Why did the NFL make it harder to recover an onside kick?

[RunMaker]

I don't get it. It was more exciting when it was easier for a team to get the OSK.

Now it's like 5% or some crazy shit like that. I think I've seen but one successful OSK all year.


What was the thinking with that shit?

 

[PoundFoolish]

safety

 

[Willie99]

Trying to make a violent sport something it's not, meanwhile people keep getting injured (including QB's)

So what are they going to do next?

 

[CoolBreeze22]

Trying to make a violent sport something it's not, meanwhile people keep getting injured (including QB's)

So what are they going to do next?

They'll probably eliminate kickoffs and give the trailing team the ball 4th and 10 on their own 25 instead of having an onside kick.

 

[Ladeda]

Yeah, it sucks. It wasn't great before when it was a 10-20% chance, now it's way worse.

Pretty hopeless feeling knowing you need to get a TD then on onside kick. Great, you need to esecute great and drive all the way and get a touchdown just so you have a 8% chance of getting the ball back.

Wish they could figure out something where it was about a 30% chance.

 

[HacheMan]

It was already hard enough to begin with...

 

[SgtLanquel]

Dunno, maybe trailing by more than eight points after 55min is a below-average strategy that should not be healed by increasing odds of winning a desperation gimmick play

 

[JackStraw77]

The NFL is so diluted now it's a shadow of what it was in the seventies and eighties. The onside kick was one of the most exciting feature's of the game. Remember the onside kick in the Packers/Seattle NFC championship game. Now it's set up so it almost impossible for the team doing the kick to recover the ball.

 

[theMadMan]

Should be............They do Not deserve to Win!

Play better for the first 59 minutes ................

 

[Willie99]

Y'all know that they actually changed the rule making it harder, A?

Don't think making it harder for the trailing team to win was ever an issue for the past 100 or so years, and it's certainly not what the framers talk about either when discussing the rule change

The tradition onside kick rules first implemented in 1923 certainly didn't encourage teams to be trailing at the end of games





I can only surmise some people love all the rules changes and flags Roger the salesman is bringing to the NFL

 

[PoundFoolish]

Dunno, maybe trailing by more than eight points after 55min is a below-average strategy that should not be healed by increasing odds of winning a desperation gimmick play

I'm with ya.