WEBVTT - The OTP | 2024 Rules Changes Explained 0:00:13.560 --> 0:00:16.759 This is the OTP presented by Farm Bureau Health Plans. 0:00:16.800 --> 0:00:18.960 Plan on paying less for the coverage you need with 0:00:19.440 --> 0:00:22.520 Farm Bureau Health Plans. Get a quote today at FBHP 0:00:22.800 --> 0:00:26.520 dot com with Amy Wells. I'm Mike Keith. Welcome to 0:00:26.600 --> 0:00:27.720 the bet MGM studio. 0:00:27.880 --> 0:00:29.520 Well, it's good to be here. I do love it 0:00:29.560 --> 0:00:30.520 in this studio. 0:00:30.960 --> 0:00:34.319 Do you like rules? I do like rules are you're 0:00:34.320 --> 0:00:35.280 a rules person. 0:00:36.400 --> 0:00:38.040 I like knowing what the rules are. 0:00:38.080 --> 0:00:39.720 You know what you'd like to be aware of the rules. 0:00:39.720 --> 0:00:41.120 I like to be aware of the rules. 0:00:41.400 --> 0:00:46.960 So at Titans training camp, NFL referee Scott Novak came 0:00:47.040 --> 0:00:50.080 by just a few days ago. He's in town with 0:00:50.080 --> 0:00:54.840 his crew, and what would you call what the officials do? Overall, 0:00:54.880 --> 0:00:58.080 they just sort of work practice and they kind of 0:00:58.080 --> 0:00:59.440 get into shape a little bit. 0:00:59.480 --> 0:01:01.320 I think that's a good way to describe it. They 0:01:01.360 --> 0:01:04.120 are there both for their own benefit, you know, to 0:01:04.200 --> 0:01:06.640 kind of walk through things as officials, but also to 0:01:06.760 --> 0:01:11.280 provide some parameters to Titan's training camp and give them 0:01:11.319 --> 0:01:14.560 the ability to get an understanding of what officials are 0:01:14.560 --> 0:01:16.680 going to be looking for, how certain things are going 0:01:16.720 --> 0:01:19.680 to be called that season. So I mean it's training 0:01:19.720 --> 0:01:21.759 camp for everybody, and that includes the officials. 0:01:22.040 --> 0:01:24.840 And so the other thing they do is the officials 0:01:24.840 --> 0:01:29.000 make a presentation to the team and to the media 0:01:29.760 --> 0:01:35.200 about new rules, rule changes, or certain modifications. At Scott 0:01:35.240 --> 0:01:38.959 Novak did that with the media and he did a 0:01:39.000 --> 0:01:42.760 great job and the media did a great job asking questions. 0:01:42.800 --> 0:01:46.280 It was one of the most informative sessions that I've 0:01:46.319 --> 0:01:49.520 ever been to, and we wanted to share with the 0:01:49.520 --> 0:01:54.800 ot people about the rules, in particular because they're two 0:01:55.760 --> 0:01:59.800 massive changes that you're going to watch in the preseason. Obviously, 0:01:59.840 --> 0:02:00.760 the kickoff rule. 0:02:00.880 --> 0:02:03.240 Yeah, that's the big one. That's the one that requires 0:02:03.280 --> 0:02:03.920 the explanation. 0:02:04.520 --> 0:02:08.720 So let's start with this and why they're doing it. 0:02:08.720 --> 0:02:14.000 It's designed to increase the number of kickoff returns, and 0:02:14.040 --> 0:02:17.120 as Troy Vincent from the NFL office said on the 0:02:17.240 --> 0:02:21.600 video that they showed us to cut speed and space 0:02:21.960 --> 0:02:25.679 in order to eliminate those big time collisions. Yep. 0:02:25.760 --> 0:02:29.560 So we're trying to make it more exciting and also safe. 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:34.880 So we're closer together. We're hoping to get returns and 0:02:35.040 --> 0:02:37.560 we want to get less people hurt. Love it all right, 0:02:38.080 --> 0:02:41.239 The kicking team will kick off from the thirty five 0:02:41.320 --> 0:02:42.000 yard line. 0:02:42.120 --> 0:02:42.880 So far, so good. 0:02:42.919 --> 0:02:46.840 That doesn't change. The other ten members of the kickoff 0:02:46.880 --> 0:02:51.760 team will line up at the opponent's forty yard line. Okay, 0:02:52.000 --> 0:02:55.920 so they are twenty five yards away from the kicker. 