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

[SuperKevin]

I agree athletes 30 years ago were training year round but there have been ridiculous advancements in workout supplements and athletic training that have allowed todays athlete to gain more results and reach higher maximum potentials.

 

[Point Blank]

:dd:

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

:dd:

I don't understand this post.

 

[ThomasTomasz]

I don't understand this post.

Tucker just missed a kick

 

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

Today's NFL players are bigger, stronger, and faster and probably more "talented" as they are much more specialized then players of yesteryear were.

However, they are also Charmin soft and less physical...no, Night Train Lane never had to play Calvin Johnson...but Calvin Johnson never had to play Night Train Lane. No one knows how Megatron would fair against a player that wouldn't let him off the line, and in the rare event Johnson got off, would have to put up with the constant hand fighting from someone from Night Train's era. Same for linemen...they might be smaller, but the level of physicality and technique these guys used trumps today's players despite the size/speed factors.

Quarterbacks of today, are so much more advanced then QBs of yesteryear, but today's QBs would turn to dust if they were roughed today like the QBs of long ago.

 

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

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. :kanye:

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

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.

 

[Hasselbeck]

W2B cursed Steven Hauschka. Dick. :bryant:

 

[seaplus]

FG kicking is too easy and anything inside the 40 is automatic :dd:

 

[KINGOFOOTBALL]

if we get rid of kickoffs...what happens to the onside kick ?

 

[Hasselbeck]

SHAYNE GRAHAM AND NICK NOVAK BEG TO DIFFER

 

[NAHSTE]

bump...

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...uprights-to-make-extra-points-more-difficult/

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.

 

[jms493]

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