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1. Tommerdahl-Special Teams-all of us know that Tommerdahl was the Special Teams Coach in name only. This is the ONLY area that DD knew a little about so DD was, in reality, the special teams coach. Our actual kicking the ball with our TRUE FR PK & KO guy was great in the area of PAT & FG but not-so-good in KO's. Why not good in KO's? Because DD had this thing about the "pooch kicks" which we had a hard time executing. As the season progressed, we had so many INJURIES to front-line players that we had to take several off of the kick & punt cover teams, & that showed. I won't further agitate anyone about our Punter but suffice it to say that when you cannot change field position with your punter to ANY extent, you had better go find a new punter. We will find out in 2010 whether or not Tommerdahl is a bonafide Special Teams Coach.
Coach, if Tommerdahl was the ST coach in name only, can we infer that Eric Russell was the ST coach "in name only" as well? And if DD actually ran Special Teams, why was there such a huge drop-off in performance when Tommerdahl took over? It's hard to imagine that we went from so good to so bad solely as a result of items beyond Tommerdahl's control (injuries, etc.).