0:02:56.320 --> 0:02:59.680 At least nine members of the return team are set 0:02:59.720 --> 0:03:03.000 up between their own thirty and thirty five yard line, 0:03:03.440 --> 0:03:07.320 with at least seven of them at least touching the 0:03:07.320 --> 0:03:11.440 thirty five yard line. That's known as the restraining line. Okay. 0:03:11.680 --> 0:03:15.720 Players not on the restraining line have to be in 0:03:15.800 --> 0:03:18.320 the setup zone outside the hash mark. 0:03:18.480 --> 0:03:20.720 So as it stands right now, no one has moved. 0:03:20.800 --> 0:03:21.800 We're just getting set. 0:03:21.880 --> 0:03:22.800 We're just getting there. 0:03:23.680 --> 0:03:23.920 Two. 0:03:24.280 --> 0:03:29.520 And what you have is you have nineteen players within 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:30.960 five yards of each other. 0:03:30.840 --> 0:03:32.720 Basically, okay, all right. 0:03:33.000 --> 0:03:38.000 The play does not begin until the ball is caught 0:03:39.080 --> 0:03:43.000 in what is known as the landing zone or is 0:03:43.120 --> 0:03:47.440 returned out of the end zone. Here's an important point. 0:03:47.720 --> 0:03:52.840 No players except the kicker and the returners can moved 0:03:53.040 --> 0:03:58.160 until the ball is caught by the returner. So everybody 0:03:58.240 --> 0:04:01.960 has to stay totally stationed outside of the kicker or 0:04:01.960 --> 0:04:07.440 the returners until the ball is received. Okay, all right, 0:04:07.440 --> 0:04:09.000 are you're ready for the landing zone? 0:04:09.080 --> 0:04:10.600 I'm ready for the landing zone. 0:04:10.400 --> 0:04:13.480 All right. The landing zone is the area between the 0:04:13.560 --> 0:04:19.080 receiving team's goal line and the twenty yard line. Any 0:04:19.240 --> 0:04:24.560 kick that's caught in the landing zone must be returned. Okay, 0:04:24.600 --> 0:04:28.039 all right. If a kick hits in the landing zone 0:04:28.120 --> 0:04:31.760 and is allowed to bounce into the end zone and downed, 0:04:32.000 --> 0:04:35.640 or is allowed to bounce through the end zone, it 0:04:35.680 --> 0:04:39.000 comes out to the twenty like the olden days. 0:04:39.279 --> 0:04:41.160 Okay, yeah, all right. 0:04:41.760 --> 0:04:44.640 If the kick lands in the end zone and results 0:04:44.640 --> 0:04:48.039 in a touchback, as we know it either not returned 0:04:48.080 --> 0:04:50.440 or traveling through the end zone, the ball comes out 0:04:50.440 --> 0:04:53.440 to the thirty yard line. So if the kicking team 0:04:53.640 --> 0:04:56.760 chooses to just drive it through the end zone, it 0:04:56.800 --> 0:04:59.840 comes out to the thirty okay, five more yards. 0:05:00.240 --> 0:05:02.880 Last year, which I mean five yards is five yards? 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:06.719 Five yards? Okay. Now here's the fun one. If the 0:05:06.839 --> 0:05:10.800 kickoff fails to reach the landing zone, say, for instance, 0:05:11.440 --> 0:05:15.640 it hits at the twenty five yard line, the ball 0:05:15.680 --> 0:05:19.440 will come out to the forty. The ball will also 0:05:19.760 --> 0:05:23.240 come out to the forty if it is kicked out abounds. 0:05:23.400 --> 0:05:26.360 Okay, interesting, So how twists? 0:05:26.520 --> 0:05:30.320 How confused are you? Right now? Marginally confused. 