A Kicker and a Punter?

It is also interesting how some teams have their punter kick on kickoffs. Shouldn't the Place Kicker be used for kickoffs, since it is still kicking off the ground?

I've often wondered these things myself. I mean, a punter can't necessarily be a kicker, because I've seen a lot of punters try field goals, to disastrous results. But I should think that a decent field goal kicker would be able to be a punter.

I think all kicking should be removed from football. If you can't get 10 yards in 4 plays, you suck. You shouldn't be rewarded with a chance to kick. If you had to go for it on 4th down every time, the game would be better and more interesting. I guess that makes if more like rugby, but I have manny issues with football

Gary Collins who played for the Browns in the 60's held receiving and punting records as a WR/P.

In the Canadian Football League, there are five of the current eight teams that employ a P/K.

Alex, why have the same player do two jobs when you can have two players specialize??

It's like the same argument as why guards and tackles aren't interchangable or why wide receivers don't play as defensive backs. They are really two different specialties and it's not like they're using up a whole lot of roster space.

I think this idea is fairly absurd. The amount of practice field goal kickers and punters have before they even enter the league, 4-plus years of sole commitment to only that position, and then some still aren't that great at either makes it a fairly rare chance that even a person could succeed at both. Kickers and punters are the positions in the NFL that require the least pure athleticism (don't yell at me), and the most pure practie, and foot-eye coordination. The other positions, players can get transfered from outside linebacker to d-end, vice versa, but many of the reads they make on plays are the same, and if they have the athletic ability, then they can do it, but kickers and punters cannot rely on their athletics to help them kick a ball in different styles. Just because they perform a kicking motion, doesn't mean they're interchangeable. That is like saying shouldn't baseball players and golfers be interchangeable, they both perform a swinging with a stick motion. What about pitchers and quarterbacks, throwing motions requiring force and accuracy. Although those sometime happen, it is relatively absurd to think one motion equals another. Does every volleyball player make a great goalkeeper, jumping and hitting a ball, jumping up to redirect shots; no obviously not. Sports played at such a high level require intense specialization, across the sporting world. That is why the feats of Jim Brown, Bo Jackson, Babe Dickerson, Jim Thorpe, Deion Sanders, and Olympic decathletes are so impressive.

it is not the same skill at all, i am a kicker and a punter and let me tell yall that punting the ball is so much harder... those guys must be good athletes and it is hard to do both...

Ima kicker and a punter for my high school,and i agree with anonymous #6. punting is extremely hard, even though i focus on punts and kickoffs more than i field goal kick. on a punt, you dont have big, strong lineman to block, ou have a bunch on rb's, wr's, lb's, db's, and a longsnapper. because punts require coverage, not jsut blocking for the punt, but if a line would in theory give nough time to block, a putner to kick out of the endzone for a touchback, ive done it, but still, field goals have huge linemna because there is no running involved. i have the starting o line as my line, on my putn team, i have a tackle as a longsnapper, a couple rb's, a few wr's on the ends, and a lb as a personal protector. unters need ot leanr to be able to take a hard hit if a coverage breaks. kickers never get hit, its agianst the rules, you can hit the punter before he relases the ball,believe me ive been hit plenty of times.