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Are plays from scrimmage kicks that much safer than from free ones?
If they really make it a play from scrimmage, that will deprive the receiving team of the right to a shot at the ball in an open field play. The team awarded it could run or pass, or kick directly out of bounds. Would the timing be the same as for, say, a scrimmage play following a touchback? Think they'd abolish all free kicks, or only kickoffs? After a field goal, how about giving the receiving team the right to scrimmage at the same place they could've if the attempt had missed? |
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I thought I was clear enough, but I guess not. The principle of the free kick is that the ball is always to be delivered in such a way as to allow the other team the possibility of gaining possession for an open field play (unless it is kicked far enough to go directly out of bounds beyond the goal line). The proposal would take that right away from the other team, by allowing the team awarded the play that substitutes for a free kick the possibility of either not kicking or kicking directly out of bounds.
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Even in the subvarsity games I've done, we have a decent percentage of long KO runbacks -- something like 10-15 percent, at least. I haven't really thought about it until your comment here, but it does happen quite a bit! |
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If they really want to reduce but not eliminate the possibilities of players going at each other at high speed, they should adopt what I've been advocating for years, i.e. rugby's rule at a kickoff: You can kick the ball out of bounds, as long as it touches a player, an official, or the ground first. And have it the same whether it's the sideline in the field of play or end zone or end line. The receiving team will spread out and guard the sidelines more.
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