0:05:30.520 --> 0:05:33.760 You know, it feels like there's just a lot of 0:05:34.400 --> 0:05:39.360 if then, right, so I need one of those flow charts, right, 0:05:39.440 --> 0:05:40.480 we can clear some of this up. 0:05:40.760 --> 0:05:43.200 So when Novak was going through this and we were 0:05:43.240 --> 0:05:47.520 asking our questions, what I determined right away is there 0:05:47.520 --> 0:05:50.920 were elements of this I clearly didn't know, and there 0:05:50.920 --> 0:05:54.000 were also a couple of elements that I had sort 0:05:54.040 --> 0:05:57.360 of wrong. Yeah, So I was very thankful because the 0:05:57.400 --> 0:06:01.400 information that we received from the owners meeting back at 0:06:01.440 --> 0:06:05.960 the end of March, yeah, was not this detail. 0:06:06.120 --> 0:06:10.440 It was a lot more kind of jargon, yes, and 0:06:10.800 --> 0:06:13.839 it was a lot more probably the wording that is 0:06:13.880 --> 0:06:18.440 written in the official legal ease almost for rules. This 0:06:19.200 --> 0:06:22.840 is a lot more detailed and therefore more confusing. 0:06:23.160 --> 0:06:25.120 All right, So I'm gonna let you ask some questions. 0:06:25.200 --> 0:06:26.440 Perfect first, I got them. 0:06:26.440 --> 0:06:30.200 But first I need to mention open a Titans checking 0:06:30.240 --> 0:06:35.040 account at Pinnacle by this Friday, August second, with at 0:06:35.120 --> 0:06:38.240 least one hundred dollars and a recurring direct deposit. Now 0:06:38.839 --> 0:06:42.760 this is just through this Friday, and you could receive 0:06:42.839 --> 0:06:46.680 two tickets to five Titans home games. Details at Titansbanking 0:06:46.720 --> 0:06:50.440 dot com. Titans Checking from Pinnacle Play hard bank easy 0:06:50.680 --> 0:06:54.120 member FDIC. So we're talking about the new kickoff rule. 0:06:55.320 --> 0:06:58.800 We've laid it out for you. Amy Wells has questions. 0:06:59.040 --> 0:07:02.440 I do have questions. Can I just list them? Can 0:07:02.480 --> 0:07:04.279 I just run through them? Is that okay with you? 0:07:04.400 --> 0:07:04.640 Sure? 0:07:04.839 --> 0:07:05.200 Okay? 0:07:05.279 --> 0:07:10.720 So say I'm the returner. Kickoff comes, I catch it, 0:07:10.840 --> 0:07:13.560 you catch it, and my feet are on the goal line. 0:07:13.640 --> 0:07:13.960 Yes? 0:07:15.280 --> 0:07:17.480 Where am i? Am I in a landing zone? Am 0:07:17.480 --> 0:07:18.520 I in a goal? Where am I? 0:07:18.600 --> 0:07:24.240 You're actually not technically in the landing zone. You're technically 0:07:24.440 --> 0:07:25.400 in the end zone. 0:07:25.680 --> 0:07:26.160 Okay. 0:07:26.360 --> 0:07:30.840 So if you down it, then you are in a 0:07:30.880 --> 0:07:34.480 position where it comes out to the thirty, but you 0:07:34.480 --> 0:07:36.560 can obviously run it if you choose to do so. 0:07:36.880 --> 0:07:40.160 Okay, great. What about fair catches? Can I fair catch 0:07:40.240 --> 0:07:40.680 this thing? 0:07:41.320 --> 0:07:41.360 No? 0:07:41.680 --> 0:07:42.480 Fair catch is dead? 0:07:42.720 --> 0:07:43.520 More fair catch? 0:07:43.800 --> 0:07:44.320 All right? 0:07:44.480 --> 0:07:46.360 Well? Fair catch? Goodbye? 0:07:46.480 --> 0:07:51.480 Okay. So here's a question. After the kicker kicks. 0:07:51.240 --> 0:07:53.440 The ball, I like this one. I know where you're going. 0:07:53.760 --> 0:07:56.920 Can he keep just running as far as he wants 0:07:56.960 --> 0:07:58.280 to go until the ball is caught? 0:07:58.320 --> 0:08:01.840 Well, that's a thought because he he's running at the ball. 0:08:01.640 --> 0:08:03.920 When he kicks it, and so he can just can 0:08:03.920 --> 0:08:04.320 take you. 0:08:04.360 --> 0:08:08.040 On his momentum keeps going, You're thinking to yourself. 0:08:08.080 --> 0:08:10.280 Can his momentum carry him into a returner? 