At some point we’ll have to put the Benny Hill theme music over this clip:

This was the 3rd quarter kickoff from Monday night. The Birds were up 20-3 and coughed it up inside their own 15, resulting in New York punching it in with Saquon Barkley three plays later to cut the lead to 20-10.

Here’s what special teams coordinator Michael Clay said about technique and teaching points (my emphasis in bold):

“Really just to start off, the guy that fumbles it always gets the brunt of it obviously because he’s the one with the ball. For us, we have to just sprint back, get to our drop point on our kickoff return and at least get to square and we actually have some power to at least strike where we’re not getting thrown back into the returner. It starts from seeing the ball kicked and sprinting back, really, to get yourself in the position really to kind of mitigate you getting pushed all the way back.”

Yeah, so 5’8″, 193 pound Olamide Zaccheaus wasn’t “square.” He’s coming from the side and trying to throw a block on 6’4″, 238-pound Isaiah Simmons, who just outmuscles him. Then OZ stumbles backward and his momentum takes him right into Boston Scott.

Zaccheaus did throw a killer block on Adoree’ Jackson earlier in the game, on the DeVonta Smith touchdown, so he gets a ton of credit for that. He threw two amazing blocks in the win, one against a Giants player and one against Boston Scott.