FG kicking is too easy in the NFL, time for changes

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  • LiquidLarry2GhostWF
    Highwayman
    • Feb 2009
    • 15429

    Originally posted by dave
    Link me to the facts, pal. There were no 6-5 240 lb. WRs like Calvin Johnson 40 years ago, there were no 6-8 250 lb. players like LeBron James 40 years ago, there were no 6-9 255 lb. Zdeno Charas 40 years ago...
    Harrold Carmichael.

    As for LeBrons...maybe not 40 years ago, but 30...you had Magic and Bird.

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    • Warner2BruceTD
      2011 Poster Of The Year
      • Mar 2009
      • 26142

      Originally posted by ThomasTomasz
      Tucker just missed a kick
      I knew that's what he meant, but who cares?

      This would be like watching baseball in 2001, waiting for Barry Bonds to hit a single, and then claiming there isn't a pattern of increased home runs.

      Are we really going to be that derpy and post every time somebody misses? The trends don't lie, we aren't going backwards, these guys are great and only going to get better. And unlike every other position on the field, they only compete against themselves, so the only way to counter balance this is to adjust the goal posts in some manner.

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      • Hasselbeck
        Jus' bout dat action boss
        • Feb 2009
        • 6175

        W2B cursed Steven Hauschka. Dick.
        Originally posted by ram29jackson
        I already said months ago that Seattle wasn't winning any SB

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        • seaplus
          Posts a lot
          • Apr 2009
          • 4869

          FG kicking is too easy and anything inside the 40 is automatic
          *<|8-D

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          • KINGOFOOTBALL
            Junior Member
            • Feb 2009
            • 10343

            if we get rid of kickoffs...what happens to the onside kick ?
            Best reason to have a license.

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            • Hasselbeck
              Jus' bout dat action boss
              • Feb 2009
              • 6175

              SHAYNE GRAHAM AND NICK NOVAK BEG TO DIFFER
              Originally posted by ram29jackson
              I already said months ago that Seattle wasn't winning any SB

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              • NAHSTE
                Probably owns the site
                • Feb 2009
                • 22233

                bump...

                We've heard a variety of ideas about what to do regarding the extra point after NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said that the league was considering eliminating the one-point tries from the game entirely.


                We’ve heard a variety of ideas about what to do regarding the extra point after NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said that the league was considering eliminating the one-point tries from the game entirely.

                Many of those suggestions have come from kickers, including one from Jets kicker Nick Folk. Folk thinks the league should explore adding a pair of uprights nine feet apart — the same distance as in arena football — and require kickers to hit extra points between them rather than using the 18’6″ distance between the current uprights.

                “It would make it harder,” Folk said, via Dom Cosentino of NJ.com. “That could be a new way to do it because I don’t know what the percentage would be. Even if it’s 90 percent, then it’s not as automatic and you’re still dealing with the elements that can affect the ball going through there.”

                Folk, who said he likes to practice with the smaller uprights, also suggested changing the scoring for field goals by giving four points for ones through the smaller uprights and five points if you nailed one from beyond 50 yards through the narrow window. Adam Vinatieri had a similar idea about long field goals, one that’s a bit problematic because it awards more points for drives that stall a good distance from the end zone, but the extra point idea does attempt to address the fact that extra points have become all but automatic in recent years.

                That’s what the league should be looking for in any proposed change to the extra point before making a call to abolish it altogether.

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                • jms493
                  Junior Member
                  • Feb 2009
                  • 11248

                  get rid of extra point kick...leave everything else alone.

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