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jake206":h1z6j3xf said:Here's my new suggestion: Automatic touchdown at one yard line.
Too soon
jake206":h1z6j3xf said:Here's my new suggestion: Automatic touchdown at one yard line.
hawkfan68":3vb28u7a said:If it isn't broke don't fix it. In my opinion, current way of doing things isn't broken. Honestly, the focus on this is alarming. The NFL has bigger problems than attempting to wipe out kickers and return specialists from the game. Which essentially these dumb rules and ideas are doing. First kickoffs and now extra points.
McGruff":25jhsrg3 said:Popeyejones":25jhsrg3 said:While this solves the problem of the boring and pointless extra point kicks, it needlessly goes beyond that. Why not just have a TD be worth six and you can try to score again from the 2 for two pts or opt out for one point. That does it. Finito. We're done. Problem solved.
That is essentially (exactly?) what Pete is proposing.
mikeak":2lugl4sa said:Popeyejones":2lugl4sa said:While this solves the problem of the boring and pointless extra point kicks, it needlessly goes beyond that. Why not just have a TD be worth six and you can try to score again from the 2 for two pts or opt out for one point. That does it. Finito. We're done. Problem solved.
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I can't recall right now but is there advertisment between the touchdown (since they are reviewed now) and the extra point?
If so that would be why you don't go with your proposed solution - you would lose advertisment time. I do agree with the proposal you have and wrote something similiar somewhere last week
Scottemojo":1s5s8z7r said:The worst thing that can happen is any variation where 7 points is not near automatic or an 8th point is somewhat difficult. Yes, the EP is boring, but keeping games within a single score is not boring.
Lets use the recent SB as an example. NE scored 4 TDs, if they had been successful on all four tries they have 32 points. If Seattle had been unsuccessful on just one try, it's a 9 point gap and one of the most exciting finishes in SB history is a 9 point spread, not a 4 point spread.
The way it is now is boring most of the time, true, but no one was talking about how boring EP tries were after Wilson threw that rainbow to Willson for two points and a 3 point lead vs the Pack, were they? Just one failed or converted EP after a single TD in that game with Pete's proposal and Seattle fans might not get one of the most classic NFL game finishes of all time.
Besides, Pete's idea is sunk simply because it would increase, not decrease the number of contact plays in games. Anything that smacks of more contact has the NFL shaking in it's CTE paranoid boots. Lets face it, if more exciting football was truly the goal, the kickoff would still be from the 30.
HoustonHawk82":1ntlton6 said:CTE?
AgentDib":35sh2oqg said:That's not quite right; what Pete wants is a mandatory try for 1 point so you'd end up with 8 points 53% of the time. It's a small boost in scoring but not a huge change.
AgentDib":35sh2oqg said:The best options are to either make the extra point more difficult (narrow goal posts, further away) or to make it automatic. I would prefer to make it more difficult because that will still leave in the potential for trick plays. Leaving the potential for surprises in would keep the NFL as entertaining as possible.
Popeyejones":1hrmh4jv said:HoustonHawk82":1hrmh4jv said:CTE?
Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy.
It's the $5 way to say concussions.
(really, more accurate to talk about what the problem is, but in popular parlance, concussions).
Scottemojo":2bu8om08 said:Don't get me wrong about loving it the way it is, if somebody comes up with something awesome I will dig it, I don't give a crap about tradition. I would love anything that got rid of kicks. PAT is a finesse play that has no place in the game.