I did not know going backwards was bad before today.
TB: “it’s hard to make 10, but really hard to make 20 yards.”
Summing up the Carolina Panthers…
“The Panthers could definitely contend for an ACC championship this year.”
Wasn’t the new kickoff format sold in part as a way to encourage more returns?
I haven’t seen a single kick return attempt all day.
Showed a stat before Sun night game, Higher Return % this weekend than last season
What were the numbers?
If i could recall them I would have stated them
In Week 1, there were enough big returns to be hopeful about the impact of the play. The Arizona Cardinals’ DeeJay Dallas had the first dynamic kickoff return for a touchdown, returning a Bills kickoff 96 yards for a touchdown in the fourth quarter. The Bills’ Brandon Codrington returned a kickoff 53 yards. The Bears’ DeAndre Carter returned a kickoff 67 yards. It’s early, and coaches will undoubtedly adjust to whatever they see coming out of Week 1, but if the Titans-Bears game is any indication, we should at least see more returns. In that game, there were 10 kickoffs and just three touchbacks. In the Cardinals-Bills game, there were 13 kickoffs and seven touchbacks.
https://www.nfl.com/news/assessing-first-impressions-from-week-1-of-2024-nfl-regular-season
Montgomery is a man possessed. Good lord.
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Check who he played for last year…sigh
@windywave he played for the same team last year. He was in Chicago until the end of the 2022 season.
Here’s a better overview. The decision to spot the ball at the 30 rather than the 35 has mostly nullified the return incentive:
The NFL’s new kickoff rule was supposed to make returns more common and touchbacks more rare. And through 15 games, it has. But not by much.
In the first 15 games of the 2024 season, 63.5 percent of kickoffs have gone for touchbacks. That’s a decline in touchbacks from last year, when 73.0 percent of kickoffs were touchbacks.
But it’s not the significant decline that was advertised when the NFL adopted the “dynamic” kickoff rule. The idea at the time was that most kickoffs would be returned, and that simply hasn’t happened. Most of the time, kicking teams are choosing to put the ball in the end zone, and returners are choosing not to take the ball out of the end zone.
The decision to spot the ball at the 30-yard line after touchbacks, rather than keeping the old XFL rule of putting the ball on the 35 after a touchback, has incentivized kicking teams to boot the ball deep. If the ball went out to the 35, kicking teams would be more likely to try to pin the receiving team deep in its own territory, which would lead to more returns.
The only game I watched was the second half of the Lions game with 100% touchbacks, so I saw zero “dynamic kickoffs”
Don’t think I need to check, but okay, yup confirmed, DETROIT LIONS… what is your point? Oh wait I guess Chicago is so bad, and hopeful, they don’t even notice a whole season goes by without their RB LOL
-infinite points
There you go Windy you just commented a bit early
That is so sad. Did all the other guys who dated Swift lose all of their testosterone too?