Will Steelers benefit from new extra point rules?

since the kicks keep flying out of the EZ on kick offs, why not make them mean something after a score? make it thru the uprights on the KO and gain an extra point. could end up a 9 point swing. 6 for the TD. go for 2 and make it and get the KO thru the uprights for 1 more. uh huh, that would make it interesting. make those kickers earn it. give teams an exemption on game day to have one tall guy back there to block it from going thru.

 

Love the sandlot "pick up" way of thinking here. Why not add more drama at the coin flip where the winner gets to decide in-game variable rules - like stud poker (good thing the Bus has already retired - "No I said 3 bounces into the uprights was 4 pts - not 2 bounces!").

I like the new strategy wrinkle this change adds to the game. Should cause teams including the Steelers to practice and perfect goal line offense more rather than just as an afterthought when the probability charts show a favor for a 2 pt conversion attempt. Not wanting to open a can of worms here but I equate it to the DH or no DH in baseball. The "no DH" while semi-boring due to the inherent lack of hitting pitchers, adds so much more mid to late game strategy and in-game changes than knowing that some aged weak kneed hitter will appear every nine batters throughout the game versus carrying extra pinch hitters, double switches, moving the runners over, pitching around etc etc.

 

what you guys are describing is worse than Arena Football .The new extra point rule is LAME . Should not have been changed . Roger Goodell is SATAN . Just like David Stern was . He is turning NFL in Caddyshack 2

 

Roy Gerela would've never converted a PAT.

 

clowns mouth or windmill for the goal post?
how about a different one at each end?

they could have a theme for each month
when's shark month?

 

Here's a thought. Change the rule so that the PAT must be kicked by the guy who scored the TD. This would definitely add uncertainty to the PAT, even if you kick from the 2. And it should appeal to all you tradition loving purists out there, because back in the early days (1920's and 30's) that how they did it.

 

I was going to bring up that traditionalist and purist are relative. If you truly want to be a traditionalist or a purist, you should be lobbying for the removal of the forward pass.

 

My post was largely satirical.

Piously defending the traditions and purity of the game usually means defending it as it was 'back in my day'. I reject grandpa imposing his traditions on me, but by God, I'm going to impose mine on my grandson, for his own good, of course. The history of the NFL is a history of continuous evolution and tinkering of the rules. If you think at some point in the past the game was 'perfect', it was only so for fleeting moment as it became something else. I suspect opinions will differ over when the game was 'at its best'. My guess is that time that you think the game was 'perfect', correlates pretty closely to the time you were 15 yrs old.

Though on the substance, I'd still like to see PATs kicked by the guy that scored the TD. If you wanna be a football player, you'd better be able to use your foot.

 

the trouble is back then most guys could do everything, from be a lineman one play to kicking the next or playing rb the next. now it's so specialized that some teams have two kickers. one for FG's and one to kickoff with. we had to add a guy just to be a long snapper when forever just some player that was good at it, did it and played another position. i wouldn't be suprised if we had to have another kicker just for the point after now. here's an idea, snap it from the 3 and then have to spot it at the 15. that should add some excitement.

 

thats pretty much what I was saying but with far fewer words

 

I know you`re being sarcastic, but I kinda like the idea...

At least in general...

It doesn`t happen very often, but it should be worth a point, when it does, IMHO...

No, I don`t agree with the "roster exemption"... LOL...


My opinion is, something should have been changed with the PAT...

It was becoming way too automatic.

Not sure if spotting it at the 15 was the best solution, but at least it`s a minor change, and SHOULD make for a few more misses, and less "Automatic".

And give coaches more reason to consider doing something different.

Could always force teams to only carry one kicker on the roster, to avoid "specialists", but a team whose kicker got injured would be at a SERIOUS disadvantage!

I dunno, maybe lining up the kick from the hashmark where the TD was scored, has some merit...

Give teams with a strong, true fullback, a slight advantage, from scoring up the middle, instead of all the damn post-corner passes...

I dunno... I think it was becoming too ceremonial.

I also don`t want to get TOO radical with he change, to fix that.. Maybe move it 5 yards further back, to the 20, instead of the 15...

Not much more change than that, but, I would like to give teams more incentive to try the 2 point conversion more often, just for entertainment`s sake...

Not sure that ANY rule change "favors" or "hurts" us, as ALL teams have to play by the same rules...

Domed teams get an advantage from a longer kick, in their home games, outdoor Northern teams get less of an "advantage", when dome kickers have to kick in the elements...so do ours, in their home games...

Seems like a wash, to me.

We will see what happens. I don`t expect a major advantage, or disadvantage, with kicking the ball from the 25, this year.

Our biggest advantage would come from holding opponents out of our endzone, and getting in theirs, and forcing our coaches to decide to try for 1 or 2!!!

GO STEELERS!!!