The NFL Team That Played a Game WITHOUT a Kicker or a Punter

The NFL Team That Played a Game WITHOUT a Kicker or a Punter | Saints @ Packers (1979)

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10 ай бұрын

Imagine not having a single kicker or punter on your roster. Well, during week 2 of the 1979 NFL season, when the New Orleans Saints played the Green Bay Packers, that's exactly what happened, as due to an injury from Russell Erxleben, they had to play all 60 minutes of the contest without having anyone on their team who could kick or punt the football. As for how that turned out... well, it was about as big of a disaster as you would expect
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@Fireyninjadog 10 ай бұрын

The 79 saints finished 8-8. Why am I mentioning this? Because this was the first time in team history, New orleans didn't have a losing season

@gluserty 2 ай бұрын

This edition of the Saints were the ones that should've made the playoffs, finishing either 9-7 or 10-6. In 1980, the team seemed to lose heart and mail in the season, beginning 0-14.

@DanoFSmith-yc9tg 10 ай бұрын

The Saints, from no kicker, to the kicker with only half a foot, and a QB, whos also a TE, WR, and RB, they never disappoint down there in the south, they always have their own flavor so to speak.

@msarzo 10 ай бұрын

When you draft a punter/kicker No. 11 overall over All-Pro caliber talent and he gets hurt, you can't exactly be surprised when that play backfires. Talk about a dumb decision!

@PAGoTribe1963 10 ай бұрын

Oakland Raiders: Hold my beer.

@Shifty1940 10 ай бұрын

Even if he was like Alex Henery in college and went to the hall of fame just the fact that you’re not worried about other teams getting hundreds of other player is crazy. Draft a guard or DB at very least.

@richdouglas2311 10 ай бұрын

Erxlaben was an All-American kicker and punter. He was projected to be a star in the NFL. Those guys were rare back then, and teams held onto their kickers. Today, with so many excellent kickers, teams are a lot more finicky and quick to cut a guy. A first-rounder? Perhaps not. But if the Saints didn't pick him, someone else would have very soon after that. Ironically, straight-on kickers were not going to be around much longer since soccer-style kickers were more accurate and longer. Erx was one of the last big-time straight-on kickers. (Mark Mosely might have been the last prominent straight-on kicker.)

@RogerThat787 10 ай бұрын

Your feature presentation trademark quote is a little off on this one. Love the videos and your the best NFL channel on the KZbin

@cancerstinks1 10 ай бұрын

People like to rag on Special Teams but this and the 2010 Chargers (who coincidentally, also missed the playoffs by 1 game) prove it’s important to at least have an average one.

@anthonymendez1997 10 ай бұрын

The 2021 Packers can join the club too.

@nautgamingnautgaming9949 10 ай бұрын

@@anthonymendez19972022 packers special teams was WORSE n the 2021 group absolutely screwed the season

@johncate9541 10 ай бұрын

The real problem is that Erxleben just wasn't very good anyway. He and Tony Franklin at A&M were both lighting it up as college kickers in the 1970s SWC, and both went to the pros, but Franklin was the only one who made it. The Eagles took him in the third round of the same draft that Erxleben was the 11th overall pick, and he had a 10-year pro career and went to a couple of Super Bowls. Erxleben, in addition to being injury-prone, seemingly couldn't adjust to the NFL hashmarks and wasn't accurate as a kicker. After he left football, he had a second career as a con man. He wasn't any better at that and went to the slammer twice. But it's not necessarily true that you shouldn't use a high draft pick on a specialist. The Raiders never regretted taking Ray Guy in the first round.

@KevinT7274 10 ай бұрын

Frank Corral was both the punter and kicker for the Rams at that time. It has some value but not 1st round pick value.

@VerveQuest-zc4ri 10 ай бұрын

Pat McInally was not only the punter for Cincinnati as well as a WR

@toddbiesel4288 10 ай бұрын

From the season-opening game, it appears that Russell Erxleben was as good a passer as the kicker the Saints signed later on in the season.

@marcus813 10 ай бұрын

So this is the game that effectively led the Rams here to Tampa for the NFCCG? I didn't realize how close the Saints came to possibly changing NFL history.

@Rockhound6165 10 ай бұрын

They went 8-8 in 1979 then went 1-15 in 1980. One of their 15 losses was the famous game where they led the 49ers 35-7 at the half and ended up losing 38-35 in OT thanks to Joe Montana. They also came within 1 point of going winless.

