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Message: [QUOTE="Scooch, post: 1139154, member: 628"] Obviously there is a time and place to punt. What drives me absolutely bonkers is punting when you're inside your opponent's 40. In so many of those cases you hear a coach rationalize it by claiming that his defense was playing well so he wanted to pin the other team back and tilt the field. Of course if your defense is really playing well then shouldn't that be even more reason to go for it? Because the other team is still 60+ yards away from a score should you fail? Plus coaches always assume their punter and special teams will be perfect when the data shows that it's common to put the ball in the end zone in that situation, gaining you all of 15-20 yards of field position. [/QUOTE]