Cleveland Browns vs. Buffalo Bills Week 16 Predictions – It’s not going to be pretty

“No, not necessarily. I mean, we want to try to field every single ball possible. I will say that there are times where if the ball doesn’t take…like say the ball does hit the ground and you don’t field it clean and it does end up rolling into the end zone, don’t make a bad play worse, because then you can still get the touchback at the 20. But ideally, we want to field every ball if possible and then obviously return it. It does affect the return when the ball gets to the ground, there’s more time that you have to sustain a block, there’s more space for the coverage player to be able to run around. So, the timing of the return doesn’t really match up if the ball is on the ground and you don’t get it clean. Now, if it hits the ground, you get it on, like, one hop, that’s just less time that it’s taking for the return, so everything impacts it. Now, the other thing that hurts, too, is like, when the ball does hit the ground, as a blocker, you don’t really know how long the ball’s on the ground for because you’re not watching the returner pick the ball up. So, as you go back, as you’re seeing the returner, ‘okay, the ball’s on the ground, my eyes go back to my guy – does he field it clean? Does he not?’ So, there’s some gray area there as a blocker, you don’t know how long. So, we give our guys some things that they use in their technique, so.”