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It will be tough to keep booming them like this in non Denver stadiums but he will be hitting them with precision inside the 20 for years. 

Wonder what he thought when he finally got a real special teams coach?

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9 hours ago, phdhorn said:

In ten years, they're going to go back and posthumously give the Michael Dickson Award to Ray Guy.

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9 hours ago, phdhorn said:

In ten years, they're going to go back and posthumously give the Michael Dickson Award to Ray Guy.

Got me. Well played

It will be tough to keep booming them like this in non Denver stadiums but he will be hitting them with precision inside the 20 for years. 
Wonder what he thought when he finally got a real special teams coach?

I imagine he thought what ever punter/kicker thinks, since no colleges have coaches dedicated to that.

If our whole team starts just calling Herman "the head coach" will he start being awesome? Worth a shot.

11 hours ago, Radical Larry said:

He probably taught the special teams coach a few things. 

Like how to pick up chicks with an Australian accent.

13 minutes ago, South Austin said:

Like how to pick up chicks with an Australian accent.

Is that what your mom said about him?

3 minutes ago, Butch Had Not said:

Is that what your mom said about him?

Who's mom hasn't that guy fucked?

4 minutes ago, South Austin said:

Who's mom hasn't that guy fucked?

Guy probably slayed so much pussy. Fucking aussie accent.

29 minutes ago, South Austin said:

Like how to pick up chicks with an Australian accent.

Heard your mom likes to go down under.

All punts. One duplicate. Couldn't seem to separate the individual tweets from previous ones.

8 minutes ago, NaTeWHO said:

All punts. One duplicate. Couldn't seem to separate the individual tweets from previous ones.

When 46 yards is a shit punt, you might be Michael Dickson.

https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/seahawks/seahawk-michael-dickson-comes-out-booming-punts-and-breaking-records/

 

By 
Seattle Times staff reporter

It was a recipe that seemed ripe for a history-making performance — Seattle’s booming rookie punter Michael Dickson playing his first game in the light air of Denver’s Broncos Stadium at Mile High, altitude 5,280 feet.

And indeed it was, something that may have gotten somewhat lost in the disappointment of Seattle’s 27-24 loss to the Broncos.

Dickson, drafted in the fifth round by Seattle last April, finished with an average of 59 yards on six punts and a net average (which is the yards of the punts minus the yards of the returns) of 57.5.

The first mark was the second-best in Seahawks history for a punter with four or more punts in a game. The only performance better came in 2012 when Jon Ryan — the man Dickson replaced — averaged exactly 60 yards per attempt on four punts in a win over New England at CenturyLink Field.

 

The net average, meanwhile, was a Seahawks record and the second-best in NFL history trailing only the 59.50 of Rohn Stark of the Colts against Houston in 1992 as Denver’s Adam Jones had just two returns for nine yards (Jones did appear to have a return of 23 yards in the first quarter but it was nullified by a holding penalty on Denver’s Keishawn Bierria, who played at UW).

Dickson downed four of his punts inside the 20 and two inside the 6 in a performance that left Seattle coach Pete Carroll seeming in awe.

“Oh my Gosh, what a kicker, man, what a kicker,’’ Carroll said. “I don’t know what his numbers wound up at but he is a fantastic part of our team and we are just getting warmed up with him. He is really something. I mean, the punts were gorgeous, but not just the distance of the punts, but the placement of the punts too, you know? The guys covered well, too, we had the one return and there was a penalty on that one, so we did really well covering for him as well.’’

Carroll said he went into the game almost worried about Dickson’s booming leg disrupting Seattle’s coverage units.

“I was concerned in this game that he kicked the ball so far that we would just stretch out the coverage so much and here is ‘Pacman’ back there with all that room and I thought maybe it would be difficult,’’ Carroll said. “But, our guys did a really good job there.”

One who stood out was Akeem King who was activated off the practice squad on Saturday and had an open field tackle on what was maybe Dickson’s one slightly off punt — a line drive 46-yarder in the second quarter — to keep Jones to a nine-yard gain.

