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Seahawks Insider
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
Posted by Darrin Beene @ 01:00:45 pm

Just got a call from Dave Boling, who is up at the VMAC, and boy did he have some interesting news. The Seahawks are bringing back 38-year-old Jeff Robinson to be the team's long snapper.

Robinson, as you remember, was the guy the team signed on Dec. 11 last season to replace Boone Stutz. Robinson snapped for the last three regular season games and both playoff games and settled the uneasy snapping situation.

The Seahawks thought they had their long-snapper for this season and future ones when they drafted Tyler Schmitt in the sixth round back in April. Schmitt, though, was placed on the injured reserve on Tuesday and is now out for the season.

So, it looks like the job belongs to Robinson again.

Categories: Answers to your questions 22 comments

COMMENTS:

Just me @ 13:10 - Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
Here we go again!
bitterguy @ 13:10 - Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 Email
not real happy about that. he's a good snapper but he's old and twice retired. 2 outcomes for this:

a) robinson does not last the season
b) robinson does nothing on punt coverage

i would bet real money that there will be yet another long snapper for the seahawks at some point this season.
ohiohawkfan @ 13:14 - Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 Email
Did Boling happen to mention anything about a guy named Lofa?
UT Hawk @ 13:15 - Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 Email
What was the matter with Lindsey? He's been with the team for most of training camp and I would think has a report with the ST guys.

I don't really understand this move.
IDHawkman @ 13:16 - Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 Email
What happened to the Honeymoon boy? Linsay was it.

Also, I don't know if it was this thread or not but I got it wrong. I thought that Lindsay was who we signed after the Stutz thing didn't work out. oops. I hate eating crow.

Oh well.
IDHawkman @ 13:24 - Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 Email
Are they letting lindsay go in order to sign Robinson or is someone else going to be cut?
firejimmoradotcom @ 13:28 - Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 Email
Please never mention Stutz again.
moeflo @ 13:33 - Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 Email
Yeah that Saints game was a nightmare.
I still think about it time to time.

YEAH! I want some Lofa Tatupu news.
pabuwal @ 13:35 - Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 Email
Lindsay's snaps haven't looked all that great the past few weeks.
seaturkeys @ 13:38 - Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 Email
Cut the punters, to make more room, and just go for it on forth down.
dionthreed @ 13:43 - Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 Email
i like seaturkeys idea!!!
crehling @ 13:47 - Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 Email
Who did they release to make room for Robinson?
Darrin Beene @ 14:10 - Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 Email
I believe Boling said Lindsay was released.
Chris de Lemos @ 14:10 - Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 Email
My guess is Tim Lindsay
SupaFreak @ 14:19 - Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 Email
This is great news. While Robinson is old, he is one of the very best long snappers in the league. Rock solid his whole career, and we had absolutely no problems with snaps after he came in to replace "he who shall not be named".

Lindsey's an adequate emergency fill in, but definitely not consistent enough for everyday snapping throughout the season, that is, unless you want some snaps over the punters head and some field goal snaps on the ground.

He put one field goal snap on the ground that Plack had to pick up in a hurry and put in place in the San Diego game, and almost snapped it over Plack's head on one punt, where Plack jumped high up to grab the snap. He hasn't blown one completely yet, but mostly because of good hands by Plack on Monday night, and by Hodges last week. I was worried that it would be a bit of an issue, not as bad as last year, with Lindsey doing it, but now it shouldn't be a problem. We probably lose a bit on punt coverage, but I think it's a win situation overall.
adamtoth @ 15:34 - Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 Email
This is great, he was solid last year. Cross long snapper off the list of worries.
nighthawk2 @ 15:54 - Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 Email
They guy is out of football for two years and he's one of the best long snappers in the league? Anyway I was wondering about him yesterday, figured it was a long shot but somehow it doesn't surprise me now.

Let's recap. Timmay! thought Darche wasn't good enough to re-sign last offseason and told him the Seahawks were "going in a different direction". So he signs with Kansas City and does a great job and if I remember right he even kicked a FG there. Timmay! keeps his croney from Tampa Bay, Rackley, who filled in less than admirably when Darche was hurt in 06. Rackley, as it turned out, sucked as a long snapper. Timmay! brings in another crony, Boone Stutz from Atlanta, and he sucks even worse than Rackley. In fact he sucked more than anything has ever sucked before, including the 92 Seahawks 2-14 team. So, having run out of cronies, Timmay! brings in a 37 year old dude off the street who'd been out of football for 2 years, and he plays better than Timmay!s cronies did. Yep, they went in a different direction without Darche, alright, downhill. So they draft a long snapper this year, and he's put on IR and now they're back to the 37 year old Robinson. That was a brilliant move Timmay!, almost on a par with not re-signing/Franchising Hutchinson, giving up a 3rd round pick for Bureleson, giving up a 1st round (and our chance to draft Ben Grubbs) and a ton of money for Branch, and giving Hutchinson's money to Alexander, and wasting a 1st round pick on Spencer. Yes indeedy, we sure didn't need Jean-Phillipe Darche.
thedude @ 16:00 - Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
nighthawk, did uh...timmay! sleep with your girlfriend or what? you're pretty bitter toward a guy who's gotten us to a superbowl and 4 or 5 division titles.
brettb3 @ 16:14 - Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 Email
nighthawk, just relax and take your meds. Everything will be okay.
swab @ 17:51 - Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 Email
What a joke that we can't solve this position.
moo @ 22:56 - Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 Email
Robinson did a fine job last year. Good decision. Shame we apparently wasted a draft pick on Schmitt, though.
klm008 @ 11:40 - Thursday, August 28th, 2008 Email
If he comes back next year he'll discount the cost of re-acquiring one. Robinson will do fine. Was Tyler hurt tackling Viking punt returners (twice?)

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