

Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 11:22 am
by TG1996
able1 wrote:What I'm still trying to find out is, who made that SWEET hit on one of our kickoffs? I haven't seen it mentioned here yet, and I couldn't tell who it was from where we were sitting.
I believe it was Kenny Lewis.

Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 11:28 am
by orangeandbrown
It might have been Tarrell Lewis.

Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 11:38 am
by TG1996
orangeandbrown wrote:It might have been Tarrell Lewis.
You're right... it was #23, I remember... just had the numbers mixed up.