GOAT PK HOLDER

[Starman]

The greatest placekick holders of all time had to come from the era when most teams had backup (and occasionally starting) QBs or WRs do the job, since in the case of a fake or a bad snap you had someone back there who could actually accomplish something offensively, instead of now where it's usually the punter and if the snap goes bad you've got two pencil-necked Waldos running around back there who haven't played actual competitive football since high school simply hoping to fall on the ball before they get annihilated.

Didn't the Steelers have Randle-El hold for a couple seasons?

 

[3_Octave_Fart]

Belichick has actually addressed this.
When he is at his most charming - discussing football wonkery.
He says the ideal holder is a punter since it won't keep a quarterback from spending practice with those of his position.

 

[joe king]

Not Tony Romo.

 

[joe king]

Tom Tupa.

 

[Starman]

Belichick has actually addressed this.
When he is at his most charming - discussing football wonkery.
He says the ideal holder is a punter since it won't keep a quarterback from spending practice with those of his position.

Oh yah. Like the No. 3 QB gets a lot of snaps in practice.

For the 17-0 Dolphins of 1972, Earl Morrall, who was the starting QB almost the entire season, was the holder.

 

[Jake_Taylor]

"Not Dan Marino."

- Ray Finkle

 

[Flying Headbutt]

If the number 3 QB holds, doesn't he have to be the number 2 during the game? And then if your starter gets hurt, your primary backup is out?

 

[LongTimeListener]

Matt Flynn and it isn't close.

 

[joe king]

Belichick has actually addressed this.
When he is at his most charming - discussing football wonkery.
He says the ideal holder is a punter since it won't keep a quarterback from spending practice with those of his position.

Oh yah. Like the No. 3 QB gets a lot of snaps in practice.

For the 17-0 Dolphins of 1972, Earl Morrall, who was the starting QB almost the entire season, was the holder.

QBs were often holders in the days of smaller rosters, when there weren't specialists available. Wasn't the Dolphins' punter also a TE?

 

[Starman]

If the number 3 QB holds, doesn't he have to be the number 2 during the game? And then if your starter gets hurt, your primary backup is out?

Nope. The No. 3 QB is now just another roster position (as of the 2011 season). He's the guy who gets paid $800,000 for never ever setting foot on the field during the season.

 

[YankeeFan]

Jeffrey Hostetler, winning QB and holder in Super Bowl XXV.

 

[Starman]

QBs were often holders in the days of smaller rosters, when there weren't specialists available. Wasn't the Dolphins' punter also a TE?

Active rosters are 46 now; they haven't been below 45 since 1978.

(Yet, since then, virtually every single team has come to devote a roster spot specifically to long snappers.)

 

[3_Octave_Fart]

If the number 3 QB holds, doesn't he have to be the number 2 during the game? And then if your starter gets hurt, your primary backup is out?

Nope. The No. 3 QB is now just another roster position (as of the 2011 season). He's the guy who gets paid $800,000 for never ever setting foot on the field during the season.

Tell that to this year's Cleveland Browns.
One year in the late '80s they went through about five quarterbacks.
They literally found Don Strock on a golf course.

 

[Huggy]

Didn't DB Charlie Waters used to hold for the Cowboys back in the day? Wasn't Theisman the Redskins' holder?

 

[93Devil]

Joe Montana

 

[MTM]

DB Nolan Cromwell held for the LA Rams in the late '70s and '80s.

He was a college quarterback at Kansas and I seem to remember him throwing a TD pass in OT to win a game.

 

[MisterCreosote]

Koy "Original Neckbeard" Detmer.

 

[Starman]

All-Pro FS Larry Wilson of the football Cardinals was the holder in the late 60s/early 70s and it was unusual enough that teevee commentators usually remarked on it.

Theismann did hold for the Skins for several seasons when he was behind Kilmer and Jurgensen as the No. 3 QB. He also returned kicks at times during those years.

 

[Stoney]

I eagerly await the GOAT: LONG SNAPPER thread.

 

[heyabbott]

Daryl Lamonica