Has Jon Ryan Improved (Did he need to?)

Maybe bring in a UFA in training camp to challenge him/protect against freak kicker injury the same way they’ll probably do with Olindo Mare, but beyond that? Nah, I’m just not seeing it.

probably in the first 2 rounds of the draft

I guess its a good thing I’m not a coach or a GM.

My untrained eye thought he did a pretty good job this year, but if the FO sees something that they’re confident will be an upgrade, go for it.

I don’t think touchbacks are all that bad for punters. Sure, having it downed inside the 20 is better. But how much of a difference does it make if the opponent starts at, say, the 15 instead of the 20? Punters are told that punts downed inside the 20 are good and touchbacks are bad, so they frequently aim for about the 15. It’s much more valuable to pin a team very deep — inside the 5, say. Punters don’t aim for the 5 often enough, though, because they’re afraid of the dreaded touchback. Counting touchbacks and inside-the-20 punts reinforces this. I say, aim to pin them really deep, and if you overshoot, there are worse things in life than a touchback.

Does this make sense to anyone else?

That being the time he punted to Hester who subsequently took it to the house. Other than that I thought he played at an acceptable level. Like someone else said, he’s not actively losing games for the Seahawks. I feel like another year under Schneider will give the rest of our punt coverage team the ability to cover Ryan’s kicks a lot better.

We have other concerns. Ryan is fine.

I have no idea if this is true or not, but with all the roster moves that PC et al. made, perhaps a lot of those marginal roster add-ons ended up on ST. Maybe our punt coverage unit was a revolving door of different players, and maybe lack of cohesion on that unit led to less than spectacular punt coverage. Just a theory. This would imply it has less to do with Ryan and more to do with the other 10 guys on the field.

I would presume that other teams also have marginal players show up on ST units, so this isn’t Seahawk-specific, but maybe in our case it was excessive this year.

I also think PC should award a bonus to the guy whose job it was to sew players’ names on the jerseys. He was kept pretty busy this year.

I think he did an exceptional job this year. I watched every game, and believe me some of those punts to only have 1 touchback this year???? Very nice! I think his sister’s the number four… oh nevermind :-P