Know what I miss? The running start the whole kicking team got when the kicker kicked off. Why not just go back to that or kick from their own 25 yard line or whatever the old way was?
2024 NFL Offseason Thread
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Know what I miss? The running start the whole kicking team got when the kicker kicked off. Why not just go back to that or kick from their own 25 yard line or whatever the old way was?
Under the new rule, 10 players on each team will line up just five yards apart and won’t begin running until the ball gets back to the returner, meaning players won’t be going full speed when they crash into each other, which caused so many injuries on kickoffs in years past. Of the 22 players on the field, only the kicker and the kickoff returner will line up separately from those 20 players who are five yards apart.
The rule was changed as a one-year trial, which means it will need to be re-approved next year or else the league will revert to its previous kickoff rules.
When the rule was tried in the XFL, injuries were down and returns were up. That’s what the NFL hopes to see this year. And the kickoff in the NFL will look different than it has ever looked before.
So the kicker is further back now to stop the touchbacks?
Rubato
it only matters to us
It would definitely help to push back where the ball is kicked from, but all the CTE research said the velocity of impacts on kickoffs exceeded other parts of the game on average, so they tryna get that to go the other direction.
Rubato
it only matters to us
Defenders can’t move until the ball is caught, so the returner has room to attempt a return essentially every time
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