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[QUOTE="OttoinGrotto, post: 348076, member: 297"]
I'm not sure that's quite right, actually. Let's assume for convenience sake (though it probably isn't that far off) that every player on your coverage team can cover 40 yards in 5 seconds. The punter will take the snap about 10 yards behind the line of scrimmage, maybe kick it 8 yards from the line of scrimmage, and needs about 2 seconds to get it off. 
 
I suck at math, but if they aren't jammed the gunners should be nearly 20 yards down field by the time the punt is off, and only need 20 more to go. If that punt travels 48 yards (40 yard goal plus the 8 yards behind the line) and takes one second for every 10 yards of distance, the gunners have 5 seconds to go 20 yards. Let's say it takes them 3. They have 2 whole seconds to hang out right next to the punt returner. The rest of the team back on the line will have 5 seconds to go 40 yards, which is right what we estimated it would take them to run. That means on most punts all 10 of your guys are standing right by the punt returner when he catches it. It would seem to me that the punter could boom it 68 yards and the gunner would still have all kinds of time to get there, even if they get blocked a little bit. We know none of this is true.
 
This is a really long way of saying that I think one second for every ten yards of punt is a nice simple saying, but probably not how it really works. I'd love some real data to prove me wrong though.
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