Posted on 01/21/2014 1:40:41 PM PST by Perdogg
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell talked to the league’s network on Monday about a number of different topics, several of which included possible rule changes.
One of the issues discussed was the idea of eliminating extra points after touchdowns, which Goodell says are just about “automatic.”
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I don’t like the idea. When are we supposed to go to the bathroom and get another beer?
Yup, I agree. If you want to kick, you have to kick a 30 or 35 harder. If you go for 2, then it gets put on the 3. I also like the idea of a 4 point kick for kicks of 55 or 60 yards. Would make things interesting. Nothing worse than a punt from the 45. Before you ask what happens if you are down by 4 and at the 30, I have an idea for how that would work.
I can’t remember the last time a fake was tried on an extra point in the NFL. In college and HS it happens, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen it in the NFL. They put their offense out there and run a regular play. Every single time.
Give six points for the touchdown and then make the team earn the next two.
What ought to be eliminated are all pads and helmets.
Just keep on screwing with perfection. You’ll kill that Golden Goose eventually.
“instead of the two-point conversion. THERE lies the drama!”
The proposal is a touchdown is 7, but an 8th point can be added by a run or pass play afterwards, but if you fail to get the 8th point, you end up with 6 points instead of 7.
The net result is pretty much the same as it is now, except you just forgo the actual kicking of the extra point.
I kind of like it.
Let’s eliminate Goodell instead.
Here’s the thing, IMHO:
When an extra point is missed, is it usually because of great defense, a poor snap, or a poor kicker? If it’s the 3rd, I say get rid of it; it has little to do with the rest of the team. Otherwise, keep it.
Because that's what Goodell does. He's fundamentally transforming the NFL into the WWF.
Football evolved. So it's time for the rules to change. Extra point is boring now. It means I need another beer from the fridge.
I think there were at least 2 of them tried during playoffs this year.
“Here’s the thing, IMHO:
When an extra point is missed, is it usually because of great defense, a poor snap, or a poor kicker? If it’s the 3rd, I say get rid of it; it has little to do with the rest of the team. Otherwise, keep it.”
Goodell said only 4 PATs out of 1,191 were missed this year. So I’m not sure if it really matters that much WHY they were missed (all 4 blocked according to Goodell), since they were made 99.7% of the time. In other words, boring.
Personally, I’d rather see the kickoff moved back 10 yards. Lots of exciting things (both good and bad) can happen on kickoff returns.
There’s not enough room down there for trickery. Defenses can recover from an initial misstep quickly because there isn’t much ground to cover.
You are confusing punts with extra points. No one has lined up for an extra point and then run a fake (intentionally—remember Romo) for a long time. I don’t watch every game, but I watch a lot of them, and the highlights and all the playoff games. Can’t recall a fake extra point try.
My guess is that is why they never fake the kick. Better to put the offense out there and run a real play.
How about we eliminate On Field Officials.
Usually they get missed by just bad luck, somebody screws up, snapper, holder or kicker. Sometimes field conditions. Problem is it’s almost never missed, 5 times out of 1200 tries this season, that’s just not a failure rate that makes a play interesting.
We don’t see much in the way of fake FGs across the board, largely because of personnel, also it’s a long snap so it moves further away from the line than a normal play. Add to that the strategic element of who really wants to show their cool trick play for 1 additional point and they get even less likely for PATs.
As a result, you have someone on the outside on both sides, and a couple linebackers and maybe even a safety, and their one job is to watch the fake. They are not usually ever in the rush. So a really well executed fake isn't going to actually fake anyone out, because the ones you want to fake are taught to stay put.
For field goals, it's different. Sometimes they send 9 guys at it, assuming that it will not be a fake. When the defense is going for the block, and you pull the ball out like Lucy, and you only have 2 guys to beat, a fake can work, even with non-optimal personnel. But you're not going to get that kind of rush all of the time.
You might also see an all out block effort on a PAT when the game is on the line, too. For example, if a last second TD ties the game, and the PAT is for the win. There, the defense might as well send everyone, on the notion that no coach would be crazy enough to fake the PAT in that situation. when they still have a 99% chance of making the kick even with a big rush.
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