Reggie as a punt returner (3 Viewers)

[GreMillionaire]

I love Reggie back there, it's the blocking and the fact that punters try to keep it away from him or kick it high. When he was drafted, he knew he was brought in to be a game changer and home run threat every time he touched the ball, so he tries to deliver every time.

If we had a consistent ST blocking crew, Reggie would light it up. I want to see him return kicks, imagine what he could do with that amount of time and space!

 

[Slim K]

I don't get it. Why would we want an extra 3 yards on avg. on punt returns? Is our offense not capable of moving the ball 3 yards? I'd much rather have Reggie back there pulling 5 yards every return with the potential to break it big at anytime. Noone else on this team is going to stand out back there.

 

[Suavecito8]

I don't get it. Why would we want an extra 3 yards on avg. on punt returns? Is our offense not capable of moving the ball 3 yards? I'd much rather have Reggie back there pulling 5 yards every return with the potential to break it big at anytime. Noone else on this team is going to stand out back there.

exactly.

 

[Le_Moyne]

I don't get it. Why would we want an extra 3 yards on avg. on punt returns? Is our offense not capable of moving the ball 3 yards? I'd much rather have Reggie back there pulling 5 yards every return with the potential to break it big at anytime. Noone else on this team is going to stand out back there.

Because it doesn't work like that. First, getting 3-5 yards less in average usually means that for an average of a 10 yards return (which is pretty much the avergae of punt return around the league) the guy that get a lower average usually lose or don't get any return on half of his attempts.
Also, the large majority of the punts are fielded in your own 20 yards and there is a HUGE difference in what you can do between giving your offense the ball on the 20-15 yard line and on the 10-5 yards line.
And you could easily say that our offense need these 5 yards as much as it needs the 1-2 TD we can hope from our PR over a season since we scored 55 of them.