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Personally, I'd like NF to make the end zones live on kicks and to add a post-scrimmage kick enforcement spot.
A punt is a surrender of the ball and to let K have a first down on a loose-ball foul by R 40 yards downfield just doesn't seem right nor equitable.
As to the EZ's, 2 years ago in a playoff game, the Blue team ground out a 9 minute drive to take a 17-12 lead with :50 left. Their kicker had put every KO out the back of the EZ in each of his last 5 games including mine. They figure they can hold White for :50 from the 20. Naturally, the kicker just misses the kick and White catches it at the 6" line, runs it back for a TD and White wins. If that ball had gone 6" more it would have been the auto TB and a totally different outcome. That was one of the most exciting plays I've seen in my 27 years of officiating. There is no logical reason for the EZ's to be dead.
Make it the same as NCAA.
I'd also like NF to go back to the original timing rule but I know THAT won't happen.
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