I highly recommend checking out USA Today's recent interview with our very own Chuck Zodda. The interview is in addition to his excellent article yesterday about what caused Blair Walsh to miss the chip shot field goal.
Blair Walsh, Zodda, ITP and USA Today
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Great article and brought out stuff I'd never seen broken down about place kicking, like the plant foot distance from the ball. I guess it takes a SOSH to appreciate such stuff.
Maybe not appreciate, but it seemingly takes SoSH to get enough knowledgeable people together that some can answer questions at that level of detail, and then spur them to write about it.
Hat's off to SF121 for what he's driven at ITP. People are lazy; people who habitually post on internet forums, perhaps moreso than average. And yet, he found or cajoled the ones with something to offer and the willingness to offer it. Cats: herded.
It could have been worse for Blair. Seeing it as a soccer player, that plant foot looks pretty close to the range whereby you clip it with your kicking leg and the ball goes nowhere, never mind wide left.
Hell I'd be happy just to find a girl that would talk dirty to me.Don't let it go to your head Chuck. Remember, you were just a kicker
Nice job on both! Know nothing about kicking but watching the replays it looked like his plant leg was too close and apparently it was. Because kickers are such a different animal, you'd think there'd be room for NFL broadcasts to include a kicker expert they could call upon for a situation like this much like they now call in Mike Carey on officiating questions. Paging Chuck Z...
I enjoyed that article very much, and was impressed that Chuck and the ITP staff was able to publish such a good article so quickly after the game. Kudos all around!
