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Old 10-28-2013, 07:07 PM   Topic Starter
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Are NFL kickers too good? Should the NFL adjust ?
Get rid of extra points?

Narrow the goal posts?

Put a different point value on field goals based on distance?

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At some point, the NFL’s going to have to acknowledge the efficiency of field-goal kickers is just too good. And the league is either going to have to narrow the goalposts or put a different point value on field goals from different distances.

When kickers are making 19 of 20 field-goal tries, on average, from inside the 40-yard line (stunning but true) and two-thirds of their attempts beyond 50 yards (and they are: 45 of 68, or 66.2%), you know this isn’t what the game is supposed to be. Kicking field goals has just become too easy.

This easy, as the season nears the midpoint:

From inside the 40-yard line: 230 of 245, 93.9%.
From between the 40- and 49-yard line: 126 of 153, 82.4%.

And the biggest waste of time in sports is the point-after. Six were missed all season last year, and this year, only two of 524 have gone awry. It is positively insane that the NFL doesn’t either eliminate the PAT, move the snap way back from the 2-yard line, or force teams to go for two. Something. Anything. For years, it’s been a nothing play, and the Competition Committee refuses to do anything tangible about it.

I know some will say, “Wait until the weather turns. Then you’ll see the percentages go down.” And they will. But by how much? The field goal is simply not challenging enough. Do we want the game to be so boring, to lack any suspense, when a kicker steps up to make a field goal? I can tell you the founding fathers of this game never dreamed the kickers would be so great that they would be good on 87 percent of their field goals through nearly half a season.
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Old 10-28-2013, 07:08 PM   #2
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They could make it illegal for white guys to kick. That'd **** things up a little.
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They could make it illegal for white guys to kick. That'd **** things up a little.
White only D-Backs would boost offensive output.


Goodell is working on it as we speak.
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They could make it illegal for white guys to kick. That'd **** things up a little.
But Justin Medlock's life would be fantastic all of a sudden
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They could make it illegal for white guys to kick. That'd **** things up a little.
Or you could adopt the inverse of the 'white TD' rule my friends and I adopted in Madden.

If a white guy scores a TD, it counts for 2 TDs (fortunately I've not really been a Madden player in a long time so I never had to worry about the scourge that would've been Wes Welker).

Make FGs from black guys worth 6.

Justin Medlock might have suddenly become useful.
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They could make it illegal for white guys to kick. That'd **** things up a little.


And foreigners.

How about this... require the kicker to be a girl!
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The fact that kickers are so good almost makes them irrelevant. If you keep the system the way it is, then bad kickers will kill you since everyone else has a suitable one, but at the same time you're not going to invest a high pick in one since they're common.

If you make kickers' jobs harder by giving them narrower goalposts or otherwise differentiating, it'll make kickers more important in the game. A team with a dominant kicker will see the same advantage as a team with a dominant running back or wide receiver. I'm not quite sure I want that.
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The fact that kickers are so good almost makes them irrelevant. If you keep the system the way it is, then bad kickers will kill you since everyone else has a suitable one, but at the same time you're not going to invest a high pick in one since they're common.

If you make kickers' jobs harder by giving them narrower goalposts or otherwise differentiating, it'll make kickers more important in the game. A team with a dominant kicker will see the same advantage as a team with a dominant running back or wide receiver. I'm not quite sure I want that.
pretty much spot on. and i like the idea. kinda makes it more cool to be a kicker. i mean, they are often the top scoring player on teams in games, and when there is a final score like 15-9, the focus is oh man they had a great defense out there, when your kicker did put up 5 field goals, and gets no recognition half the time.
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