Well the injury proves why the rule is there. He was hit while still in the tackle box while kicking. The snap over his head and retrieving the ball doesn’t change the rules. It was the correct call. Unfortunate for Mizzou. The defender doesn’t have to hit him like that. He was 30 yds behind the LOS. Let him side kick it and they have the ball at their 30. but he creams him causing injury. Penalty.
IDK about "hilarious" but i thought it was a bizarre comment from someone with that handle. Maybe funny strange?
Yeah, he won that game for us. A lot of punters would have jumped on it or kicked it out of the end zone. His maturity saved us a loss. Hopefully he got the game ball.
Kid may walk funny for the rest of his life, you see the importance of this rule protecting punters.
fair enough. I'm sure he doesn't want his daughter, granddaughter, whoever Sophie is, throwing "poon" at the punter I'm sure.
No. Contact is then allowed.
It made no difference that he had to run down the snap since it went straight back and was still in the tackle box. He picked it up and kicked it so since the guy didn't block the kick and straight up tackled him it was the right call. It sucked for Mizzou because in that situation the kid done what most would have in the moment and just tried to tackle him.
Maybe the rule needs reconsideration, but so long as it’s the rule, Drinkwitz has no good reason to run his mouth about it. Goodfellow made the play and took the hit. End of story.
Kicking it out of the endzone is the “correct” play from a statistical standpoint. You give up the 2 and then let your defense have an actual shot at a stop or holding to 3 on the freekick.
I understand this line of reasoning, and I think, gun to my head, I would say, play the numbers. But I am not sure Kentucky's defense could have overcome the shift in momentum to Missouri if we'd taken the safety and given possession back. I think that sequence of events would have given Missouri the boost it needed to win.
I agree completely. It isn’t a think about it play…they’re just taught to auto kick it out the endzone and take the safety. Not sure what yard line that becomes the “right play” (5 yardline if I’m guessing to guarantee it gets through the back of the EZ and you’ve got a d event shot to sop them for 3 outside the 5)
That's exactly what he did. As he was chasing the ball, when he was about five or six yards away, he did a quick glance over his right shoulder to see if anyone was close. What he was able to do defies logic and the laws of physics. How did he kick it as far as he did running away from the line of scrimmage?
Apparently out for the season. Since he is a covid senior, end of college career.
My understanding from when the Aussie did it a couple of years ago, is that kicking it before it gets to the end zone results in a penalty for “illegal touching” and the receiving team can choose taking the ball inside the 5 (maybe with half-the-distance, inside the one/two yard lines.) But if the ball makes the end zone, it is still a penalty, but with no field left to measure it, it is a safety.
He's off on this.
If he hit a punter like that while in the process of kicking, he's getting a roughing penalty. Colin never touched the ball until he picked it up to kick it. He was still between the hash marks when he kicked it.
