NFL offseason thread

Nope. The PAT is one play. Make it or don't.

 

Oh, I know. But why not make it agonizing?

 

So now PAT conversions will go from being 99 percent to 95 percent.

The cold weather games could get interesting late in the season or playoffs.

I like the change.

 

Although it's been tried once in the last 50 years or so, I wonder if the NFL took the dropkick into account. I mean, could a team line up for a 2-point conversion and dropkick through the uprights for 1 point?

What I hate about this new rule is the declaration of intent and having two different lines of scrimmages depending on how you line up. If you're going for 1, you line up on the 15. If you're going for 2, you line up on the 2. That's so weird. It's a PAT, an untimed down after a touchdown. Logic still says a play of some kind should be run from the same spot.

Why not take the kick out all together? Run for 1 and pass for 2, like they do in some youth football leagues? How about going to dropkicks only?

 

Or how about just eliminate the PAT. You get 7 points for a TD, but if you want to go for 2 and miss, the TD is only worth 6.

I think that TV loves the PAT because it gives them time to show highlights of the TD before and after the kick.

 

Maybe they did this just to fuck with Chip Kelly.

 

If they want to fix the PAT, do away with the sequence of TD, commercial, PAT, commercial, kickoff, commercial.

I like the idea of one point for a run and two for a kick. I wonder what the breakdown is between the two options when going for two points

 

I don't think I have ever seen a commercial between the touchdown and PAT.

 

Great story on Bud Grant - a lot of stuff I didn't know - and his annual yard sale.

http://www.newsweek.com/bud-grant-meanest-nicest-man-nfl-history-333853

 

John Madden interview. Boom! Good stuff.

Hall of Famer John Madden discusses changes and trends in the NFL - LA Times

 

I don't follow the NFL, but a friend was asking me if there were any players that had terrible combines but went on to great NFL careers? Any players on top of your head? It would be really helpful. Thanks!

 

Tom Brady.