Some NFL coaches seem well-suited to work as copywriters, given the terminology and phrases they use.
Bears special teams coordinator Richard Hightower may be better than any of them. He suggested kicker Cairo Santos consider a new deadline amid the cold, wind, and precipitation late in the soccer season.
You’ve probably heard of monster movies, monster mash, and monster trucks. This is where the “monster punch line” begins. What other punch lines does The Monster of Midway have?
It’s like a secret double kick line that special teams coordinators, head coaches, and kickers have and need to know, especially when the weather turns bad. “Weather affects this more than anything else,” Hightower said. “This position is more important than any other. That’s why we’re talking about it. ”
The kick line is the maximum distance the kicker has told his coach he is comfortable making a field goal. This is often seen on viewers’ television screens during games, primarily through guessing games. “So when we prepare for a game, we work on hitting in all directions and we always talk about our normal batting lineup that we feel comfortable with and have a high degree of confidence that we can hit,” Hightower said. “That’s one of the factors. “But there’s another element that’s called a monster punch line. And that’s a situation where at the end of the inning, at the end of the game, you say, ‘Hey, the odds of me being able to do that are even lower, probably a 1 in 10 chance.’ is. And due to the influence of the wind, we even found ourselves outside the huge offensive line.
In Sunday’s game against Cleveland, Cairo Santos could have gone for a 51-yard field goal early in the fourth quarter or a 55-yard field goal late in the second, but coach Matt Eberflus decided to make it instead. All the problems came to light when the decision was made to aim for the. The first half ended with a missed Hail Mary pass and the fourth down was a mistake on a run/pass option near right end by Justin Fields. The Monster Kick Line and the Regular Kick Line are not carelessly separated, but the Bears were coming off the Monster Line in both lines. Eberflus reported this week that he actually went beyond the usual punchline in at least one of them. “We talk about it all the time with Flax,” Hightower said. “We will discuss it before the trip. There is also a lot of practical data on this subject. We have a lot of data and we know how comfortable Cairo is going into the game, but that also changes. Weather affects the game, and the weather changes as we get into the game.
The weather can get worse or better, the wind direction or strength can change, and the coach keeps talking about the punchline.
“And we’re not just doing it for Cairo, we’re doing it for their strikers, too, because Flax has to call in the defense as well,” Hightower said. “It happens from the beginning of the week until the start of the game and then it changes during the game. So if you see Cairo at half-time, he’ll come out and kick the ball, or he’ll come out in the second half and kick the ball. , then he will let us know and we will get a good idea. “So it’s a very complex process that evolves throughout the game.”
The wind was blowing against the Bears both times. Santos’ career distance was 55 yards, but rain and wind didn’t help him. “It was a very tough ending to the direction we were going in,” Hightower said. “So we were far outside the monster’s attack range.”
Earlier this week, Everflus wouldn’t discuss the distance between Punch and Monster Punch because it’s a secret.
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