Basically you get tunnel-vision heading down the field. You don’t want to be looking up searching for the punt (as you said, a kick may not go where intended; shanks and whathaveyou) while running down the field at full tilt trying to zero in on the returner and get ahead of the blocks, so muscle memory kicks in…

At any rate, I recommend reading Rovell’s entire report.

What level did you play at where the punter can’t control where the ball is going?

In my experience, no: you are supposed to locate the ball overhead when you start running after the foot impacts the ball (sound trigger, but usually make your block and release down field) and follow the path. In reality, you get one glimpses of the ball overhead when you start running, and then focus on the…

More impressive is the D figures out which way the punt isn’t going so they know which way to decoy to.

It’s very hard to track the ball when it’s in the air and your trying to gun down the punt returner.

The moment that will live in the punter’s nightmares forever

Clearly this is harder to pull off than it looks or teams would do this more frequently, but this is some good shit.

the design of that play was genius. they baited the punter into punting toward an empty space, then quickly moved a guy back into that spot to receive the punt while the main receiver faked everyone out. then they had 2 guys in place to block for the real receiver

You left out the part about racists and shitty pizzas.

To every college alumni booster who voted these Republicans into office:

BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA (takes a drink of water) AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

So the game plan is:

Come on. LaVar isn’t fighting the media to take the heat off his son, and no other recent top five pick has had his dad out here running interference. Lonzo does have too much heat on him, but it is absolutely because of his father, a point that has been made by many actual NBA players.

Great article! With your permission, my fellow editors and I would like to include it in the forthcoming anthology, 99% of Americans Imperiled By House Tax Bill.

No one would have ever thought it would be a GOP Congress to blow a hole through college football. Hilarious.