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Re: College Football

Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2016 12:46 pm
by Jungle Rat

Re: College Football

Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2016 11:35 am
by Jungle Rat
Moving the touchback to the 25 is dumb. Why are they trying to kill the kickoff?

Re: College Football

Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2016 11:46 am
by Bklyn
It appears they want to encourage teams kicking off to keep the ball in play.

Re: College Football

Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2016 11:53 am
by Jungle Rat
Those blind side hits should be fun when they are chasing after squib kickoffs.

Re: College Football

Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2016 12:45 pm
by Cletus
Bklyn wrote:It appears they want to encourage teams kicking off to keep the ball in play.
They want to encourage more touchbacks. But, what they are going to get it more short kickoffs, more collisions, and more concussions. The law of unintended consequences is going to be rough on this one. They will eventually get rid of the kickoff entirely.

Re: College Football

Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2016 1:28 pm
by Bklyn
Granted, I did not read anything about the rule besides what was typed here. What is the rationale to have the touchback spotted to the 25 as opposed to the 20 and expect that it it wouldn't incentivize the kicking team to avoid the touchback?

Re: College Football

Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2016 1:39 pm
by Cletus
I guarantee all the thought was abou the return team incentives. Kicks are going deeper into the end zone so the thought is that a touchback on the 25 will encourage returners to kneel on the ball. I doubt they gave much thought to the way the kicking team would react to this. Kickoffs lead to lots of concussions so the nfl wants fewer returns. They might get more now.

Re: College Football

Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2016 4:13 pm
by crashcourse
there were kickers who got 90% of the kickoffs into the endzone--maybe if they line up at the 30 and any kick out of the endzone was brought out to the 40 and any kick down in the endzone was started at the 10. in other ward basically an onside kick every kickoff probably fuck up the game more then ever but who give a shit about the kickoff now when 80% are downed

Re: College Football

Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2016 8:20 am
by BigRedMan
Mcafee was on our local talk show yesterday and he explained it like this.

So if he kicks the ball 5 yds deep in the endzone for the returner to break even, he has to get 25 on the return. With the new rule, it would have to be 30 on the return. With that being said, he does not think it is going to change strategy for teams on how they return and the percentage from scoring starting at the 20 is 31%. Starting at the 25 is 32%.

He said he understood what they were trying to do but he felt it won't have a huge impact either way, Teams will still go by their coaching style and strategy for this.

Re: College Football

Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2016 8:27 am
by Jungle Rat
Was he stoned? He's always stoned.

Re: College Football

Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2016 11:03 am
by eCat
this won't be talked about for the next 2 weeks.....................

It was announced Wednesday that the Los Angeles Rams would be the team featured on "Hard Knocks" this season. But one report suggests the franchise made a deal with the league to avoid being the team featured on the show in 2014.

Longtime NFL reporter Howard Balzer, in a report for 590 The Fan in St. Louis, writes that the NFL allowed the Rams --€“ then based in St Louis -- to avoid the HBO series because they agreed to draft Michael Sam.

Sam, of course, announced he was gay prior to the 2014 draft, creating a flurry of speculation about if/when he would be drafted. As the reigning SEC Co-Defensive Player of the Year, Sam was considered a late-round talent. Balzer reports the NFL didn't want Sam to go undrafted, so it made a deal with the Rams, who selected him in the seventh round (249th overall). The Rams were just 90 miles down the road from the University of Missouri, where Sam played in college.

Re: College Football

Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2016 11:20 am
by Jungle Rat
Dan Patrick got ahold of Fisher this morning. Didn't hear it though. I was shaving my balls on the back porch.

Re: College Football

Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2016 11:57 am
by Saint
Why the back porch?

Re: College Football

Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2016 11:57 am
by eCat
I was scared to ask that question

Re: College Football

Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2016 12:04 pm
by hedge
The cool breeze on the back porch feels good after the post-shave slathering of Gold Bond. Feel the tingle...

Re: College Football

Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2016 12:44 pm
by BigRedMan
The back porch is 501 feet from a elementary school is my best guess.

Re: College Football

Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2016 1:08 pm
by eCat
heh

the proverbial rope line

Re: College Football

Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2016 7:32 pm
by Jungle Rat
1001 feet.

Re: College Football

Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2016 5:00 pm
by eCat
Rat,

have you been keeping up with that car that drove off the bridge and plunged into the river.

They are finally getting it out tomorrow.

Re: College Football

Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2016 10:28 pm
by Jungle Rat
Yeah we have. That's crazy shit. What if no one is in there or there's 3 more then expected? Sure gonna be one or whatever bloated corpse after all this time.