Marquette King: Broncos had me change my punting technique before season
Marquette King may not be looking back too fondly on his time in Denver.
In an interview this week with Fresh Focus Sports, the veteran punter said that the Broncos asked him to change his kicking technique before the season.
“We have our first couple practices of OTAs, and it’s like, ‘Alright what we’re gonna do is we’re gonna change some things in your technique. We are going to punt regular to the right, and when you want to punt left, you gotta drop the ball like this and swing the ball across your body,'” said King. “My whole career I’ve always walked the same direction I was going to kick the ball to. And now they are telling me to walk this direction and kick the ball over here if I want to kick it that way. And the more I kept doing it, the more my leg started to hurt.
“This whole offseason I put all this work in to do things the way I normally do it, but then all of a sudden, you’re asked to change it right before the season starts, and it just throws everything off,” he went on. “You start getting scared, like I really started getting scared. I wasn’t comfortable. I even told the head coach, ‘I don’t feel comfortable doing this. I’m going into this season with no confidence because y’all are basically asking me to make every punt a special situation.'”
King, who signed a three-year deal with the Broncos in the offseason, wound up playing in just four games for them before he went down with an adductor injury. Denver released him shortly thereafter, and in the rest of the video, King discusses how he has since been rehabbing and working his way back from the injury.
The former All-Pro also saw an unpleasant end with his last team, but that was more about on-field behavior than anything.
