00:00Number 10.
00:02One of the small rule changes made for the upcoming season
00:04is that a team can now declare to go for an onside kick
00:07at any point in the game.
00:08Ahead or behind or what it used to be just when you were behind.
00:11Thoughts on this?
00:13Or do you feel the play should even be in the game at all?
00:15There's a lot of people who want to eliminate the onside kick
00:17and go with like a fourth and fifth team play.
00:19Where do you stand on all of it?
00:20I like the onside kick.
00:21I'm glad they're opening it up to the rest of the game.
00:23Still no more surprise.
00:24But people's biggest complaint about the onside kick
00:26seems to be it's too hard to recover.
00:28It should be hard.
00:29Think about what you're trying to do.
00:30Back-to-back possessions in a sport that's not designed for it.
00:33It should have a low success rate.
00:35I'm all for the onside kick.
00:36I think this is a good change.
00:37So, look, the whole thing in the middle of the game
00:40is about the element of surprise, right?
00:42So it's gone.
00:43I'll take it because I'd prefer to have that play in,
00:47but it's obviously nowhere close to what it was before.
00:50No, but I'm still for the onside kicks
00:52because fourth and 15, I think you've argued this, Mike,
00:54it's too easy in today's pass-happy quarterback-driven NFL.
00:57I don't know if it's easy.
00:59You're more likely to get it, I feel like.
01:01I just, I feel like the entire game,
01:03I'm watching quarterbacks in the shotgun on fourth and 15.
01:06It's not fourth and 15, but you know what I mean?
01:07Like, I want to preserve the kicking game
01:10because it just brings some variety to the sport.
01:13Quarterback in the shotgun throwing it 15 yards down the field
01:16happens all game long.
01:17I don't need to see another play like that.
01:20So, I wish, though, they had a way to figure out
01:22to keep the element of surprise.
01:24Is there a way?
01:26And I'm not looking for your calls on this,
01:28but you can send me an email.
01:29Is there a way to keep the current kickoff format,
01:33you know, this hybrid adjusted format,
01:36and have a surprise onside kick?
01:38Is there a way to do it?
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