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NFL 2018.1 The off season

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Dez is still unsigned, and I’m honestly not very surprised by that. It’ll be interesting to see where he ends up.
 
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Johnny Football signs with the Hamilton Tiger Cats of the CFL.

Wonder how short the proverbial leash is.
 
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Seems these are the rules that have been drawn up for kickoffs by the competition committee and are being presented at the owners meeting today and Wed.

■ No running starts for the kicking team.

■ The receiving team must have eight of its 11 players within 25 yards of the line of scrimmage.

■ No blocking within 15 yards of the line of scrimmage.

■ No wedge blocks by the receiving team.
 
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SonofSouthie said:
Seems these are the rules that have been drawn up for kickoffs by the competition committee and are being presented at the owners meeting today and Wed.

■ No running starts for the kicking team.

■ The receiving team must have eight of its 11 players within 25 yards of the line of scrimmage.

■ No blocking within 15 yards of the line of scrimmage.

■ No wedge blocks by the receiving team.
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Just abolish kickoffs, FFS.
 
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SonofSouthie said:
Seems these are the rules that have been drawn up for kickoffs by the competition committee and are being presented at the owners meeting today and Wed.

■ No running starts for the kicking team.

■ The receiving team must have eight of its 11 players within 25 yards of the line of scrimmage.

■ No blocking within 15 yards of the line of scrimmage.

■ No wedge blocks by the receiving team.
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Ok, the idea of no running starts is decent- but not sure how it really matters- they also add in a distance that they have to go before they get hit. And a distance for the other team to run from. These guys should be going fast enough between those two distances.

A better idea is that the kicking team lines up ON the line, doesn't run, and 8 of 11 must stand between 10-15 yards away- so that there' almost no distance between them OR the receiving team runs back to the ball before blocking, which takes all momentum away.
 
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St. Clown said:
I believe they're taking the incremental approach to doing just that.
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I hope they get there sooner rather than later.

Gonna be robots at some point, anyway. It's a dying brutalist sport, like boxing.
 
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Kepler said:
It would be pretty funny if litigation and insurance completely destroyed the NFL and all these guys lost their money.
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What's the more interesting scenario?
-- Watching the NFL fail because of their callousness over concussion issues and team prescribed performance enhancing substances?
Or,
-- Watching the NFL fail because the WFL anti-trust litigation had a different outcome and Donald Trump becomes an NFL team owner (and he ultimately goes down with his ship)?

And the Republic is saved again!
 
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Berkshire BU Fan said:
What's the more interesting scenario?
-- Watching the NFL fail because of their callousness over concussion issues and team prescribed performance enhancing substances?
Or,
-- Watching the NFL fail because the WFL anti-trust litigation had a different outcome and Donald Trump becomes an NFL team owner (and he ultimately goes down with his ship)?

And the Republic is saved again!
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WFL? Do you mean USFL? The $1 League?
 
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SonofSouthie said:
Seems these are the rules that have been drawn up for kickoffs by the competition committee and are being presented at the owners meeting today and Wed.

■ No running starts for the kicking team.

■ The receiving team must have eight of its 11 players within 25 yards of the line of scrimmage.

■ No blocking within 15 yards of the line of scrimmage.

■ No wedge blocks by the receiving team.
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Rule changes approved plus, "Kickoff team must have five men lined up on either side of the ball". Not sure how that's gonna work on an onside kick.
 
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SonofSouthie said:
Rule changes approved plus, "Kickoff team must have five men lined up on either side of the ball". Not sure how that's gonna work on an onside kick.
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I don't think OSK would change at all.

For that matter, just make all KOs onside from the 50 and be done with it.
 
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