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NFL Kickoff Rule Changes Aim for More Returns in 2025
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4/1/2025
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at more news coming out of the NFL owners meetings where some of these rule
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changes are being voted on and one that I actually like here the rule to change
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the kickoff. Now the dynamic kickoff is still going to be in place last year.
00:10
It's much better than what we had previously where everybody's kicked the
00:13
football out of the end zone. The anticipation was to start the season
00:16
last year. Would teams have more actual special teams returns because other
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teams would not want to kick the football in the end zone, giving it to
00:23
30. It's pretty much a mixed bag. Most teams didn't care, kicked it out of the
00:26
end zone. You got the ball to 30. The adjustment comes this year, Mark Zinno,
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where instead of the 30 touchback goes to the 35. The anticipation is 33% of
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the kickoffs returned in 2024 should turn into 60 to 70% returns in 2025.
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Your thoughts on that
00:46
again,
00:48
this is stupid. Just go back to the regular kickoff. Like, I don't
00:51
understand why we have to tweak every single thing. Okay, so
00:56
in reality now, if I kick the ball out of bounds, it's the same thing is it's
01:02
essentially the same thing as a touchback by five yards, right? You get
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the ball to 40 versus a touchback, which gets it at the 35. Like, why are we
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overemphasizing kicking? We should be de emphasizing kicking in every size,
01:15
way, shape or form. Kickers suck that the worst humans on the planet. So
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let's not bring more of them into this game at all. Um, I understand you want
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more returns.
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I don't know how to get them for you other than just kick the ball off and
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let guys run it out. Like, do you value player safety or do you value football
01:34
more? The NFL constantly sends you contradictory messages on what really
01:38
is important to them. And then we just try to find some way to continue to
01:41
tweak every single thing 15 times over because they make perfect the enemy of
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good.
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