

If you're not obsessed with field position, then you don't punt. "It's a game of scoring points, which only happens when you possess the ball. "Everyone says football is a game of field position, but it's not," Kelley maintains.

Kelley rarely sends a rush after a punter, reasoning that a roughing-the-kicker penalty is more likely than a block. Kelley reasons that a muffed or fumbled punt is about as likely as a long return, and so is content simply to let the punt roll, in order to ensure his side takes possession. When the other team punts, Pulaski rarely has a returner on the field. That is the equation for an onside, yet the play is hardly ever called." If there was a blitz action that would risk a 14-yard gain by the offense versus a turnover for your defense, you'd call it constantly. "So you are risking 14 yards of field position in return for a good chance of a turnover. After a failed onside it is the 47," he says. "In high school the average opponent start after a regular kickoff is the 33-yard line. He almost always has Pulaski onside kick, reasoning that the roughly one-in-three chance of recovering (thus creating a turnover) is worth the two-in-three chance of surrendering field position. Kelley holds other unorthodox views of kicking downs.
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