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Jaguars trying rugby style punting to help Matt Turk in short-punting situations

"The Jaguars have made no secret of the fact that they'd like Matt Turk's punting to improve.

They're trying to help that with a change in style on short-punting situations. For the past three weeks Turk has been trying rugby-style kicking. The 43-year-old punter has never done that before.

"That was my idea and the head coach supported that," special teams coordinator Russ Purnell said. "Adam Podlesh was a rugby style punter in the plus area of the field. A guy I was involved with for seven years in Indianapolis, Hunter Smith, did that very, very well. I just think you have a bigger margin of error in there, as far as you're not going to hit the ball too hard. Very, very seldom are you going to hit the ball too hard.""


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