2025-2026 NFL Season: The Kindness Thread Football • Page 799

I disagree, when the new kickoff was first established the xfl data showed injuries were down because guys weren't getting 50 yards of running before making contact with a returner. not going to make a huge difference

as far as extra football yeah sure logically that can lead to more injuries but i saw a stat recently that the overall number of plays was down quite a bit as a whole this past season, allegedly due to the emphasis on the run game

 

That’s fair.

 

as always i'm an idiot and could be wrong

 

I just need to get more habitual about simply acknowledging when another person makes a good point instead of still looking for things I can nitpick about why I disagree lol

 

yeah I mean i'm not an expert i'm just basing it off of a few things i've seen

we know player safety isn't the real highest priority for the league so always take it with a grain of salt

the number of plays one was pretty surprising though

 

i was in fact a theater kid in high school

 

and you're a pro wrestling fan

it all tracks

 

literally LMAO

 

I don't really care much about either rule. The overtime thing bugs me because there's never going to be a solution that doesn't result in one fanbase whining so like...whatever. I was fine killing sudden death because kickers are stupid these days, but the rest is just meh to me.

 

I think the thing that gets me irritated about the overtime rule more than anything else, is that I kinda just hate fan culture of the NFL. The instant replay and disecting every blade of grass, and the refs are out to get us and this wasn't faiiiiiir. All of it is just annoying to me.

I say this knowing I'm a fan of a team who took "they're out to get us" to the Supreme Court basically lol

 

I feel like if anyone complains about the OT rule now they just wanna complain.

 

My number one request for a rule change in the NFL, and really in all sports, is that replays must be limited to X number of watches, timed to 30 seconds, and played at full speed the whole time. I'm done checking to see if someone was offsides a minute before the goal in hockey, or if a big toe touched the chalk.

 

people love complaining though

 

true I just don’t know what else someone could want

 

I can tell you right now it's gonna be a bout time of possession.

How is it fair if the team that got the ball first goes into chew clock mode and they got it more than us!

 

interesting

 

Asking that the refs allow my favorite team one last possession in overtime if they’re down when the clock hits 0:00 at the end of the fourth

 

those people should be [redacted] then

 

@JoshIsMediocre mail me your copy of all that jazz

 

Rules are objective and i just want to see that treated as such. Football at least has reasons for error but like, there's just no excuse for baseball to have stats on how umps call things.

 

nope

check your libraries

 

I’ll mail it back and no I’m not a friggin nerd cmon man

 

Honestly if they just fired Angel Hernandez their miss rate would be in a waaaaaaay more acceptable place.

 

is not available to stream anywhere

 

It's just so wild to me to have the technology, USE the technology, but actively ignore it.