Matt Turk's still on the Jaguars roster.....
by Alfie Crow on Oct 4, 2011 11:01 AM EDT
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PrintThe Jacksonville Jaguars lost punter Adam Podlesh in the off season to the Chicago Bears. While it's "just a punter," it was seemingly a big loss for the Jaguars. They picked up grizzled veteran Matt Turk to replaced Podlesh, but so far that's accomplished nothing. Turk frankly, has been terrible.
Currently Podlesh is 8th in the NFL in net punting average. Matt Turk? He's 29th with a net punting average of 33.2. He does lead the league in touchbacks however, with 5. (That's bad). After the Carolina Panthers game, where Turk flat out just dropped a punt and turned the ball over, the Jaguars decided they were going to employ a rugby style punt for Turk when the team had a short field, since he kept kicking it in the endzone.
Well, that worked once and the New Orleans Saints were pinned back deep in their own territory. He also shanked for only 29 yards. Frankly, I'm baffled the Jaguars haven't brought in some punters. It is still early on Tuesday, though.
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Which is the worse off-season move, Turk for 2 million, or Session for his massive contract?
I’m leaning towards Turk.
Obviously the punter.
We could’ve kept the UDFA from VTech for much cheaper. He couldn’t do much worse.
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Podlesh will come back to earth in a month
As for Turk, I can’t believe we haven’t found anyone worth a damn to supplant him. Hell, the Dodge kid is out there, we could have probably picked up Sepulveda for 2 Million, anyone!
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Pssh.. Iwas one who was saying that letting Podlesh walk was absolutly stupid..
The field position game is vital and everyone and their brother knew Turk Blows Chunks!
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for the money he got it was not stupid
what is stupid is keeping turk on this team when he is awful. you can go out and find a punter who will be more effective than Turk and cheaper than him
I don't think so.. Pdlesh was a very good punter...We usually came out on top of the feild position battle with him punting.
Like I said that is a vitale area of the game.. If you have a player constantly leaving the opposing team with a long field it is a major plus and thus worth the money imo…
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by SALTWATERJAG on Oct 4, 2011 12:51 PM EDT up reply actions
but you could get a punter to win you field position battles for less than 10 mill over 5 years
or less than turk’s 2 mill 1 year deal.
Who cares.. Good is good.... We are tops in cap space.... This save a buck shit is killing this team...1-3 nuff said.
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... Do you see what is happening on the field? I believe it does warrant it!
I’ll say it again.. FIELD POSITION IS VITALE….. We are loseing that battle..
That is contributing to our losses.. 1-3
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Part of me doesn't even want to waste the time responding to this. I mean, is this what are season has come down to already is the Punter?
Why has it come down to a Punter having such an effect in games. That is a sorry state of affairs. It should be a position that a person quietly does there job 99% of the time correctly, with one mistake here or there. You have recievers around here who were cut for dropping passes one time, yet here is a guy who is making 1-2 mistakes a game, and costing us field position. Come on Gene, grow a set and cut Turk. He isn’t making the situation here any easier.
It’s a position where if you have a bad one, it sticks out.
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I contend that the punting game kept us viable last year
If not for Podlesh and the coverage team, I don’t think we would have won but 4-5 games last year.
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and missing Montell and Kassim right now doesn’t help at all… What is Purnell going to do this sunday? bah
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he's got all year to improve it.
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dang it, joe.i gotta disagree. maybe.
Purnell needs to be constantly working to improve special teams every single week. this team can’t afford to wait until the end of the year for anything. (unless you meant Turk and i misunderstood) there are some better punters out there for much less, even though we still have to pay turk’s salary (i think)
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Anyone know if Weatherford is still out there
He was pretty good
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by duuuvaaalll on Oct 4, 2011 12:26 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
He’s on the Giants
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by floridafalcons#63 on Oct 4, 2011 12:33 PM EDT up reply actions
Oh
I wonder if the punter that Coughlin nearly strangled mid-field has emerged from protective custody yet.
In other news..The Colts suck
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by tiquanunderwear on Oct 4, 2011 12:47 PM EDT reply actions
we're only 1 game up on them
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I don’t think we’re very good…I just thought this summed up their season
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by tiquanunderwear on Oct 4, 2011 1:01 PM EDT up reply actions
Doctor: “Ok peyton, lie down and count back down from 10. This will be the LAST neck surgery…I promise!”
by Jags85 on Oct 4, 2011 6:23 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
When is Turk going to be called in by the "turk"?
He needs to be off the roster. Surely you’d think we’d be able to find a better option at punter…but I guess not
by Jags85 on Oct 4, 2011 1:32 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
the good thing is it's not likea punter has to learn a playbook
In the words of Toni Fritsch, “I keek the touchdown”
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