Buehler? Buehler? Buehler?

The Cowboys were last in touchbacks last year, with zero. Starting field position is a highly under rated key to victory, and there’s no easier way to ensure your opponent has a long field to go than a touchback. A touchback, for my less football minded readers, is when the kick-off goes through the back of the end zone, or, in some cases, so deep in the end zone the opposing team decides its not worth risking a return and they just down it in the end zone by taking a knee. This means that the offense is starting at their 20-yard line. This also means you don’t have to worry at all about your opponents snapping off some huge run back killing your teams momentum. The Cowboys saw this problem, and drafted accordingly. Enter David Buehler, the kicker from USC with one of the trickiest last names to spell (I struggle with it every time, you’ll notice I never type it again after this point), and one of the strongest legs in football. He was drafted purely for touchbacks, but there is so much more to this kicker, so this installment has been dedicated entirely to him, to alert you of a very cool, very under rated player the Cowboys acquired this off-season. Now you might be saying, why write about a kicker? I could probably own him in a fight, right? WRONG! Check out the numbers this kid put up at the combine:

• He bench-pressed 225 pounds 25 times. For some perspective, that bettered 27 offensive linemen, including Michael Oher and Eugene Monroe.
• Then Buehler busted out a 4.6-ish 40-yard dash.

Feeling a little foolish about badmouthing this guy? I am too. Not only could he beat you into oblivion, you couldn’t even run away when you realized how foolish the fight you picked was. Though that’s not the half of it. Not only is he immensely strong, and extremely fast, and o, did I mention he claims to have kicked a 72-yard field goal in practice before? That is from the Cowboys own 38-yard line, which is unbelievable, and has been known to hit kick offs through the uprights before. Not only that though, the Cowboys are considering using him on the Punt team. That’s right, this kicker is going to be a left-winger on the punt team if he wins the job! Which is way too cool. Anyway, I thought he was a really cool story so I wanted to let you guys know. Watch for him during the preseason game tonight, GO COWBOYS!