Miami - Pro Football Weekly They’re even worse this year, and at least some of the blame deserves to go to the front office which didn’t have the patience to stick with its special-teams acquisitions. The catch and release of Boomer Grigsby epitomizes this. A try-hard but physically limited fullback, Grigsby gained his kamikaze reputation for throwing his body around on special teams. He excelled terrifically in the role, the type of guy who would serve as a wedge buster, maybe get plastered into the turf doing so, but would get up smiling knowing that his bowling-bowl mentality thwarted the return team’s blocking scheme. But because of his offensive limitations, he was given his walking papers shortly after his signature.
I think there was alot of questions they had about players on offense and defense and only kept the ones they thought could work out in those starter roles. At least if some of those choices turned into busts they would have other guys on the roster to try out to fill those roles. I think special teams was intentionally neglected this season because they wanted to keep options on the other two squads available. I think they are as surprised as the rest of us on well we are doing and did not expect to be in any type of contention this late in the season. I am willing to bet they will adress special teams needs this off season, now that they got a better feel of who they like and who they dont.
it's easily our biggest concern. It's hard to pin point exactly what the problem is, but the units overall just aren't getting it done (understatement of the year, I know). And Ellis Hobbs is no slouch so whatever is causing these big returns better be fixed by Sunday.
Don't forget about Keith Davis. After we released him, he was resigned by the Cowboys and named their special teams capitan shortly after.
