<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'></p> LAKE FOREST -- While Oakland Raiders coach Lane Kiffin gave kicker Sebastian Janikowski the green light to kick to Devin Hester this past week, Bears coach Lovie Smith on Friday gave Hester a green light to return the ball wherever it's kicked.</p> "Devin has the green light most times he's on the football field," Smith said.</p> Janikowski has the NFL's strongest leg, with a league-high 18 touchbacks, or 54.5 percent of his kickoffs. Janikowski also has the best end zone percentage of all kickers, with a whopping 65.7 percent of his kicks going over 70 yards. No other kicker is higher than 57 percent. "We do realize what type of kicker we're going against," Smith said.</p> Nevertheless, Hester will be bringing kicks out of the end zone at his own discretion. At least Smith made it sound like that.</p> "Unless it's maybe 9 yards deep, 9½ yards, 9¾ yards, maybe," Smith said. "Keep going.</p> "He probably will bring it out."</p> Hester revealed he doesn't always have the green light.</p> "Some games you get the heads-up to go ahead and some games you don't," he said.</p> So if it's up to him to return it from deep in the end zone, will he?</p> "If it's up to me, yeah," Hester said.</div></p> Source: Beacon News</p>
