It is hard to blame the players when you get ten kicks blocked and miss a ton of extra points/fgs. While I agree the players have to play, how many times is it the players fault? Did all of those guys forget to block? Did all of our players forget to tackle on KO returns?
Special teams is broken down into a bunch of areas. For FGs and extra points, I would give Foley an F. We had a lot of issues last year and it did get better this year, toward the end of the season, but we still had far too many issues.
For punting I would give us a C. While we did a good job of pinning teams deep, our punt coverage was only ok and we had too many punts blocked to get anything better than a C.
Kickoff returns I would give us a C. We returned fairly well, had a couple of good returns but nothing ground breaking. We also had a few bone headed mistakes where players caught the ball running out of bounds for no reason. On the punt return side I would give us a C+. We did a better job of not costing us yards and even had a few okish returns but nothing great.
Our punt and kick coverage was a D+. While we normally did pretty well, we would just give up a play or two every game that put the other team immediately in scoring position.
With all that said, Foley has proven over two years that he is not that good of a coach. Rhule has a motto of chasing 3, and it is exactly what we lacked in several games that cost us a wins (Illinois, Iowa), and not to mention a bowl game last year. Overall, I find it impossible to keep Ed. Unless HCMR does not take his job seriously.