AFhusker Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 Sherman is my new favorite player. Awesome. I hope he has a career ending injury and someone rips out his tongue out of his head as he is a overrated ped taking cheating pos. Quote Link to comment
AFhusker Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 Holy refs. It's obivous that the NFL wanted Seaderall to make it to NY. Quote Link to comment
sd'sker Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 Sherman is my new favorite player. Awesome. I hope he has a career ending injury and someone rips out his tongue out of his head as he is a overrated ped taking cheating pos. that is far worse than anything sherman has every said. wow. Quote Link to comment
husker07 Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 The sad thing is, Richard Sherman is actually a very intelligent, hard-working, caring dude. The best teammate you would ever want, and a guy who is great in the community. A very down to earth guy. But he just says stuff like this, and it ruins his reputation, as well as that of the Seahawks. I can't defend it. Quote Link to comment
AFhusker Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 The sad thing is, Richard Sherman is actually a very intelligent, hard-working, caring dude. The best teammate you would ever want, and a guy who is great in the community. A very down to earth guy. But he just says stuff like this, and it ruins his reputation, as well as that of the Seahawks. I can't defend it. Well Seaderal fans once again did themselves no favor as they threw food at Bowman as he was getting carted off. Stay classy Seattle! http://www.sportsgrid.com/nfl/navorro-bowman-suffers-gruesome-knee-injury-seahawks-fans-throw-food-at-him-as-hes-carted-off-field/ I was going to show a pic of Boman on the cart with food debris on it/him, but this forum won't allow me to post pics...wtf is up with that? Quote Link to comment
Mavric Posted January 20, 2014 Author Share Posted January 20, 2014 I was going to show a pic of Boman on the cart with food debris on it/him, but this forum won't allow me to post pics...wtf is up with that? Sometimes when you copy the URL for a pic, it has extra junk in it that throws the board off. Do you have a link to the pic? Quote Link to comment
GSG Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 The Extra Point Is On Its Way Out In an appearance on NFL Network yesterday, Goodell agreed that the PAT is almost a useless, "automatic" play at this point. ("The penny of the NFL," Rich Eisen called it, and I think that's spot-on.) It adds nothing, runs a barely nonzero risk of failure, and a higher risk of injury. And among the ideas to do away with it, Goodell singled out one. "There's one proposal in particular that I've heard about," Goodell went on. "It's automatic that you get seven points when you score a touchdown, but you could potentially go for an eighth point, either by running or passing the ball, so if you fail, you go back to six." This seems simple and fair. Assume the PAT will be a success, so award the extra point without even running the play. It would preserve the familiar seven-point scoring block, but still allow for teams to go double-or-nothing on a two-point conversion. But it's not the only option to reform the extra point. Some others have been tossed around, and could bring a little excitement back to the play: Take a page from rugby. The PAT is already a holdover from the "conversion," worth two points in rugby (the NFL rulebook still calls it a "try"). So why not adopt rugby's practice of taking the kick not from between the hash marks, but from wherever the touchdown was scored? If a team crosses the goal line just in-bounds, force them to take the PAT from the two-yard line at that spot; the angle will be sharp and the target smaller. Move the line of scrimmage back. The linked chart above shows the success rate for 30-39 yard field goals to be just under 90 percent, or about as easy as the PAT was in the 1970s. If teams have to convert the extra point from the 20 or the 25, instead of the 2, it'll no longer be a given. Make the player who scored the touchdown kick the PAT. My personal favorite, because chaos. Marshawn Lynch ran the ball in for six points? He's got to get the seventh too. This will never happen, because you can just picture Peyton Manning tearing a quad attempting a placekick, but I very badly want it to, if just for the occasional offensive lineman touchdown. Thoughts? I kinda like the automatic seven, but would love to see dudes kicking from crazy angles like rugby Quote Link to comment
HuskerShark Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 The Extra Point Is On Its Way Out In an appearance on NFL Network yesterday, Goodell agreed that the PAT is almost a useless, "automatic" play at this point. ("The penny of the NFL," Rich Eisen called it, and I think that's spot-on.) It adds nothing, runs a barely nonzero risk of failure, and a higher risk of injury. And among the ideas to do away with it, Goodell singled out one. "There's one proposal in particular that I've heard about," Goodell went on. "It's automatic that you get seven points when you score a touchdown, but you could potentially go for an eighth point, either by running or passing the ball, so if you fail, you go back to six." This seems simple and fair. Assume the PAT will be a success, so award the extra point without even running the play. It would preserve the familiar seven-point scoring block, but still allow for teams to go double-or-nothing on a two-point conversion. But it's not the only option to reform the extra point. Some others have been tossed around, and could bring a little excitement