Onside Kick Stays

[cowboys5xsbs]

 

[BrassCowboy]

i hope not. i like the success of them being closer to 0%.

 

[Havic]

Let them overload one side of the line if you want success rate up

 

[Silverz1972]

Haha. They said 420.

 

[The Quest for Six]

Move the kickoffs back five yards, there's nothing more boring in the NFL than the constant endless touchbacks

 

[Loso86]

With PI still available that would literally be 50/50 so no thanks

 

[links18]

Let them overload one side of the line if you want success rate up

That used to be the rule, but they changed it for "player safety." So what are they going to do now, change it back?

 

[Ring Leader]

Following Greg Zeurlein's successful watermelon kick vs Atlanta teams have coached up the on-sides receiving team all too well. Do not allow receiving team to touch the ball before 10 yards and watch the success rate go up.

 

[mattjames2010]

Move the kickoffs back five yards, there's nothing more boring in the NFL than the constant endless touchbacks

That will never happen because it will take one big hit and a player getting knocked out for fans to then complain about too much violence in a violent sport again.

Happens every season.

 

[shabazz]

…..”oh, but what about the children?”

 

[Jipper]

if they want to get up to ~15% recovery rate or higher, they are going to have to do some serious limiting of the recieving team to skew the advantage...the way it is setup now i dont see it changing drastically....granted there arent a whole lot of them so it only takes a couple more to move the needle but still...

 

[jazzcat22]

So they are not going to put dresses on the KO teams. QB dresses stay exclusive. Which is why they get paid more than ST's players.

I am glad they left it alone. Rather they go back to KO from the 30, and allow overloading to one side. The receiving team can to the same in anticipation to where the kick is going.

 

[CowboysRule]

Move the kickoffs back five yards, there's nothing more boring in the NFL than the constant endless touchbacks

This is the goal. Get people to complain about kick offs so they can take them out of the game entirely and just have the team start at the 25. "Player safety"

 

[sunalsorises]

If they want to make the onside kick more successful then they also have to give the receiving team more chances at returning a kickoff for a TD.

The stats I found show only 3 successful onside kicks and only 6 kickoffs returned for a TD. If they want a 15% success rate for onside kicks then the receiving team needs about the same success rate at being able to score on the kickoff which is going to create the mess they were trying to avoid.

 

[HungryLion]

Move the kickoffs back five yards, there's nothing more boring in the NFL than the constant endless touchbacks

Get rid of the kickoff all together

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

Following Greg Zeurlein's successful watermelon kick vs Atlanta teams have coached up the on-sides receiving team all too well. Do not allow receiving team to touch the ball before 10 yards and watch the success rate go up.

Ahh I like that idea. Seems like an easy fix.

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

Get rid of the kickoff all together

I mean they essentially have.

 

[Flamma]

So they are not going to put dresses on the KO teams. QB dresses stay exclusive. Which is why they get paid more than ST's players.

I am glad they left it alone. Rather they go back to KO from the 30, and allow overloading to one side. The receiving team can to the same in anticipation to where the kick is going.

This would be the most obvious solution. They broke it, now they're trying to fix it with patches or gimmicks. Because if they go back, someone in a dress will say they don't care about player safety.

 

[Motorola]

Let them overload one side of the line if you want success rate up

That was the creative, exciting aspect\element of the onside kick.
Putting on the field unusual formations (within league rules) that increased the kicking team's chances of recovering the ball.
It's up to the receving team to be prepared, e.g. putting sure-handed players on the squad that won't panick, and will secure the trick kickoff.

 

[KJJ]

i hope not. i like the success of them being closer to 0%.

Not me because we may need to recover one. One of the greatest comebacks in the history of the Cowboys was during the 2020 season against Atlanta with the aid of a recovered onside kick.