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:14.920 No, okay, he can only go as far as midfield. Ah, 0:08:15.240 --> 0:08:17.880 so he has to stop at the fifty. He can't 0:08:17.920 --> 0:08:21.760 go beyond the fifty yard line until the play happens. 0:08:22.080 --> 0:08:25.080 The feeling is with the version of it that has 0:08:25.160 --> 0:08:29.720 happened before. In the XFL, kickers have often been involved 0:08:29.760 --> 0:08:35.280 in tackles. But no, you cannot just keep let your momentum. 0:08:34.880 --> 0:08:36.600 Carry you to infinity, carry you. 0:08:36.600 --> 0:08:39.079 To you to infinity and beyond. 0:08:39.840 --> 0:08:44.240 Okay, So how does all of this apply to, say, 0:08:44.440 --> 0:08:46.360 like a free kick following a safety. 0:08:46.120 --> 0:08:49.280 The safety yeah, also known as the safety kick. 0:08:50.000 --> 0:08:50.960 Is it really called that? 0:08:50.960 --> 0:08:52.560 That's what they called it in the rule book? 0:08:53.280 --> 0:08:55.920 Really? Have you ever called it a safety kick? 0:08:56.000 --> 0:08:57.680 I have not. I've always called it a freak kick. 0:08:57.720 --> 0:08:59.280 I've never heard a human call it that. 0:08:59.360 --> 0:09:05.080 But okay, So what happens that's interesting is the ball 0:09:05.400 --> 0:09:09.960 is kicked from the twenty instead of the thirty five, 0:09:10.040 --> 0:09:15.600 so fifteen yards back following the safety, but the kickoff 0:09:15.640 --> 0:09:19.160 team is still at the other team's forty. The return 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:21.960 team is still at the thirty five. The restraining line 0:09:22.000 --> 0:09:25.720 is still in the same place, and the landing zone 0:09:25.760 --> 0:09:30.680 remains the same between the goal line and the twenty interesting, 0:09:30.840 --> 0:09:35.440 so nothing changes except the spot of the actual kick 0:09:36.080 --> 0:09:37.040 after a safety. 0:09:37.600 --> 0:09:39.880 So say there's a penalty, then what are we doing? 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:45.000 The position of the kicker changes everything Again, everything stays 0:09:45.080 --> 0:09:50.239 the same forty, the thirty to thirty five, the restraining 0:09:50.280 --> 0:09:54.040 line in that five yard area, and the landing zone 0:09:54.120 --> 0:09:57.240 goal line to twenty nothing changes. What is interesting about 0:09:57.240 --> 0:10:01.959 the penalties though, is and this was example Scott Novak used, 0:10:03.760 --> 0:10:09.000 So penalties that had formerly been applied to the kickoff, 0:10:10.040 --> 0:10:13.319 like say a guy catches a touchdown pass. This was 0:10:13.360 --> 0:10:18.240 the example Novak used, and he taunts, so the touchdown 0:10:18.280 --> 0:10:22.160 is still good, but there's a fifteen yard penalty it. 0:10:22.400 --> 0:10:25.600 Now all of those kind of penalties have to be 0:10:25.679 --> 0:10:29.840 applied to the extra point try, So if there's a 0:10:29.880 --> 0:10:35.080 fifteen yard penalty in that instance, then it'll be a 0:10:35.120 --> 0:10:37.760 forty eight yard extra point instead of a thirty three 0:10:37.840 --> 0:10:38.679 yard extra point. 0:10:38.840 --> 0:10:40.920 Ot people, at this point, I want to give you 0:10:41.080 --> 0:10:45.280 permission to pause, if you need to rewind, listen to 0:10:45.360 --> 0:10:47.080 some of this again. We want to make sure you 0:10:47.200 --> 0:10:50.160 understand what's going on here. I'm going to have to 0:10:50.200 --> 0:10:52.440 listen to this and rewind because there's a lot of 0:10:52.520 --> 0:10:54.880 there's a lot of detail to this. 0:10:54.880 --> 0:10:55.600 This is a lot. 0:10:55.679 --> 0:11:02.360 Well, I took notes, and then I watched the video twice, 0:11:02.679 --> 0:11:06.080 and then I got online and found everything I could 0:11:06.080 --> 0:11:08.760 to read about some of these other scenarios as well. 0:11:08.960 --> 0:11:14.520 I read the official like NFL operations, whole page. There 0:11:14.559 --> 0:11:16.679 was a chart and everything. Thank you NFL. It was 0:11:16.800 --> 0:11:20.880 very well done. But there's a lot here. Let's continue on. 0:11:20.880 --> 0:11:21.679 I have more question. 