back to the play: Take a page from rugby. The PAT is already a holdover from the "conversion," worth two points in rugby (the NFL rulebook still calls it a "try"). So why not adopt rugby's practice of taking the kick not from between the hash marks, but from wherever the touchdown was scored? If a team crosses the goal line just in-bounds, force them to take the PAT from the two-yard line at that spot; the angle will be sharp and the target smaller. Move the line of scrimmage back. The linked chart above shows the success rate for 30-39 yard field goals to be just under 90 percent, or about as easy as the PAT was in the 1970s. If teams have to convert the extra point from the 20 or the 25, instead of the 2, it'll no longer be a given. Make the player who scored the touchdown kick the PAT. My personal favorite, because chaos. Marshawn Lynch ran the ball in for six points? He's got to get the seventh too. This will never happen, because you can just picture Peyton Manning tearing a quad attempting a placekick, but I very badly want it to, if just for the occasional offensive lineman touchdown. Thoughts? I kinda like the automatic seven, but would love to see dudes kicking from crazy angles like rugby Hate it. Leave the game alone. Quote Link to comment
REDSTEEL Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 Nebraska kicker left a couple of pennies on the ground last year. Quote Link to comment
Comish Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 My option, (yet to gain national noteriety), is a fourth idea. Put a top on the goalpost and make the kick go through it, like in hockey. This would not only spice up the extra point, but make the automatic field goals more unpredictable Quote Link to comment
Ulty Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 The Extra Point Is On Its Way Out In an appearance on NFL Network yesterday, Goodell agreed that the PAT is almost a useless, "automatic" play at this point. ("The penny of the NFL," Rich Eisen called it, and I think that's spot-on.) It adds nothing, runs a barely nonzero risk of failure, and a higher risk of injury. And among the ideas to do away with it, Goodell singled out one. "There's one proposal in particular that I've heard about," Goodell went on. "It's automatic that you get seven points when you score a touchdown, but you could potentially go for an eighth point, either by running or passing the ball, so if you fail, you go back to six." This seems simple and fair. Assume the PAT will be a success, so award the extra point without even running the play. It would preserve the familiar seven-point scoring block, but still allow for teams to go double-or-nothing on a two-point conversion. But it's not the only option to reform the extra point. Some others have been tossed around, and could bring a little excitement back to the play: Take a page from rugby. The PAT is already a holdover from the "conversion," worth two points in rugby (the NFL rulebook still calls it a "try"). So why not adopt rugby's practice of taking the kick not from between the hash marks, but from wherever the touchdown was scored? If a team crosses the goal line just in-bounds, force them to take the PAT from the two-yard line at that spot; the angle will be sharp and the target smaller. Move the line of scrimmage back. The linked chart above shows the success rate for 30-39 yard field goals to be just under 90 percent, or about as easy as the PAT was in the 1970s. If teams have to convert the extra point from the 20 or the 25, instead of the 2, it'll no longer be a given. Make the player who scored the touchdown kick the PAT. My personal favorite, because chaos. Marshawn Lynch ran the ball in for six points? He's got to get the seventh too. This will never happen, because you can just picture Peyton Manning tearing a quad attempting a placekick, but I very badly want it to, if just for the occasional offensive lineman touchdown. Thoughts? I kinda like the automatic seven, but would love to see dudes kicking from crazy angles like rugby Think extra points are becoming pointless? Unnecessary changes are pointless too. Quote Link to comment
ZRod Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 I like the idea of making the scoring player kick the PAT, that could be interesting. Quote Link to comment
Excel Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 I like the idea of making the scoring player kick the PAT, that could be interesting. I like that one the most. Quote Link to comment
Excel Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 Not mine so feel free to nitpick, from an SB nation piece (it seemed to have a lot of problems) Schools with multiple players in the SB: Five Tennessee Wisconsin (If RW is counted) Four Florida TAMU USC Wisconsin (If RW is not counted) Three Cal UGA Kentucky NC State (If RW is counted) San Diego State Stanford Texas Texas Tech LSU Two Boise Kansas Alabama Michigan State Nevada NC State (If RW not counted) ND Oklahoma State Oregon PSU Portland State Purdue South Carolina UCLA Utah State VT By conference SEC: 28 PAC-12: 19 Big Ten: 14 (counting RW to UW) Big 12: 13 ACC: 11 MW: 12 American: 7 Big Sky: 4 Independent: 4 CUSA: 3 Patriot: 2 CWUAA: 1 Ivy: 1 MAC: 1 Missouri Valley: 1 Ohio Valley: 1 SIAC: 1 Southland: 1 Sun Belt: 1 SWAC: 1 Quote Link to comment
Excel Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 swmohusker made a good point: Averaging those numbers out by teams in each conference shows the following: 1. SEC: 2 2. PAC-12: 1.58 3. Big 12: 1.3 4. B1G: 1.16 5. MW: 1 6. ACC: 0.78 7. AAC: 0.7 I counted teams by 2013 conference. Assuming SB did as well. Quote Link to comment
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