Exe Gesis
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But he isnt the first QB to use it. a bunch used it over covid season when there was no OTAs and schools have used it because 2 a days were banned.
Exe Gesis
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Not about being the first but the one to popularize it due to NFL success is perhaps where this particular tech ends up staple training for rookie QBs
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I think even Joe Burrow used it at LSU, people forget and I think Stroud used it last year but thats old news now. there is a new shiny QB playing with toys.
This article just appeared on the BBC, outlining how Australian Football players have transformed the art of punting in American Football. I have included a few relevant extracts below -
… The Aussie-style punt, which previously had been used almost exclusively in circumstances that demanded a short-range punt, had been introduced to the NFL by Bennett in the 1990s and been used by one of Koch’s rival punters in the 2013-14 play-offs. …
Australians now dominate punting in American football. The Ray Guy Award, given to the best punter in college football, has been won by an Australian in eight of the past 11 years. Tory Taylor, 27 and born in Melbourne, is in his first season of the NFL and tipped to be a generational talent.
The success of Koch’s approach inadvertently led to the United States' most fertile breeding ground for punters being on the other side of the world.
Aussie Rules players need to hit all types of punts in all types of situations, a skill that is now required in American football. "In Australia, we kick the ball to each other from three years old," explains Bennett. "If you see kids in their backyard [in Australia], they are not throwing the ball to each other. They're kicking it. We never throw it."
In short, this is also why the same transfer from rugby to the NFL has not happened. Despite kicking being a regular component of the sport, the primary method of passing is still throwing, so the number of repetitions gained kicking simply is not there compared to Aussie Rules.
"American kids are taught to look at the ball when they punt," says Bennett. "So they have no awareness of what's going on, whereas Australians can look at the situation, make an adjustment and hit 75% of the punt they were going to anyway."
Training schools have been set up for wannabe Aussie punters, including Bennett’s own Gridiron Company, and ProKick Australia, which launched in 2007. ProKick has had 260 of its alumni achieve full scholarships to US colleges. The flood of Australian punters at college level has not yet quite been replicated in the NFL. In 2023 one in two of the biggest sporting colleges had Australians as punters, whereas last season in the NFL it was one in six teams.
"We're at the tip of the iceberg," smiles Brown. "We've always wanted the ball hit one way, and now the Aussies have come over and given us so many different angles and helped grow our game."
The success of Australians is opening the mind of American football to what else might be out there. …
NFL: How Sam Koch changed punting with 'mis-kicks'
Sam Koch looked like he was playing very, very badly. In fact, he was changing one of sport's strangest positions for ever.
www.bbc.com
Australians now dominate punting in American football. The Ray Guy Award, given to the best punter in college football, has been won by an Australian in eight of the past 11 years. Tory Taylor, 27 and born in Melbourne, is in his first season of the NFL and tipped to be a generational talent.
The success of Koch’s approach inadvertently led to the United States' most fertile breeding ground for punters being on the other side of the world.
Aussie Rules players need to hit all types of punts in all types of situations, a skill that is now required in American football. "In Australia, we kick the ball to each other from three years old," explains Bennett. "If you see kids in their backyard [in Australia], they are not throwing the ball to each other. They're kicking it. We never throw it."
In short, this is also why the same transfer from rugby to the NFL has not happened. Despite kicking being a regular component of the sport, the primary method of passing is still throwing, so the number of repetitions gained kicking simply is not there compared to Aussie Rules.
"American kids are taught to look at the ball when they punt," says Bennett. "So they have no awareness of what's going on, whereas Australians can look at the situation, make an adjustment and hit 75% of the punt they were going to anyway."
Training schools have been set up for wannabe Aussie punters, including Bennett’s own Gridiron Company, and ProKick Australia, which launched in 2007. ProKick has had 260 of its alumni achieve full scholarships to US colleges. The flood of Australian punters at college level has not yet quite been replicated in the NFL. In 2023 one in two of the biggest sporting colleges had Australians as punters, whereas last season in the NFL it was one in six teams.
"We're at the tip of the iceberg," smiles Brown. "We've always wanted the ball hit one way, and now the Aussies have come over and given us so many different angles and helped grow our game."
The success of Australians is opening the mind of American football to what else might be out there. …
Exe Gesis
Kylo was here
Maybe unpopular opinion, but i believe Rugby League players are far better kickers of the ball nowadays than AFL players. Not only that, but there are far more types of kicks being actively performed in Rugby League than AFL....drop kick, stab pass, checkside, flat punt bomb, side spinning grubbers, end to end grubbers, drop kicks, torpedo punts, checkside grubbers...
