Nfl thinking about making goal post more narrow

[PortCityProphet]

Like kickers don't miss when it counts already

The NFL has made kickers' jobs harder in recent years, and it appears the league is not finished.

The league is finalizing a plan to insert data chips into footballs, something that has been rumored for years but finally coming to fruition, per ESPN. According to the report, the league plans to use the chips in 2016 preseason games as well as Thursday night regular-season games.
According to the Toronto Sun, the NFL is thinking about making the uprights narrower and the chips will help determine how many field goals will end up "no good" as a result of the change.

“The discussion has really revolved around narrowing the uprights,” Dean Blandino, the NFL’s senior vice-president of officiating, said over the weekend. “That would be one way to affect both the extra point and the field goal. (Success rates) have continued to climb over the years as our field-goal kickers and that whole process has become so specialized, from long snapper to holder to kicker."

The changes could happen as soon as the 2017 season, so kickers better start practicing their accuracy. They've already had to improve their range on extra points when the league moved it back 13 yards. The change worked in terms of making the point harder as the league saw the percentage drop from 99.3 percent in 2014 to 94.2 percent last season.

Obviously the NFL does not want to make kicking too difficult, but Blandino is right when he says success rates have climbed. ESPN's data-heavy website FiveThirtyEight created a graph that shows kickers have greatly improved over the years and are near-perfect in close-range. Last season, kickers made 84.5 percent of field-goal attempts, which is the second-best rate in league history.

NFL is thinking about make field-goal kicking even harder

 

[marleyg]

 

[Recca Gatsby]

I would love the comedy that would come from this

 

[DallasTxRep]

They always fukkin with shyt

 

[marleyg]

Dallas NInjas & Carolina Cowboys

 

[FTBS]

They always fukkin with shyt

Exactly. Who fukkin cares? Nobody was sitting around last season like "Damn these kickers are making way too many kicks. I don't think I wanna watch anymore.".

 

[DallasTxRep]

Exactly. Who fukkin cares? Nobody was sitting around last season like "Damn these kickers are making way too many kicks. I don't think I wanna watch anymore.".

The game is already in a great space, I don't understand why they insist on continuously fukkin with the rules

 

[FTBS]

The game is already in a great space, I don't understand why they insist on continuously fukkin with the rules

And it's not even shyt that anyone cares about. They worried about kick accuracy and extra points meanwhile we still haven't gotten to the bottom of a what a fukkin catch is.

 

[DallasTxRep]

And it's not even shyt that anyone cares about. They worried about kick accuracy and extra points meanwhile we still haven't gotten to the bottom of a what a fukkin catch is.

They just tweaked the catch rules and said the Dez "non catch" STILL wouldn't be a catch under the new rules....get the fukk outta here

 

[FTBS]

They just tweaked the catch rules and said the Dez "non catch" STILL wouldn't be a catch under the new rules....get the fukk outta here

At least kicks will be harder though

 

[Millions]

Leave the game alone

 

[bangbreh]

They need to cut the bullshyt
Already moved extra points back to the 33.
Ain't tryin to see some arena ball lookin shyt now too.
Even the catch rule has become so damn complicated.
Goodell, you need to stop tryin to fix something that ain't broke

 

[West Coast Avenger]

I would love the comedy that would come from this

Exactly.........I welcome it....

 

[Spaceman Piff]

fukk kickers

 

[Sbp]

They should go back to the old H shaped goal posts