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RUSH: New extra point rule in the National Football League. Have you heard about the rules change? Yeah, it\u2019s a multipronged rule. Oh, speaking of, Frank Deford, you know Frank Deford<\/a>, the sportswriter for Sports Illustrated and has migrated and done television show appearances. He has been around for many, many moons. He has really come after Tom Brady. Oh, man, he has really come after Tom Brady. And it\u2019s not pretty. We have the audio sound bites coming up.<\/p>\n

The football rules change involves the extra point. The conventional wisdom was that the play is too automatic, therefore there\u2019s no drama, there\u2019s no real doubt about the outcome. The extra point is always gonna be made, 99% of the kicks are. And a way they happen, there\u2019s always four minutes of commercials on either side of the extra point. The team scores a touchdown, commercial break. Come back and kick the extra point, commercial break. Come back and kick off, commercial break. And, in all that time, four or five minutes goes by, the extra point is the only game action that\u2019s taking place.<\/p>\n

So the wizards of smart say, it\u2019s boring. Everybody knows the kick is gonna be made. We want to make it harder. So they now are gonna back the extra point up to the 15 yard line, which will make it a 30 some odd-yard kick. The extra point is a 27-yard kick, and the 20-yard kick, 20, 22, and this will make 37-yard kick which is gonna take the percentage from 99 to 95 percent likelihood. However, you can go for two. The ball still snapped at the 2 yard line, but you go for two, and in the extra point kick, if it\u2019s missed, you can return it now for a point. Extra point, this is the point now, extra point tries that are failures can be returned by the defending team, they can score a point. Whereas now, an extra point that\u2019s missed, ball\u2019s dead, that\u2019s it. <\/line><\/p>\n

Same thing on the two-point play. If you try for two points and you fumble or turn it over, the other team can try to go all the way down the field to their end zone and get their own two points. But players are saying, “Wait a minute, for a league that\u2019s so preoccupied with player safety, this has just made the game more dangerous. What are they doing to us?”<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Now, there are other things happening out there today, folks, that I haven\u2019t gotten into.<\/p>\n

The extra point rule the NFL. <\/p>\n

Let me just briefly touch on this, because they\u2019re trying to make the game more exciting, and here comes a player now claiming that they\u2019re making the league more dangerous. Dan Carpenter, the kicker for the Buffalo Bills, says, “Being on field goal protection is probably the worst job in football. I know that and all my linemen know that. Well now they just went from a play that there weren\u2019t too many collisions to a play now where not only is the defense coming to take that one point off, but also to add a chance to add two more to their score.<\/p>\n

“For a sport that was trying to cut back on collisions, I think that you\u2019re probably just going to add a few more on those situations,” and he\u2019s got a point. The NFL, they\u2019ve done their best to eliminate the kickoff return by moving the kickoff up to the 35 or 40 yard line. That results mostly in touchbacks. But the extra point rule, the real thing about it now is that the defense can score points too if the team trying for the extra point fails to convert, if there\u2019s a turnover of any kind. <\/p>\n

That leads to injuries, is the kicker\u2019s point. He says it\u2019s a little ironic. The league here is trying to reduce this stuff. But it really makes sense to do, because if you look at the extra point in the context of a televised football game, here\u2019s what happens: A team scores and one of two things happens. They\u2019ll either go right to the extra point and kick it and then do a commercial break. Sometimes… It\u2019s rare, but sometimes there will even be a little commercial break before the extra point. <\/p>\n

So you have a touchdown, and then the extra point, then a commercial break of minimum two minutes. You come back and the kickoff and another commercial break. So you\u2019ve had two plays that literally nothing happened in a span of six minutes: An extra point try and a kickoff that probably did not result in a return. Statistically. So in that six-minute period you\u2019ve got 30 seconds of action. The NFL said (summarized), “We\u2019ve gotta do something about this.<\/p>\n

“Because the extra point, such a short kick, it\u2019s automatic. They made 99.5% of \u2019em.” So to make the play a little bit more dramatic they\u2019ve moved the point try back. It\u2019s gonna effectively be a 37- or 38-yard kick now. I\u2019m getting confused. It\u2019s 32 or 33. As opposed to the kick being essentially a 19- or 20-yard field goal, it\u2019s now gonna be at least 30 yards. So the margin of error is a little tougher, and it makes maybe going for two a little bit more seductive, because they\u2019ll place the ball on the 2 yard line, for a two-point conversion. <\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think they\u2019re gonna see any changes, right off the bat. I think coaches get rooted in conventional, habitual behavior, and one point is what they\u2019re familiar with, and I don\u2019t care where that kick comes from. The vast majority of extra point tries are gonna be kicks from whatever the new distance is, and they\u2019ll only go for two when two points really makes a difference, and you don\u2019t know that \u2019til the second half, and in some cases the fourth quarter. So we\u2019ll see. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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