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If they were going to consider that, why not just make all touchdowns equal and eliminate any point after attempt? I guess you lose the late game drama of an attempted 2 point conversion to tie it up, but I could live with that.

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If they moved it back to the 20 yard line as Belichick suggested, that would make it more interesting.

Give the scoring team a choice between...

 

A) Kicking a 1 point attempt from the 20 yard line (37-38 yard kick) or

 

B) Going for the 2 point conversion from the 2 yard line.

 

It would create more drama as it's likely more 2 point attempts would be made.

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If they moved it back to the 20 yard line as Belichick suggested, that would make it more interesting.

Give the scoring team a choice between...

 

A) Kicking a 1 point attempt from the 20 yard line (37-38 yard kick) or

 

B) Going for the 2 point conversion from the 2 yard line.

 

It would create more drama as it's likely more 2 point attempts would be made.

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Although it's not really an option here, it's worth mentioning what they do in rugby.

 

First, in rugby a touchdown (worth 5) isn't scored until you touch the ball down on the ground (leaving open the dramatic possibility of being pushed back or out of bounds).

 

Second, the extra point (worth 2) is a sort-of unopposed drop-kick from the 22. But that's not the interesting bit.

 

The interesting bit is that the spot of the kick on the 22 isn't from the center of the field (making it easy), but rather from where the ball was touched down in the endzone. That means you really prefer to score in the middle of the field, because if you score in the corner you are kicking from the 22 close to the sideline. In addition to being a much farther kick, the angle of the goal posts is so narrow that you practically need to curve the kick in. In all, it introduces much more excitement and drama. If you are down by 7 in the closing minutes, diving into the corner of the endzone may or may not be enough...

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If they moved it back to the 20 yard line as Belichick suggested, that would make it more interesting.

Give the scoring team a choice between...

 

A) Kicking a 1 point attempt from the 20 yard line (37-38 yard kick) or

 

B) Going for the 2 point conversion from the 2 yard line.

 

It would create more drama as it's likely more 2 point attempts would be made.

 

This is a great idea.

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I was happy with the way Football was being played...Prior to all the "illegal" hits, two hand touch the QB, and shortened kick offs.

Yeah, that's how I have felt about Freddie the last few years as well

If it ain't broke, !@#$ off

 

I was happy with the way Football was being played...Prior to all the "illegal" hits, two hand touch the QB, and shortened kick offs.

Yeah, that's how I have felt about Freddie the last few years as well

If it ain't broke, !@#$ off

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I say we eliminate sideline hoodies with the sleeves cut off.

 

 

Look how great the elimination of the kickoff return turned out. They should just keep on changing this game. Change is awesome! Let's make field goals beyond 50 yards 3 points! That'd be so frikkin cool.

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this seems to come up every preseason. the main problem, of course, is that if you move the line of scrimage back for the PAT, then you take away the ability for the offense to fake a kick and run a 2 point conversion play.

 

beliceck, (as much as i hate to say it) is certainly right though. the 1 point kick is absolutely meaningless, and any misses can be attributed to a fluke/bad luck/etc., rather than a lack of skill by any position player. when the margin for error is +/- 1%, the need to have the play is completely meaningless. and the nfl certainly knows this and would have addressed it by now, if not for the fact of the 2 point conversions needing to be run from very close to the goal line, to make them worth the gamble.

 

none of the proposed solutions have seemed clean and logical (to me) thus far, which i assume is why the kick is still in existence.

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this seems to come up every preseason. the main problem, of course, is that if you move the line of scrimage back for the PAT, then you take away the ability for the offense to fake a kick and run a 2 point conversion play.

 

beliceck, (as much as i hate to say it) is certainly right though. the 1 point kick is absolutely meaningless, and any misses can be attributed to a fluke/bad luck/etc., rather than a lack of skill by any position player. when the margin for error is +/- 1%, the need to have the play is completely meaningless. and the nfl certainly knows this and would have addressed it by now, if not for the fact of the 2 point conversions needing to be run from very close to the goal line, to make them worth the gamble.

 

none of the proposed solutions have seemed clean and logical (to me) thus far, which i assume is why the kick is still in existence.

I think that eliminating the kick and simply making the current 2-point conversion a single extra point is the obvious solution. It's called an extra point for more than the obvious reason that it counts for one point, btw. A TD is a full goal and a field goal is a half goal. However, since the TD is so much harder to get, the XP is a bonus incentive to score TDs (e.g., 1 TD plus an XP is worth more than 2 half-TDs (i.e., field goals)).

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But if they got rid of the extra point, how would little kids ever learn their multiplication tables for the number 7 (the 2 point conversion has killed that a bit though). I flew through #7 thanks to football.

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Wait, do I agree with Bill Bellajerksucks about something? :shudder:

 

Especially with the new rules where every scoring play is reviewed, it would be nice to trim some of the boring time after a score (extra point) - maybe if the score is a gimme TV could go right to the commercial while they review the score?

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Although it's not really an option here, it's worth mentioning what they do in rugby.

 

First, in rugby a touchdown (worth 5) isn't scored until you touch the ball down on the ground (leaving open the dramatic possibility of being pushed back or out of bounds).

 

Second, the extra point (worth 2) is a sort-of unopposed drop-kick from the 22. But that's not the interesting bit.

 

The interesting bit is that the spot of the kick on the 22 isn't from the center of the field (making it easy), but rather from where the ball was touched down in the endzone. That means you really prefer to score in the middle of the field, because if you score in the corner you are kicking from the 22 close to the sideline. In addition to being a much farther kick, the angle of the goal posts is so narrow that you practically need to curve the kick in. In all, it introduces much more excitement and drama. If you are down by 7 in the closing minutes, diving into the corner of the endzone may or may not be enough...

Are you talking about that cheesy trendy 7 man rugby or the "real" 15 man game?

 

in authentic 15-man rugby you don't drop kick the 2 point conversion. you place it on a tee. in 7s, it is a dropkick.

 

but yeah,backing it straight out from the goal line for the e.p. is the way to resole this. it makes it a lot more interesting.

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