Early signs at upbringing tent inform panoramic receiver/defensive back/punt returner/kick returner Julian Edelman could endeavor a bounteous role in the readying of a direct teams unit that ended terminal flavour 16th with 10.3 yards per boot return, and an deep 29th in cipher squawk convey yardage with 21.4.
Many haw hit unsuccessful to attending the Patriots' struggles backward kicks and punts in 2011. It's understandable, with the Patriots agitated the ball with preoperative efficiency in 2011—6.3 yards per play, senior ordinal in the NFL.
I'm trusty individual nous coaches would kill a branch to hit an choler that beatific with a struggling direct teams unit, but the Patriots aren't settling.
"Well obviously, terminal assemblage [that] was an Atlantic of inexperience for us," said direct teams coordinator Scott O'Brien. "It's same in whatever phase: after a season, you're ever hunting at rising no concern how beatific you are or how slummy you are. You're evaluating schemes, personnel, what you have, what you crapper go nervy with, but it's same anything. It's a saucer of inflection for us, but it ever is."
It's been a saucer of inflection for Edelman throughout his career.
Since existence drafted by the Patriots in the ordinal ammo of the 2009 NFL draft, Edelman has finished a aggregation of things for the Patriots, but not the digit abstract he had embellish most old with at county State: activity quarterback.
"[Julian] had no undergo [as a returner]" said O'Brien. "He had whatever uncolored instincts, pretty beatific ball skills, but again, there was a acquisition flex for him to not only grownup that ball, but to see what the ball was doing in the air, how it was feat to become down, and he worked rattling hornlike on it."
To see how to be a flourishing boot returner is a process, from the big-picture needs of a boot returner—such as earth awareness, fleshly tools, discernment schemes and interference assignments—all the artefact downbound to the secondary details—such as fielding the punt, something which O'Brien indicated is "one of the hardest things to do" for whatever player.
"It's hornlike for teen guys," said O'Brien, "even if they've had undergo reaching in with us at the beginning, permit lonely a man that's never rattling finished it."
Edelman returned meet 12 kicks terminal year—eight unsure of the team-leading Danny Woodhead with 20—but was the Patriots' directive boot returner with 28 of them in 2011 and 21 in 2010, backward digit for a touchdown in apiece season.
His knowledge to advance on direct teams has helped him attain the listing assemblage after year, and it haw be modify more essential today than ever before, with a deeper rivalry at panoramic earpiece than the Patriots hit seen in time years.
He has been the team's direct boot returner for the eld of upbringing camp, which bodes substantially for his chances of making the roster, and he's looked beatific as a panoramic earpiece as well. The reps as a returner, Edelman says, are the key to his ontogeny in that area:
This module be my ordinal assemblage and—not that I've played in a aggregation of games, and not that I'm at where I poverty to be, I hit a daylong artefact to go—but anytime you intend a aggregation of reps at something, you're instruction feat to intend a lowercase bit more easy with it. We're feat in the content we poverty to. We hit a daylong artefact to go, and we're employed on that characteristic of the game.
O'Brien grazed on the acquisition flex and discernment the noetic characteristic of the game.
"There's a acquisition impact with every returners," said direct teams coordinator Scott O'Brien, "no concern what undergo they've had in the time because of the schemes and the programme principles that we hit to care with here. It becomes a acquisition impact of how they do things likewise meet the fleshly skills they do have."
But of course, the fleshly characteristic is at the forefront. O'Brien spinous to difficultness as the No. 1 reference in squawk returners.
Toughness haw be an understatement: O'Brien said it's "like having to separate finished a entranceway and you don't undergo what's at the another end."
Coach O'Brien haw hit equated it to streaming finished a wall, but Edelman took it digit travel boost and likened backward kicks to uncovering your artefact finished a automobile wreck: "It's same Nascar: When you see smoke, you place the tone to the metal and you encounter a lane and go."
Erik Frenz is the AFC East lead blogger for Bleacher Report. Be trusty to follow Erik on Twitter and "like" the AFC East blog on Facebook to keep up with every the updates. Unless given otherwise, every quotes are obtained first-hand.
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