Welcome back, Punt Fans, to your slightly later than usual but there's no Thursday Night Football so what else are you going to be doing edition of our weekly hunt for the King of Punt – it’s /r/NFL’s own Punt Rank. If you haven’t been here with me before, the concept is both simple and fantastically over-engineered. Lemme break it down:

Each punter’s performance against five vital punting metrics is ranked against every other punter in the league.

Those rankings are combined into a weighted average ranking – the 2020 NFL Punt Rank.

Punt Heroes rise to the top; Punt Zeros sink to the bottom. Last week’s post and Week 4 standings are available here for the archivists, and all of this week’s stats analysis and highlights and lowlights in video form are just moments away.

As always I’m excited to get your perspectives on your team’s punter, and you can point me to things that I may have missed or overlooked, so please hit me with your feedback and questions in the comments!

Punt Rank Standings

Punt Rank 2020: Week 5 Overall Standings

2020 Week 5: Punt Performance Summary

Good Week for

Brett Kern (TEN, +1 to #3). Eh what do you want to know. If you’re reading this it means you like punting. If you like punting, you know that Brett Kern is a really, really great punter. And, Q.E.D – Brett was demonstrably great against the Bills on (the other) TNF. His three punts this week for the no-longer-significantly-infectious-Titans pinned Josh Allen and his shorts at the 9, 9 and 3 yard lines – covering 86% of Average Available Field which is GOAT tier punting. Here’s the pick of the bunch (his 41 yard precisiobomb corralled at the 3 yard line by Chris Milton) covering 93% of Available Field, and measuring in 7.6 yards better than an average punt from the opposing 44 yard line. Tidy.

In addition to his really really really great punting, the Kerninator also wrangled at least two uttely horrible snaps into decent holds for Gostkowski to continue his kicking renaissance tour, which is a majorly underrated part of the punter job description...

Logan Cooke (JAX, +12 to #13). SPEAK

Kevin Punter source @sportando

Vladimir Stimac source @Mozzart (Serbian site)

Regarding Stimac, it is pretty much done, and we are only waiting for his contract to expire with Fener on Dec 25, he is expected to take back up center role.

Zvezda already added Marko Jagodic-Kuridza from ABA leagues' Primorska earlier this week. He is expected to take backup PF and some C duties.

Stimac is well respected and known among our fans for his 2 stints in our club (2008-10 & 15-16), as well as his national team time.

Can anyone that watched Kevin Punter play give us some words of what to expect from him? He is supposed to play back up as well at sg/pg and bring points while Lorenzo Brown rests... But looking at his stats from Oly this year they look abysmal and do not enlist any confidence in most of our fans...

2-3 players are expected to leave/be released, no one knows who yet but speculations revolve around Ojo, Derrick Brown, Faye, and even James Gist. Although Gist has been playing poorly lately no one wants him to leave due to his Experience and Euroleague success through his career.

This was the right time to make moves, after our poor start, we are at 6-9 with a bunch of teams, only trailing 8th Armani with 2 wins. And our schedule for the next 5 games is a lot easier than at the start season(no offense to any of the teams): @Zenit, vs Bayern, @Asvel, vs Zalgiris, @ Alba. 3 bottom teams, 1 with the same score as us, and only Asvel with one more W than us.

If we somehow go 4-1 it would be insane and bring us at 50% (10-10) and I belive it is doable, but would also be satisfied with 3-2 in this span...

Edit: few words

who dey

The Tennessee Titans have now used an 89 players this season, by far an NFL record (next closest was the infamously injured 2020 49ers and the 2019 Dolphins at 84 each). The crazy thing? The Titans are actually getting pretty healthy now relative to the average NFL team at this point in the season. But just because they are getting healthy now doesn't change the fact that the Tennessee Titans have had an absolutely absurd amount of injuries that they have had to overcome this season. I posted this list at about the halfway point in the season and decided I should re-post an updated version of the list with one narrative in mind: Mike Vrabel is the clear choice for COTY. This list has somehow managed to get more ridiculous since it was first posted. At the end of the post I have written the argument for why Mike Vrabel should be the 2021 NFL Coach of the Year.

###Offense (21 Players):

• RB 1 (Derrick Henry): 8 games missed due to injury (IR).

• RB 2/KR (Darrynton Evans): 15 games missed due to injury and is out for the season (IR).

• RB 3 (3rd down back) (Jeremy McNichols): 2 games missed due to injury.

• FB 1 (Khari Blasingame): 5 games missed due to injury.

• FB 2 (Tory Carter): 6 games missed due to injury (yes the Titans have 2 fullbacks on the roster and they somehow both missed the Rams game) (IR).

• WR 1 (AJ Brown): 4 games missed (basically 5, left early in the first quarter vs the Colts week 3, did not have a catch) due to injury. Also only played 52% of the snaps against Houston in a game where he was desperately needed but left with an injury.

• WR 2 (Julio Jones): 7 games missed (plus several 2nd halves) due to injury and COVID. He is currently healthy but missed the Dolphins game with COVID.

