Danny Smith Considers Punting Prospects, Including Larry Michael

Take a look at the picture above. You can tell from the gold pants that it's from last season, and it's pretty clearly someone punting the ball ... but it wouldn't surprise me at all if you couldn't tell me the guy's name. Four guys punted the ball last year (although one of them was kicker Graham Gano being pressed into emergency duty) and none of them exactly stood out. Josh Bidwell punted in three games, with a net average of 37.7 yards and 3 punts inside the 20. Gano, in his one fill-in game, punted four times and saw one of them blocked. Hunter Smith punted in nine games in relief of Bidwell, and finished with a net average of 33.7 yards, one return TD against, and 17 punts pinned inside the 20. And Sam Paulescu -- he's the one pictured above, in case you really were unsure -- punted 17 times in the last three games of the season for a net average of 33.1 yards. Nothing catastrophic, but certainly no punter that serves as field-flipping weapon, either...