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Thursday Transcript: Special Teams Coordinator Tom Quinn

Eric from BBI : Admin : 10/22/2015 4:04 pm
Special Teams Coordinator Tom Quinn

October 22, 2015

Re: Using Shane Vereen on kickoff returns. Is that because [Dwayne] Harris is doing more on offense?

A: A little combination of both. When Dwayne got hurt with the ribs, we needed someone to go to and Shane [Vereen] was the next guy. He’s a good returner. I thought the play of the game against Buffalo was when the kick, he’s waiting for it to go into the end zone and it rolls back into the field of play, and he picks it up and shoots it out, a momentum changing time, so I thought that was good. He has some juice back there, but we got Dwayne back in there, so it’s something that we feel comfortable with both of them.

Q: Brad Wing had a chance for a couple of big punts last week and didn’t get it done.

A: Yeah, one was an Aussie punt, one was a spiral, and an Aussie punt isn’t going to be as far. You’re trying to get some hang and distance and control [Darren] Sproles. One of those he didn’t hit as well as he wanted to, but a couple of other ones we were really pleased with. Then one of the spiral punts he just came up on and popped it up. You face a returner like Sproles, you have to do some different things to try and control him.

Q: With all things considered then, how did he do?

A: Well, you want a 40-yard net and I think he ended up at 39.3, so off a little bit. I think basically for our special teams, coming out of the game, was just poor complimentary football. We had too many penalties, putting our offense in a hole, not helping our defense, so that was disappointing. We had a running into the punter, turnover, basically a turnover and another set of downs, so that was really disappointing, the complimenting of the offense and the defense.

Q: So the Aussie punt is the one when he kicks it and flips?

A: And it flips back? Yeah. He’s usually used it when you’re trying to kick it down inside the 10 [yard-line] but people have been using it more out in the field to change up the returns. He’s got pretty good control with that, so a little good that he can go both ways with it. A lot of times guys can only kick that one way but he can go left and right.

Q: This is the second time you’ve had that extra point pushed back five yards, do you watch that a little differently when it’s all of sudden 38 yards?

A: Yeah, that will be a challenge once the weather really starts to change, and you get a stiff breeze. You’re going to have to go for two, I think. It’s not an easy kick, especially when you get the wind. I’m glad they changed the stadium from what it used to be. That would have been a nightmare down at north end.
Quinn walks out.  
Randy in CT : 10/22/2015 4:07 pm : link
Interview over!
Wing is still over 40 Net For the season  
RetroJint : 10/23/2015 5:56 am : link
& was 39+ for the Eagles game. Coach had him punt Aussie for Sproles. Listening to Tirico and then Coughlin, you thought Wing cost them the game. Tirico must be a Weatherford fan. What was his net against Philadelphia last year? About 29?
RJ  
Big Blue '56 : 10/23/2015 10:55 am : link
you're better than that..Where did TC even remotely infer that Wing might have cost us the game? Harsh on him? Perhaps..
Q: What about those photos?  
WideRight : 10/23/2015 11:49 am : link
A: What about them?
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