Raiders Special Teams: What Happened?

By jackson chesher
for NFLSportChannel.com

Published: December 26, 2009

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... to have a lot of potential, the next they look totally awful.  There has been one thing that has been consistent and that's special teams. 

Consistently bad that is.

The only exception is the kickers. Shane Lechler and Sebastian Janikowski are both having their best season since they were drafted in 2000.

The problem lies in the returns category.

Last year the special teams were excellent. The 2008 Raider team had the second highest punt return average in the league and lead all teams in special team touchdowns. 

Johnnie Lee Higgins led all punt returners in yards and touchdowns.  He was fourth in average despite having nearly twice as many attempts than the three players ahead of him.

Justin Miller was 14th in the league in kick return average and was the only player in the league to return two kickoffs for touchdowns.  He had 19 returns of over 20 yards and four that went over 40. 

He was the special teams player of the month i...

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