re: Cody Parkey: The boy with a golden leg

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No...one guy falling over with a leg injury and a second guy running completely out of his lane killed us. He could have kicked it to the back of the endzone and that still would have been a TD if the returner chose to return it. Watch the return again; at no point in time did Whitfield make anyone miss, nor did he do anything even remotely special in terms of reversing directions...he ran straight through one side of the field. You're not going to defend many kickoffs down two men, with the kicker himself already being a liability.

Failed coverage killed us, not a shorter-than-usual kick. Truth.

Its like saying "that would have never happened if the pitcher only struck out the batter" when the shortstop throws the ball over the first baseman's head and into the stands on a routine groundball. Yeah, in principal it may be "accurate", but it is a shitty-arse distribution of blame in a team environment.

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