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Originally Posted by Nconroe
I didn't look up all of them but since 2010 Texans ST rank was 7, 23, 13, 32, 29. where 29 was this 2014 year I believe.
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Wow, you put a lot more work into this than what was necessary. I was mostly going by eyeball. You know, when your return teams regularly run out kickoffs deep in the endzone and can't get it out beyond the 10-15 yard line (rather than just taking a knee)... And it happens over-and-over-and-over again during the HC/ST coaches tenure and not one of them apparently tells the return guy to just take a freaking knee... Or when you're return guy catches a KO at the sideline and falls out of bounds at the 2... Or when your coverage team regularly lets the opponents get good field position and your return team does not... Things like that. Other than Fat Randy's shanks from time to time we haven't been too bad at actually kicking the ball (at least from my eye's perspective) so I'm not really referring to that aspect of STs. Maybe it was not all on Marciano, but all those issues reared up when he was in charge of that unit. Time will tell if we see improvement under BOB's group. Even with that, the rankings you listed above indicate the Texans were ranked at slightly-above-average to below average 4 out of 5 years. Well below average for at least 2, if not 3, of those years. 4 out of 5 years of average to below average shows fairly consistent rate of suck.