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Spurminator
10-09-2007, 04:42 PM
I hear a lot of talk about how this has "got to be banned" next year, but how? How do you prevent a coach from calling a timeout before a play? How do you judge intent? What if he sees a formation he doesn't like and needs to call a timeout?

I think it will even out in the end. It's the en-vogue thing to do right now, but I wonder if after a while we'll see that it really doesn't make much of a difference.

Thoughts?
mardigan
10-09-2007, 04:50 PM
It kind of is an advantage to the kicker. Even if you make it and have to do it again, at least you have the confindence of knowing you just made it. And if you miss it, then the other teams coach just looks like a toatal jackass for giving the kicker another shot.
Spurminator
10-09-2007, 04:58 PM
That's what I've been thinking... I've never been a kicker so I don't know how it affects you physically, but I can't imagine it's a bad thing to have a "warm up" kick...
BacktoBasics
10-09-2007, 05:04 PM
I really don't see that there is anything they can do to change it. Just part of the game that sucks and you have to deal with it.
SAtown
10-09-2007, 05:46 PM
but I can't imagine it's a bad thing to have a "warm up" kick...

I heard Tony Dungy say the same thing on ESPN earlier today, and I agree. It'll be funny when someone actually misses the kick after the opposing coach calls TO.
BeerIsGood!
10-09-2007, 06:14 PM
They could make it where a TO by the defense on the field goal team has to be blown dead by the official before the snap. If it isn't done before the snap, it never happened. They could make that the exception specifically for the field goal unit if they wanted to.
leemajors
10-09-2007, 06:15 PM
I really don't see that there is anything they can do to change it. Just part of the game that sucks and you have to deal with it.
the coach couldn't call that specific timeout from the sideline before this season. they could repeal that addendum.
Aggie Hoopsfan
10-09-2007, 06:15 PM
I heard Tony Dungy say the same thing on ESPN earlier today, and I agree. It'll be funny when someone actually misses the kick after the opposing coach calls TO.

Um, they did, it happened to Janikowski (Oakland) at the start of the season, it's why other coaches are doing it now.

Pretty easy to stop it from happening, either:

1. No more coaches calling timeouts

2. If the snap on a kick is made simultaneous to the whistle, the play stands.
SAtown
10-09-2007, 06:16 PM
Um, they did, it happened to Janikowski (Oakland) at the start of the season, it's why other coaches are doing it now.



Umm, I'm talking about the FG that doesn't count.
kskonn
10-09-2007, 06:19 PM
I heard Tony Dungy say the same thing on ESPN earlier today, and I agree. It'll be funny when someone actually misses the kick after the opposing coach calls TO.


Once this happens they will stop doing it as much.
Walter Craparita
10-09-2007, 06:31 PM
Classless move.

You couldn't manage the game time, leave it up to the kicker to decide the fate of the game.
inconvertible
10-09-2007, 08:56 PM
the reason they are doing it, is because they changed the rule about the coaches calling timeout from the sideline. did anyone wonder why we haven't had this happen before?
inconvertible
10-09-2007, 08:58 PM
can someone tell me where in the rulebook a ref can review the play made before a new play has already taken place?(the spike) :spin
kskonn
10-09-2007, 09:14 PM
can someone tell me where in the rulebook a ref can review the play made before a new play has already taken place?(the spike) :spin


I am taking a guess, and I believe they said this on the radio broadcast last night. Appearantly officials can review a play after the snap of the next play, however a coach cannot challenge a play after another play has been run. Again just a guess, but the rule probably says you cannot challenge a play after another play has been run, probably does not say official review.
Trainwreck2100
10-09-2007, 09:49 PM
I am taking a guess, and I believe they said this on the radio broadcast last night. Appearantly officials can review a play after the snap of the next play, however a coach cannot challenge a play after another play has been run. Again just a guess, but the rule probably says you cannot challenge a play after another play has been run, probably does not say official review.


No it doesn't, if you listen to the ref, he says "prior to the snap"
O-Factor
10-10-2007, 12:45 AM
I heard Tony Dungy say the same thing on ESPN earlier today, and I agree. It'll be funny when someone actually misses the kick after the opposing coach calls TO.

....and makes the ensuing kick.
Mr.Bottomtooth
10-10-2007, 05:54 PM
It kind of is an advantage to the kicker. Even if you make it and have to do it again, at least you have the confindence of knowing you just made it. And if you miss it, then the other teams coach just looks like a toatal jackass for giving the kicker another shot.
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