NFL Offseason Thread: March 3, 2011. A date which will live in infamy.

[Valisk]

It's to reduce injuries. Now you can show some skill and go for a high kickoff that lands inside the five.

Can't tell if I'm being wooshed or not. Reducing touchbacks reduces injuries? Something tells me if more people are running around getting tackled during a kickoff, it will produce more injuries than if a touchback occurred and just a couple guys go winded running downfield.

Edit: It's definitely to increase the "excitement" of the game and keep scoring high. Turnovers will inevitably increase on kickoffs as well.

Edit 2: Onside kicks just got a lot less effective and a lot more risky. Don't recover an onside kick? Other team can kick a field goal immediately. I don't like this change.

EDIT 3: IGNORE ALL!!!

[Chun Liroy]

They are reducing injuries by making it more enticing to take touchbacks, and by making touchbacks easier to get (by moving the kickoff pos. up 5 yards).

[Valisk]

Wow, I completely read that wrong. Thought the kickoff was being moved BACK 5 yards. My bad. My post is completely null and void.

[Chun Liroy]

Yeah, I read it that way too, lol.

[Headspace]

Then I think kickers should be able to aim for the corners and kick out of bounds.

[Chun Liroy]

Then I think kickers should be able to aim for the corners and kick out of bounds.

Cosigned. I don't see why you should get the ball at the 40 when the ball rolled out of bounds at the 5.

[Headspace]

If Cundiff can consistently kick it in the endzone, then you know kicking is easy*

Spoiler: show

Outside of Dallas

[Valisk]

Then I think kickers should be able to aim for the corners and kick out of bounds.

I wouldn't be mad at this.

[Moss]

I don't think the main goal of the change is to reduce injuries by increasing touchbacks. I think it is also to condense the field a little bit so the kickoff team doesn't have as much time and field to get running supafast. They also made a change concerning how far back from the ball you can stand to get a running start.

[Chun Liroy]

Yeah, but I think the increase in touchbacks is going to be the largest way that it will reduce injury. Correct me if I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure that the average kick off ret. was around the 20~25 yard line (from eye baling it). Decreasing the distance it takes to get to the kick returner (by 5 yards, I honestly don't see the line up change affecting speed all that much, that's still 50~ yards to get to top speed) makes the returner want to risk it less and just kneel down.

[Mizango]

Then I think kickers should be able to aim for the corners and kick out of bounds.

FUCK YOU FOR THE REMINDER U FUCKING ASSHOLE

[Mizango]

Goddamn Kasay, kicking the ball out of bounds when we are winning the SB and giving Tom Brady 40 seconds to get 25 yards

Branch, Givens and Vinatieri. Nevar 4get

[Headspace]

Goddamn Kasay, kicking the ball out of bounds when we are winning the SB and giving Tom Brady 40 seconds to get 25 yards

Branch, Givens and Vinatieri. Nevar 4get

NEVAR 4GET

NEVAR SURRENDARRR

[Chun Liroy]

THEY WANT THE BALL AND THEY ARE GONNA SCORE.

[Velgadess]

saw this, checked few pages back, if it's a repost, oops. don't follow the NFL much but I lol'd.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shu...?urn=nfl-wp363

There have been many different player reactions to the current schism between the NFL and the NFLPA, and that's understandable — emotions will run very high in a work stoppage. But for Minnesota Vikings punter Chris Kluwe, it was an opportunity to get creative.

First, a little whiteboard pictograph from Kluwe's own Twitter feed:



http://mit.zenfs.com/209/2011/03/yahoo_kluwe1.jpg

http://mit.zenfs.com/209/2011/03/yahoo_kluwe2.jpg

[Akiyama]

Chris Kluwe is fucking boss.

[Chun Liroy]

Isn't that the fag that complained about field being too hard?

[Mizango]

That is absolutely fantastic.

[Cleverness]

http://espn.go.com/sportsnation/feature/madden2012cover

ESPN is doing an online vote for the new Madden cover, I think we need to rally everyone we know to vote for Tebow. For the lulz. Although it will most likely be ARod or Vick.

[Conrad]

HILLIS