{"id":64626,"date":"2018-05-02T09:44:02","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T09:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=64626"},"modified":"2018-05-02T09:44:02","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T09:44:02","slug":"nfl-kickoffs-to-be-tweaked-not-eliminated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/sports\/nfl-kickoffs-to-be-tweaked-not-eliminated.html","title":{"rendered":"NFL kickoffs to be tweaked, not eliminated"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 18pt\">NFL kickoffs to be tweaked, not eliminated<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\">NEW YORK \u2013 Kickoffs may not be well, but they are still very much alive in the NFL.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\">\u201cWhen you start talking about eliminating kickoffs, just look at the reaction from fans, coaches and players,\u201d Troy Vincent, the NFL\u2019s executive vice president for football operations, pondered for USA TODAY Sports on Tuesday. \u201cAll three say it\u2019s not good for the game.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\">Yet tweaks are indeed coming.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\">Vincent is heading a two-day safety summit that concludes on Wednesday at the league\u2019s headquarters in Manhattan. A half-dozen current head coaches and at least as many former players have been summoned to join Commissioner Roger Goodell and other league officials to provide insight as the NFL will implement a new rule this season to ban (or at least significantly reduce) the use of helmets and engage in additional measures to improve player safety.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\">More: NFL ponders future of kickoffs, but it&#8217;s clear they must go<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\">While there has been discussion about scrapping kickoffs \u2013 the play that multiple studies have found accounts for more injuries in the sport than any other \u2013 Vincent doesn\u2019t see that in the foreseeable future. Instead, the competition committee will likely present a proposal to NFL owners later in May that could eliminate some or all forms of wedge blocking and dictate alignments that remove space on kickoffs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\">It is Vincent\u2019s hope that such tweaks would not only make kickoffs safer but also provide a jolt that allows the kick return a revival as one of the game\u2019s most exciting plays.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\">\u201cAs a returner,\u201d Vincent said, \u201cI\u2019ll take that all day long.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 8pt\">Source:-https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/2018\/05\/01\/nfl-kickoffs-rules-tweaks-changes\/570488002\/<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/sports\/nfl-kickoffs-to-be-tweaked-not-eliminated.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NFL kickoffs to be tweaked, not eliminated NEW YORK \u2013 Kickoffs may not be well, but they are still very much alive in the NFL. \u201cWhen you start talking about eliminating kickoffs, just look at the reaction from fans, coaches and players,\u201d Troy Vincent, the NFL\u2019s executive vice president for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":64627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[9324,135426,110916,1263,126582],"class_list":["post-64626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-latest-sports-news","tag-nfl-kickoffs-to-be-tweaked-not-eliminated","tag-sports-breaking-news","tag-sports-news","tag-usa-sport-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}