DC.COM Blog: Cowboys Experimenting With Buehler, Folk
Cowboys Experimenting With Buehler, Folk
Posted by jellis at 8/2/2009 1:29 PM CDT on truebluefanclub.com
Rookie kickoff specialist David Buehler's possible forays into other special teams units have been well documented, but the Cowboys showed an interesting wrinkle this morning during a special teams walkthrough.
Buehler and Nick Folk were on the field at the same time while the Cowboys worked at onside kicks, one of them faking the squib, and the other booting it the necessary 10 yards.
Keeping two kickers on the roster gives the Cowboys some interesting possibilities.
"Joe (DeCamillis) is an innovator on special teams," Buehler said. "With two kickers he's trying to look for any advantage he can. So we could either go left, or go right. There are two able kickers out there to get the job done, it's just a matter of what setup the defense shows. It's a weapon most teams don't have."
A couple years ago the league made onside kicks more difficult for the kicking team with a new rule that the kicking team must split its coverage people up evenly on both sides of the field. The hands team generally knows where the ball is going and can stack its personnel to that side.
But the Cowboys might now be able to keep an opponent honest. Buehler's going to need plenty of practice, though, since onside kicks weren't often necessary for his team in college, the USC Trojans.
"I think I onside kicked once against Oregon State," he said. "I'm fairly new to that. Games are a lot closer in the NFL than they were at SC."
Posted by jellis at 8/2/2009 1:29 PM CDT on truebluefanclub.com
Rookie kickoff specialist David Buehler's possible forays into other special teams units have been well documented, but the Cowboys showed an interesting wrinkle this morning during a special teams walkthrough.
Buehler and Nick Folk were on the field at the same time while the Cowboys worked at onside kicks, one of them faking the squib, and the other booting it the necessary 10 yards.
Keeping two kickers on the roster gives the Cowboys some interesting possibilities.
"Joe (DeCamillis) is an innovator on special teams," Buehler said. "With two kickers he's trying to look for any advantage he can. So we could either go left, or go right. There are two able kickers out there to get the job done, it's just a matter of what setup the defense shows. It's a weapon most teams don't have."
A couple years ago the league made onside kicks more difficult for the kicking team with a new rule that the kicking team must split its coverage people up evenly on both sides of the field. The hands team generally knows where the ball is going and can stack its personnel to that side.
But the Cowboys might now be able to keep an opponent honest. Buehler's going to need plenty of practice, though, since onside kicks weren't often necessary for his team in college, the USC Trojans.
"I think I onside kicked once against Oregon State," he said. "I'm fairly new to that. Games are a lot closer in the NFL than they were at SC."
posted by The Gryphon at 8:51 AM
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