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[gardenman]

A good long snapper is worth his weight in gold. A new coaching staff may change quarterbacks and every other skill position, but not the long snapper.

In each sport there are positions that can get you a pro job and let you keep it for a long time. In baseball, it's catching. In football it's being a long snapper. Good ones are rare and nothing scares a coach as much as a bad one.

[Spurt]

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@gardenman wrote:

A good long snapper is worth his weight in gold. A new coaching staff may change quarterbacks and every other skill position, but not the long snapper.

In each sport there are positions that can get you a pro job and let you keep it for a long time. In baseball, it's catching. In football it's being a long snapper. Good ones are rare and nothing scares a coach as much as a bad one.

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@gardenman

Yep, long snapper is a position most fans dont pay attention to, but if you don't have a good one, or the long snapper gets injured it makes a big difference in a game.

[gardenman]

Bad long snappers can just kill a team. Fourth and long and the long snapper snaps the ball a few yards over the punter's head, and it can be a sixty or seventy yard difference in field position. Pretty much every NFL team will bring at least two long snappers to camp and pray one of them is up to the job. Veteran players will often start practicing long snapping later in their career to help lengthen it.

[sunshine45]

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@Spurt wrote:

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@gardenman wrote:

Steelers fans are having a mild heart attack today. Ben Roethlisberger is considering retirement and apparently the Steelers are telling teams that Antonio Brown is available. With Leveon Bell being a free agent, the Steelers could lose their three best offensive players. I suspect Ben will be back and no one will offer enough to pry Brown away, and the Steelers will likely tag Bell, so the team will likely return intact, but it's not a good news day for Steelers fans.

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@gardenman

WOW---that would really blow up the team if they lost all 3 and really put them in a non contender status......  but somewhere ya know that @sunshine45 and the rest of Raven Nation is smiling over the news....

Intresting info on Greg Manusky....the Redskin players really wanted him to get the DC job.....Also Greg played for the Redskins for a while under the Joe Gibbs era...He will stick with the 3-4 scheme but there will be definite differences.....Jim Tomsula has been hired to take over as D line coach, and Kevin O'Connell with coach the QB's.....Tomsula was with the 49ers with Harbraugh and the team had one of the best defenses at that time...

Here's an important re-signing.....the Redskins re-signed long snapperNick Sundberg......

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LOL @Spurt ......i think that the ravens and their fans will hate the steelers just as much if BR is there or not. there is also a lot of hatred for their coach also. i dont think it is a rivalry that will ever go away.

somehow, i cant see ben retiring prior to this upcoming season, although he is getting a bit more banged up each year.