You're right--so far it's "only" a special teams concern...but it just seems snapping problems are a horror-show we're half-expecting on an annual, and now WEEKLY basis, that's all I'm getting at--as it is, you can forget about any fake or option play on 4th down late in the game. Meanwhile, you're assuming our sophomore center holds up: I'm not so sure--that hasn't been the pattern, the way things have gone for us of late, as I was saying. We're down to "move-'em-and-plug-'em-in" on the O-line now, a strength turned question-mark, at least until we get a few of these guys back. Anymore injuries there put us in a real bind, and an injury at center, well, you get the picture. Tell me YOU don't have a private vision of the snap on the winning FG-try rolling crazily around on the ground, or one back to the punter with a late lead sailing over the his head, setting up the opponent and "snatching defeat from the jaws of victory".
Think about how we lost our long snapper, and a promising young special teams player as well, both on the same late play that otherwise went in our favor, the recovery on a muffed-punt. This is what seems to happen with certain otherwise talented teams--the bad breaks just keep on multiplying, somehow, with wider and wider negative consequences. We're at the crossroads, I fear: either we find a way to rise above, to play together, play tough and strong, find ways to keep games close no matter who we're playing and win them at the end, while we slowly heal and find ourselves, or we'll fall apart, become more and more vulnerable and inconsistent--and end up a mediocre, at best a .500 team, after all.
