The NFL wants to implement New Kickoff Rules

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We drive into new kickoff rules the NFL wants to implement next season, this then leads to our own ideas the NFL should use to bring kickoffs back. How did Leroy get knocked out in a Pro Bowl?

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00:00I'm not sure if you guys saw about this rule change attempting to somehow make the kickoff

00:07more entertaining as it has been completely removed from the game.

00:11The NFL competition committee is set to change the spot of touchbacks from the 30-yard line

00:18to the 35-yard line.

00:20Jesus Christ, they just want more scoring.

00:22This is apparently in an effort to further boost the rate of returns.

00:27How?

00:28They want less sentiment to move the spot of the kick itself, meaning if you kick it

00:34to the touchback, it's going to be boring for television.

00:38So therefore, you're giving up 35 yards.

00:41But if you kick it in the zone so that they can return it, that's good for television.

00:46So therefore, you know, we'll figure it out.

00:48That's just kind of...

00:49Because they just got tired of the touchbacks because people were like, yeah, I'll settle

00:52for the 30.

00:53They're trying to make it like people won't settle for the 35.

00:56They'll settle for the 35, dude.

00:57Eventually, they're going to be like, all right, well, we're moving touchbacks to the

01:0040.

01:01And they're like, well, why do we even do this kick then?

01:03And people are going to start only onside kicking.

01:06What we need to do is what the XFL did.

01:07You put a ball in the middle, you have two people run to it.

01:10That's what you want.

01:13You want Oklahoma.

01:14Yes, dude.

01:15And I want that to become a position that is now scouted in the NFL draft process of

01:21like...

01:22All right.

01:23To be fair, if you really want to make it...

01:24A gladiator.

01:26If you really want to make people kick off to those zones, save they don't.

01:30If it's a touchback, you just automatically put it at 50.

01:34Now, they're not going to mess around.

01:36Nobody wants to start...

01:37That's what I'm saying.

01:38But they're going to say...

01:3935 is like...

01:40It's only 20 yards.

01:41You're in field goal range.

01:42I mean, 35, they're like, all right, well, you know what, whatever.

01:45I'll do that.

01:46That's fine.

01:47I don't care.

01:48I can give up a field goal if I have a good defense.

01:4950.

01:50So let me get this straight.

01:51Let me get this straight.

01:52Wait a minute now.

01:53So then now they're going to...

01:54At that point, though, they're going to be like, all right, well, I'm onside kicking

01:56If I'm giving it up at the 50, I'm just going to onside kick every time.

01:59And then that's...

02:00You can't.

02:01But if you onside kick, you have to announce it beforehand and you onside kick it from

02:06your own, what, 20?

02:08From your own 20.

02:11Where are they kicking off from now?

02:13Let's see.

02:14Where do you...

02:15Because where you kick off is different from where you line up, which is why this whole

02:19thing is stupid.

02:20Really, they've ruined the onside kick.

02:21Or they've ruined the kick.

02:23So they're moving the players back.

02:26Oh my God.

02:27Is this true?

02:28Yeah.

02:29Hold on.

02:30I'm reading things about the set.

02:31I didn't even know it was this bad.

02:32The...

02:33This is so stupid.

02:34In the NFL, onside kicks are only allowed in the fourth quarter now.

02:35Only by the team that is trailing.

02:36They must declare their intention.

02:37Yeah.

02:38And it says beyond the set up.

02:39So there's like a set up.

02:40So it's like a set up.

02:41It's a set up.

02:42It's a set up.

02:43It's a set up.

02:44It's a set up.

02:45It's a set up.

02:46It's a set up.

02:47It's a set up.

02:48It's a set up.

02:49It's a set up.

02:50It's a set up.

02:51It's a set up.

02:52It's a set up.

02:53It's a bet 4 on the set up.

02:54So there's like a set up zone.

02:55Return team would start the drive at the 20 yard line if you don't do it properly.

02:58Like this is stupid.

02:59This is all stupid.

03:00Why?

03:01The ball at the middle have two men run for their lives.

03:06That is hate.

03:08Clearly you haven't been in one of those collisions.

03:12Hell no.

03:13That is crazy.

03:14Special-

03:15I would say if.

03:21you take and move the kickoff point, it's at the 20 now?

03:32Four, let's see.

03:34Where does the kicker kick from?

03:35The 20 or the 30?

03:38Where does the kicker kick from?

03:41No, yeah, I think he has a running start.

03:43Like he's not even kicking from the edge.

03:45The kicker's by himself.

03:47Yeah, he kicks from the 35 yard line.

03:50Right. Right now.

03:52The other players are at the other 20 or the other 25.

04:00Your defenders.

