Feature: How Joshua Karty is pinning opponents deeper in their own territory than any other kicker

Is it a squib? A knuckleball? A dirty kick?

Whatever you call it, the Rams' kickoff keeps causing trouble.

When kicker Joshua Karty boots the ball to opponents, he tries to punch it into the landing zone (inside the opposing 20) with no spin. Nobody knows where the ball will go off the bounce, kind of like a knuckleball when it leaves the pitcher's hand. This puts the returners on their heels (sometimes literally) and disrupts the rhythm of the return operation. It's incited muffs, indecision, penalties and, most importantly, poor starting field position for L.A.'s opponents.

"You gotta try to think of it like it's a knuckleball, so you're trying to kick it without any spin," Karty told theRams.com. "If you kick it too high it's gonna be short of the landing zone, if you kick it too l