@arizonawrestlinginterviews1040 10 ай бұрын

I think the Bucs would have gotten revenge for the beatdown they got earlier in the season in Tampa

@Fender178 10 ай бұрын

This reminds me of the Bengals Steelers game that was played in Week 1 a few years ago the Bengals lost that game because their long snapper got hurt which killed them with kicking field goals which cost them the game against the Steelers because the timing from the snap to the kick was off just by a little bit and it threw everything out of wack which caused their kicker to miss pretty easy FGs for a pro kicker. So yeah Long snapper on top of a kicker and punter is very important as well.

@jmed412 10 ай бұрын

Was the coach in the background at around 6 minutes smoking a pipe?

@markbrown4039 10 ай бұрын

I think the only reason this isn't a "Dumb Decisions" segment is because it was made by the front office and not by a coach on game day.

@bubbafug00gle51 10 ай бұрын

This is a ridiculous misrepresentation of the facts, Galbreath hit two chip shots early so the field goal attempt at the end of the half made perfect sense. Keep in mind the kick would have made it a three score game (15 points) by the 1979 rules. He also hit an extra point later, so it's not like he just sucked. I'm sure the "hidden yards" of field position didn't help, but neither did Peyton's pappa throwing 2 picks. As for the Saints out-gaining the Pack, yes they won the total yardage battle (presumably because of the short fields), but the Pack went through them like a hot knife through cheddar gaining 6.8 yards per play (a yard more than NO and 2 more than league average). Nothing in the actual results convinces me that if Green Bay had faced worse starting field position they would have lost

@RichV20 10 ай бұрын

I can picture an NFL team in the next decade going without a kicker or punter or both. It would have to be a fast, high scoring offense, maybe like Mahomes Chiefs. They just go for 2 every time or go for it on 4th Down no matter where. It will be a young HC who will live or die by the decision, maybe aided by analytics of no kicker.

@RichV20 10 ай бұрын

Most Madden players or Madden franchise players already go for it all the time on 4th. It will be some coach who grew up gaming Madden who makes his way up the ranks. You might see it in high school or college first. Some high schools have bad/no kickers and already do this and only punt(badly).

@arcticphoenix2789 10 ай бұрын

1970's Saints in a nutshell

@Brocuzgodlocdunfamdogson 10 ай бұрын

Kickers and punters are like socks and underwear. Spending money on them feels like a waste but you have no choice.

@eddiekulp1241 10 ай бұрын

Tony Galbreath did kick 2 field goals in that game

@clydemiller4776 10 ай бұрын

IIRC, at the time Erxleben held the record for longest field goal in NCAA history. He also did some time in the pen for securities fraud long after his NFL career ended.

@VerveQuest-zc4ri 10 ай бұрын

Bad pick, but his name is almost as fun to say as Mr Mitzelplik

@YeaYeaBeebis1 10 ай бұрын

Might as well have been today🤦🏾‍♂️

@KevinT7274 10 ай бұрын

While missing the playoffs themselves, the Saints win against the Redskins at RFK cost the Redskins a playoff spot. They wouldn't have needed to win at Dallas week 16.

@chrisuncleahmad 10 ай бұрын

That wasn’t the game that cost Washington. It was either week 1 (blowing a big lead to Houston) or that bad Giants loss in late November

@KevinT7274 10 ай бұрын

@chrisuncleahmad Blowing 4th qtr leads was a big issue for that team. Lost a 14 pt lead against Houston, 13 pt lead against Dallas, 21 pt lead against Detroit but won on a Moseley fg at the end, and a 20 pt lead against St Louis but came back to win again on a late Moseley fg.

@Hogtownboy1 10 ай бұрын

It not first time Cowboys QB was also the regular punter. Amazingly he never quick kick

@Rockhound6165 10 ай бұрын

This Saints team was coming off of being the first team to lose to the Bucs. They were motivated. Archie Manning had his best season as a pro. They also had Chuck Muncie, Wes Chandler, and Henry Childs. Conrad Dobler was also on this team. They had talent. The next season, not so much.

@chrisuncleahmad 10 ай бұрын

No the 1979 Saints actually beat the Bucs That was 1977

@jamesmorris2578 10 ай бұрын

BTW, while you couldn't go for two at the time. Running a play from scrimmage at the 2-yard line WAS worth 1 point, so they didn't actually NEED to attempt to kick extra points. The real question is how bad were the kickoffs?

@mgb4692 10 ай бұрын

I always remembered the Seahawks as doing it against the Cowboys in '83 for some reason but since it was a short Curt Warner TD that was probably it instead