But that doesn’t make me a fan of Berger’s. I did expect some rust from him though and he’s generally gotten better but I’d like to see a consistently good game from him on Sunday. Field position continues to hurt the Broncos. If he’s bad on Sunday I’d make a move again. But I agree that Kern deserved to get the axe.

He needs to stop intentionally trying to get contact from rushers by having the slowest delivery in the history of the game. Put some of that effort into punting the ball more than 16 yards.

I don’t think you are going to win anyone over to Berger. People are expecting that if you make a change that they will be able to see the difference with their untrained eye. He may be statistically better but the general fan sees someone with a slow delivery who isn’t booming the ball 60 yards downfield.

Just don’t turn The Leprechaun loose, that’s all I ask.

I’ll take the ugly girl who knows what she’s doing over the slightly pretty one who just lays there.

goog post..

the smokin’ hot girl with bipolar daddy issues who would blame you for her infidelities while chucking the good china at your head.

 Berger’s slow delivery and 30 yard punts from the the scare me to death. He should have had 2 blocked punts, although I think he saw one block coming and hesitated to throw off the timing. A little coaching patience and better coverage prolly would have netted us a Much better Kern. His Titans stats support that: Gross 44.1 Net 40.6 7 in 20 1 TB Take out the San Diego game and his Denver stats don’t look so bad either. Colquit’s #s are much better than Bergers as well. Seems like mistaken ID to me as well.

is this ever talked about in reference to punting? i mean, it seems like shanahan didn’t see a ton of difference between punting and kicking: go long and straight.

for all the folks here who have mentioned dilts, horan, and i’d throw in prestridge, yeah, those guys seemed to punt according to what the situation dictated (no one has ever given me a solid reason why good punters don’t try to hit the coffin corner anymore like these guys did).

in a world with some 6 billion people and only 32 NFL punting jobs available, we should be able to find a guy who can put hang time on a 40 or 50 yard punt, and do it with touch.

… and then i awoke… and the unicorns were gone too…

a) Berger’s ridiculously slow release.
b) The hatred of the refs towards him—he gets running into for roughing, and nothing at all for running into…
c) Like poorboywilly said above, among a small sample size (though with as many punts as we had against the Steelers I don’t think it’s as small as the typical three game sample :p) one punt with net 65 yards will help your average a lot…

Maybe that’s his gig. Slow release = roughing the kicker penalties. He crazy like a fox.

On point C, I fully admit the sample size. Berger’s 804 career punts do show him to be pretty good, however, in a larger sample.

On the last point, a rolling punt gathers no returners:-)!

She’s high maintenance and out-kicks your coverage.

Classic. Nice write up. Thanks for busting those myths, Duderino.

As Lindsay Jones points out today in her article from the Denver Post:

Yikes! I’m glad I never emailed her…saying, “Dear Mr. Jones,”

A 24 yard punt.
A 16 yard punt.

Period.

lol, Good post Dude – though ye not make a believer of me. I did well to keep the Berger bashing out of my weekly rant, but then again – how often does one get to lament about a fake punt TD on a 4th and 20 when the opposing team SAW the formation before a time out!!!! Tell me, what are the stats on that one! lol ;-)

It might be hard to replace him in midstream and probably why he’s still here. Not sure about Burns either who should know better. Berger…well he just the best they could do for the time being. Don’t be buying any jerseys if you are thinking he will return in the spring.

regardless is inexcusable at the professional level. The net may be better but both punters are not effective. We need a legitimate punter next year. Even a league average punter. As for the women you speak of above. Well as the great George Carlin once said “I’ve never f(slept with) a ten, but one night I f(slept with) five 2’s.”

there’s two possible explanations: he either didn’t get height or hangtime on his kicks and achieved distance at the expense of hangtime, or our coverage guys are either slow or can’t get off blocks and Berger is more complimentary to these deficiencies. Either way, it’s pathetic.
Go Broncs!

which one is the hot girl?

Kern= 3-0 with Tennessee
Berger=0-3 with Denver

NEXT!

I had no problem with Kern being cut as long as the next punter was better. He is not. Kern may have been outkicking his coverage but he didn’t have duds like Berger has had each game. (30,14,24)

If everybody agrees that a football game can come down to a few plays than why would we put up with a punter that has these clunkers. I love McDaniels so far but he needs to swallow his pride on this one and cut Mitch (loves me a) Berger.

Berger has been awful, but the fact that the disparity in net punting distance has been so small shows why the change was made.
The best thing about Kern being cut is that it forces us to take action to address the issue this offseason.