TUSCALOOSA, Alabama: Jeremy Shelley heard throughout the summer chatter.
Alabama kicking game was in problemas.Veterano Leigh Tiffin had gone, and some untested players were taking place.
Uncertainty ruled, but no matter Shelley.
"He"of course I heard it, but really doesn't affect what I am doing in the field,"told the second place-kicker.""That honestly haven't seen us allí.Ellos haven't seen what we can do, so, of course, nobody is going to put all his money on ella.No really is nothing that we had to worry about or think about too."
From eight games, the worst is yet to play Alabama, kicking game.
Heading in the Tennessee game two weeks ago, Alabama coach Nick Saban said specialists have made "reasonably well" adapted to the pressure of competition from the SEC, but that was still looking for more consistency.
Shelley, the unique returner four Lottery and kickers, has been a part consisting of the Crimson tide of no. 5 as directed to Baton Rouge for a 3: 30 p.m. on Saturday against No. 12 LSU.Con game help from real rookie Cade Foster, Shelley has pulled crew that has connected field goal on 14 of the 18 attempts and lost only one of the 33 extra point attempts.
The percentage of successful de.778 shooting puts kickers Alabama in seventh place in the SEC, although only Auburn (. 798) has more attempts with 19.
Shelley is the primary option, Foster calls for long field goals and kickoffs.If the line of scrimmage is usually 25 or in the second year student, and if it is deeper, Foster Gets the nod. Shelley was right on the edge of its range when it nailed a 42 yards in Tennessee two weeks ago to establish a new brand of the race from the same distance that he fail against Mississippi.
Foster made attempts to 4-of-5 40-49 yards with a better season 49.
With the offense fighting units late in the latest games, workload has increased from Shelley and Foster.Their total 18 attempts, 10 arrived in the last three games of trying to not more than two in each of the first five games.
One challenge has not faced is an attempt to end game full of pressure have indeed been urged only twice to try a kick in the quarter trimestre.36-yards Shelley in Arkansas was instrumental in the return of the second half and the highlight of his year.It was the first kick pressure, he said that he has faced since its first year of secondary school.
"In this League, you always have to prepare for such things, because all the games are so close and all games have such high intensity where most of the time is going to come to perhaps made or lost field goal or few points here and there."
The opportunity was taken two weeks of making the crucial kick against the Razorbacks distance when Shelley faced another 42 Alabama yardas.Pero opted for a false in Q4 loss of Sur.El Carolina pass holder AJ McCarron to Ed Stinson fell incomplete on a play that needed to cool Shelley his.
"" Really, all the way to the snap, focus on doing exactly as I am going to kick the ball, "he said.""By what still not I am thinking nothing, only focus as I will kick a ball. once I am, I know what will happen and go where it should be."
Pre-Kick preparations are not too partly by former footballer who not decided to acquire the quirkiness that often comes with kickers of place.
"I am not too much a case of head when it comes to this," he said.
Shelley came to congratulate the example set by the previous superstición-menos Alabama.Todavía kicker maintains contact with tiffin, a burst of three years of Muscle Shoals, who was a finalist in the Groza award as a senior in 2009.
Shelley's baptism do not fall under the same as its predecessor, fire since he took over at the beginning of a season instead of replacing injured veteran mid-freshman year as tiffin did in 2006.
"" At the beginning, of course, you will have some nervousness,"said.""But as the past season, I've really gotten comfortable: way more comfortable than when only been empecé.He placed the ball through the uprights."
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