Chris Tabor likened kickers to golfers during a wide-ranging interview on Cleveland Browns Daily Tuesday afternoon. And the Browns special teams coordinator suggested that the best kickers have an awfully lot of different clubs in their bags.
So when Tabor was asked about Cleveland’s second-year kicker Travis Coons, whose promising rookie season was also met with struggles in connecting from long-range, the sixth-year veteran coach had another golf analogy in store.
“It's the golf swing,” Tabor said, “I’ve got to get it up quicker but at the same time it has to still travel.”
Tabor continued, “They still got to hit the same ball, sometimes the kickers have the mentality that when I get way back I feel like I just got to drive the this thing to get it there when really, just hit your ball and you’ll be fine.