The Fuller Style Kick could be the next evolution of special teams

Ok yes she can’t bomb it thru the endzone but the pooch kick as it has been affectionately known was a nice placement and off a turf field could be dangerous.

You maybe lose 10-15 yards in net to increase your recovery chance by a significant amount. The ball only has to go 10 yards before you end up in a make it take it scenario. The new field turf installed everywhere amplifies the bounce from the rubber.

It is about shot placement not shot distance as Dechambeau found out at Augusta. If she can learn to control a kick such that it isn’t an onside in the traditional sense of kicking into a wall of hands team but rather a 15-20 yard kick scramble in space in the field it will be hard to cover as a receiving team.

Sarah Fuller may be mocked relentlessly until the next soy boy trigger, but the actual strategy behind a kickoff may change going forward knowing we have just accepted the ball placement at the 25 and essentially removed special teams.

Special teams will not go away. Too many advantages that don’t show up on the scorers sheet. Because special teams is that. A bunch of the lesser players trying their best to contribute to the team effort. They aren’t the big name kids but the scrappy ones no one knows who more have to fight even harder to earn what they have. Sarah Fuller embodies that. She has to probably get death threats in her DMs over a kickoff in a game where she only did everything that was asked of her.