darell1976
March 3rd, 2014, 05:08 PM
http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/eye-on-football/24466479/report-nfl-exploring-43-yard-extra-point-for-2014-preseason
Back in January, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said the league was exploring the possibility of someday eliminating (http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/eye-on-football/24415126/roger-goodell-nfl-considering-proposal-to-eliminate-extra-points) extra points.
"The extra point is almost automatic. I believe we had five missed extra points this year out of 1,200 some odd," Goodell said at the time (http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/eye-on-football/24415126/roger-goodell-nfl-considering-proposal-to-eliminate-extra-points). "So it's a very small fraction of the play, and you want to add excitement with every play."
One way to add excitement to the extra point is to make the kick longer and that's exactly what the competition committee is discussing. According to NFL.com (http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap2000000330411/article/nfl-might-experiment-with-making-extrapoint-attempts-longer), the league is in the very early stages of a discussion that could lead to extra points being moved back from the two-yard line to the 25-yard-line for the 2014 preseason. That would make the kick a 43-yard attempt instead of a 20-yard attempt.
"There is no consensus yet," a competition committee member told NFL.com. "We could experiment in preseason, but we are not there yet."
If you're wondering how automatic extra points have become, NFL kickers hit 1,262 out of 1,267 extra points in 2013. That's a 99.6 percent conversion rate.
I think Goodell will eliminate the kicker position before the decade is done. Pretty sad!
Back in January, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said the league was exploring the possibility of someday eliminating (http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/eye-on-football/24415126/roger-goodell-nfl-considering-proposal-to-eliminate-extra-points) extra points.
"The extra point is almost automatic. I believe we had five missed extra points this year out of 1,200 some odd," Goodell said at the time (http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/eye-on-football/24415126/roger-goodell-nfl-considering-proposal-to-eliminate-extra-points). "So it's a very small fraction of the play, and you want to add excitement with every play."
One way to add excitement to the extra point is to make the kick longer and that's exactly what the competition committee is discussing. According to NFL.com (http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap2000000330411/article/nfl-might-experiment-with-making-extrapoint-attempts-longer), the league is in the very early stages of a discussion that could lead to extra points being moved back from the two-yard line to the 25-yard-line for the 2014 preseason. That would make the kick a 43-yard attempt instead of a 20-yard attempt.
"There is no consensus yet," a competition committee member told NFL.com. "We could experiment in preseason, but we are not there yet."
If you're wondering how automatic extra points have become, NFL kickers hit 1,262 out of 1,267 extra points in 2013. That's a 99.6 percent conversion rate.
I think Goodell will eliminate the kicker position before the decade is done. Pretty sad!