In typical fashion, Jimbo was teaching us about how the game is played during the post-game presser. He said the following about the kicking game, which I had never heard of before…
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Well, punts are different now. The way these punters hit the high punts, you hit that punt and that ball, the way they deaden them now, like wedged, those Australian kicks, they'll deaden them things and they'll go at the 1. So if nobody is around you, we give (Aninias) free light to catch it. And even if we fair-catch balls, the old rules, you never went inside the 10, because guys couldn't hit those Australian punts. Those balls deaden like a dadgum golf shot. And if you don't field some of those balls, even those guys around you, 6, 7, 8, 9-yard line, we'll fair-catch them so you don't end up at the 1-yard line. The game has changed in that regard because of how good the kickers and punters have become.