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i like narrowing the posts. i wouldnt mind some changes that will motivate more coaches to go for it rather than kick a FG.
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Good point. I agree, they will eliminate the PAT at some point, it will take away 3 or 4 needless contact plays per game. Same for kickoffs, those will be gone too, they're just waiting a few years to collect the touchback data with the new kickoff line to sell it to the public.
Also, as noted by me two years ago, three point stance. Bump when they outlaw that. Already mumblings about that one floating around.Comment
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Food for Thought...
No surprise that kickers have been getting progressively better over the years.Code:NFL|40-49yds|50+yds|Overall 1992|58.0%|50.0%|72.6% 1997|62.4%|67.6%|78.1% 2002|64.3%|52.4%|77.5% 2007|74.2%|47.3%|82.8% 2008|74.5%|63.5%|84.5% 2009|72.9%|52.9%|81.3% 2010|73.2%|54.6%|82.3% 2011|74.0%|64.3%|82.9% 2012|80.2%|60.9%|83.9% 2013|82.7%|65.2%|86.1%
When did the rule change regarding the center? '12? Did any other rules that I'm not aware of go into effect concerning field goals? The sudden jump in accuracy from 40+ doesn't make sense otherwise. It's a much larger increase than we normally see from one year to the next.Comment
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I can't remember - do the refs use a "K" ball for field goals or is that just kickoffs? It's long been suspected that those K balls are juiced to increase touchbacks. At this point the kickoff is just an extended commercial break, interrupted briefly by a ball flying into the first row of the stands and the announcer feigning amazement that "he almost knocked that one through the goalposts!" ...
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The large jump is partly due to the new wave of kickers i'm talking about.
Tucker, Walsh, Greg The Leg, check the numbers, these guys do. not. miss. Forget about anything under 50. Those are allchip shots for these guys. They don't even miss from long range.
This is why I say, within three years or so, every team will have a kicker like this. The position has evolved. 5% jump 50+ is enormous, as is a 3% jump overall. Soon, FG% will equal what PAT% was not too long ago. Guys were barely hitting 75% only ten years ago.Comment
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if kicking's so easy how come theres so few decent kickers in college ? one reason is schools pay little attention to specialized kicker training, a different sized ball and maybe less preciseness in the snap and holder training for all I know?.....it also seems odd to me that the angle is made harder in college than in the pro's.
but that still says to me its harder to find or just as hard to find a good kicker for the pro ranks as to find a QB. Its a highly specialized act that very few are willing to become the best at.
its not easy to do, its just made easier because its a solo act of man against ball instead of man on man so to speak.
the few that are good at it are really good...I don't think that means it needs to be made harder.Comment
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Kickers that miss field goals should be forced to have the biggest player on the other team kick them in the nuts.[REDACTED]Comment
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In 2006, they made 81.4 percent of their regular-season field-goal attempts. That broke the record of 81 percent, set in 2005, which broke the mark of 80.8 percent, set in 2004.
The N.F.L.’s Age of the Kicker has extended into this season’s playoffs; kickers have made 34 of 36 field-goal attempts — a 94.4 percent clip that is higher than the percentage of successful extra points 30 years ago.
Three of last weekend’s four second-round playoff games were decided by 3 points — two requiring late kicks to be settled — and the fourth featured no touchdowns but a 7-for-7 field-goal performance by the kickers.
In an era of parity in the N.F.L., when it seems that more and more games are being decided by field goals, more and more kicks are sailing between the uprights.
Each kick carries the National Football League toward a difficult question: Should anything be done about it?
“I imagine that it is something that will come up at our next session,” said John Mara, the Giants’ president and a member of the league’s competition committee. “But I can’t imagine enough sentiment to make any radical changes.”
The N.F.L. has long had an uneasy relationship with the players who put the foot in football. It has occasionally tried to slow their impact, but never with a lasting effect on accuracy. The upward trend has been so steady that the 18 best seasons for overall field-goal accuracy have come in the past 18 seasons.Comment
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Kickers also hang out in the NFL until their late 30's/early 40's making the position easier to keep afloat. It's not like the quarterback position which in a good year has maybe half the league with good-great starters.
Thus if 4 or 5 good kickers materialize in the college ranks in a given year, that is plenty to keep the talent pool full of kickers in the NFL.Originally posted by ram29jackson
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It's been well known that most people that are hardcore wrestling fans, are also very much into Arena League football, so I understand the OP's POV here.
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