Bill Belichick wants the extra point to die

[JonLP24]

This is my favorite thing to come out of the conversation about the new kickoff rules. Bill Belichick used a kickoff question to move the conversation toward the extra point, and argued that it should be eliminated from the game, or at least greatly modified.

"Philosophically, plays that are non-plays shouldn't be in the game. I don't think it is good for the game. Extra points, when the odds are 99 percent range in extra points it is not a play. Let's move the ball back to the 15-20 yard line and not make it a tap in. Let them kick it. Same thing with the kickoff return, if you're just going to put the ball on the 20, put the ball on the 20."

(Applause.)

Given my druthers, I'd eliminate it completely -- I don't think you'd see a lot of kicks missed from the 15 or 20, either. It saves time, it speeds the game along, and the guy in the end-zone seats with the John 3:16 sign doesn't get time to prepare for his close-up.

This is the MJD plan: Let's just make touchdowns worth seven, and if someone wants to risk a point either way, they'll have the option to trot the ball out to the 2-point conversion spot, and they'll get eight points for their touchdown if they convert, six if they don't. Hell, I say we move that back, too. I think the 6-yard-line sounds about right.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shutdown_corner/post/Bill-Belichick-wants-the-extra-point-to-die?urn=nfl-wp5693

[trotsky]

1. Belicheat has a good point.

He's probably watched enough practice film of other teams to make a good judgment.

[trumad]

2. Plus it saves film.

[wilt the stilt]

3. Gained my respect

when he dissed the guy with the 3:16 sign. I see him in a whole new light.

[bluedigger]

4. That wasn't BB that said that.

It was the author, MJD.

[El Supremo]

5. It just amazes me that they are arguing about football rules.

After all these years there is still disagreement about fundamental things like overtime and extra points.

Football will never reach the purity of baseball.

[trotsky]

9. The purity of baseball?

:rofl:

[frylock]

10. you don't remember when the bambino was a DH?

[trotsky]

13. So was Honus Wagner!

:D

[frylock]

14. greatest closer the game will ever see

[madinmaryland]

12. "purity of baseball" that has the abortion of rule called the designated hitter?

:wtf:

[KamaAina]

6. Do it like the conversions in rugby

No hash marks there. In rugby, you score a trie by actually touching down the ball in the end zone. Where you touch it determines where the "hash mark" will be. Thus, a touchdown scored at the pylon might lead to a 40-yard-plus conversion attempt, because of the angle.

[Renew Deal]

7. I'm pretty sure this is heresy

And I oppose it either way. The extra point is not 99% in college and HS. The extra point is fine the way it is, though in college and HS they run it from the 3 yard line. It's from the 2 in the NFL. Move it back a yard, though that doesn't matter much either.

[LiberalFighter]

8. I like that MJD plan.

[madinmaryland]

11. Now if he could just get rid of the designated hitter rule.