• WR 3/KR (Marcus Johnson): 9 games missed due to injury and is out for the season (IR).

• WR 4/PR 1 (Chester Rogers): 1 game missed due to injury.

• WR 5/KR (Cam Batson): 12 games missed due to injury and is out for the season (IR).

• WR 7 (Racey McMath, mainly a special teamer but is playing on offense a lot more lately due to injuries): 6 missed games due to injury (IR).

• TE 1 (Geoff Swaim): 1 game missed due to injury.

• TE 2 (really a slot receiver but listed as a TE) (Anthony Firkser): 2 games missed due to injury

Welcome to the week 10 Official r/NFL Power Rankings! Usually these rankings are more solidified by this time, but the writers thought a midseason upset extravaganza would boost ratings. Last week featured losses to 6 top ten teams. This week not only had 5 upsets, but 4 of those were from the top ten, with 2 losing to bottom ten teams. Special shoutout to the Detroit Lions for their first (half) win of the season, progress comes in small steps. Discuss the parity! 32/32 reporting

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There are five weeks left in the NFL season and with the last four teams wrapping up bye weeks, this is as close to the three-quarter mark as we’ll get to. Therefore, it was time for me to go through all the numbers, watch some more film and rank all 32 teams against each other heading into the final stretch.

I think there’s a fairly clear top-five, which you could order a few different ways and a couple of teams with the potential to join that group. And similarly, there’s a group at the bottom, which consists of about the same amount of teams, that have practically – and one even technically – eliminated themselves from playoff contention – and their play also reflects that. The middle group is really what’s hard to figure out, because some of those teams look like contenders one week and then let us down the very next.

Still, this is the list I came up with in the end, not just purely ranking the teams based on record, but also taking recent form into account and where they should come in, as I evaluate them at this very moment. Let’s dive into it:

Please don't just downvote because you don't like your team's ranking, but rather actually read the analysis!

1. Green Bay Packers (9-3)

Coming off a late bye, if there’s one NFL team that might have their best lineup out there as we come to a close for the regular season, the Packers would qualify for it. They did lose Elgton Jenkins for the rest of the season, which is big, because he gave them that flexibility, to where he could actually play all five positions on the O-line effectively, but they should get All-Pro left tackle David Bakhtiari back this week, along with Pro Bowl running back Aaron Jones. And then on defense, their two best players from a year ago in Za’Darius Smith and Jaire Alexander also have a chance to return on Sunday Night, while some of their young guys have really stepped up in those guys’ absence. I love when teams can win in different ways and when they’re not 100 percent – which Green Bay has done both. They can play ball-control, with the best time and turnover rate per drive and they’re a top-ten defense pretty much across the board in terms of numbers. Which he only two times Aaron Rodgers has had a unit of that status complementing him, he once won the Super Bowl and then it took that group to com

Pro Bowl rosters are always a popularity contest, but it has a big effect on players. Selections could mean more money in free agency, more pay based on incentives, etc. Below are both the AFC & NFC Pro Bowl rosters based on PFF grade.

Instead of using "defensive end", "outside linebacker", & "inside linebacker", I am using EDGE (lines up on D-Line) and Linebacker (off-ball). Otherwise, you have an entire team of pass rushers who get in. I'm glad that the All-Pro team has changed this, but the Pro Bowl seems to be a step behind.

Grades are Through Week 15 (Last week of play before rosters were announced)

AFC Offense

Quarterback: Joe Burrow, CIN (90.4); Justin Herbert, LAC (89.2); Ryan Tannehill, TEN (82.8)

Running Back: Jonathan Taylor, IND (90.0); D'Ernest Johnson, CLE (86.4); Damien Harris, NE (84.7)

Wide Receiver: Tyreek Hill, KC (87.9); Tee Higgins, CIN (81.4); Stefon Diggs, BUF (80.5); Keenan Allen, LAC (80.1)

Tight End: Mark Andrews, BAL (91.0); Travis Kelce, KC (82.4)

Fullback: Patrick Ricard, BAL (74.6)

Tackle: Michael Onwenu, NE (88.8); Braden Smith, IND (84.6); Trent Brown, NE (83.5)

Guard: Joel Bitonio, CLE (93.7); Shaq Mason, NE (84.9); Wyatt Teller, CLE (83.5)

Center: Creed Humphrey, KC (90.7); Corey Linsley, LAC (84.3)

AFC Defense

Edge Defender: Myles Garrett, CLE (92.1); Maxx Crosby, LV (91.0); Joey Bosa, LAC (88.6)

Interior Defender: Cameron Heyward, PIT (91.3); Chris Jones, KC (86.9); Calais Campbell, BAL (84.1)

Linebacker: Alexander Johnson, DEN (80.6) -- Injured; Darius Leonard, IND (77.4); Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah, CLE (76.5); Josh Bynes, BAL (73.1); Matt Milano, BUF (68.7); Kyle Van Noy, NE (68.6)

Cornerback: Rashad Fenton, KC (82.3); Mike Hughes, KC (81.0); Chidobe Awuzie, CIN (80.2); Nate Hobbs, LV (78.6)

