NFL Kickoff Rule Changes Aim for More Returns in 2025

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00:00at more news coming out of the NFL owners meetings where some of these rule

00:03changes are being voted on and one that I actually like here the rule to change

00:07the kickoff. Now the dynamic kickoff is still going to be in place last year.

00:10It's much better than what we had previously where everybody's kicked the

00:13football out of the end zone. The anticipation was to start the season

00:16last year. Would teams have more actual special teams returns because other

00:21teams would not want to kick the football in the end zone, giving it to

00:2330. It's pretty much a mixed bag. Most teams didn't care, kicked it out of the

00:26end zone. You got the ball to 30. The adjustment comes this year, Mark Zinno,

00:30where instead of the 30 touchback goes to the 35. The anticipation is 33% of

00:35the kickoffs returned in 2024 should turn into 60 to 70% returns in 2025.

00:42Your thoughts on that

00:46again,

00:48this is stupid. Just go back to the regular kickoff. Like, I don't

00:51understand why we have to tweak every single thing. Okay, so

00:56in reality now, if I kick the ball out of bounds, it's the same thing is it's

01:02essentially the same thing as a touchback by five yards, right? You get

01:06the ball to 40 versus a touchback, which gets it at the 35. Like, why are we

01:11overemphasizing kicking? We should be de emphasizing kicking in every size,

01:15way, shape or form. Kickers suck that the worst humans on the planet. So

01:19let's not bring more of them into this game at all. Um, I understand you want

01:24more returns.

01:27I don't know how to get them for you other than just kick the ball off and

01:30let guys run it out. Like, do you value player safety or do you value football

01:34more? The NFL constantly sends you contradictory messages on what really

01:38is important to them. And then we just try to find some way to continue to

01:41tweak every single thing 15 times over because they make perfect the enemy of

01:46good.