0:11:21.840 --> 0:11:25.720 Go, okay, So the receiving team, according to you and 0:11:25.760 --> 0:11:29.920 your explanation, must put at least nine players between the 0:11:29.920 --> 0:11:32.719 thirty and the thirty five correct, Yes, okay, So if 0:11:32.720 --> 0:11:35.439 you do that, does it not mean that you'd have 0:11:35.800 --> 0:11:38.400 two returners deep? So why would you do that? 0:11:38.520 --> 0:11:39.680 Well, that's the rule. 0:11:39.880 --> 0:11:41.600 Well okay, so I mean all right. 0:11:41.440 --> 0:11:44.440 And in the XFL, I think they only had one returner. 0:11:45.160 --> 0:11:45.640 I think so. 0:11:45.960 --> 0:11:49.240 But in this rule, in how the NFL is doing it, 0:11:49.280 --> 0:11:54.640 they're putting two guys deep. And what's what's interesting is 0:11:54.880 --> 0:11:58.280 let's say, now, let's say you want to try to 0:11:58.440 --> 0:12:01.800 kick something odd like that, you want to kick it 0:12:01.960 --> 0:12:04.000 with a little bit of a knuckle or you want 0:12:04.040 --> 0:12:09.120 to angle it towards a certain area. The two returners 0:12:10.080 --> 0:12:12.800 give you the ability to field the kick wherever it 0:12:12.880 --> 0:12:15.400 is in the landing zone. So if I kick like 0:12:15.480 --> 0:12:18.719 a knuckler, something that's got a bit of wobble to it, 0:12:19.040 --> 0:12:23.760 and it lands at the fifteen in the landing zone, 0:12:23.880 --> 0:12:26.720 then I've got two guys back there to potentially bring 0:12:26.760 --> 0:12:30.920 it out. Now the interesting part is, let's say it 0:12:31.000 --> 0:12:34.200 hits in the landing zone and they can't come up 0:12:34.240 --> 0:12:37.560 with it, you know, because once the ball hits the ground, 0:12:37.600 --> 0:12:41.720 it's a thing it's on. Then yeah, that's a live ball. 0:12:42.480 --> 0:12:49.439 So yeah, guys, it shouldn't be You wouldn't think it 0:12:49.480 --> 0:12:53.640 would be too big an issue with two returners, you know, 0:12:53.679 --> 0:12:56.680 and they're I don't think the league is really excited 0:12:56.760 --> 0:12:59.880 about the funny kick being part of all of. 0:12:59.760 --> 0:13:02.559 This, But it will be, well somebody will. I mean, 0:13:03.120 --> 0:13:05.560 it's like everything else, somebody is going to try to 0:13:05.559 --> 0:13:10.160 stretch the rule all different sorts of ways. But again, 0:13:10.200 --> 0:13:13.360 it has to hit in the landing zone then, because 0:13:13.360 --> 0:13:17.560 if it hits outside the landing zone then it comes 0:13:17.559 --> 0:13:20.520 out to the forty. It's immediately dead at that point. 0:13:21.559 --> 0:13:23.360 So can you be that good. 0:13:24.559 --> 0:13:28.319 Can you sure somebody will be there? 0:13:28.320 --> 0:13:30.240 I think more than likely. What you will see is 0:13:30.240 --> 0:13:34.200 you'll see teams angle it two different ends to try 0:13:34.240 --> 0:13:35.200 to pen guys in. 0:13:35.320 --> 0:13:37.720 But then if it goes out, if it goes out. 0:13:37.600 --> 0:13:39.600 Of bounds, it comes out to the forty. Yeah. 0:13:39.679 --> 0:13:44.880 So it's a dangerous dance. Oh okay. So let's talk 0:13:44.920 --> 0:13:46.360 about the elements here for a second. 0:13:46.400 --> 0:13:50.040 So say say it's a windy day, okay, an exceptionally windy. 0:13:49.760 --> 0:13:50.520 Day, Buffalo. 