Safety: Kevin Byard, TEN (90.3); Amani Hooker, TEN (84.2); Adrian Phillips, NE (83.5)

AFC Special Teams

Long Snapper: Morgan Cox, TEN (78.2)

Punter: A.J. Cole III, LV (84.9)

Kicker: Justin Tucker, BAL (92.8)

Return Specialist: Tremon Smith, HOU (75.5)

Special Teamer: Minkah Fitzpatrick, PIT (91.2)

NFC Offense

Quarterback: Tom Brady, TB (90.0); Kirk Cousins, MIN (87.0); Aaron Rodgers, GB (84.6)

Running Back: Tony Pollard, DAL (86.6); A.J. Dillon, GB (86.4); Cordarrelle Patterson, ATL (86.0)

Wide Receiver: ***

Welcome back Punt Fans, to your earnestly-niche weekly Special Teams analysis column – yes it’s /r/NFL’s own painfully protracted and statistically questionable Punt Rank! If you haven’t been here with me before, the concept is both simple and fantastically over-engineered. Lemme break it down:

• Each punter’s performance against five vital punting metrics is ranked against every other punter in the league.
• Those rankings are combined into a weighted average ranking – giving us the 2021 NFL Punt Rank. Punt Heroes rise to the top; Punt Zeros sink to the bottom - and then I write 1500 largely redundant words explaining it all.

Last week’s post and Week 14 standings are available here for the archivists, and this week’s update is just moments away.

I’m excited to get your perspectives on your team’s punter, so please hit the comments below with your feedback and questions, as well as pointing out anything you think I missed. Let's hit Week 15.

Week 15 Punt Rank standings & Punt Performance summary

2021 Punt Rank Overall Standings - Week 15

Week 15 Punt Performance Summary

Grey highlight - IR/NWT/Part Time Punter.

Good Week for

Bryan Anger (DAL, +7 to #6). There’s a lot to be said for consistency. Consistency is stable. Consistency is comfortable. Consistency is unlikely to give you a heart attack on fourth down with a shanked punt out of bounds inside your own half. But consistency doesn’t always mean great results. Dallas had guaranteed consistency in Chris Jones – long time punter, long time cure for narcolepsy. In the latter stages of his career, Jones was an exceptionally consistent, and exceptionally boring punter. Short kicks, good hangtime, lot of fair catches, bottom 10 punter. This week, the Cowboys’ consistency dial got turned up to 11 as Bryan Anger went HAM on what good consistency looks like. Anger’s four punts in the Cowboys divisional win against the Giants are worth documenting individually, such was their metronomic brilliance:

Bryan Anger punts 32 yards, fair catch by Pharoh Cooper at NYG-9, 78% Available Field covered.

`Bryan Anger punts 36 yar

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

The Tennessee Titans have now used an 89 players this season, by far an NFL record (next closest was the 2020 49ers and 2019 Dolphins at 84). The crazy thing? They're actually getting pretty healthy now relative to the average NFL team at this point in the season. But just because they are getting healthy now doesn't change the fact that the Tennessee Titans have had an absolutely absurd amount of injuries that they have had to overcome this season. I posted this list at about the halfway point in the season and decided I should re-post an updated version of the list with one narrative in mind: Mike Vrabel is the clear choice for COTY. This list has somehow managed to get more ridiculous since it was first posted. At the end of the post we have the argument for why Mike Vrabel should be the 2021 NFL Coach of the Year.

###Offense (21 Players):

• RB 1 (Derrick Henry): 8 games missed due to injury (IR).

• RB 2/KR (Darrynton Evans): 15 games missed due to injury and is out for the season (IR).

• RB 3 (3rd down back) (Jeremy McNichols): 2 games missed due to injury.

• FB 1 (Khari Blasingame): 5 games missed due to injury.

• FB 2 (Tory Carter): 6 games missed due to injury (yes the Titans have 2 fullbacks on the roster and they somehow both missed the Rams game) (IR).

• WR 1 (AJ Brown): 4 games missed (basically 5, left early in the first quarter vs the Colts week 3, did not have a catch) due to injury. Also only played 52% of the snaps against Houston in a game where he was desperately needed but left with an injury.

• WR 2 (Julio Jones): 7 games missed (plus several 2nd halves) due to injury and COVID. He is currently healthy but missed the Dolphins game with COVID.

• WR 3/KR (Marcus Johnson): 9 games missed due to injury and is out for the season (IR).

• WR 4/PR 1 (Chester Rogers): 1 game missed due to injury.

• WR 5/KR (Cam Batson): 12 games missed due to injury and is out for the season (IR).

• WR 7 (Racey McMath, mainly a special teamer but is playing on offense a lot more lately due to injuries): 6 missed games due to injury (IR).

• TE 1 (Geoff Swaim): 1 game missed due to injury.

• TE 2 (really a slot receiver but listed as a TE) (Anthony Firkser): 2 games missed due to injury.

• TE 3 (MyCole Pruitt): Has not missed