Quote:You have to put it in perspective too.  IIRC Mike Hollis aced the field goals, but didn't really have the leg strength for kickoffs.  I seem to remember at one point having a "kickoff specialist" on the team.  I could be wrong about that.

Hollis was terrible on field goals in 2001, though. That and his rocky relationship with Coughlin paved the way for his departure, and I seem to recall hearing on sports talk radio back then that he was almost cut a couple of times during the season.

 

The Jaguars did start carrying a kickoff specialist in...1999? First it was Steve Lindsey, who doubled as a punter for a few games when Bryan Barker was hurt, then Jim Tarle (who was awful), then Jaret Holmes, who infamously took the last PAT of the 2001 season as Coughlin's way of telling Hollis what he could go do to himself.

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