0:13:50.679 --> 0:13:53.560 Yeah, okay, And so it's hard to get the ball 0:13:53.600 --> 0:13:55.400 to stay on the tee and it's the whole thing. 0:13:56.000 --> 0:13:58.920 So do you have to use one of your nine 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:02.520 or ten or however many guys have to come over. 0:14:02.400 --> 0:14:05.400 And hold the ball. Nope, you get a free holder. 0:14:05.480 --> 0:14:06.480 You get a twelfth guy. 0:14:07.040 --> 0:14:09.840 And was can he can he run? 0:14:10.000 --> 0:14:10.200 No? 0:14:10.520 --> 0:14:11.640 So he just has to get down. 0:14:11.760 --> 0:14:12.440 He gets down. 0:14:12.600 --> 0:14:13.400 You are furniture. 0:14:13.679 --> 0:14:15.960 Yes, this question was asked the other day. It Scott 0:14:15.960 --> 0:14:20.040 Novak answered, is really good. So the twelfth guy comes 0:14:20.080 --> 0:14:22.440 on the field, so you can play with twelve players 0:14:22.480 --> 0:14:23.120 for one. 0:14:22.920 --> 0:14:25.240 Play only if he's a holder and. 0:14:25.160 --> 0:14:27.520 He comes out, he holds the ball for the kicker 0:14:27.920 --> 0:14:32.520 and then he must immediately exit the field, so you're not, 0:14:32.800 --> 0:14:38.120 so you still have ten guys at the forty twenty 0:14:38.120 --> 0:14:39.320 five yards from the kicker. 0:14:40.040 --> 0:14:43.480 So the choreography in my head is you've got eleven 0:14:43.520 --> 0:14:48.280 guys going this like I guess straight yeah, straight ahead, 0:14:48.320 --> 0:14:50.800 and then you've got one making a hard left or right. 0:14:50.640 --> 0:14:54.200 Out of town sideways guy, sideways guy? All right? 0:14:54.560 --> 0:14:57.120 Huh? Are on side kick? Still a thing? 0:14:58.360 --> 0:15:01.000 Sorda, Okay, so. 0:15:01.240 --> 0:15:03.040 What what does this mean? 0:15:03.360 --> 0:15:06.800 I'm going to help you with this. The surprise on 0:15:06.960 --> 0:15:10.560 sidekick is dead. Rats won't happen. 0:15:11.120 --> 0:15:13.080 Guys show up and they're like, wait a minute, are they? 0:15:13.320 --> 0:15:15.200 And I know that some people are going to make 0:15:15.240 --> 0:15:19.040 a big deal, but I checked on this. So oh, 0:15:19.120 --> 0:15:22.360 the surprise on sidekick, It's happened twice in the Super Bowl. 0:15:22.360 --> 0:15:29.600 It has but only two surprise attempts last year in 0:15:29.640 --> 0:15:32.560 the twenty twenty three season, and just four in the 0:15:32.640 --> 0:15:37.880 last five years overall. And I'm just reading this. Overall 0:15:38.080 --> 0:15:42.200 NFL teams have converted two of the last fifteen surprise 0:15:42.280 --> 0:15:43.560 on side kick attempts. 0:15:44.120 --> 0:15:44.440 Hmm. 0:15:44.960 --> 0:15:47.480 So it's like, yeah, it hasn't been that big a 0:15:47.560 --> 0:15:51.560 deal now, So if you're gonna, you know, start. 0:15:51.120 --> 0:15:54.280 The element of surprise the game I grew up with. 0:15:54.360 --> 0:15:59.440 Well, yeah, I mean the game. It's not really a thing. Okay, 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:02.720 So the the surprise on side kick is out, okay, 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:07.640 but the on side kick is still around. But not 0:16:07.840 --> 0:16:13.920 until the fourth quarter, right, Yes, it must be declared 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:17.280 we're going to do an on side kick. Well, they 0:16:17.280 --> 0:16:18.880 have to tell the other team so they can get 0:16:18.920 --> 0:16:22.080 lined up in the normal on side position. 0:16:22.720 --> 0:16:24.640 And then don't even do it. 0:16:24.720 --> 0:16:29.040 You can't do an on side kick unless you're behind. 