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I don't know if my topic is that exciting, but I think it was a big sort of adjustment to a rule change that kicked in two years ago with the dynamic kickoff.
The first year was kind of a flop because most of the special teams coaches decided just to kick it into the end zone and get a touchback.
This year they made a slight adjustment where touchbacks were moved out to the 35, and it seemed to make a big difference there.
So clearly, they decided that extra five yards was significant enough where they wanted to kick it and have the returns.
They did see an uptick in concussions compared to last year, just because there were so few returns.
Um, but it's still much below of what I guess you would call the traditional kickoff and the injuries that came from that.
I think the interesting thing will be to see if this trickles down to college at some point now that the NFL, I think has kind of found the sweet spot.
Um, Going forward, I don't know if he'll ever make it to high school, but certainly at the college level, I think they could consider it if they're going to continue on sort of their quest for player safety and reducing sort of concussions.
So that was an interesting stat I saw for the year, and I think it was definitely observed from all the fans out there as well.
And one of the reasons we saw this come forth is you have a touchback and a concussion on the same play.
So this sort of obviated the need to have any kind of contact when there is not going to be any return, but then there were fewer returns.
And then probably the next thing would be to look at the onside kick and whether or not there's a scrimmage alternative.
I don't know if my topic is that exciting, but I think it was a big sort of adjustment to a rule change that kicked in two years ago with the dynamic kickoff.
The first year was kind of a flop because most of the special teams coaches decided just to kick it into the end zone and get a touchback.
This year they made a slight adjustment where touchbacks were moved out to the 35, and it seemed to make a big difference there.
So clearly, they decided that extra five yards was significant enough where they wanted to kick it and have the returns.
They did see an uptick in concussions compared to last year, just because there were so few returns.
Um, but it's still much below of what I guess you would call the traditional kickoff and the injuries that came from that.
I think the interesting thing will be to see if this trickles down to college at some point now that the NFL, I think has kind of found the sweet spot.
Um, Going forward, I don't know if he'll ever make it to high school, but certainly at the college level, I think they could consider it if they're going to continue on sort of their quest for player safety and reducing sort of concussions.
So that was an interesting stat I saw for the year, and I think it was definitely observed from all the fans out there as well.
And one of the reasons we saw this come forth is you have a touchback and a concussion on the same play.
So this sort of obviated the need to have any kind of contact when there is not going to be any return, but then there were fewer returns.
And then probably the next thing would be to look at the onside kick and whether or not there's a scrimmage alternative.
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