04:02He kicks off from the 30 or from the 35.

04:04The defenders are at the 40.

04:08Yeah, they're 40.

04:08They're 10 yards ahead.

04:09No, but all the players on the kicking team,

04:11apart from the kicker, are at the receiving team's 40.

04:14Yeah.

04:15Right.

04:16So they're like crossing.

04:17And then where's the regular people,

04:21the return team, is at the 35?

04:24Yeah, because they're five yards apart.

04:26Okay.

04:27So here's what I would do.

04:29What are we doing?

04:31Here's what I would do.

04:34I would move the kicker to the 25.

04:37All right, we're moving them back.

04:39Move the kicking, the kick return team,

04:45to their own, their normal line up on the 20.

04:50Yeah.

04:51I move them up five yards,

04:53and then move the kick team back five yards or 10 yards.

05:01So I want them 10 yards apart instead of five.

05:04And I want it back.

05:05If you want to promote returns,

05:09you have to give the return team or the receiving team

05:13a chance to set up a blocking scheme.

05:16Why can't we just go back to the old ways

05:18without the wedges and people getting hurt?

05:20Because let me tell you like this,

05:24I didn't have no wedge,

05:26and I wasn't busting no wedge

05:29when I ended up in the hospital,

05:31running down on kickoff.

05:33Yeah.

05:34It's the sheer,

05:35it's what they're trying to avoid

05:38is the sheer collision of it all.

05:40But what I would say is,

05:43five yards, if you want a return,

05:49you want a game plan,

05:50you want special teams to have a game plan

05:53based around returns and trying to do things

05:56to make that a viable play,

05:59you can have the guys five yards apart

06:02so that the return team never has a chance

06:05to set up and block them.

06:08That's why the return guys just let it go.

06:11So if you want to promote a return,

06:15the way to do it is,

06:17how much distance do I need to put

06:22between the kick team and the receiving team

06:26so that the receiving team can also game plan

06:29and have a blocking scheme?

06:32Five yards is not enough.

06:33So I don't care where you move the kickoff

06:36or where you move anybody else,

06:38if they're five yards apart,

06:41you don't have an opportunity,

06:43a viable opportunity for them to make a play of it.

06:47So they're going to always let it go.

06:51That's boring, dude.

06:53Ball at the 50, one guy at the other side,

06:56one guy at the other side,

06:57they run at each other.

06:58You got to get the ball because it's become skill.

07:00Everyone can be fast.

07:02You got to get the ball

07:03and then you're fighting for it.

07:04And if someone gets injured,

07:05it's only one guy at a time, baby.

07:07That's easy.

07:08All you have to do

07:11is move the return team and the kickoff team

07:15five more yards apart.

07:18It then gives the return team

07:20an opportunity to set up a play,

07:23either a left return or right return.

07:26You cannot do that five yards apart.

07:29Too many injury risks, Leroy.

07:31Not 10 yards apart.

07:34The gambling, you want to bet on the coin toss,

07:36that's 50-50.

07:37Now you can bet on the kickoff, 50-50.

07:40Who will get it?

07:41Will it be the Eagles?

07:42Will it be the Giants?

07:44No one knows.

07:45We're all dependent.

07:46We're looking at this guy.

07:47How has he been running in practice?

07:49What's this guy's 40 time versus this guy's 40 time?

07:52What technique is he going to use?

07:54Is he going to dive at the ball first?

07:55Is he going to try to knock him out like the guys like-

07:58Do me a favor.

07:59You're definitely going to pick this guy

08:01who has some Greco wrestling skills.

08:04But now we're doing it like a hockey,

08:09what do you call it?

08:10Like a hockey fight?

08:11Face-off.

08:12Yeah.

08:14Margos, let me say this.

08:18There's nothing that bothers me more

08:22than people that truly do not understand

08:26what that collision is like.

08:28Yeah.

08:29Trying to promote that collision.

08:31That collision is horrible.

08:33I ended up in the hospital

08:36trying to tackle because I had never tackled before.

08:40Yeah.

08:41The smallest guy in the NFL.

08:44That's why you shouldn't be-

08:46And I'm not soft.

08:48No, nobody calls you soft, Leroy.

08:50You should never be-

08:51No, but I'm just saying, I'm just saying.

08:53I hit a guy, tried to tackle a guy.

08:57He got the best of you.

08:59No.

08:59I turned my head full speed.

09:03He hit me right on the side.

09:06Night, night.

09:07Next thing I heard was you want the sirens

09:10or you want to ride in quiet?

09:12See, but that's what adds to my point though.

09:16That's why a running back doesn't need

09:18to be on special teams.

09:19A backup tight end doesn't need to be on special teams.

