NFL players comment on the changes at the link.
Ping.
Bring back the “drop kick!”
If the ball goes thru the uprights on the kickoff that should be three points.
That change needed to be done. It still will almost be an automatic point.
I wonder when the last time a drop kick was made, of even tried?
They need to move the kick-off point back to where it was.
So the extra point will be the distance of a 33 yard field goal. I think kickers make about 90% of field goals from that distance. The extra point will not be virtually automatic anymore, but will still be made the vast majority of the time.
In baseball, the great Mariano Rivera saved about 90% of the games he appeared in as a relief pitcher. Him appearing did not make it an automatic save, but Yankee fans saw him do the job 90% of the time. The extra point will still be as likely as Mariano Rivera saving a game. There will be occasional failures, but kickers will still make it the vast majority of the time.
I think there should be a post in the middle of the field goal, and if the kicker hits it, there is an another extra point.
Right you are. And I don't think this new rule will change things much. The proposal I like best: Make a touchdown worth 7 points. Then run or pass from the 2-yard line for one extra point. No more PAT kicks at all.
I think we will see more blocked field goals as well...
Kicking from the two yard line is different than kicking from the 15 yard line...
The angle of the kick is different....
At two yards the ball gets kicked at a higher angle to get over the defense arms...
At 15 yards it more of a kick for distance...
Do away with the extra-point kick altogether. Play football and get it in from the five.
Extra point kick was actually at the 3 yard line before the rule change rather than the 2 yard line.
It remains at the 3 yard line in high school and college.
Yep, like watching free throws in bb.
Get rid of the PAT and make fgs worth one point. That will speed the game up, get rid of a tedious play, and force teams to go more for more tds rather than playing for fgs.
The actual action in a football game is around sixteen minutes. The rest is commercials, replay’s, guys just wandering around ...
Baseball (NL) is the “Perfect Game”
Football has serious issues and is warped.
Raise the goal at least two feet. I'm pretty sure the guy that invented the game never imagined 7 foot tall monsters simply dropping the ball through the goal. Wasn't the game originally designed for 8 yr olds?
So it’s now essentially a 33-yard field goal kick, of which kickers succeed 93% of the time. YAWN.
Make it a real challenge - take some air out of the ball.