Giants Special Teams Not So Special:

Giants Special Teams Not So Special:

February 15th, 2010

Mark Picucci

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The Sunday following the Super Bowl, special-teams coaches around the league are always on pins and needles. That is because they’re waiting for Dallas Morning News NFL columnist Rick “Goose” Gosselin to release his annual special-teams rankings.

Gosselin has developed an intricate system for ranking the special-teams units from all 32 teams.

The NFL’s 32 teams are ranked in 22 kicking-game categories and assigned points according to their standing in each category (one for the best through 32 for the worst). This is a composite score for those categories:

Rk.	Team	Points
1.	Cleveland	215.5
2.	Tampa Bay	256.5
3.	Buffalo	274
4.	Cowboys	288
5.	NY Jets	296.5
6.	Chicago	302
7.	San Diego	320
8.	Arizona	320.5
9.	Minnesota	325.5
10.	Miami	327.5
11.	Seattle	330
12.	Kansas City	341
13.	Oakland	342.5
14.	Atlanta	357
15.	Pittsburgh	360.5
16.	New England	361.5
17.	Philadelphia	367.5
18.	Baltimore	369
18.	St. Louis	369
20.	NY Giants	384
21.	San Francisco	391
22.	Houston	394.5
23.	Cincinnati	397
24.	Denver	402
25.	Detroit	413.5
26.	Tennessee	424
27.	Washington	426.5
28.	Indianapolis	432.5
29.	New Orleans	441.5
30.	Jacksonville	452
31.	Green Bay	460.5
32.	Carolina	473