In any case, the irony is that the short kickoffs were doing the Jets an enormous favor.
On kickoffs, they've got to be able to get the ball out of the back of the end zone.
Roger Goodell suggested during a Time Magazine interview that the league is considering the elimination of kickoffs altogether.
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The elimination of kickoffs may spare the NFL from the financial responsibility of long-term health issues sustained by current NFL players.
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In 2011, kickoffs were moved from the 30-yard line to the 35.
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Tackles, big plays, blocks and being the first to the 35-yard line on kickoffs are some of the things that net points in his system.
Tynes is kicking better than he has in years, with 33 of his 65 kickoffs going for touchbacks and the 33-year-old saying he feels physically better than he has in years.
Guskiewicz says his data show that a disproportionate number of serious head impacts happen on kickoffs, so he wonders whether it might make sense, in theory, anyway, to dispense with them altogether.
You've had NFL commissioner Roger Goodell doing everything from moving kickoffs up five yards (to reduce the number of injuries on kickoff returns) to delivering heavy fines to defenders who slam into quarterbacks too harshly.
The only time Te'o might be asked to run 40 yards in a straight line in the NFL might be if he covers kickoffs on special teams, so more important are the quickness and positional drills.
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For example, the NFL moved kickoffs from the 30-yard line to the 35 beginning in 2011, and also required the coverage unit to start within 5 yards of the ball, closing the distance between the teams.
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What if you did everything you could, and banned kickoffs and full-contact practices and used the most state-of-the-art techniques for diagnosing and treating concussion, and behaved as responsibly as Nascar has in the past several years and players were still getting too many dangerous little hits to the head?
Just in time for those immensely popular MLB playoffs and NFL kickoffs, ATI is dropping a new OTA HDTV tuner card that it apparently hopes will catch the eye of those who have been fence-sitting the issue of making a high definition DVR out of their PC.
Blackburn said he lifted weights at a gym and then went to a local park, where he worked on back-pedaling and breaking, running like he would on kickoffs and punt returns, and performing all the drills he did last Wednesday when the Giants didn't give him even one practice snap to watch before throwing him in.
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