The NFL want's it's qb's to succeed. Throw in a bad interference call and it's good for business.
We're being played.
Jack Lambert was right, they should make quarterbacks wear dresses.
Why not just put the ball on the 50 yard line and be done with it............
If the goal is to reduce touchbacks, this is the way to do it.
Kicking teams will be more willing to let the opponents return the ball if doing a toucback results in them starting a third of the way down the field.
“We’re being played”
I’m not.....if the team in my town moved tomorrow I’d get drunk for joy......and until then they don’t get one thin dime from me.
I’m jaded because the team I once cared about couldn’t beat a good XFL team. The Browns will be pathetic for the rest of my life, and that’s ok, they deserve it.
Enough of my anti Browns rant, my comment about this is that it seems the NFL is doing all in their power to turn off the long time fans. Maybe this stuff will play well with the young and stupid, I’m not sure.
Place the ball at the 20-yard line. Eliminate kickoffs.
Sure. While they’re at it, why not put the WR on 2nd base if the game goes into overtime....
Maybe they should try the incentive on the receiving team. Put the touchback back on the 20, but make the kicker kick from the other 20.
christ, just make it the 50 then. I miss football from the 70’s
I wonder what Taylor Swift thinks?
Touchbacks should be a safety. Make ‘em run it out. If it’s kicked through the end zone and cannot be returned, receiving team gets it on the 10-yard-line. This ain’t ballet. It’s football.
They should put it at the 40 just like an out of bounds kickoff. With the box that’s what it is anyway. The new kickoff rules were good, way more run backs, longer run backs, more TDs off run backs. The kickoff had replaced the extra point as the most boring play in north American sports, that’s always a problem.
The should move the kickoff yard line further back, forcing receiving team to run the ball = fewer touchback.
Moving the deck chairs on the Titanic.
I think we should go back to uncovered stadiums and encourage QBs to smoke on the sidelines.
Or does that make me seem old?
The NFL continues to f up the game. Maybe they should work on the corrupt officiating.
If the ball is kicked into the end zone without touching the field of play then the ball goes on the 35. If the ball is allowed to bounce out then it goes to the 5.
Enough incentive to kick it into play and receive it in play.
No fair catches. Defend your receiver.
Why not just shorten the field to 50 yards?
Probably easier to move the football back to goal line for the kickoff and require the kicking team to be stationary until the receiving team returned the football to the five yard line . . .