Dickson has so wowed the Seahawks that quarterback Russell Wilson even used his abilities as something of a reasoning for taking some chances in trying to escape the pocket, which resulted in a couple of sacks Sunday.

“I think that when it’s third down and three or four, I’ve spun out and made a lot of plays. I would probably say most of the time, it works,’’ Wilson said. “Sometimes it doesn’tcan throw it away—that is always an option too. I think we have a really good punter though. The good thing is he can kick it all the way at the end of the field so I take my chances.”

Had the Seahawks won then they could have literally had the last laugh when it came to Dickson’s drafting — which in case you’ve forgotten involved the Broncos.

It was Denver with whom the Seahawks made a trade giving the Broncos a seventh-round pick for the right to move up seven spots in the fifth round — from 156 to 149 — to take Dickson.

That led to a later report that some Broncos execs were laughing that Seattle had used the pick to take a punter.

They are probably just glad now that they won’t have to see him for another four years in a regular season game.

Someone needs to tell that fool it’s Dickson, not Dickinson. Mutha fucka is punting, not writing books.

2 hours ago, Jkwellborn said:

Someone needs to tell that fool it’s Dickson, not Dickinson. Mutha fucka is punting, not writing books.

Hell write books. But they’ll all be too loooong to read. 

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On 9/10/2018 at 5:46 PM, Jkwellborn said:

Someone needs to tell that fool it’s Dickson, not Dickinson. Mutha fucka is punting, not writing books.

Since then – 'tis Centuries – and yet
Feels shorter than the Day
I first surmised the Horses' Heads
Were toward Eternity

Dickson just pinned one at the 5 , punting from his own 40 or something 

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1 minute ago, NowThis said:

Dickson just pinned one at the 5 , punting from his own 40 or something 

It was from the Chicago 45, but the placement (as usual) was impressive.

1 minute ago, Machinator said:

It was from the Chicago 45, but the placement (as usual) was impressive.

was that the LOS or where he was actually standing? I thought he was on the other side of midfield 

6 minutes ago, NowThis said:

Dickson just pinned one at the 5 , punting from his own 40 or something 

Play Pooooooona Seattle..... #97

7 minutes ago, TexasMan said:

 

I called this a few weeks ago. Teams are going to catch it inside the 10 because it might go out at the 2. 

f inside the 20, the nfl needs to start tracking inside the 10 for dicko

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11 minutes ago, WBT said:

f inside the 20, the nfl needs to start tracking inside the 10 for dicko

He's at 2 so far in the first quarter.

Seattle was really one of the best places for him to go. Wilson is a good QB, but with that offensive line, they're going to struggle to sustain drives. Should be plenty of opportunities to showcase his skills.

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28 minutes ago, TexasMan said:

 

10+ on the wit here. Dickson's magic would have place the ball at the 1 inch  line had he not fair caught it.  Brian Floyd for the win . 

is there a ROY for Special teams? If not, he needs to get DROY, hell, NFL MVP really.  He might be the best at his position of anyone in the league. 

Backed up on his own 9, 53 yards with no return.  Pretty good but room for improvement.

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2 minutes ago, WBT said:

Backed up on his own 9, 53 yards with no return.  Pretty good but room for improvement.

Sure could have used a pretty good punt like that against Maryland.

As a sucker who has Seattle +4.5, I can say this guy is the fucking real deal.  May be my only chance to win this fucking thing. 

Damn, shanked it after a high snap

What just happened?  The old "off the side of his foot" ploy, Inspector Clouseau?

Looked like he had plenty of time to get it off, he didn't need to rush it.

Well fuck, first time I post in this thread.  2 min later a god damn clunker. 

18 minutes ago, ChiTownDoc said:

Well fuck, first time I post in this thread.  2 min later a god damn clunker. 

K, ya, so, gtfo

26 minutes ago, Machinator said:

He looked like his cousin on that one.

put him on the waiver wire

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