So long to the kickoff

[jb2288]

23 minutes ago, Day1PanthersFan said:

Show a little respect,We wouldn't have made it to the superbowl without that man, most of Jake's game winning drives were finished off by Kasay, and kicking game winning kicks isn't easy , ask Eddie Pinero 

And like those few extra yards would have made a difference to Tom Brady and Wes Welker against our gassed D

Don’t think Welker was on that team and Brady still was very average back then. He had like 200 total yards that game. 

[JawnyBlaze]

26 minutes ago, Day1PanthersFan said:

Show a little respect,We wouldn't have made it to the superbowl without that man, most of Jake's game winning drives were finished off by Kasay, and kicking game winning kicks isn't easy , ask Eddie Pinero 

And like those few extra yards would have made a difference to Tom Brady and Wes Welker against our gassed D

Show a little respect…

 

how about research who was actually on the teams before trying to scold me about respect on a football forum. 

[Panther53521]

I guess kickers are going to learn to pop the ball high and let it land at the 26 yard line lol

[WUnderhill]

16 minutes ago, rodeo said:

I was incredulous about it when they first started stripping back kickoffs, but yeah, studies do show there's a wildly disproportionate amount of injuries on kickoffs.

Easy fix. Make everybody walk on kickoffs. No running allowed or you get a time out.

[OneBadCat]

Jesus Christ how much more are we going to handicap defenses? Literally no one will get pinned deep. This also hurts homefield advantage.

Hope this doesn't apply to punts either.

[OneBadCat]

49 minutes ago, PanthersATL said:

fair catches are supposed to eliminate collisions, etc.  By adding a max of 24 yards to any fair catch opportunity, we're going to see fair catches on almost every kick.

There's no way to pin a team back at their goal line to do a 75-yard 2 minute drill with no timeouts left to get within reasonable field goal range.  Now it'll be a super-exciting 45-yard adventure. 

yee-hawnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

Wish they would make a rule that you can't win by field goal under two minutes. 

[Brooklyn 3.0]

Pat McAfee whining like a baby made my day.

Funny how fans, announcers, AND players rag on kickers and punters all the time but now all the sudden everyone has their back lol. Also funny that people get irate over artificial turf causing injury but don't give a rat's ass about injuries to special teamers after they collide at violent speeds. The NFL could've folded (ok not really) over the concussion BS so they made new rules and added new tech to help. This is yet another layer.

As a fan, all they care about is seeing truck stick hits (unless it's to their team at which point it's OMG get that brute out of the game he hurt our guy!) and don't give a damn about injuries AS LONG as the mighty rich NFL covers retired players health for life lol.

So what is it? You want your boys kept safe? Or do you want to see your boys lay wood on other teams each week? You can't have it both ways.

I say get rid of all kicking. As much as fans blame kickers all the damn time, it's one less thing for them to rage about.

[pantherclaw]

Proof, that you can't fix stupid.  

[Sgt Schultz]

2 minutes ago, pantherclaw said:

Proof, that you can't fix stupid.  

[PanthersATL]

One solution to the kick situation:

• Kick the ball down the empty field.
• Wherever it stops rolling on its own is where the receiving team gets to start from.
• If it's a touchback, goes to the 20 yd line
• If it's out of bounds, goes to the 40 yd line

Sure, you won't have any 100-yd kickoff returns this way, but it adds some skill aspect to the kicker position.

[PanthersATL]

4 minutes ago, PanthersATL said:

One solution to the kick situation:

• Kick the ball down the empty field.
• Wherever it stops rolling on its own is where the receiving team gets to start from.
• If it's a touchback, goes to the 20 yd line
• If it's out of bounds, goes to the 40 yd line

Sure, you won't have any 100-yd kickoff returns this way, but it adds some skill aspect to the kicker position.

Alternative:

The receiving team decides before the kick if they WANT to apply Fair Catch rules, in which case they do the above.   If the receiving team decides before the kick they want to attempt to run it back, then we utilize the original kickoff rules as usual

This way the receiving team can either take a chance on where the ball lands OR gets an opportunity to run it back.

Oh yeah, and the kick itself is from the 20yd line (or should it be the 25)?

AND if the kickoff goes through the uprights?  It counts as a 1pt field goal for the kicking team and they get to kick again.

[DaveThePanther2008]

53 minutes ago, Panther53521 said:

I guess kickers are going to learn to pop the ball high and let it land at the 26 yard line lol

Yeah,  I think kickers were getting good a placing the ball at the 1 or 2 yard line and forcing teams to run it out.  They get stopped inside the 20 and it pissed Roger G off so now we have this garbage. 

[Sgt Schultz]

6 minutes ago, PanthersATL said:

Alternative:

The receiving team decides before the kick if they WANT to apply Fair Catch rules, in which case they do the above.   If the receiving team decides before the kick they want to attempt to run it back, then we utilize the original kickoff rules as usual

This way the receiving team can either take a chance on where the ball lands OR gets an opportunity to run it back.

Oh yeah, and the kick itself is from the 20yd line (or should it be the 25)?

AND if the kickoff goes through the uprights?  It counts as a 1pt field goal for the kicking team and they get to kick again.

Ah, but our heroes on the Competition Committee will go one better.  Next year, they will change the rules to eliminate kickoffs.  Instead the opponent simply gets the ball on the defender's 25, ala the NCAA OT rules.  That will remove the crushing danger associated with kickoffs and most punts (some teams will find a way to go from the opponent's 25, out of FG range, and have to punt ala the Falcons in the final 5:00 of their Super Bowl meltdown). 

Think of the excitement. 

Then we can start attacking the unfair advantage defenses have by fielding 11 players against the 11 players on offense.

[kungfoodude]

Thank God. Our KR game has been miserable for a long time.