0:16:29.600 --> 0:16:32.960 What So the element that they have kept in the 0:16:33.040 --> 0:16:35.680 game is that if your two scores. Mind, if you're 0:16:35.720 --> 0:16:39.000 down twenty eight to fourteen, and you score touchdown, then 0:16:39.040 --> 0:16:41.960 you can say we're going to on sidekick because you're behind. 0:16:42.560 --> 0:16:44.640 And so that will mean in the last two minutes 0:16:44.680 --> 0:16:47.080 somebody can try an onside kick in order to get 0:16:47.120 --> 0:16:49.320 the ball back and keep the game going. That's good 0:16:49.320 --> 0:16:53.160 for business, that's good for television, all of this. But 0:16:53.240 --> 0:16:56.600 the example, Scott novacused, if you're down twenty eight to 0:16:56.600 --> 0:16:58.680 nothing with a minute to go in the third quarter 0:16:58.680 --> 0:17:00.880 and you kick a field goal make it twenty eight 0:17:00.920 --> 0:17:05.600 to three, you cannot on sidekick because it's not in 0:17:05.640 --> 0:17:12.600 the fourth quarter. H must declare fourth quarter must be behind, 0:17:12.720 --> 0:17:16.320 can't be tied, can't be tied, Nope, must be behind. 0:17:16.760 --> 0:17:18.439 Just get rid of it at that point, like all 0:17:18.480 --> 0:17:20.239 the fun parts are gone. Get rid of it. 0:17:21.000 --> 0:17:22.080 There are a lot of elements to this. 0:17:22.080 --> 0:17:26.199 When you say i'm my brain is like smoking. The 0:17:26.320 --> 0:17:29.320 steam is coming out my ears. So is is all 0:17:29.359 --> 0:17:31.960 of this permanent? Is this just the way our life 0:17:32.040 --> 0:17:32.600 is going to be? 0:17:32.680 --> 0:17:36.560 Now? Now it's one year trials. I mean it was 0:17:36.640 --> 0:17:40.560 voted in twenty nine to three. The Raiders, the Packers 0:17:40.800 --> 0:17:42.639 and the forty nine ers were the only teams that 0:17:42.760 --> 0:17:43.600 voted against it. 0:17:44.000 --> 0:17:46.480 But like, after seeing all of this and a year 0:17:46.560 --> 0:17:50.040 of a wrapping your mind around all of these changes, 0:17:50.119 --> 0:17:51.720 I don't think you can ever unsee it. 0:17:51.920 --> 0:17:54.600 Yeah, you can unsee it. They've unseen things before. 0:17:55.119 --> 0:17:59.320 Do a whole year of all of this nuance, and 0:17:59.359 --> 0:18:01.520 then it's just it's like never happened. 0:18:01.560 --> 0:18:07.040 Well, but you think about this, Only twenty or actually 0:18:07.119 --> 0:18:09.600 a little less than twenty two percent of all kickoffs 0:18:09.600 --> 0:18:10.760 were returned last year. 0:18:11.720 --> 0:18:12.320 That's not a lot. 0:18:12.400 --> 0:18:16.159 It's terrible. There were nearly a lot. There were nearly 0:18:16.320 --> 0:18:18.280 two thousand touchbacks. 0:18:18.840 --> 0:18:20.520 I know it's not good. 0:18:20.760 --> 0:18:23.760 Hey, there was not a kickoff returned in the Super Bowl, 0:18:24.760 --> 0:18:29.679 not one. Now, think about this, Amy, So what you 0:18:29.840 --> 0:18:34.520 had is, instead of a football play, you had two 0:18:34.680 --> 0:18:39.640 highly skilled kickers, Harrison Butker and Jake Moody. 0:18:39.800 --> 0:18:40.760 Just kicking at each other. 0:18:41.480 --> 0:18:43.560 It was like they were at the driving range. Basically, 0:18:44.080 --> 0:18:45.959 they were just seeing how far they could kick it. 0:18:46.000 --> 0:18:47.160 That's not a football play. 0:18:48.400 --> 0:18:50.000 Now you get so fired off of that. 0:18:50.160 --> 0:18:53.159 Do I kickoff? Yeah? I don't know that. I like 0:18:53.520 --> 0:18:55.880 now that I've learned all that goes with this. 0:18:56.160 --> 0:18:57.160 You don't like this either. 