Redskins Special Teams to Blame?

but it’s part of it.

The value in Banks has lost it’s value, he needs to go
ST coaching change, yes because a change needs to occur

I for one hate gano but Danny ST hasent been bad IMO. We do a pretty good job of stopping the other teams from making big plays on ST too. And I gave up on banks pretty much

Not only has specials cost a game today. Every week for awhile its seemed that Danny Smith’s side of the ball has had at least one major breakdown.
You don’t coach only special teams forever without either being promoted…or let go….unless you are Danny Smith.

Shanny should send a message by not waiting till the offseason to fire his special teams coach. He should do it tomorrow with the explanation “We need more consistency from special teams and felt that between the kicking game, the kick blocking game, the kickoff game, etc”

Before today (was he having an off day?) our punter was/is the best player on the team.

Players come and go and yet he stays. Gano could kick the ball out of the endzone everytime BUT Smith likes the directional kicks (challenging and leads to KOs OB) and pouch kicks. Smith called for 2 pouch kicks today and they were costly.

Bryant had two blocks coming into last weeks game. You think they would pay a little better attention to the guy. We have had far to many miscues in certain aspects of ST.

I wonder if our punter wasn’t so Fing good how our punt coverage team would be.

I can’t stand Banks. He should have been gone by the bye week. Patrick Peterson was interviewed last week about his returns and he said he learned a long time ago to catch the ball and head up field. None of this dancing around bullshit. That barely ever works. Banks is luck he hasn’t given up more fumbles.

Because garret iced his own kicker hahaha

Either Danny Smith or Mike Shanahan could stop Banks from continually not taking a knee but obviously neither has. It is either a coaching decision or a lack of control (doubtful).

when in the world do u stop running the ball. then do no play action passing? helu was tearing them up. use play action off it. i mean how hard can it be kyle??? he has to go imo or we are in for another long season next year..

are from bad game planning and bad play calling… like i said before. damn shanahan cant even have a losing season right. and no one can tell me he planned to win this year with grossmen and beck as our only options at qb. why would u bring a team into a season with a goal of 8-8 thats pretty much the max u can get out of rex at this point. and poor beck may never win a nfl game in his life. im am really lost watching this season. the guys wanna win but its like the coaches dont want them to.

we could been right in the hunt with a win today….. even after a 6 game losing streak!! our team was playing their hearts out its a damn shame they coaches wont let them

it has not been for some time. A HC cannot be worried about his ST all game. A change is in order in my opinion.

Other than Gano and blocking on field goals, I see no issue with our special teams. Banks hasn’t quite lit it up this year, but he has been far from awful. According to Dan Graziano of the NFC East Blog on ESPN, Banks has been the best kick and punt returner in the East all season. Coming into yesterday’s game, Banks was 3rd in the league in kick return yards and 2nd in the league in kick returns over 20 yards. The coaches have obviously given him the green light to return out of the end zone. I’m assuming these extra yards don’t count towards his average, but if they did, he would probably rank higher than he is in return average. I know that others return it from the end zone too, but I have yet to see a team do it as consistently as the Skins. Personally, I like that aggressiveness. To me it is worth it to try and get better field position for this offense. I know it doesn’t always work out, but I don’t see it as being devastating to this team. I wonder, also, if Banks is 100% healthy. Perhaps he regains his explosiveness next season. I don’t want to see this guy get picked up by a division rival and have him come back to bite us in the ass. I don’t think Danny Smith should be fired. Our return coverage has been excellent all year. We need some better blockers on field goals and we need a more consistent kicker, even if he doesn’t have the powerful leg that Gano has.

and hope that they don’t get blocked or botched at this point anymore. Did anyone else hear the announcers say that Gano “Chilie-Dicked” that kick? Or was that just me?!

Rex threw 46 pass attempts in a game we were winning ! and Parks wants to blame the special teams ? Are you serious. You know who I dont want to hear from ? Danny Smith
You know who I would love to hear from? Kyle Shanahan. It was Obvious that Sunday was Bad Rex Day he was making terrible decisions all day. However someone thought that it was a good idea to have him continue to pass the ball WHO WHY ??

in the beginning of the game. The run was working, we just stopped doing it. We had the lead it would of at least took some time off the clock.

after such a collapse such as yesterday’s, with QB turnovers and the subsequent burial on the defense under such an avalanche of pressure, you want to talk about the special teams? Whether your point is spot on or not, it seems to misdirect attention away from what we all know to be the problem with this team – QB and OL.

This team has more immediate problems to solve than ST. Who is this teams PR or KR next year can wait until next year.

is very hard to coach. i think smith has done a pretty good job. it would be very hard to replace him imo. the players like him and they try hard for him. we are pretty good on returns and coverage. better then most teams. if we get a new coach chances are we get worse before we get better.