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Brian Kelly Comments On The Kicking Game Issues vs. Texas A&M

by Staff Reporter

October 30, 202413 Comments

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During his post-practice press conference on Tuesday, head coach Brian Kelly was asked about all of the kicking game issues from the Texas A&M loss, and what they are doing to get it fixed. Per On3:

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“The battery is the the snapper, the holder, and the kicker. We’ve got to get them together as one,” Kelly said on Tuesday. “It’s not one without the other, all three of those guys have to work in unison and they were out of sync. As well as they were working the week before, I don’t know what happened, but they were out of sync.”

“We had the untimely snap, we didn’t have a great hold, but as you know, it’s the kicker who’s going to get the blame. Because he’s the one ultimately that is out there getting the credit or the blame. But it’s the battery that was highly ineffective for us against Texas A&M,” Kelly explained. “And that battery, we got some work today on it. Which you very rarely put that group out there in an off week, but we had to get them out there today and spent a lot of time with them.”

“In the NFL what they do is, and I’m not making light of this because you’re losing a job, but there’s a bank of long snapping professionals and they can just dip into that bank and pay them. We don’t have that, like you can’t just go pick somebody out of the dorms and say come on in,” Kelly explained. “We just don’t have those guys.

“So what you really have to do is work harder with those guys and trust that they’re going to make progress and work as a unit. They’re all capable, it was a bad night, and you can’t have a night like that. For me, to have a night like that when they were so good all year is really troubling. But at the same time, we’re going to get it fixed,” Kelly concluded.

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BTRDD•16 months

Let's not forget how pitiful the LSU punter was. TAM's punter was flipping the field while LSU's punter couldn't pin TAM back kicking from midfield. He stunk.

WaterSplashesBack•16 months

Going into the season kelly said we were weak at punter and would use 2 depending upon field position. Those paying attention weren't surprised in our weak punt game.

Solo Cam•16 months

No, I've been paying attention and I was absolutely surprised that Peyton Todd can't punt a ball 35 yards, kid was bombing them in HS. I wonder what happened

Norbert•16 months

Maybe don’t kick 3 times from the edge of Ramos’ range.

We would also kick less if we greatly reduced how frequently and predictably we run on second and long.

Chalkywhite84•16 months

It wasn't his fault. Both holds were bad

GeauxLSUGeaux•16 months

Range had nothing to do with it. The holder had the worst game of his life and was probably on the take. There, I said it.

CanebreakCajun•16 months

Did you watch the snaps and holds?

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Woodlands Tigah•16 months

Saturday night was a dead fricking battery!

Harry Wong•16 months

Sloan's battery of originality was dead and Nuss' battery was leaking acid

Jamey21•16 months