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Originally Posted by Robert Goodman
The citation is either from their Digest or a FAQ answer. I'm pretty sure that in the official NFL rules team R still has the option of making K repeat the kick with a 5 yard penalty. Otherwise you'd see a lot more deliberate kicking off out of bounds very close to the end of either half.
NCAA is the only major North American football rules code that doesn't make it a positive requirement for the free kick to reach R's line. K can just dub the ball forward (even backward) a short distance and if it comes to rest untouched with nobody attempting to play it, it's as for any other kick, no penalty for short free kick.
Robert
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My post was neither from some digest nor a FAQ, it was directly from the NFL rules. What would K have to gain by deliberately kicking the ball out of bounds? If the kick is from the K 30 yard line and the ball goes more than 30 yards before going out of bounds, R gets the ball on the R 40 yard line. If the ball goes less than 30 yards before going out of bounds R gets the ball at the out of bounds spot. This assures R good field position and is why teams do not deliberately kick the ball out of bounds. As I stated before, the rules do not provide an option for kicks out of bounds. Of course this does not preclude R's options if K committed some other foul prior to or during the kick.