Just throwing this out there, but Marciano was part of the Buccaneers line of ST coaches to have been part of "never scored a KO Ret TD in franchise history."
Jacoby will fall apart soon enough. He'll help you a lot and then hurt you when it counts. Not worried over tha t decision, esp at his price
You don't fire a Special Teams coach mid season unless he is doing dangerously bad and you know someone on his staff that has the potential to do better. Right now Marciano is doing mediocre but not critically bad, he may lose his position at the end of the season but he is still the guy for this season. But I think most that looked at Holliday and Jones objectively know while they made bad decisions, they both had talent and the failure here wasn't all on them.
How can you be so good in preseason yet so bad in regular season? FWIW Jacoby was not returning kickoffs for the Texans last year, only punts. And he had 5 return TDs in 4 years with the Texans.
Mediocre = somewhere in the middle of the pack. Marciano's crew is absolutely "dangerously bad." We are winning, which is outstanding, but that doesn't mean ST are holding their own. They continue to be a liability that threatens to cost us games week in and week out. Had Martin's fumble not been overturned, that could have been the game last night (a la Jacoby's fumble in Baltimore). Last night, we once again saw Marciano try to deal with Hobbit Foot by having him squib kick (did so at home against the Bills as well). This gave Chicago the ball at midfield. You can't do horsecrap like that and think it's perfectly fine. We have a real problem that is going to eventually cost us a game or two. Can't keep dodging a bullet like this. Texans have been last or close to last in starting field position and last or close to last in their opponents' starting field position. You can't keep going out there and handicapping both your offense and defense like that.
No need to panic. We can afford to have these bad special teams while we have the best DEFENSE. We can, however, concentrate on that kicking game. It's working, aside from that shank from Donny last night. He was able to get us scores last season and prior to that. If you are asking this about our TEXANS, the TDs and good returns came mostly against 2nd and 3rd-team kickoff and punt opposite teams.
Everybody knows how this will play out, we'll get home field throughout the AFC playoffs, but we'll lose in the playoffs or even the Super Bowl because of some ST gaffe.
I honestly didn't know teams went THAT DEEP as to throw out 2nd and 3rd team special teamers in the preseason as opposed to sending out their usual 2nd and 3rd special teamers. Regardless, our ST unit is playing horribly and we really can't do much about it now that we've played thru to midseason. You could make an excuse of not having your ST captain (Dobbins) out there to lead the unit but still he shouldn't make or break that facet of our squad.
just like defense was our downfall until it caught up with the offense a couple years ago.. ST will be this teams achilles heel.
There isn't "panic", there's concern and alarm. And given that this is a problem that has and continues to be a constant threat to impact the score directly or indirectly, it's not a good idea to turn a blind eye to it. Issues like this are magnified come January.
