Our ex-kicker Josh Brown chimes in:
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Giants’ Josh Brown thinks extra point rule adds to his value
Posted by Michael David Smith on May 20, 2015
Giants kicker
Josh Brown believes the NFL’s new rule moving extra point kicks back by 13 yards will make him a little more valuable.
Brown said after the NFL adopted the new rule that he thinks some kickers will struggle with the longer extra points, particularly in bad weather. But Brown is confident he personally won’t have any problems with it, which is why he thinks he’ll become a more important member of his team.
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I’m excited about it,” Brown said. “I believe it adds higher value to a person that come out in December in bad weather and still be consistent. Those qualities are still very exciting to me. It’s a play that you won’t turn the TV off for anymore. Every point matters in this game and now with the longer extra point, there’s added difficulty to it. It’s not a gimme. There are levels of excitement that are going to make the game more appealing when scores are very, very tight.”
The reality is that the new rule changes extra points from the equivalent of a 20-yard field goal to the equivalent of a 33-yard field goal — which is still very easy for an NFL kicker. This isn’t a major change. But if it makes reliable kickers even slightly more important, then it’s a change that reliable kickers should welcome.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Brown_(American_football)#St._Louis_Rams
On February 29, 2008, Brown signed with the
St. Louis Rams who made him the
NFL's highest paid
kicker at the time. The
Seahawks had offered comparable money, but with an extra year and back loaded the whole deal. Which also would have made Brown the highest paid
kicker, but he took offense to the fact that the
Seahawks'contract was something Brown got offered after visiting the St. Louis Rams.
In an interview on
Seattle sports radio station
KJR 950 Brown stated that he had not wanted to be a "slave to the businessman," a statement that was ridiculed by
Seattle media and
fans. On August 13, 2011 Josh made a 60-yard field goal in a preseason game against the Colts. Had it been a regular season game, it would have recorded as a career long, but in preseason games stats do not record.
The Rams cut him in April 2012 in preparation for drafting
Greg Zuerlein in the
2012 NFL Draft. He was in the final year of his $14.2 million 5-year deal with the Rams.
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/05/20/pat-could-move-back-even-farther/
PAT could move back even farther
Posted by Mike Florio on May 20, 2015
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The NFL has decided to push back the one-point extra point to the 15, converting the try from a 19-yard kick to a 32-yarder. The league’s V.P. of officiating now says that it could be pushed back even farther.
Via Bob Glauber of
Newsday, the NFL will consider an additional change if the conversion rate doesn’t fall significantly below 99 percent.
During last year’s limited experiment in the preseason with the PAT snap from the 15, kickers made 94.3 percent of the extra points.
The goal is to make a meaningless, perfunctory play more meaningful. Some think there’s a better way to do it than to make it what will still be a mostly automatic field goal.
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Narrowing the uprights would make it a lot more challenging than moving the extra point,” Broncos kicker
Connor Barth told Nicki Jhabvala of the
Denver Post. “Most guys can hit 33-yarders in their sleep.”
(Be careful what you wish for, Barth.)
Regardless, tinkering with the extra point will place more of a premium on making shorter kicks.
“It would weed out the strong-legged kickers who aren’t accurate,” Barth said. “It would make our value go up.”
And by weeding out kickers with stronger legs who aren’t accurate, NFL teams may end up being less inclined to try longer field goals, opting instead to go for it on fourth down.
http://mmqb.si.com/2015/05/20/nfl-extra-point-new-rule-passes/
When the time came at the league meetings in San Francisco to discuss changing the extra point, there wasn’t much debate. Insiders say the discussion lasted less than a half hour. In the end the owners were ready for a change in the way the NFL treats the extra point and two-point conversion—and they clearly are not finished tinkering with the points after touchdown.
Owners voted 30-2 (only Washington and Oakland were negative) to move the extra-point line of scrimmage from the 2-yard line to the 15, and to keep the two-point conversion at the 2, and to allow the defense to be able to score two points by running back failed PATs or two-point plays. That’s the biggest change in the NFL scoring system in the 95-year history of the league.
And I’m told the owners could change the system again in 2016. One of the significant and salient points made during Tuesday’s vote was this: The measure passed for one season only. That means teams wanted a change to what’s become a gimme—99.5 percent of all PAT kicks have been made in the past four seasons—but wanted to see how the new system worked before doing something revolutionary. The league wants to promote exciting plays after touchdown; just 59 two-point plays were attempted in 2014. If the new extra point doesn’t motivate coaches to go for two more, look for the owners next offseason to vote to push the PAT back eight or 10 yards further so some drama is created in the touchdown conversion. - Peter King
) but I disagree with your take on what I quoted. I like strategic decisions to be part of the game too.