0:18:57.720 --> 0:18:59.760 No, I'm not saying I don't like it. I don't 0:18:59.800 --> 0:19:03.880 know that I like all that goes with it. 0:19:03.880 --> 0:19:05.320 It's like a video game play. 0:19:05.640 --> 0:19:09.560 Well, here's the thing. Using the hybrid kickoff rule, and 0:19:09.640 --> 0:19:13.680 I'm reading because I type this out. Using the hybrid 0:19:13.760 --> 0:19:19.360 kickoff rule, the XFL saw returns on ninety seven percent 0:19:19.480 --> 0:19:22.880 of the kickoffs in twenty twenty three. I couldn't find 0:19:22.880 --> 0:19:25.879 the numbers for twenty twenty four. I apologize, but ninety 0:19:25.920 --> 0:19:28.480 seven percent. No way the NFL gets that high. 0:19:28.640 --> 0:19:32.720 No chance the higher than like twenty two percent a win? 0:19:32.960 --> 0:19:35.480 Could they? You know? Troy Vinson in the video said 0:19:35.600 --> 0:19:39.320 thirty plus percent would be and I mean that would 0:19:39.320 --> 0:19:44.200 be quite an increase what I think is going to happen. Okay, 0:19:44.440 --> 0:19:48.960 I think two major things. Rich Vasacia, the longtime NFL 0:19:49.080 --> 0:19:55.440 special teams coach, said in a recent interview that he 0:19:55.800 --> 0:19:59.000 that there there probably will be tweaks during the preseason, 0:19:59.240 --> 0:20:03.359 that there will be discussions about, you know, things that 0:20:03.480 --> 0:20:06.040 just don't make sense once they see it in games 0:20:06.200 --> 0:20:10.520 makes sense. I think teams will do this in September 0:20:10.600 --> 0:20:13.880 and October. In the regular season. I think teams will 0:20:13.880 --> 0:20:17.800 have kickoff strategies. I think teams will have return strategies. 0:20:17.880 --> 0:20:20.439 I think you'll you'll get into all sorts of things. 0:20:21.480 --> 0:20:25.840 I think you'll have injuries which will cause your kickoff 0:20:25.880 --> 0:20:29.960 team to be lessened. Yeah you're saying, okay, we don't 0:20:29.960 --> 0:20:34.280 have the right makeup here. I also think people will 0:20:34.280 --> 0:20:36.800 bust some returns, which will. 0:20:36.600 --> 0:20:38.040 Be fun, yeah, very exciting. 0:20:38.119 --> 0:20:40.000 And then I think by the time you get to Halloween. 0:20:40.400 --> 0:20:43.040 Just my opinion, but by the time you get to Halloween, 0:20:43.320 --> 0:20:45.360 everybody will say we're just kicking it through the end zone. 0:20:45.560 --> 0:20:48.280 So everybody will be over it. Yep, we're trying to nuance, 0:20:48.440 --> 0:20:49.159 trying to do it. 0:20:49.320 --> 0:20:51.280 We don't we don't want to have to spend all 0:20:51.359 --> 0:20:53.320 the time to block it. We don't want to. We've 0:20:53.359 --> 0:20:56.480 got guys who are hurt, the returners. Who is that 0:20:56.640 --> 0:20:57.040 going to be? 0:20:58.200 --> 0:20:58.240 What? 0:20:58.600 --> 0:20:59.879 What are we going to do here? 0:21:00.440 --> 0:21:01.320 Just kick it out, Just. 0:21:01.359 --> 0:21:05.040 Kick it out of the insigne. That's just one person's opinion. 0:21:05.480 --> 0:21:08.640 Yeah, it's I mean, you're probably pretty spot on. 0:21:10.080 --> 0:21:13.040 But I mean, to the OT people, that was a 0:21:13.080 --> 0:21:14.760 lot more than you thought it would be. Right. 0:21:14.880 --> 0:21:18.280 I'm telling you there's no shame in rewinding and listening 0:21:18.320 --> 0:21:20.440 twice because this is a lot of information. 0:21:20.480 --> 0:21:23.840 Does that count towards our listenership viewership? Yeah? 0:21:23.840 --> 0:21:25.720 I think we get double if you actually listen to 0:21:25.760 --> 0:21:27.840 it two times, three, four or five. 0:21:28.119 --> 0:21:33.240 Please do that. Tell friends, go to neighbors, Hey, Titans fans. 0:21:33.320 --> 0:21:35.600 Seat geek makes it easy to find tickets so you 0:21:35.600 --> 0:21:39.080