After Raiders debacle, Bears give extra work to backup long snapper

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After Raiders debacle, Bears give extra work to backup long snapper

Posted by Michael David Smith on September 11, 2012, 5:17 PM EDT
http://nbcprofootballtalk.files.word...cked.jpg?w=250 AP The Chargers-Raiders late Monday night game didn’t end until well after midnight in Chicago, but Bears special teams coach Dave Toub was apparently watching.
Raiders long snapper Jon Condo left the game against the Chargers with an injury and backup long snapper Travis Goethel made three bad snaps on three Raiders punts, and as I wrote after the game, every coach in the league who saw that had to be thinking he’d give his backup long snapper extra practice time this week. That’s exactly what Toub did at today’s Bears practice, giving backup long snapper Matt Spaeth a full period of work on his long snapping.
“He got a whole period today,” Toub told the Chicago Tribune. “Surprise, surprise. But it wasn’t just because of the game last night, but something like that definitely makes you think about it. He’s been working on it and he’s been doing it pre-practice.”
The Raiders have acknowledged that they regret the fact that they rarely gave Goethel practice time as a long snapper. Don’t expect other teams to repeat that mistake.

Back days Cutler in Denver. The starting center got injured. I heard the backup center never did one snap together with Cutler before entering game.
How in the world they dont prepare for such things ??
stupid.

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Originally Posted by WP.1

Back days Cutler in Denver. The starting center got injured. I heard the backup center never did one snap together with Cutler before entering game.
How in the world they dont prepare for such things ??
stupid.

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Practice time is limited, and they typically want to give the starters as much time as possible to practice gameplans for the next game.


To the original story posted: this is why Toub is a ST Genius :)

I watched the Raiders implode Monday night and thought, somewhere Patrick Mannely is smiling.

Job security is a beautiful thing!

And this is why Mannelly is the longest tenured Chicago Bear.

I love how ESPN was trying to pin the punt block on the snapper... it was just a blown blocking assignment.

Classic journalism in todays USA, never let the facts get in the way of a good story.

It's a pretty specialized skill that takes a lot of practice. It's like a QB learning to hit a receiver 15 yards (punt) or 7 yards (FG/XP) away right in the hands every time but he has to throw the pass between his legs.

Mannelly is really good at what he does. We don't have Des Clark or Tyler Clutts any longer and those guys were the emergency LS so it's time to train a new guy. Toub is being smart and making sure he has someone prepared for it.

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Originally Posted by Jimmors

Practice time is limited, and they typically want to give the starters as much time as possible to practice gameplans for the next game.


To the original story posted: this is why Toub is a ST Genius :)

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It is sometimes said that Edison said something like "genius is 10% inspiration, 90% perspiration"

Perhaps that was invention rather than genius. Similar, not identical.