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The latest effort to reduce kickoffs already is backfiring. Eventually, the NFL could do something that definitely would not result in more returns.

Commissioner Roger Goodell recently explained that the kickoff could still be removed from the game.

“We’ve made some very effective changes on the kickoff that have had a very significant impact reducing injuries,” Goodell told Mark Maske of the Washington Post. “It is still a play where we see a higher propensity for head injury. So we want to try to address that. We think there’s still further changes that we can make. We won’t take anything off the table, including the elimination [of it]. But we still think there are some changes that we can make that we’ll continue to see progress in that area.”

The 2016 change already has triggered more returns, and with coaches like Bill Belichick explaining (and demonstrating) the benefits of deliberately kicking the ball short and tackling the returner inside the 25, more kickoff returns likely are coming.

If/when the kickoff is eliminated, what will replace it? Per a source with knowledge of the internal deliberations within the league, the concern is simulating the onside kick, both when a team is trailing by more than one score late in a game and when a team would like to launch a surprise (like the Saints did in the second half of Super Bowl XLIV). For now, the only replacement that allows for both is the 4th-and-15 idea suggested by former Buccaneers coach Greg Schiano and floated by Goodell in a Time magazine profile several years ago.

When asked about alternatives to the kickoff, the 4th-and-15 scenario is the first, and only, proposal that currently is mentioned. And it makes plenty of sense. The kicking team could punt (simulating the kickoff), run a play from scrimmage (simulating the deliberate onside kick), or execute a fake punt (simulating the surprise onside kick).

A PFT poll posted in March found more disagreement than agreement with this possible replacement for the kickoff. If there’s another alternative that allows for all three, we’d love to know what it is. In part so that we could steal it and claim it as our own.
 
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The latest effort to reduce kickoffs already is backfiring. Eventually, the NFL could do something that definitely would not result in more returns.

Commissioner Roger Goodell recently explained that the kickoff could still be removed from the game.

“We’ve made some very effective changes on the kickoff that have had a very significant impact reducing injuries,” Goodell told Mark Maske of the Washington Post. “It is still a play where we see a higher propensity for head injury. So we want to try to address that. We think there’s still further changes that we can make. We won’t take anything off the table, including the elimination [of it]. But we still think there are some changes that we can make that we’ll continue to see progress in that area.”

The 2016 change already has triggered more returns, and with coaches like Bill Belichick explaining (and demonstrating) the benefits of deliberately kicking the ball short and tackling the returner inside the 25, more kickoff returns likely are coming.

If/when the kickoff is eliminated, what will replace it? Per a source with knowledge of the internal deliberations within the league, the concern is simulating the onside kick, both when a team is trailing by more than one score late in a game and when a team would like to launch a surprise (like the Saints did in the second half of Super Bowl XLIV). For now, the only replacement that allows for both is the 4th-and-15 idea suggested by former Buccaneers coach Greg Schiano and floated by Goodell in a Time magazine profile several years ago.

When asked about alternatives to the kickoff, the 4th-and-15 scenario is the first, and only, proposal that currently is mentioned. And it makes plenty of sense. The kicking team could punt (simulating the kickoff), run a play from scrimmage (simulating the deliberate onside kick), or execute a fake punt (simulating the surprise onside kick).

A PFT poll posted in March found more disagreement than agreement with this possible replacement for the kickoff. If there’s another alternative that allows for all three, we’d love to know what it is. In part so that we could steal it and claim it as our own.
I actually love KO, so I like the new rule. But if you want to reduce KO, go back to the old rule of starting at the 20.
 
I actually love KO, so I like the new rule. But if you want to reduce KO, go back to the old rule of starting at the 20.
Better yet, have the touchback come out to the 15 yard line... At that point, kickers will look to put it out the back of the endzone...
 
dude you are relentless.. give it a rest. There's definitely two sides to this thing and this is hardly the place to be campaigning. Sure make A comment if you must (I did too) but one is enough man.

Dumbest opinions tend to be spoken with the loudest voices.

It's not even a patriotic gesture. It's paid advertisement and PR by the military. Fuck 'em.
 
You disregarded the point to project your own. But that's ok. You rarely miss an opportunity to hate on America.

Kap's protest is being permitted by his employer (the '9ers) b/c the Suit didn't have a rule in place to stop it, like the NBA, and the '9ers thought better of inflaming the issue and risking a player revolt. So, Kap is taking advantage of his platform and picked a venue and means of protest that would spark controversy and draw attention.

Ironically, after dissing folks he says he didn't mean to diss (except if you are a cop, then he did mean to diss you), and wrapping himself in the First Amendment, which, of course, doesn't apply to private employees, he got upset at those who actually exercised their First Amendment rights in a way that upset him (challenging his patriotism). And that's where you chimed in with what the Anthem means to you, as if that is what it should mean to other Americans, which, of course, it doesn't.
 
Talking Redskins-Cowboys helped save a man's life

By CSN MID-ATLANTIC September 16, 2016 7:18 PM

Last Saturday, a scary situation in South Carolina was avoided as police talked a man off a bridge or highway overpass by talking Redskins and South Carolina Gamecocks football.

The video was captured by the Columbia Police department and edited by The State.

It appears the officers discussing the Redskins-Cowboys rivalry and his hatred of Dallas helped save the man's life.

It is an all-around scary situation and thankfully no one was hurt.



Every touchdown from week 1 Sunday....

 
It appears the officers discussing the Redskins-Cowboys rivalry and his hatred of Dallas helped save the man's life.

They told him that if he came off the bridge, they'd throw a bucket of water on Jerry Jones and see if his face melts like the wicked witch in the Wizard of Oz...
 
They told him that if he came off the bridge, they'd throw a bucket of water on Jerry Jones and see if his face melts like the wicked witch in the Wizard of Oz...
I think you've confused him with a presidential candidate.
 
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