Please, no

[RamseyF]

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/category/rumor-mill/

Colts propose allowing teams to “go for three” after TDs
Posted by Michael David Smith on March 18, 2015, 2:38 PM EDT

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If the NFL adopts an odd rule proposal from the Colts, a nine-point game will be a one-possession game.

The Colts will propose a new rule at next week’s league meeting that would allow teams to try for a “bonus point” after a successful two-point conversion. So if a team lines up for a two-point conversion attempt and succeeds, that team would then line up at the 32-yard line and try a 50-yard field goal. If the kick is good, the team would get one point, for a total of nine points on the possession: six on the touchdown, two on the conversion and one on the bonus kick.

It’s a strange rule, and according to Competition Committee co-chair Jeff Fisher, it’s the first time in many years that a significant change in scoring has been proposed. It seems awfully unlikely that the proposal will pass.

But if it does pass, we’ll have to stop saying teams are “going for two” and start saying teams are “going for three.”

 

[RamsJunkie]

Retarded

 

[bluecoconuts]

As long as we're inside I trust Greg to hit 50 yarders. But the rule just seems unnecessary.

 

[ChrisW]

 

[Legatron4]

Jim Isray needs to go back to rehab.

 

[Noregar]

It needs to be a 60 yard FG and if it is blocked and returned the defending team gest a point.

Then the entire team in unison must pat their head, rub their stomach, jump up and down, and sing the American anthem.

 

[ChrisW]

It needs to be a 60 yard FG and if it is blocked and returned the defending team gest a point.

Then the entire team in unison must pat their head, rub their stomach, jump up and down, and sing the American anthem.

For some reason this reminded me of the Dennis Leary quote from Demolition Man.

 

[rdw]

 

[4mation0]

Would a team successfully executing the two-point conversion be able to opt out of the ensuing kick, in favor of going for a second two-point conversion? And if they made the second conversion, would they get yet another kick, which, if they chose, they could defer in favor of another conversion, and another, and another?

 

[theramsruleUK]

FFS, I feared the worst with the title of this thread...
I thought Donald or Foles had torn an ACL or something... Lord Jesus don't do that again!

 

[HometownBoy]

I swear they just sit around making rules to make them don't they?

 

[PressureD41]

So AWESOME...Spit up coffee... Love me some Farley

 

[yrba1]

Fuck off Jim Irsay, you're a laughing stock in the NFL at this point.

 

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[Boston Ram]

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/indianapolis-colts-propose-bonkers-nfl-192434075.html

The Indianapolis Colts propose a bonkers new NFL rule that would invent a 9-point touchdown

By Tony Manfred 56 minutes ago

(Jeff Zelevansky/Getty Images)The NFL released the proposed rule changes that will be discussed at next week's competition committee meeting.
They're all relatively minor, except for one: the Indianapolis Colts want to make it possible for a team to score nine points on one possession.
Under their proposal, a team would be able to attempt a 50-yard kick for an extra point after they successfully converted a two-point conversion.
The idea is to incentive teams to go for two more often, according to Fox Sports' Pete Schrager. In theory, it would fundamentally change the calculus of the game, and increase the number of points possible from a single possession.
The Colts want to experiment with the scoring system change in the preseason, according to the NFL. It's important to note that the competition committee is only going to discuss this change. The odds of it actually happening are, more than likely, very low.
Right now NFL teams kick the extra point an overwhelming majority of the time, despite mathematical evidence that they should be going for two far more often than they are. Would the possibility of getting three points encourage more teams to go for two?
The expected value of the current extra point is 0.996 points (since NFL kickers make ~99.6% of extra points).
The expected value of going for two is 0.998 points (since NFL teams historically convert 49.9% of two-point attempts).
NFL kickers have made 63.3% of 50-yard field goals over the last five seasons. That means the expected value of an extra point from midfield is around 0.63 points. Since you only have a 49.9% chance of even attempting that midfield extra point because you have to convert the two-point conversion first under the Colts' proposal, its added expected value is closer to 0.32 points.
So at the end of the day, the expected value of "going for three" would be around 1.32 points, while the expected value of just kicking the extra point is still 0.996 points. NFL teams are notoriously conservative, would that be enough to make them go for two more often?
We'd be shocked if it actually happened. We'd still love to see it for pure entertainment value, though.

 

[RamsJunkie]

http://www.ramsondemand.com/threads/please-no.36140/#post-529366

 

[Ramhusker]

NO!

 

[fearsomefour]

Forget it just award 6 point after a TD for an 80 yard kick.
"I have an idea, you know that perfectly cook filet? Let make it better by deep frying it and putting enchilada sauce on it!!"
From the mind of Irsay.

 

[HE WITH HORNS]

How about we just make the extra point automatic unless they want to go for two? That would get rid of the long extra point nonsense.

 

[Ram Quixote]

Flat-out goofy.