Xfl kickoffs in the NFL?

[preacher_dawg]

 

[Chesusdog]

Interesting. I'd love to see what the average starting field position is on the XFL kick returns.

 

[SteelCurtain74]

The NFL already changed the rule for this upcoming season to allow kick-returners to fair catch a kickoff inside the 25 yd line. The ball would be placed on the 25 yd line if a fair catch was called.

NFL approves new fair-catch kickoff return rules for 2023: Winners and losers from upcoming one-year trial - CBSSports.com

 

[Bulldog Bruce]

If the Hall of Fame game is an indicator, all the kickoffs I saw the kicker was trying to kick short of the end zone. They where not fully running up to the ball.

 

[HumpDawgy]

Knuckle ball squib quicks from here on out!

 

[kired]

Makes too much sense - they'll never do it. Argument will be that it takes away the traditional onside kick

 

[HumpDawgy]

My suggestion is that after the ball is kicked the kick return team can identify as the kicking team and then mass chaos breaks out!!!****

 

[Dawgzilla2]

I think the NFL goal has been to make KOs safer, not this.

 

[Drebin]

You can either increase returns or you can reduce injuries. This rule does not do both of those things.

 

[Del B Vista]

You can either increase returns or you can reduce injuries. This rule does not do both of those things.

They're safer because the coverage team pursuers and the receiving team blockers start only 5 yards apart, so you don't get 40-yard sprints into wedges.

 

[Drebin]

They're safer because the coverage team pursuers and the receiving team blockers start only 5 yards apart, so you don't get 40-yard sprints into wedges.

I may be confusing the XFL's kickoffs with the USFL's kickoffs. I went to a couple of Showboats games and was intrigued by the kickoffs. They kicked off from the 20. There was much skull cracking going on during those returns.