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Omgz look wot Jerry jones said!
Peter king:
Why does the NFL kick extra points anymore?
Through the Sunday night game, the 90th game of the season, kickers had made 429 of 430 extra points this year.
Since the opening days of 2010, including playoffs, kickers have made 2,976 extra points out of 2,996 attempted -- 99.3 percent -- in 624 games. Twenty misses in 624 games. That means an extra point has been missed, on average, once every 31-and-a-quarter games. What exactly is the purpose of making fans, TV viewers and bored special teams go through the motions of 45 seconds spotting, lining up and booting a 19-yard kick through the uprights? It's anachronistic. It's a waste of time for everyone.
Some coaches, most recently Bill Belichick in 2011, have railed against the meaninglessness of the extra point. I think it's time for the Competition Committee to discuss during committee meetings next spring a good alternative. Either move the line of scrimmage for the extra point back to the 25-yard line, or force teams to go for two after a touchdown, or force teams to dropkick the extra point, the way the Patriots did with Doug Flutie in the last game of the 2005 season. But it's time to do something.
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Sounds good. But I don't want them to start making it like "an XP from the 10 yard line is worth 1, an XP from the 25 is worth 2 etc.". I don't want that, they're already making things crazy complicated with what can't be reviewed and then add in the new OT rules where if you start watching a game in progress and you don't know who's on what possession you're lost.
You could eliminate the XP all together and make it a 2 point conversion. That would stagger the scoring and decrease the chances of OT anyway.
Peter king:
Why does the NFL kick extra points anymore?
Through the Sunday night game, the 90th game of the season, kickers had made 429 of 430 extra points this year.
Since the opening days of 2010, including playoffs, kickers have made 2,976 extra points out of 2,996 attempted -- 99.3 percent -- in 624 games. Twenty misses in 624 games. That means an extra point has been missed, on average, once every 31-and-a-quarter games. What exactly is the purpose of making fans, TV viewers and bored special teams go through the motions of 45 seconds spotting, lining up and booting a 19-yard kick through the uprights? It's anachronistic. It's a waste of time for everyone.
Some coaches, most recently Bill Belichick in 2011, have railed against the meaninglessness of the extra point. I think it's time for the Competition Committee to discuss during committee meetings next spring a good alternative. Either move the line of scrimmage for the extra point back to the 25-yard line, or force teams to go for two after a touchdown, or force teams to dropkick the extra point, the way the Patriots did with Doug Flutie in the last game of the 2005 season. But it's time to do something.
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Sounds good. But I don't want them to start making it like "an XP from the 10 yard line is worth 1, an XP from the 25 is worth 2 etc.". I don't want that, they're already making things crazy complicated with what can't be reviewed and then add in the new OT rules where if you start watching a game in progress and you don't know who's on what possession you're lost.
You could eliminate the XP all together and make it a 2 point conversion. That would stagger the scoring and decrease the chances of OT anyway.
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