09:21It needs to be the one guy who's been training

09:24for the gladiator run, which I have now named it.

09:28It is no longer the kickoff.

09:29It is the gladiator run.

09:30Why don't you just use American gladiators?

09:32Why don't you just have them just grab out like a-

09:35Are they gonna stick?

09:36You think they're gonna stick with the-

09:36Yeah.

09:37Ooh, now you're talking.

09:39Now we're talking.

09:40But this person is trained and it's only one guy.

09:44It's only one guy.

09:45Well, you have them joust.

09:46It's, yeah, the joust.

09:48Why don't you have them just joust for the-

09:51What's wrong with you?

09:52For possession.

09:53What's wrong with you?

09:54That's Marcos.

09:55That's what he wants.

09:56I told you.

09:56I told you all you need to do is put them 10 yards apart.

10:05That way the return team has a better chance

10:09to scheme a return.

10:12That's it.

10:12You can leave everything the same.

10:14If you want to promote more returns,

10:16you can move the kicker back five yards.

10:18They still kicking it in the bleachers if they want to.

10:20But that doesn't solve the injury problem

10:22because we still have 20 people on the field,

10:25which increases our chance of injury by 20 times

10:27as opposed to the gladiator joust.

10:32There's only two people on the field.

10:34What's the worst that can happen?

10:37What's the worst that can happen?

10:39Even if both of them get injured,

10:40you know, how many people get injured on the kickoff?

10:42You got 10 people running this way,

10:4410 people running that way.

10:45Let me tell you something.

10:45Back block, this guy tears an ACL.

10:49I'm gonna be honest with you.

10:50I have to be the only person that got concussed

10:53at a Pro Bowl.

10:56No, the punter for the Washington football team

11:00when Sean Taylor decided this was real football,

11:03not Pro Bowl.

11:04That's what happened to me.

11:06I was on run down kickoff and I was just running

11:09the return that ran out of bounds

11:11and somebody came and cleaned me out.

11:14And I told them,

11:16I told them,

11:18and I told them,

11:21see, you better hope and pray

11:25that you're not in this game

11:26the next time I come and run a play.

11:32I hope he took your advice.

11:35Really, you're gonna fight in Hawaii?

11:37Yep.

11:38You're gonna fight in Hawaii, bro.

11:38You can't fight in Hawaii.

11:39Look at me.

11:40You're gonna fight in Hawaii.

11:41There's a luau going on every night.

11:43Come on, you're gonna fight in Hawaii.

11:46Come on, I know all the food that's out there

11:48and you're gonna fight.

11:49You're gonna fight.

11:50Let me explain to you.

11:50The only times I've ever gotten into it in football

11:56is the one phrase I hate more than anything.

12:00What's that?

12:01Is we all in this together.

12:04When guys say, we all worried about,

12:07I'm like, no, you're not.

12:09Why would you hit me in a Pro Bowl

12:11on the sidelines like that?

12:13I'm offended

12:15because you think I'm not one of you

12:17or you just think you're gonna

12:19have something to joke and laugh about.

12:21Well, no, that ain't happening.

12:24So, now we have a problem.

12:29So, I don't know what the other 20 guys are doing,

12:33but me and you playing football from here on out.

12:40Anytime in football where I've gotten a feeling

12:44that, oh, this guy wants to hurt somebody

12:48or this guy is trying to get his name on TV or whatever

12:54by hitting somebody like that.

12:57I'm like, okay, no worries.

12:59No worries.

13:00I got something for that.

13:01What year was this, Leroy?

13:02Yeah, I gotta look this up.

13:04No, because it gotta be an NFC linebacker

13:07if he's talking like that.

13:09Yes.

13:10Somebody hit him.

13:10So, it's gotta be like-

13:11I know exactly who it was.

13:13Wilbur Marshall?

13:14No.

13:16What year was this?

13:16Derrick Brooks.

13:17No, it wasn't Derrick Brooks.

13:18Not Derrick Brooks.

13:19It wasn't Singletary.

13:21Nope.

13:24I'm not telling you.

13:25I know you don't gotta tell me.

13:26There's one guy who knows.

13:28You don't gotta tell me.

13:29I'm gonna know.

13:30There's one guy who knows.

13:31It ain't LT.

13:32No.

13:33There's one guy who knows.

13:35Tobin knows.

13:36Tobin knows, all right.

13:38I don't know.

13:39I'll find out.

13:40All right, when we come back-

13:43Actually, no.

13:43No, me and Ricky Coop.

13:45Pat Swilling.

13:46Not Pat Swilling.

13:47Not none of them.

13:49Leroy, I know you're not gonna tell us which linebacker,

13:51but can you tell us about- Chris Dolan?

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