With new NFL kickoff rules

[gimmesix]

90 percent of the posts on this thread don’t know about the new kickoff rules.
Under the new rules the return blockers and the kickoff team cannot move until the ball has been caught by the returner.
Therefore a team must inform it plans to kick an onside kick or it can’t physically take place. Nobody could run down field to pounce on it

The kicker also kicks off from his 35 while his team is lined up at the opponent's 40 (25 yards away), so what's he going to do, squib it 35 yards or pop it up between the teams? And as you said no one moves until it's caught, and the ball has a required landing zone as well.

Onside kicks just don't work with the new alignment/rules. I'm sure when a team wants to do an onside kick they'll have to reset for that because they are not going to let the kicking team kick off from the opponent's 40-yard line. They will most likely return to a traditional alignment for onside kicks.

 

[buybuydandavis]

It all stems from the changes they made to the kickoff alignment.
Probably didn't think an onside kick worked with the new kickoff alignment, so to keep it in the game, they had to make it a "pre snap" call to use the old alignment for the onside kick.

Moving back a PAT wasn't a big deal, as the PAT was never much of a big deal in itself. Kind of a waste of a play.

But massive changes to the kick off just leave it feeling like a different game. They're losing historical continuity. And then the rule changes are only approved for a year, with them obviously leaving the door open to further fiddling.

The two point conversion felt like they added something to the game. This is taking something away.

Now get offa my lawn.

 

[gtb1943]

...well, those dont really happen until situations are met. Nothing new here.

Other than, "letting other team know ahead of time". Is the big one.

remember that onside kick in the colts saints superbowl; it had quite an effect and it was not in the fourth quarter
the only people supporting this are those that never liked kickoffs anyway
I would love to know the logic of telling ahead of time. and frankly forbidding it before the fourth qtr is just plane idiotic

 

[McKDaddy]

Vote with you $$'s & don't watch the games. That is the only thing that will get their attention.

 

[iceberg]

this is butt nugget stupid

 

[Big D]

What or whom did these new rules benefit?

Perhaps coaches that didn't prep their team how to react to surprise onsides kicks?

More NFL rules committee nonsense

This clown.

 

[RustyBourneHorse]

Boo!!! Terrible new rules!! Just get rid of kickoffs altogether then....geesh!!

And then change the name as there's barely any foot on the ball as it is.