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Darren Rizzi – November 21, 2018 Download PDF version

Wednesday, November 21, 2018

Associate Head Coach/Special Teams Coordinator Darren Rizzi

(Is this as simple as WR Danny Amendola is our punt returner moving forward and RB Senorise Perry is our kickoff returner or did you open it up where there are legitimate other options that it’s not necessarily those two?) – “The punt thing, obviously Danny has been in the games already this year and he’s obviously had a long history with it, so he has the most experience of all the guys. Just like anything, with everything we have a contingency plan in place. We have more guys that are in the stable of kick returners. A little less group with the punt returners. Danny, we’ve worked a couple other guys in this week with (Kenyan) Drake and a couple of other guys. Kick returning, we have other guys with experience so we have a few more options there. Actually, the last couple days, we’ve worked a few guys through there at kick returner – just a few more options. We’re going to kind of wait and see and kind of see what Friday brings and then kind of make a final decision on Saturday. Certainly Danny, from a punt return standpoint, has the most experience of all the guys we have on the roster, for sure.”

(Can you share on kick returns who else has been in that position?) – “Of guys that have experience – (Kalen) Ballage is a guy that’s done a lot. Obviously, we have (Kenyan) Drake that’s done a lot of it before. Senorise (Perry) has already returned kicks this year and last year. Brandon Bolden has done it in the past. He has some history doing it. (Leonte) Carroo has some experience at both. Kenny Stills has some experience at both. Those are all guys that we’ve kind of flirted with a little bit this week and kind of look at to see what our best options are. The thing on kick return is with all the new rules, you still have to have those eight guys up front. With the athleticism and with the new rule, it really kind of changes the dynamic of the play a little bit because now when you take a guy out of there and put him back, you obviously have to replace him. There’s some roster things that fall into place there with who’s going to be on the 46 and who’s inactive. You’re just always having those moving parts, so just looking at whatever the best is. Whoever we have to put back, we have to make sure we’re not taking away and we’re not robbing Peter to pay Paul type of deal on the kickoff return.”

(Who else can return punts? You said RB Kenyan Drake and who else are other possibilities?) – “There’s some other guys, guys that have done punt return in the past. Kenny Stills has some reps in the past. (Leonte) Carroo, like I mentioned before, has done some punt-returning stuff in the past. Obviously, Danny Amendola. Those are the guys that are kind of getting some reps this week. Drake – if I didn’t mention him already – he’s done both. He’s been an emergency punt return guy his whole career here, so another guy that’s done it. It might be a game-plan thing. You might see a couple of different guys back there during the game depending on when it is, situationally, kind of where we’re at in the game. We’ll kind of have all hands on deck. That’s kind of how we’re approaching that one.”

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